IoT, BYOD, and Cloud have fragmented the traditional
network perimeter. This revolution necessitates a new
approach that is comprehensive, pervasive, and automated.
Businesses need an effective strategy to differentiate critical applications
and confidential data, partition user and devices, establish policy
boundaries, and reduce their exposure.
Leveraging Extreme Networks technology, organizations can hide much of
their network and protect those elements that remain visible. Borders are
established that defend against unauthorized lateral movement, the attack
profile is reduced, and highly effective breach isolation is delivered. This
improves the effectiveness of anomaly scanning and the value of specialist
security appliances. Redundant network configuration is rolled back,
leaving an edge that is “clean” and protected from hacking. Businesses
avoid many of the conventional hooks and tools that hackers seek to
exploit. Additionally, flipping the convention of access-by-default, effective
access control policy enforcement denies unauthorized connectivity.
As businesses undertake the digital transformation, the trends of cloud,
mobility, and IoT converge. Organizations need to take a holistic approach
to protecting critical systems and data, and important areas for attention
are the ability to isolate traffic belonging to different applications, to reduce
the network’s exposure and attack profile, and to dynamically control
connectivity to network assets.
In addition to all of the normal challenges and demands, businesses
are also starting to experience IoT. This networking phenomenon sees
unconventional embedded system devices appearing, seemingly from
nowhere, requiring connectivity.
IoT is being positioned as the enabling technology for all manner of
“Smart” initiatives.
The pervasive consumerization of technology is also driving IoT into
businesses. What’s crucial for success is the agility, scalability, and
robustness of the underlying information technology infrastructure.
