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Optimizing your Cyber Security

In today’s highly connected world, it is rare for a single platform, system, or device to do everything. However, in this modern landscape, we live in a thriving ecosystem of “best-in-class” applications expected to share data and be accessible anywhere, any time, and on any device. The ubiquitous demands on today’s enterprise systems and the need to “have it now” have pushed security and architecture to their breaking points. Architecture is often overlooked as a critical component of the overall security position, targeted to achieve seemingly impossible timelines. Or it falls prey to compromise on time or costs.

In the early days of IT development, it was necessary to use existing piping to deliver information between systems. EDI-style drop files were prevalent over “Omnibus” communication pathways like an FTP server or network file location. While these pathways were easy and quick to set up, they created pathways not only for your data but also, for bad actors to use to spread malicious code.

A slight improvement came from SQL-to-SQL connections allowing databases to connect and share information directly. Unfortunately, this kind of “Omnibus” connection was also easy for bad actors to abuse and manifest malicious pathways into your data and systems.

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