Combining Network Security and Cybersecurity to Protect Your Data
Home / DNS Filtering and DNS Security from WebTitan / Combining Network Security and Cybersecurity to Protect Your DataCybersecurity and network security are often used interchangeably, but each form of data protection has its own unique strategies. Think of both cybersecurity and network security as individual layers of protection that work together to stop threats. Both are necessary for enterprise businesses storing sensitive information, but they have different strategies and approaches when you implement them.
The outer layer of the two strategies is cybersecurity, and the central strategy is network security. Network security is more specific where infrastructure is built to protect a corporation’s internal environment including servers, workstations, applications, and data. Cybersecurity is more general and encompasses several strategies and methodologies to protect all aspects of the organization’s infrastructure and productivity.
Let’s look at a real-world example. Most organizations house a database containing customer data, intellectual property, and information about every aspect of business processes. Cybersecurity strategies oversee all aspects of data protection to stop threats from accessing the database’s content. Numerous threats aim to steal data, but a few examples include protection from web-based SQL injection, insider threats (e.g., employees and vendors), vulnerabilities in external and internal applications, unauthorized access, audit trails for investigations, monitoring and logging for suspicious activity, and downtime from failed hardware.
Network security is much more specific. It targets the protection of all internal infrastructure including the software and hardware necessary for productivity. Any network security strategies strive to ensure the availability of data and that only authorized users can maintain access. It keeps data secure from unauthorized insiders, but also continues monitoring for any suspicious activity. Network security strategies target only the internal network rather than focusing on the way a business protects data as a whole.
A few more main differences:
Engineering the proper security tools for an enterprise network is no easy task, but it’s one of the most critical components in data protection. Network security focuses on the hardware and software responsible for data flow, authorization, and monitoring. Included in a good network security plan is data loss protection (DLP), which is a set of rules necessary for minimizing the damage from a data breach or compromise.
A few elements included in network security:
Because network security mostly involves infrastructure to protect internal data, infrastructure should follow a few best practices. You might already know a few of them, but complex networks need more sophisticated plans and designs.
A few items that should be included in your network security design:
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Start Free TrialCybersecurity is a much broader term and encompasses numerous components built to protect data, infrastructure, users, and the business in general. Network security infrastructure follows cybersecurity rules for best practices, which are designed based on common threats and the methods attackers use to compromise a system. Most network security strategies focus on the corporate internal network, but cybersecurity focuses on all vulnerabilities affecting internal and external systems important for business continuity. Even though they are separate, both cybersecurity and network security have overlapping strategies. You might find a single component (e.g., antivirus installation) listed in both the cybersecurity and network security sections.
A few elements of cybersecurity include:
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Start Free TrialThe cybersecurity plan you create depends on your business and your unique infrastructure design. Compliance requirements determine some of the cybersecurity strategies you use, but most good strategies follow some basic best practices.
A few best practices for cybersecurity include:
WebTitan is a content-filtering solution that helps stop users from opening malicious websites in their browsers. Content filters are an added layer of cybersecurity that protects data and stops human errors. Humans are the weakest link on an internal network, and your organization will often be the target of phishing. Within a phishing email, attackers often include a link to their own domain.
Attackers use several methods to trick users into clicking the link. The domain might have a slight misspelling difficult to detect when a user is in a rush, or the link might point to a site that mimics a legitimate business. Users in a rush might miss the telltale signs of a phishing web page and enter their credentials and other sensitive data.
A web content filter like WebTitan stops users from accessing the website linked in a phishing email. Instead of allowing users to open the site and then relying on an antivirus to stop a malicious download, WebTitan displays a message and blocks the page from loading in the web browser. It’s a proactive way to stop malware and ransomware from installing on the local network.
WebTitan is a DNS-based content filtering solution, so it blocks malicious sites at the DNS level when browsers perform a lookup. It runs in the cloud, and managed service providers can take advantage of its easy installation and ability to manage several clients under the same umbrella.
Instead of relying on a reactive approach to content filtering, cybersecurity, and network security, WebTitan provides a way for administrators to proactively stop human error that results in malware on the network or a data breach from credential theft. It can run in the cloud or on-premises to protect your environment from the many threats available in the wild.
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