Why Monitoring Matters to Business
Your network is the backbone of your business operations. Any compromise on that network, either through abuse, neglect, or malicious intent, can cost you money.
Network threats will act against any size of business, which puts your business in as much risk as a large enterprise. What is worse, is that law enforcement and regulatory compliance do not discriminate based on size either. If your network is hosting illegal content, or your employees browse illegal material, your servers could be traced as the source!
Examples of illegal material employees, students, and users may browse from your network:
- Copywrited media content including music and movies
- Child Pornography
- Gambling and other online gaming
- Other potentially liable activity including hacking
Any of these activities could result in your network being under investigation by authorities, and have consequences which are not helpful to your business.
Managers of any size enterprise network face a steady increase in the demands of internal business objectives, and simultaneously, the conflict of external security threats. The emerging trend of regulatory compliance and audit have only added to the challenge for IT and Security Managers.
Finding the balance of managing security with compliance audit in mind, and business needs is now within reach.