Messaging security: A layered approach is needed

Above and below. Left and right. In front and behind you. Use multi-dimensional security to fend off attackers, no matter where they come from.

Messaging security is starting to resemble the world of video games. And that’s a good thing.

In the 1980s and for much of the 1990s, video games were “side scrollers.” You moved Super Mario left and right across a scrolling digital landscape. Occasionally, you’d leap high or jump low to dodge threats and get on with your business. Messaging security was similar. You needed to protect messages as they moved in and out of your business and up and down your organisation’s hierarchy. Not too tricky.

Times have changed. Today’s video games offer immersive 3-D environments. In a typical combat game, your character faces attacks from above and below, left and right, in front of you and behind you. Basically, you need to protect yourself from every digital threat imaginable—from every angle in every direction. The same is now true in the complex world of messaging security. You now need multi-directional, multi-protocol, multi-layer security. Or, as I like to call it, 3-D protection for messaging security.

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