Any one of these changes could be the one that introduces a major security risk. Understanding the impact of this relentless pace of change must become part of your operational security and compliance plan.

By moving away from "snapshot security" and continuously monitoring your network for changes, you can analyze the changes as they happen, log the benign changes (for audit and compliance purposes) and fix the high impact ones (for security purposes).

This whitepaper lists 10 ways that enterprise environments typically change and what you can do to identify, analyze and manage these changes and their associated risks on an ongoing basis.