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SPECIAL REPORT CYBERSECURITY SOLUTIONS AND STRATEGIES
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Attack on all Fronts: Defend, Detect, Decide and Defeat
TYesterday’s cybersecurity tools and processes limit the benefits government can get from innovative technologies.
oday’s threat landscape With an integrated portfolio of secure legacy systems, as well as
is quite different from solutions based an innovative yet tomorrow’s innovations. yesteryear. The adversaries pragmatic approach that helps Mobile Devices: Mobility—which are sophisticated, the you confidently navigate the lets employees use a variety of sources have expanded risks of operating in a dynamic endpoints like phones, tablets and to include both insiders IT landscape, Forcepoint was wearable computers to perform
and outsiders and the promise created to empower organizations, their jobs—is the basis of much of the enterprise perimeter has including federal agencies, to of the innovation going on in
not materialized. Experts agree compromise is inevitable—it is
not a question of if, but when.
In this cat-and-mouse game, the adversaries seem to be one step ahead and dictate our priorities. While efforts have been in earnest, security teams find their strategies outdated, as they are awash
with alerts from various point products. This, combined with a lack of resources and skills, makes it challenging for enterprises to function safely where business and operational advantages depend on new technological innovations.
It is time to rethink security so we can forge our way forward without fear. It’s time to change the game so we are playing offense, rather than defense. It is time for a strategy that will help us confidently navigate the various risks new technologies and innovations pose to enterprises and agencies so that we can go about achieving our missions and operational objectives.
Built on the successful integration of Websense®, Raytheon Cyber Products and the recently-acquired Stonesoft next-generation firewall (NGFW) business, Forcepoint brings a fresh approach to address the constantly evolving cybersecurity challenges and regulatory requirements facing businesses and government agencies.
drive their business forward by safely embracing transformative technologies—cloud, mobility, Internet of Things (IoT), and others—through a unified, cloud- centric platform that safeguards users, networks and data while eliminating the inefficiencies involved in managing a collection of point security products. The Forcepoint platform will protect against threats from insiders
and outsiders, provide data loss prevention (DLP), rapidly detect breaches, minimize “dwell time”— the period between compromise and remediation—and stop theft.
DIGITAL INNOVATION IS JOB ONE
Digital innovation is the key to helping government agencies achieve their mission and operational objectives. Some of the most important innovation enablers in use throughout government agencies today are mobile
devices, the Internet of Things (IoT) and the cloud. Yet despite
the promise of these innovative technologies, the cybersecurity tools and processes most agencies use today are not integrated and only serve to contribute to the tool and alert overload already being experienced. Agencies need an integrated platform that provides the strength and flexibility to
government agencies today. There has been tremendous progress in the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement. Teleworking is at an all- time high. Yet government agencies could achieve so much more if ensuring data security was more readily achievable.
“There are two problems with mobile device security today,”
says Ed Hammersla, President
of Forcepoint Federal and Chief Strategy Officer at Forcepoint. “The first is that it is virtually impossible to build a device that is secure enough to protect all data that resides on it. The second is that the number of devices is so large and the operating systems are upgraded so frequently, that agencies find it very difficult to keep up with it all.”
The Forcepoint platform provides a single reference point for solutions that will not only work with solutions you may already have
in place, such as Mobile Device Management (MDM), but also provides new ways of approaching endpoint security – regardless of how widely your perimeter spans. Solutions that leverage virtualization and secure redisplay with those that provides user and usage monitoring can enhance security.
Internet of Things: The IoT also has the potential to be a game- changer for government agencies,