Managing and securing a corporate network infrastructure can be like juggling a half dozen bowling balls: it's too much work, really, for one pair of hands, yet adding a second set only complicates things. Unfortunately that's often the situation in which enterprise networking and security professionals often find themselves. They need to cooperate to keep all the balls in the air, but run the risk of getting in each other's way as they do so. Still, more enterprises are merging some of the tools and responsibilities of the two departments into an integrated environment, even if they're not physically combining their networking and security teams and operations.
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