Cyber Defense Magazine – August 2019

(Nora) #1

Your Enterprise Network: On-Premise, Cloud-Based, And the Transition In Between


By Jim Souders, Chief Executive Officer, Adaptiva


Companies routinely struggle to quickly, easily, and effectively push critical content and updates to every
system within their enterprise.


Endpoint security has always been a challenge for the enterprise. Companies routinely struggle to
quickly, easily, and effectively push critical content and updates to every system within their enterprise.
Despite all of the advances in endpoint security, software distribution often remains a painful task,
particularly as the majority of businesses still rely on a client-server infrastructure to handle the task.


Their on premise solutions come with significant hard costs. To handle the constant barrage of updates
and security fixes, organizations place servers everywhere to stage content, which then requires on-site
server maintenance. So, in addition to the cost of the servers, they need to pay staff to tend to them and
purchase costly amounts of bandwidth and storage.


The proliferation of mobile devices certainly hasn’t made things any easier for IT teams. Mobile requires
a different way of operating and handling even the most basic security fixes. But, it’s a regular part of

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