Endpoint Security

Preface

That was some of the best flying I’ve seen to date—right up to the part where you got killed.

—Jester to Maverick in the movie Top Gun

Introduction

I suppose the thing that bothers me the most is this: We think that we’re doing great right up to the moment that the network melts down. Over the years, we’ve seen the number of security tools deployed on our networks increase to the point where we are completely surprised when our computing environments are devastated by some new worm. We then ask, “But how can this happen?” How can we be spending so much money to increase our security and still be feeling the pain of the worm du jour? And not just feeling this pain once or twice a year, we’re feeling it all the time.

To begin to answer ...