Next-generation IT infrastructure is characterized by its openness, a services-orientation, Web-based computing – serving a company, as it were, without boundaries. This poses a variety of challenges for enterprise IT security officers – how, for example, do you keep confidential data from passing through now-more porous perimeters? Or, how do you embrace mobility while maintaining high security standards? In this, the second in our six-part New Data Center series, we address these and other questions as we examine the latest trends, technologies and best practices for protecting increasingly open enterprise information infrastructures.

Julie Bort and Beth Schultz