TRENDING response , and shut down unauthorised applications and services .
Finance and business – cut unnecessary costs
With some surveys estimating that up to half of all software licences are not being used , monitoring and analysing systems and software usage can support IT and software asset management by helping uncover redundant systems , unnecessary subscriptions , wasted licensing and non-compliance with software agreements . Ultimately , this supports compliance and can help control costs .
Tony Walt , Co-founder and Director , Port443
Marketing – support campaigns , improve data quality network behaviour , allowing various departments to improve efficiencies and potentially reduce the costs of doing business .
There are multiple departments , other than IT security , that can benefit from security monitoring :
HR – time and attendance for hybrid teams
Marketing departments can harness the visibility provided by security monitoring to measure responses to campaigns , and check for valid responses . Getting added visibility into the volumes , patterns and types of traffic can help marketers understand whether responses are valid , or whether they have been generated by bots , Walt notes .
Operations and site management
Comprehensive monitoring of network and endpoint behaviour offers transparency to support HR ’ s time and attendance tracking , allowing for better monitoring of time spent in office or working remotely . It also better secures remote workers and supports the trend to offer more personal employee support , without exposing sensitive data .
IT – identify shadow and rogue IT
Accounting for 30 %, 40 % of IT spending in large enterprises , rogue or shadow IT is increasing , thanks in part to the ease with which cloud solutions can be procured . Gartner reports that over 40 % of employees acquired , modified or created technology outside of IT ’ s visibility last year . Undocumented APIs are proliferating too . This increases the risks and costs associated with IT . With comprehensive visibility into what is running in the environment , IT can reduce vulnerability , improve endpoint detection and
Automated monitoring and alerts can support operations and site management by giving an early warning when sites are up or down due to loadshedding . Visibility of every device on the network also helps site managers to identify insecure connected devices and IoT sensors , and take steps to reduce the risk associated with these . These use cases illustrate that cyber security can no longer be seen as an isolated department within the business . Security is the modern business enabler : it touches every department and the right cyber security tools offer benefits to the entire organisation .
Named for the standard IP network port for HTTPS traffic , Port443 , is a software development house that specialises in security automations and integrations . Through its custom platforms and OneView dashboards , Port443 gives management and technical teams at-a-glance views of the status of their security estate , to help them actively manage vulnerabilities and respond to breaches .
Comprehensive monitoring of network and endpoint behaviour offers transparency to support HR ’ s time and attendance tracking .
OneView is also useful to companies that have outsourced their security operations , as it gives them a third-party view , which bolsters governance and compliance . Inherent in the platform are automations that regularly review policies and configurations of perimeter controls where such controls are not configured according to best practice frameworks such as NIST , PCI and CIS . p
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