Challenge
CIOs are often left with one of the most challenging roles in a merger: that of maintaining data security and application availability to new and existing users while integrating two corporate networks together.
A corporate acquisition or merger for the IT department is complex since most corporate networks are large and flat. Today organizations have to consider virtual and/or physical environments and legacy applications into their integration plan adding to an already complication project which is lengthy, complex and prone to error.
To solve these challenges an organization may try network firewalls or VLANs to separate assets from the corporate network, but their use adds unnecessary complexity, security holes and are costly to implement. Some of the issues rising from mergers and acquisitions are:
- Finance and legal departments want to exchange information securely
- End users complain about the network slowing down
- Separate management applications for virtual and physical environments
- Data breaches occur through web based or legacy applications
Solution
IT departments implementing EpiForce Security software can easily execute a merger. Apani is the only vendor that has a virtual solution designed to help organizations accelerate mergers and acquisitions by securing virtual machines, physical systems and clients from a single platform. EpiForce Security will help alleviate the issues rising from mergers and acquisitions.
- Facilitate information security in mergers and acquisitions by isolating web based or legacy applications and endpoints into virtual network security zones – an alternative to traditional network firewalls or VLAN segmentation.
- Implement end point security, protecting intellectual property, by selectively encrypting data in motion, allowing the exchange of legal and financial information between systems and/or end users.
- Centrally manage virtual and physical environments making it quicker to deploy and less costly to manage than any hardware-centric solution.
- Continue to support existing and new users, applications and servers without slowing down the network by configuring virtual network security zones. EpiForce has a minimal performance impact on the host or network. VeriTest, an independent testing lab, found that EpiForce imposes a minimal impact to CPU utilization and typical network traffic flows (less than 6%).
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