Today’s business environment depends upon communications to conduct daily taskings that are very dependent on a business network to achieve these tasks. Many businesses whether private, public, or federal rely solely on their computer networks to protect, store, and disseminate information within its internal networks among employees and to its external customers reaching out to provide important business information. How do businesses and organizations protect these networks from potential malicious activity that could interfere with their daily business needs? There are various methods of protecting these networks which will be examined in this paper on the advantages and disadvantages of protecting your networks and enhancing operational security in today’s business world.
There are various ways for a business or an organization to protect their network that would include management controls, operational controls, and technical controls that are in place to ensure any network meets certain security requirements. Various security protection methods fall into these categories which will be examined in this paper.
Reviewing audit logs can be time consuming but it is an effective process that cannot be overlooked when protecting your networks. Security-relevant events, which meet audit requirements, should be collected, processed, and stored by automated means. These events should be available for analysis that can be performed by using a combination of automated and manual techniques. Network operations security staff in conjunction with system administrators should follow the below guidance in regards to auditing requirements.
All audit information should be made available to Network Operations Security Staff within 24 hours. By reviewing these audit logs in an efficient manner with a sense of urgency should help mitigate any suspicious or malicious