Network Security Challenges
As the importance of network security is significant in the corporate world, the challenges associated with it are also huge. Every year, the network security challenges become more complex due to more complex tools used by attackers and the non-education of users. Although the list of network security challenges is quite big, the following are some of the main challenges:
- Unknown Network Assets: Most of the cyber-attacks come from within the organization. Organizations often are not aware of the number of IT assets that are knotted to their network. This makes the network vulnerable to attacks.
- Lack of Multi-Layer Network Security: Network security must be an in-depth, multi-layer security practice that organizations should adopt. Unfortunately, often organizations have an open network structure where if attackers get inside the network, they can cause huge damage. A multi-layer structured and segmented network security does not let attackers cause much damage even if they have breached the initial protection layer.
- Privileged Access Abuse: One of the favorite approaches of hackers to enter a network is by exploiting existing credentials. Organizations often don’t even know how many employees/users have access to the network. Credentials cannot narrate that if the user that is requesting the access is the right one.
- Uncontrolled Processes and Ever-Increasing Vulnerabilities: The security teams have to struggle a lot in testing and deploying new applications, addressing the continuously increasing vulnerabilities and emerging threats, granting or denying access to users, and similar other activities. All these struggles along with the lack of efficient automated processing leaves behind loopholes in the overall network security framework.
Other than these common challenges, there is a long list of other problems that organizations face in network security, such as tool shortcomings, internal unintentional incidents, lack of visibility, lack of advanced security measures, etc.