For enterprises today, the network is where business takes place. Every department in an organization relies on the network for applications and for a growing share of communications, not only e-mail and instant messaging, but soon telephony as well. . . .
For enterprises today, the network is where business takes place. Every department in an organization relies on the network for applications and for a growing share of communications, not only e-mail and instant messaging, but soon telephony as well. The mission of network security is to ensure that applications can do their jobs and that applications have the network bandwidth and the availability needed to support the operations of the company.

There's also a broader perspective on network requirements. It's a holistic view that encompasses security as well as availability, bandwidth and control. We call it network integrity. This is the real goal behind securing a network. When the network is functioning properly, providing applications with the bandwidth and availability they need, then the network has integrity, and security is doing its job, even when the network is under attack.

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