Here are four excellent reasons to adopt a layered identity security strategy:
1. Microsoft Word
2. Microsoft Word
3. Microsoft Word
4. Microsoft Word
...does anybody see a pattern developing here?
According to an advisory from Symantec released today, they have just discovered another zero day vulnerability in Word. IT GOES ALONG WITH THE THREE OTHER REPORTED ZERO DAY VULNERABILITIES REPORTED IN DECEMBER THAT STILL REMAIN UNPATCHED!!!!!!!!!
So there you are, the perfect enterprise, with a lot of intrusion prevention detection systems, anti-virus etc. All of this may be by-passed by a worker clicking on a Word document in an email attachment which then releases malware behind the enterprise firewall.
As my many previous blogs state, you definitely need a multi-layered identity defense in order to mitigate the risk to your enterprise. In addition to the firewall defenses, you need multi-factor authentication, stronger authentication as risk rises, transaction authentication protecting your crown jewels and monitoring on the firewall for data leaving the enterprise.
Without this, you are the naked king denying you don't have any clothes on. Just ask Microsoft.
Guy
www.authenticationworld.com
guy.huntington@authenticationworld.com
del.icio.us