The Intranet security market has ushered in the baptism of the New Era (1)

Bkjia.com exclusive interview] as more and more enterprise IT department managers begin to pay attention to many security issues, they soon find that, in fact, "Internal Sorrow" is far better than "external suffering ", security threats from the network have become a common concern of many security managers.

Status quo: internal concerns are better than external concerns

This conclusion is not a breeze. Previously, according to a cyber security survey conducted by the FBI and CSI on 484 companies, more than 85% of security threats come from within the company, 40% leakage of electronic files resulted in asset losses of up to $ more than 60 million due to leaks of internal personnel, 16 times the losses caused by hackers and 12 times the losses caused by viruses. When enterprises spend a lot of money and energy to build a large network architecture and security protection system, they do not know that threats to the survival and development of enterprises come from internal network security risks, the harm is far greater than a hacker attack or virus harassment.

Industry insiders who have been paying attention to network security for a long time generally believe that the changing trend of Enterprise Intranet security applications is actually a realistic portrayal of the rapid development of networks, today, enterprise users are very clear that they want to protect "information" rather than "Information Systems ".

"Information" is everywhere in the network and constantly flowing in the network. Today, the transformation of customers' Application Requirements gives enterprise CIOs a new understanding of internal network security. If today's users' demands for Intranet security are also narrowly resolved as protection for information systems, while ignoring the information assurance and other work for the information itself, it cannot achieve the goal of enterprise user security protection.

In fact, the evolution of this kind of user Intranet security needs has become a trend of information security. Huang Kai, a technical expert in the Intranet security field, believes that from the perspective of Enterprise Intranet security requirements, Chinese enterprises are still expanding their demand for Intranet security and management. As the Internet becomes more and more widely used, the network bandwidth is greatly increased, and large-capacity mobile storage devices are becoming increasingly popular. enterprises are facing more and more difficulties in security threats and management over the Intranet. In this context, users pay more and more attention to Intranet security.

Opinion: bright prospects for Intranet Security

Huang Kai is the co-founder of technology, a company dedicated to providing Intranet security solutions. He is confident in the professional Intranet security field. In his opinion, over the past decade, Intranet security and management have evolved from the beginning to maturity, the user's attitude towards Intranet security products has also gone through the process from conflict to passive acceptance, and then to understanding it actively. The user's understanding of Intranet security is becoming more and more profound and mature, users can more combine the actual situation of the enterprise, and prompt many constructive opinions and opinions, which in turn promote the further development and maturity of Intranet security products.

Like Huang Kai, industry experts who are optimistic about the future of the Intranet security market also generally believe that the security issues of the Intranet are highlighted and are also a sign of healthy and sustainable market development. However, for now, there are quite a few Intranet Security Solutions and products on the market, which makes enterprise users feel at a loss during procurement.

In this regard, the technology company where Huang Kai is located has his own views. They believe that when Intranet security is not well understood by many people,  technology is optimistic about its market development prospects, in addition, we have invested a lot of manpower and material resources to conduct in-depth research, accumulated rich experience, and successively released products with market-leading technologies. With the rise of the concept of Intranet security, A group of large and small IT enterprises began to look into the market, most of which lacked technical accumulation in this field. In order to seize the market, they rushed to launch various Intranet security management products, most products have not been rigorously designed and tested. Many functions are pieced together for the sake of market competition. Such product quality can be imagined.

The key to Intranet security construction is management. As intranet security management is an emerging field, users do not know much about it, it is even harder to choose products that are suitable for you from these mixed products. Sometimes, CIOs may be at a loss. This unordered market competition will bring troubles to users and temporarily affect users' willingness to purchase.

However, Huang Kai believes that although the market is full of products and the quality is uneven, in the long run, good products will stand out and inferior products will be eliminated. This is also the law of the market, so we can calmly treat the current market situation, and we believe that the market prospects must be bright.

In-depth: Intranet Security Technology

In fact, many users cannot figure out what Intranet security technologies and products have, many products, such as Internet Behavior Monitoring, device management, user management, and system management, seem to be Intranet security management for users. This is also one of the main factors that affect the Intranet security market. This has greatly affected the development of the Intranet security industry.

Huang Kai believes that from the perspective of providing security protection for the enterprise intranet, Intranet security technologies should mainly include host behavior audit systems, data leakage prevention systems, network security control systems and document encryption systems. Most of these products in China are implemented on the Windows platform. The main technologies used include document and network-driven technologies, virtual computing technologies, and API Hook technologies.

Although there are many common Intranet security products and technologies, it seems that the overall integration of these technologies is not enough. However, in Huang Kai's view, the competitive advantage of the IP-guard series of  technology is precisely reflected in this aspect. According to the reporter's understanding, in addition to comprehensive functions and stable performance, the IP-guard series products cover multiple layers from auditing, control to data encryption, and protection from network access, the protection of document content, control of external devices, and supervision of operational behaviors provide three-dimensional protection for information security within the enterprise.

Three-dimensional protection is important, but in fact, there is an indispensable technology in the Intranet security technology, which is the encryption technology. Encryption is one of the most important technologies and the last armor layer for information protection.

In addition to developing a sound Intranet security mechanism, data encryption is also an effective tool to protect valuable data of enterprises. The Data Encryption solution can protect the security of all files (including operating system files) on the hard disks of laptops, workstations, servers, and other devices. Even if the hard disk is stolen, enterprises can rest assured that the data will not be viewed and obtained by unauthorized users. Although hackers can intrude into the enterprise's servers, they cannot damage the data and information assets on the servers because these assets are protected by security encryption. However, there is a general opinion in the industry that encryption technology has no absolute competitive advantage, and homogenization is very serious.

Huang Kai has his own opinion on this: encryption is a technology with relatively high technical requirements. As a result, many vendors stay at a lighter level. On the other hand, due to the increasing information security, there are also a lot of manufacturers in this industry with the mentality of earning one hand, and finding a general product for OEM, this impetuous mentality, the quality of the product developed can be imagined.