Outbound SSL Solutions Protect Assets in the Wild
by Frank Yue
Businesses need to protect their assets when they are within their protective infrastructure AND when they are actively exposed or placed within the unprotected external world. The tools and procedures needed to protect the internal assets are different from the ones that protect the assets when they leave the confines of the secured network.

Walls and defenses
Most sovereign nations have security forces and a military to protect their infrastructure from attack or invasion. A strong and strategic defense against overt and clandestine forces is important to maintain the nation’s independence. Customs and immigration control monitors and identifies the subtle threats while the military forces detect and block the overt attacks against the nation.
These are the equivalent of the firewalls, intrusion prevention systems (IPS), web application firewalls (WAF), and other security technologies that companies deploy to protect their applications and IT infrastructure. They serve a critical, but specific, purpose to detect and defend against external threats that are actively probing and attacking the known business assets.
Protect the asset in the wild
Protecting the infrastructure is good, but there is a threat to businesses that has more harmful potential than the waves of attacks pounding against the IT defenses. When company resources (applications, people, and physical assets) leave the confines of the internal infrastructure, they become vulnerable.
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