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user. 77% of CISOs said they feel stuck in
a Catch-22; caught between letting people
work freely and keeping the enterprise safe.
A further 71% said that they are being
made to feel like the bad guys, because they
have to say ‘no’ to users requesting access
to restricted content.
Evidently, enterprises need a new approach
to security which will prove beneficial
to businesses by providing them with
protection, whilst also allowing them to have
a competitive advantage.
Application isolation is a solution to the
problem and a way of keeping organisations
safe. It puts the activities most often
targeted by cybercriminals – downloading
www.intelligentcio.com
files, using applications, browsing the
Internet – into micro virtual machines. When
these activities are initiated, the network is
protected because malware is trapped inside
the container. Restrictions can be lifted and
employees can continue to work.
“This new approach to security transforms
the relationship between the user and IT,”
Pratt concluded. ”Now, instead of users
calling IT to say there is a problem, they
call to say they trapped some malware.
Security teams congratulate the end-user
and then have the opportunity to extract
and analyse the malware. This allows
users, IT and security to work together to
gather threat intelligence that protects the
business at large.” n
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