Being an enterprise security manager in today’s world is getting more complex and challenging by the minute. Those of us who are old enough to remember the pre-internet days often think of them, affectionately, as ‘‘The Good Old Days.’’ Oh, there were threats, but they were generally ‘‘out there,’’ outside the physical and technological perimeters we carefully constructed to keep the bad actors away from our employees, our property and our information.
In today’s connected work environments, that is certainly no longer the case. Today, a well-intentioned employee opening the wrong email can become an attack vector which can disable an entire company infrastructure, endanger revenue and do permanent, sometimes irredeemable, damage to your organization’s reputation. The threats have changed, and smart security managers have changed with them: implementing IT policies and protocols to protect networks, utilizing futuristic technologies to maintain the physical and informational security of our assets, and, most importantly, using access, CCTV and other technologies to protect the safety and well-being of our employees. The security industry has become quick to understand and embrace the emerging solutions to these up-to-the-minute threats.