You are the CISO of a medium$-$sized company $($around $1,500$ total employees, distributed across $5$ offices in the US and two in Germany$).$ When you started at this company two weeks ago, you were told that one of the biggest security challenges this company has is insider threat detection. Your company is involved in secretive research in the medical field. You deal with medical record data as well as research results and analytics. Your major competitors would love to gain access to your intellectual property, particularly the design specifications of your new wearable heart monitor, which promises to turn the medical device market upside down because of its revolutionary design and low cost.

What types of firewall capabilities would you implement in your organization, and why?$$ Identify the firewall functions you consider most important to implement across your organization to address the threats identified. Provide at least two recommendations for security controls to help protect the data and two to help identify new threats to the organization's vital data.

Identify at least two challenges you are worried about in terms of balancing the need to secure your data with the need to make this data available to medical device researchers and engineers in two different countries.

Please be thorough. Ty