Dark Reading - Evil Bytes: Defense-In-Depth Via Cloud Security Services

Repeat after me: defense in depth. It's an archaic concept that hasn't gone out of style. The fact is it's even more critical to enterprises now than ever before. The proliferation of Web-borne threats is making IT shops everywhere re-evaluate their security strategies to deal with malware infections happening on systems that were "locked down" and running updated antivirus.

by John Sawyer
May 24, 2010

Of course, as security professionals, we don't know like to admit that our defenses are being bypassed, but it's true. Malware authors and the criminals using malware to make money have learned to get around our defenses and use our users against us. They they don't need to own the entire system to get to the good stuff. Instead, they can infect only the user profile and hook the browser to intercept SSL-encrypted traffic.

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