#8 Secure Devices - BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is a huge trend in corporations, where employees and other users are allowed to access the corporate network using a wide range of personal devices. BYOD has wide appeal because employees value the convenience and ease of use, while businesses recognize that it allows their staff to be as productive as possible. With the proliferation of the BlackBerry, iPhone, and other mobile devices, more of your staff is working away from the office—and away from the protection of your network security. They are operating “in the open” on your customers’ networks, public networks at coffee shops, or free networks in the park. It is important to ensure that their mobile technology, often connected wirelessly, is as secure as possible.

#9 Proactive or Reactive -Your strategy has to focus on continuous improvement of both the reactive kinds of security (what to do in the event of a suspected breach, how to improve security after figuring out how the breach occurred) and the proactive kinds (staff education, network security systems and services, audits). It will require selection and investment in right kind of security solution that matches, if not all but most of your IT security requirements. There has to be a perfect balance between what you require out of a security solution and what it provides you.

#10 Define the who, what, where and when of network access - Using the advanced use of technologies like SNMP, NAC, and NAP. The security system should be capable to MAP these aspects for securing the network, systems and IT infrastructure of enterprise.

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