Embedding security in enterprise architecture
It's a topic you can read about practically every day: businesses that have been hit by some sort of hack or attack. The smallest hole in a system will be found by criminals and exploited. Currently (in 2021), the most popular attacks are the following:
- Ransomware
- Phishing
- Denial of service
The first two, ransomware and phishing, really exploit holes in the defense layer of enterprises. The last is basically about bombing a system so heavily with traffic that the system eventually collapses. All three are fairly easy to execute. In fact, you can buy software and even services that will launch an attack on the targeted address. And no, you don't have to go to the dark web for that. It's out there, in the open, on the normal internet.
How can an enterprise protect itself from these attacks? First of all, it's important to realize that the IT of any enterprise has become more complex, as we have...