Rapid and proactive containment of problems and breaches — in addition to just trying to keep the bad guys out of your systems — makes sense in today’s environment.
A lot has changed in the past five years. Two key economic trends have really accelerated our security changes. First, the US recession pushed companies to consolidate and integrate technology footprints and leverage systems. New deployment models, such as software as a service (SaaS) and cloud, help address some of the lack of capital that we’ve been experiencing and the ability to push cost from fixed to variable.