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Network security is constantly evolving. Here are some practices to follow:

Review the basics
Regular reviews of the basic elements of network security, including reminding employees of their own responsibilities, allows you to identify and correct elementary vulnerabilities. Strong password protocols are more important than one can think. 

Ensure you have end-to-end visibility
Enterprises need end-to-end visibility to see everything that happens on your network in an instant, with all the high-fidelity metadata at your fingertips so you can know in real time how users, devices, systems and applications are behaving on the network.

Aggregate your data in a SIEM
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) technologies is a solution that helps organizations detect, analyze, and respond to security threats before they harm business operations. SIEM combines two functions: security information management and security event management. This combination provides real-time security monitoring, allowing teams to track and analyze events and maintain security data logs for auditing and compliance purposes.

Employ proactive threat hunting
Threat hunting is a proactive measure that can uncover anomalies in your network, such as non-human patterns, spikes of activity outside normal business hours and other red flags that may indicate an attack, insider theft or intentional destruction of data.

Have a response playbook
Many organizations are now shifting their resources from perimeter protection to incident response with a mindset of continuous compromise. An incident response playbook empowers teams with standard procedures and steps for responding and resolving incidents in real time. Playbooks can also include peacetime training and exercises, which will prepare the team for the next incident.

Hire a certified internal threat analyst
A cyber threat intelligence analyst takes all of the information derived from your threat intel program— from active threats to potential security weaknesses—and creates a plan that your defense teams can use to better target critical risks and risk apertures. That’s essential for your company to hire the best CTIA.

Access to the PCAP
PCAP is a valuable resource for file analysis and to monitor your network traffic. Packet collection tools like Wireshark allow you to collect network traffic and translate it into a format that’s human-readable. There are many reasons why PCAP is used to monitor networks. Some of the most common include monitoring bandwidth usage, identifying rogue DHCP servers, detecting malware, DNS resolution, and incident response.

Use a managed solution
A managed solution runs the daily operations of your business’ applications across product portfolios and in any cloud or on-premises environment. It provides the compliance, security, and availability you need and expect, freeing up in-house IT to focus on the core competencies of the business.

Compare real cost-effectiveness
When analyzing the total cost of ownership of your integration solutions, thoroughly evaluate both apparent and hidden software and hardware costs of integration tools. Even more importantly, you need to account for the costs related to implementing, supporting, maintaining, updating, and growing integrated environments. Integration resourcing costs represent a majority of overall integration costs. Leveraging Managed Services can help reduce integration costs.

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