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environment. These are significant components to making sure that organizations remain safe and secure over the entire threat lifecycle.
Q: WHERE SHOULD AN ORGANIZATION START WHEN ASSESSING ITS SECURITY POSITION?
A: The first thing you need to do is understand what your risk is in your environment. You need to know what security risk is associated with the types of assets, applications, or services that you manage. And you need to know what threats you are trying to protect against. That understanding comes from the “discover” piece of our process, which includes a full Security Assessment of your environment.
Q: WHAT CAN AN ORGANIZATION EXPECT FROM A SECURITY ASSESSMENT?
A: The overall goal is to gain an understanding, from an end-to-end perspective, of what the current risk is to your environment. However, a full Security Assessment can be targeted against compliance-related areas, like PCI or HIPAA. We conduct a detailed assessment that can also include testing. This service helps risk owners understand their current position in the risk cycle.
We work with organizations to create an understanding of where all their data exists. In today’s IT organizations, data can exist anywhere—the cloud, inside data centers and business continuity locations, and throughout a BYOD environment. Then we determine how users access that data—this can include wireless access and people using their own devices.
Q: WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS AFTER COMPLETING A SECURITY ASSESSMENT?
A: Step two is examining, creating, or improving upon current security programs and policies. Once an organization understands its risk, we help them measure that risk against their current programs and policies. We hope all organizations have a full, well-documented, and well-defined security program from end-to-end.
However, when we discover that an organization may not have that level of complexity in their program and policy, we work with them to remedy that. We have a very rich procedure and policy background, coupled with highly-qualified people, to help organizations nail down those two pieces.
Q: WHAT ADVICE CAN YOU SHARE FOR THE ONGOING MANAGEMENT OF A SECURITY PROGRAM?
A: Once the proper programs and policies are in place, I recommend ongoing managed security services. But I think there’s a general misunderstanding among IT professionals about the value of these services. I have found that some people think, “I can put a monitor on a firewall. I can put a monitor on a server. Or I can put a monitor on end points. And, if things pop up that are security-related, I have the capability to react to those and have both monitoring and management in my environment.” But, what they miss is that critical component of the overall threat lifecycle: risk management.
Through the utilization of managed security services, organizations can ensure that day-over-day, month-over-month, and year-over- year, they know where they stand in relation to compliance controls because they are monitoring and managing those on a daily basis.
PC CONNECTION PRIDES ITSELF ON THE
ABILITY TO EXECUTE ON MANAGED SERVICES EXTREMELY WELL. ONCE WE SET UP MANAGED SERVICES FOR AN ORGANIZATION, THE MANAGER OR THE OWNER OF IT SECURITY RISK ALWAYS KNOWS WHERE THEY STAND IN
RELATION TO KEEPING RISK AT AN ACCEPTABLE LEVEL—AT ANY MINUTE OF ANY DAY.
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