Your enterprise’s most valuable assets reside in your
data center, including proprietary source code, intellectual property,
and sensitive company and customer data. Your customers and employees
trust you to maintain the confidentiality and integrity of their
data and expect that data to be always available, so it’s important
to implement a data center best practice security policy that safeguards
your data and prevents successful attacks. It’s not enough to harden
the network perimeter because attacks can originate from inside
the network, attacks can come from partners and contractors whose
credentials have been compromised, and because if an attacker gains
a foothold in your network, the attacker can attack from the inside
of the network by moving laterally from device to device.