In this talk, Kevin will look at the essential defensive strategies that have to be deployed throughout the networks of today to protect the data that traverses it. While it is true the news is full of stories about the latest data breach, there are methods and processes that an enterprise can deploy that will reduce their attack surface and improve their security process making them a harder target. There is no such thing as perfect security, but we can make our networks harder to attack, and isolate any breaches to one segment and not the entire architecture.