White Paper Abstract:
This paper describes the challenge today is that IT is accelerating, putting the CSO between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand he or she must uphold corporate policies and manage security and compliance. On the other hand, the CSO cannot be seen as business prevention; security cannot be the big red stop button on the IT assembly line. Simultaneous with IT acceleration, an evolution is occurring in the security realm, defined by unified threat management (UTM). Sitting at the confluence of security and networking, UTM is evolving from a simple consolidation value proposition to a ubiquitous solution that holds the potential to provide the CSO with the tools to meet the corporate risk tolerance while fully supporting the agility goals of the business.