Boost your corporate security posture even if you don’t have any budget

It's no surprise to anyone right now that it's a tough economy out there. That translates to a tough economy for many IT budgets. With shrinking budgets how does an IT administrator keep their network and applications secure? Network World tackled that topic this week with an article on boosting your corporate security even if you don't have the budget dollars to support it. How do they recommend you do this? Use your existing products that you already have in your network. It's likely most companies aren't using products they own to their fullest potential. There's probably a lot of features you haven't played with on your existing network devices that may actually solve some of the problems you had originally planned on tackling.

Network World discussed some hidden security features in Cisco devices. But all devices probably have something of value you didn't know was already there. Web proxies are no exception. Blue Coat proxies for example, are chock full of other features besides just web proxy capability. Were you planning a CDN project? Or an IM control project? How about a DLP project? The Blue Coat proxy already in your network might be able to get you all the way there, or at least part of the way there towards solving another one of your security issues.