Hi Brandon,

Thanks for your comment. To protect as effectively as possible against a wide variety of attack vectors, we have to accept the nature of modern networked environments and devices and start defending them by understanding attackers and thinking like defenders responsible for securing their infrastructure. A strong approach needs to be visibility driven, threat-focused and platform-based.

You must be able to accurately see what’s really happening in your environment to gain knowledge about threats. Visibility needs to come from the network fabric, endpoints, mobile devices, virtual environments and the cloud. The more you can see, the more you can correlate this information and apply intelligence to understand context, make better decisions, and take action ¬ either manually or automatically.

By leveraging the network as the platform for security, we can centralize the management and protection of devices without limiting their usefulness.

Here is a link to an article by my colleague Rafael Montalvo about Securing Mobile Networks with Trustworthy Systems that talks more about some of these challenges: