5 Things You Can't See on Your Network
Networks today are blind. As analyst firms such as Gartner have pointed out, IT doesn't really know which users are on the network. Similarly, IT knows very little about the application traffic on the LAN.
IT relies on cryptic tools to stand in for user and application data, but these tools can rarely be used to tie the information back to real-time traffic.
But if networks have been blind to users and applications for a long time, why is this black hole a problem now? Changes in business practices have changed the risk dramatically. Organizations now host far more people, many of them "outsiders" just visiting, and users are increasingly bringing in more and more applications all the time.
