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Centralizing Enterprise Security Operations and Management

Jeff Ahlerich of Looking Glass Systems looks at transcending the politics

By Jeff Ahlerich, Looking Glass Systems

When IT organizations are empowered, encouraged, and held accountable to positively affect the enterprise security posture with an intuitive and powerful management platform that coordinates and distributes individual responsibilities effectively, and under control - half the battle is won. By adapting a management platform that offers a pragmatic method to assess distributed endpoint systems without disruption by providing an accurate security posture awareness; proactively protect endpoint systems in a coordinated, organized fashion through scalable group policy deployments; detect authentic incidents in real time without flooding operations with oceans of false positives; and respond immediately, effectively, and in scalable (automated when appropriate) fashion down to the affected endpoints. A Unified Endpoint Security Management platform, as described, is a catalyst for overcoming the political obstacles that inherently exist, and provides a clear path for a vastly improved enterprise security posture and the always sought after improvements to the return on investment. ##

Jeff Ahlerich is Vice President and Co-Founder of Looking Glass Systems.

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