Do You Know Where Your Data Is? Securing Distributed Enterprise Architectures

by Beth Cohen

Enterprise data integrity, security, and confidentiality have long relied on combined network- and application-based security. As enterprise architectures become more complex -- both increasingly distributed and centralized -- the old models for securing data are no longer applicable when the data can be anywhere, accessible from any place and at any time. Security and data assurance are never easy to implement under the best of circumstances, but no enterprise can afford to ignore incorporating security into their systems at the very earliest stages of the design process.