Summary

The number-one agenda item for many CIOs is security. Security for your client machines, security for your networks, security for your cloud resources, and most importantly security for your data. There is no single solution to secure your infrastructure; it requires many moving parts and many different technologies all working together to provide safety for your resources. The purpose of this chapter was to provide examples of security measures and technologies that can be utilized in anyone's environments, as well as to reprioritize the importance that security has in today's IT world. Concerns about privacy and security need to be discussed for any and every technology solution that we put into place. Too many times do I find new applications being implemented inside organizations without any regard to how secure that application platform is. Applications that transmit or store data unencrypted need to be modified or dumped. Protection of information is essential...