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A unified view of the enterprise network for proactive security

IDC technology spotlight

Published June 2016

The growing popularity of mobile devices and cloud-hosted enterprise applications is prompting organizations to reconsider how they deploy enterprise networks. The myriad traffic flows among private datacenters, public clouds, and the mixture of personal and corporate-owned devices have led to the need for more advanced management, policy setting, and security capabilities for wired and wireless networks.

Many organizations are now seeing IoT devices access the enterprise network. These trends are leading to a seamlessly mobile workforce that can create value without regard to time and place. However, with these tremendous benefits come risks, especially with regard to security.