Is your organization ready for today’s security challenges? You need a policy-driven information security approach that you can enforce and monitor. Read this infographic and follow the 7 best practices to protect your company’s critical business information.

1. Are You Doing All You Can
To Protect Your Critical
Business Information?
Today you need to empower your workforce to
work anywhere, anytime, on any device. At the
same time, you need to do everything you can to
protect critical business information —
particularly given the speed, sophistication and
severe consequences of today’s attacks.
Is your organization up to the challenge?
Today’s attackers act quickly
84%
66%
13%
of intrusions
take minutes. 1
of breaches
remain undiscoverd
for months. 2
of breaches
are discovered
by the affected
company.3
Today’s attackers are smart,
and they don’t rely on one tactic
19%
of breaches combine phishing, malware,
hacking and entrenchment.4
Security incidents resulting in
losses of more than
$10 Million
are up 51% from 2011.5
One big problem is that while security risks have
dramatically evolved, security strategies—
typically compliance-based and perimeter-oriented—
haven’t kept pace. In other words, most organizations
are now defending yesterday, even as their
adversaries exploit the threats of tomorrow. 6
The attack surface has expanded
The attack surface has expanded as an
ever-greater volume of data flows
through multiple channels – including
to partners, suppliers, customers
and others.
And hot-button technologies like
cloud computing, mobility, and BYOD
are often implemented before they
are fully secured.7
Given today’s constantly shifting technology
landscape, IT must be able to simplify
security, protect intellectual property,
ensure data privacy, and meet compliance
mandates while providing employees with
the appropriate level of secure access and
collaboration they need to get their work done.
Security technologies are critical
89%
of IT decision makers said security technologies
are now critical or important to creating
business advantages.8
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Security technologies
Business advantages
What’s needed is a policy-driven approach
to information security. One that’s informed
by an understanding of threats, high-value
information, and the motives and targets of
potential adversaries. Then you need to
enforce this policy framework and monitor it
continuously.
Follow these 7 best practices to
protect your critical business information:
1
Take a modern, mobile and services-based view of
security policies. Enforce
policies consistently across
user and usage models.
2
3
Automate security
seamlessly – building desired
behaviors into the user
experience – and monitor your
effectiveness continuously.
3
Engage with line of
business organizations
to ensure that security is
core to all information
technology initiatives.
4
3
Architect and maintain an
information technology
foundation that builds security
directly into the business solution.
5
3
Focus on comprehensive
security that protects across
data, applications, devices,
networks and usage.
6
3
Educate users – that
means making security
personal and specific to the
job people are doing.
7
3
Audit, measure and report on
security effectiveness across
governance, compliance and
risk management programs.
Citrix empowers secured access
to information for people wherever
they may work.
To learn more, go to:
citrix.com/secure
Works Cited:
1–4 Verizon 2013 Data Breach Investigations Report
5-7, 2014 Global State of Information Security Survey, conducted by PwC, CIO and CSO magazines
8 State of the Enterprise 2013, IDG Research