These five tasks all ask the same questions: How simple, manageable and easy each vendor’s product is to use throughout daily IT security operations. Complexity translates directly into headcount – directly impacting operational cost and risk. The more complex a system is to manage, the higher the possibility for mistakes that expose your business to risk and losses.
The company workforce is increasingly working from home. In order to improve security and avoid data leakage, the administrator is asked to block upload in the Zoom video conferencing application while allowing all other Zoom functions.
5 minutes
One of the company's accountants said they cannot access a specific site - upon research the admin discovers they are blocked by an IPS protection. The administrator is asked to add the relevant exception based on log investigation.
3 minutes
The company is going through digital transformation, moving a portion of their datacenter to the public cloud. For that end, the administrator is asked to allow traffic between all web servers and the database servers now residing on AWS on separate VPCs.
4 minutes
In order to block a potential threat, the CISO asked the administrator to monitor the activity of a certain employee to determine whether he is a turncoat or a pawn.
5 minutes
Two security administrators were asked at the same time to add different security rules to limit web servers access and block the upload function of Zoom video conferencing.
5 minutes
