security

This tool outlines the basic characteristics required in the deployment of secured or hardened servers. It can be adopted as-is as the enterprise’s server security configuration policy or be used as a guide towards the creation of a new document. The metrics specified herein are based on industry standard best practices but by no means should be taken as absolute; feel free to customize the listed metrics to better suit the needs of the enterprise.

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This tool evaluates security requirements for organizations and presents the optimal network designs and implementation roadmaps that will meet the orgainzations' needs. The tool is a complement to the research presentation titled "How to Implement a Security Architecture"

This tool is designed to uncover the areas of greatest vulnerability that exist within the Server Room. We identify the dollar impact that would occur due to breaches in security or reliability.

We also illustrate how a Server Room's Current State ranks against its ideal Target State, both of which are derived from the Business Risk Quotient (a statement of the Server Room's condition of relative business risk). The Final Report automatically amasses and compiles all metrics - as well as general recommendations for improvement.

This tool is used to identify the dollar impact that would occur with unethical actions/intentions with desktop applications and workstations. You can determine the likelihood of a negative security event occurring in any of 11 categories of vulnerability.

We also illustrate how your organization's desktop applications and workstation Current State ranks against its ideal Target State. Upon completion, this tool automatically amasses and compiles all metrics in a report, and provides recommendations specific to your use-case for improvement.

IT Security Planning is costly and time consuming. Using this guide is a cost free and quick way to create your organization’s ideal network design and tool implementation roadmap. Involve the business side in IT Security Planning, it is not only an IT Exercise. Involving the business results in:

The state of IT security has remained largely unchanged over the past few years. Criminals keep coming up with new scams and attacks, and security vendors keep coming up with new ways to thwart them.

Protecting the organization’s endpoints has not become any easier. A recent Info-Tech survey shows that companies are currently seeing an average of more than two malware infections per month, though the numbers are significantly higher for businesses not running the latest version of their anti-malware solution.

Based on the individual enterprise specifications, this tool will help determine the order that processes and infrastructure changes should be made when implementing a net new or revised security policy.

Security assessment is focused on determining the degree to which information system security controls are correctly implemented, whether they are operating as intended and whether they are producing the desired level of security.

Vulnerability assessment is focused on determining the weaknesses inherent in the information systems that could be exploited leading to information system breach. Without Security and vulnerability assessments, the potential exists that information systems may not be as secure as intended or desired.

Many organizations have no formal documentation that  indicates how employees should act to uphold security. On average, Security Policy development takes 12 months and costs $50,000; a major inhibitor to Policy development and adoption.

Fines and sanctions are often levied against enterprises that fail regulatory audits. This solution set eliminates those costs, and addresses Security Policy development and deployment in three steps:

Today’s corporate leaders face multiple challenges, including the need to innovate in extremely competitive business climates, address highly dynamic regulatory and compliance challenges, speed returns on investments to counter shrinking IT budgets and secure the enterprise against a wide barrage of new and evolving sophisticated threats.