Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 24 | Page 20

LATEST INTELLIGENCE BETTER SECURITY. FEWER RESOURCES PRESENTED BY Download whitepaper here W hen you consider the number of headlines that appear on a regular basis about major data breaches – despite ongoing increases in security technology spending by organisations – you have to come to the conclusion that something isn’t working. The fact is, the traditional ways of protecting IT assets are no longer effective in today’s increasingly complex threat environment. Many vendors tout the idea that having a collection of disparate technologies will provide better protection because each technology will stop some threats. But these products don’t scale and they provide ever weakening protection. Even using several of these traditional products is not sufficient for identifying and stopping the latest malware attacks. Part of the problem with deploying more and more security technologies is that it costs far more money in resources and infrastructure, including servers, bandwidth, appliances, etc. Furthermore, many of these products negatively impact system and application performance, which can lead to decreased productivity among end-users and the organisation as a whole. Older security tools can cost organisations far more time and money than they ever realised. 20 INTELLIGENTCIO It’s time for a new approach to security that addresses all the shortcomings of the old methods. Organisations today can deploy security solutions that are based on newer Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning capabilities. These advanced methods are designed to stop the latest attacks without hurting performance and driving up costs. This white paper describes some of the main disadvantages of traditional endpoint security methods and explores how organisations of all sizes and in any industry can take advantage of advances in security technologies to protect their systems and data against threats in the most cost- effective way possible. Traditional Security Hurts Performance, Drives Up Costs Among the biggest drawbacks of traditional security solutions is that they are a drain on performance as well as a source of added costs. With traditional security tools, companies need to maintain huge databases of signatures of known malware or approved applications. They also must constantly deploy additional hardware and software, with minimal if any integration; download new file signatures in order to keep signatures databases www.intelligentcio.com