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Corporate Network Security

ABSTRACT
Corporate Network Security is one of the most underrated considerations within today’s business world.   This spotlight’s, on a more fundamental level, where management teams struggle to align their Information Technology infrastructure with business goals, business objectives, business practices and procedures.
Successful management teams are cognizant of two things.   First, they are acutely aware that technology is integrated in most every facet of business.   As a result, secondly, they realize the importance of having an Information Technology infrastructure properly aligned and supporting of the business purpose and organizational systems.   They will go about business in ensuring that the information (technology) strategy and organizational strategy fit the business strategy.

INTRODUCTION
The purpose of Corporate Network Security is to mitigate risks of unauthorized access and protecting network systems and resources, while ensuring maximum systems uptime, data integrity and availability.   In this paper, I intend to outline many areas that make up the concept of Corporate Network Security, look at many areas where companies struggle, while providing examples of companies doing things right, or making recommendations in such areas.

WHAT ARE THE RISKS
The threats and risks that businesses face to their corporate network security are real and plentiful.   For example, compromised data, construed as a business asset, can be used to the benefit of competitors, which becomes detrimental to a company’s potential strategic advantage; compromised personal information, such as social security numbers or financial information, can create legal liability (more than 158 million personal data records have been exposed since February 2005 (Vanhorn, 2007)); information and data can be physically destroyed, wasting considerable manpower productivity; and your own ability to work can be hampered when a system is compromised by rendering it inoperable....