Success in a complex world is about making the right decisions. Making the right choices comes down to having the best information at the tip of your fingers. Understanding and forecasting the implications of your choices is how successful organizations think about risk management. While risk comes in various shapes and flavors, security managers primarily struggle with safeguarding valuable data assets, fighting malicious threats, meeting regulatory requirements, and maintaining access to applications and information. Each of these challenges is complex, evolving, and must be understood from a technical perspective by IT professionals, as well as from a business benefit standpoint by enterprise executives.
Successfully Manage Risk
Risk can be thought of as the uncertainty, or probability, that something bad could happen. And risk management helps you to analyze, forecast, and prepare for future risk. It is the identification, assessment, and prioritization of risks followed by coordinated and cost-effective application of resources to monitor and control the probability and/or impact of unfortunate events. By the same token, it also helps to maximize the realization of opportunities. Risk management is central to information technology, and in fact security and compliance can be viewed as subsets of risk. Risk management is where it all comes together -- it's an integral part of business planning and successful IT management.
Address Information Security Compliance Requirements
In today's dynamic, globally internetworked environment, businesses must comply with a variety of information security standards and regulations. The ability of businesses to achieve compliance and implement proper governance has become a principal focus for executives, customers, and federal, state, and local governing bodies. It is important to remember that many regulations and standards affect not only the businesses within a specific industry, but also partners and providers of those businesses who may themselves have a different industry classification. With many businesses finding themselves required to comply with multiple standards and regulations, maintaining adequate security can be a complex and costly undertaking.
Protect Against Threats to Safeguard Data
The challenge businesses face to secure their critical data assets and infrastructure can be an increasingly uphill battle. External and internal threats continue to rise in number and complexity. Data security breaches, as uncovered by Verizon's Data Breach Investigations Reports (DBIR), can be costly and can result in the loss of intellectual assets and business reputation. Therefore, to secure your information assets, maintain your customers' trust, and preserve your business brand, you must be vigilant about your approach to security and about protecting critical applications, network systems, and confidential data against both existing and emerging threats.
The Security Management Challenge
Effective security, risk, and compliance management cannot be achieved through single, point-in-time assessments. Rather, to achieve sustainable results, it's vital that you implement an ongoing program which incorporates people, processes, and technology to address your enterprise-wide business operations and that you implement appropriate risk-based measurements to manage and improve program effectiveness on a continual basis. However, many businesses struggle with exactly how to identify, assess, analyze, and report IT risks and compliance challenges without negatively affecting business productivity or budget. Verizon can help.
The Verizon Security Management Program (SMP) aligns the business and security needs of your organization by measuring IT risk, complementing your compliance efforts, and demonstrating your ongoing commitment to security with Verizon Cybertrust certifications. It is an enterprise-wide security control assessment and validation program based on ISO/IEC 27001 and 27002 that continuously supports the management of your risk and security compliance processes.
SMP takes the complexity out of the security process through a time-tested, structured approach that has been beneficial to hundreds of customers since 1997. Utilizing proven ISO controls and the Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) model, SMP essentially identifies critical assets, assesses their weaknesses, suggests mitigation strategies, and provides various actionable reporting options through an easy-to-use web console, the Risk and Compliance Management Console (RCMC). In addition, SMP is specifically designed to leverage your existing resources and technologies to help you control security implementation costs.
As an SMP customer, Verizon security experts will partner with you to assess and address your organization's specific security needs by analyzing your security policies and procedures, detecting and reducing vulnerabilities in internal networks, on desktops, in email filters, and in your internet-facing systems; and tackling security problems in your wireless and physical environments -- in short, we make it easier to identify and mitigate risks to your critical assets, and help you achieve and maintain a stringent risk and compliance posture across your entire organization.
Using a programmatic life-cycle approach to assessing risk, managing compliance, and increasing overall security, SMP simplifies the entire security process and helps businesses achieve and maintain effective security across a variety of industry standards.
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Reactive IT security was yesterday. Putting IT challenges into a risk context and aligning them with corporate goals is what today's CISOs have to communicate to their executives. Risk management is the key to this, and it begins with comprehensive data gathering. Verizon collects this raw data from various sources: by analyzing actual data breaches which form the basis for our DBIR; via our Security Knowledge Network which collects and integrates data from multiple sources on a regular basis; and through the pre-positioned sensors and monitoring sources with our large, multinational customer base.
But data is just that -- data. When it comes to information security, the key is to transform that raw data into "actionable intelligence." Only after context and analysis are applied does data become "intelligence." This is precisely what Verizon does: our risk equation is uniquely built on our expert analysis of nearly 1,000 real-life data breaches (presented in the DBIR). We then "customize" this analysis to an organization by adjusting specific threat characteristics (likelihood and impact) and accounting for existing security control implementation, resulting in a customer-specific residual risk scores for over 250 threat scenarios.
Established more than 13 years ago, our SMP is one of the most mature certification programs in the industry. SMP has been used by hundreds of businesses and government agencies worldwide to improve their security postures and protect their critical information assets.
SMP is a comprehensive information security assessment and certification program that combines people, processes, and technology to help you address your organization's information security needs in an ongoing and cost-effective manner.
The Verizon SMP will:
These risk status results, presented as an individual risk matrix ("heat map") in our Risk and Compliance Management Console, ultimately allow for effective, risk-based decision leading to better security and compliance management.
Program Scope
SMP was designed based on the philosophy of security as a critical component of every aspect of business operations and IT risk. Using ISO 27002-based security controls, SMP addresses security at key layers of your enterprise, including:
SMP Certification Provides Verification and Trust
As an SMP customer, you have access to a security certification program from a trusted advisor. SMP certifications provide verification that an organization's information security controls, policies, and procedures have been examined, measured, and validated by an industry leader against a stringent set of SMP control standards.
Verizon helps you to demonstrate your business's level of compliance with multiple information security requirements and standards by leveraging the ISO 27002-based assessment results to determine whether you have implemented security controls in a manner that is consistent with our SMP certification criteria.
The SMP certification can be a valuable asset to your organization's use of information security as a competitive advantage and demonstrates to your customers, partners, vendors, and the public that information security is a top priority for you.
Verizon offers two certification programs to meet your information security needs:
Perimeter Certification
Maintain an effective security posture across your boundary environment. Safeguard your critical data assets and secure your perimeter, networks, and devices.
Enterprise Certification
Maintain an effective security posture across your entire organization. Safeguard your critical data assets and secure your mission-critical business systems, networks, and physical environments.
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