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Great Security Starts With a Great Strategy

Security threats continuously adapt in a battle to circumvent our defenses. When security teams find themselves trapped in a cycle of reacting to every new threat, it is only a matter of time before those defenses are breached. With security and privacy strategies to guide you, it becomes much easier to take a proactive approach to building the capabilities you need to defend your organization. Our security and privacy research center can get you started and put you on the path to proactive cybersecurity.

Security & Privacy Strategy, Security Management, Privacy Program management, Security Operations, Identity & Access Management

Security & Privacy Strategy, Security Management, Privacy Program management, Security Operations, Identity & Access Management

Security & Privacy Strategy

Start with strategy. Define what security and privacy capabilities are required by the organization and outline their corresponding priorities.

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Security Management

Build effective programs and procedures to manage governance, risk, and compliance within your organization.

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Privacy Program Management

Build an effective privacy program, secure your data assets, and manage privacy compliance.

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Security Operations

Improve processes and procedures to identify, protect, detect, and respond to security incidents.

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Identity & Access Management

Protect your organization and employees through effective identity and access management.

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Security and Privacy Strategy

Start with strategy. Define what security and privacy capabilities are required by the organization and outline their corresponding priorities.

Security Strategy & Program Design

Design and Implement a Business-Aligned Security Program

Focus first on business value.

Build an Information Security Strategy

Align the information security strategy to organizational goals and risks to create value.

Build a Zero Trust Roadmap

Leverage an iterative and repeatable process to apply zero trust to your organization.

Security Priorities 2025

PRIORITIES: Prepare your organization to respond to an evolving threat landscape.

Build the Security Organization

Build a Service-Based Security Resourcing Plan

Every security program is unique; resourcing allocations should reflect this.

Build a Plan to Close Your Cybersecurity Competency Gaps

Develop business-aligned security competencies for your IT team.

Hire or Develop a World-Class CISO

Find a strategic and security-focused champion for your business.

TRAINING: Upskill your IT team by going beyond certifying knowledge to assuring competence

Cybersecurity Workforce Development

Foster a Security Culture

Embed Privacy and Security Culture Within Your Organization

Drive employee engagement with privacy and security via governance and process integration.

Develop a Security Awareness and Training Program That Empowers End Users

Turn end users into your organization’s secret security weapon.

Find the right tools to power your security awareness and training program.

Security Awareness & Training Tools

Measure, Monitor, and Report on Security

Build a Security Metrics Program to Drive Maturity

Good metrics come from good goals.

Present Security to Executive Stakeholders

Learn how to communicate security effectively to obtain support from decision-makers.

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Security Management

Build effective programs and procedures to manage governance, risk, and compliance within your organization.

Establish Security Management

Build an Automation Roadmap to Streamline Security Processes

You can’t defend against today’s automated attacks with slow and manual processes.

Build, Optimize, and Present a Risk-Based Security Budget

Get the budget you deserve.

Integrate Physical Security and Information Security

Securing information security, physical security, or personnel security in silos may secure nothing.

Establish Security Governance

Develop and Deploy Security Policies

Enhance your overall security posture with a defensible and prescriptive policy suite.

Manage Security Risk

Embed Privacy and Security Culture Within Your Organization

Drive employee engagement with privacy and security via governance and process integration.

Develop a Security Awareness and Training Program That Empowers End Users

Turn end users into your organization’s secret security weapon.

Find the right GRC software providing an overview of your organization’s governance, risk, and compliance.

Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Software

Manage Security Compliance

Build a Security Compliance Program

Cost-effective compliance is possible.

Satisfy Customer Requirements for Information Security

Add business value with SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification.

Prepare for PCI DSS v4.0

Start early with a collaborative effort for a successful transition to the new version the PCI DSS.

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Privacy Program Management

Build an effective privacy program, secure your data assets, and manage privacy compliance.

Build a Privacy Program

Build a Data Privacy Program

Take out data privacy’s gray areas with a quantitative approach to your program.

Mature Your Privacy Operations

You’ve mastered the basics, but there are additional risk, data, and measurement tasks to complete.

Conduct an AI Privacy Risk Assessment

Navigate AI privacy and data concerns with a comprehensive privacy impact assessment.

Find the right privacy program management tools to achieve and maintain data protection compliance.

Privacy Program Management Software

Manage Privacy Compliance

Comply With the California Privacy Rights Act

Go beyond “checkbox compliance” to stay ahead of the latest regulations.

Comply With 2023 US Privacy Laws (Virginia, Connecticut, Utah, Colorado)

Establish an integrated and holistic program to streamline your compliance efforts.

Privacy Regulation Roundup

PRIVACY REGULATION ROUND-UP: This Privacy Regulation Roundup summarizes the latest major global privacy regulatory developments, announcements, and changes.

Manage Data Protection

Discover and Classify Your Data

Provide your data with the protection it deserves.

Secure Your High-Risk Data

Develop a comprehensive data security plan.

Build an Effective Data Retention Program

Treat the data risks that will derail your retention schedule.

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Security Operations

Improve processes and procedures to identify, protect, detect, and respond to security incidents.

Manage Networks & Endpoint Security

Build Your Security Operations Program From the Ground Up

Establish security operations with a threat collaboration environment.

Select a Security Outsourcing Partner

Outsource the right functions to secure your business.

Build Resilience Against Ransomware Attacks

Prevent ransomware incursions and defend against ransomware attacks.

Endpoint detection & response (EDR) software mitigates malicious software.

Endpoint Detection and Response Tools

Manage Cloud Security

Identify the Components of Your Cloud Security Architecture

Security in the cloud requires solutions, not speculation.

Prevent Data Loss Across Cloud and Hybrid Environments

Leverage existing tools and focus on the data that matters the most to your organization.

Find the right cloud access security broker (CASB) software to enforce security policies in the cloud.

Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) Software

Manage Vulnerabilities

Manage the security of your network and applications with the best vulnerability management software.

Vulnerability Management Tools:

Implement Risk-Based Vulnerability Management

Get off the patching merry-go-round and start mitigating risk!

Design a Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure Program

Having a coordinated vulnerability disclosure program is likely tomorrow’s law.

Embed Security Into the DevOps Pipeline

Shift security left to get into DevSecOps.

Manage Security Incidents

Develop and Implement a Security Incident Management Program

Create a scalable incident response program without breaking the bank.

Improve Organizational Resilience With a Tabletop Program

Trust but verify that you are prepared for the next threat.

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Identity and Access Management

Protect your organization and employees through effective identity and access management.

Manage Identities & Access

Simplify Identity and Access Management

Leverage risk- and role-based access control to quantify and simplify the IAM process.

Assess and Govern Identity Security

Strong identity security and governance are the keys to the zero-trust future.

Identity Access Identity and Access Management (IAM) software

Develop a Comprehensive IAM Improvement Strategy

Develop a Comprehensive IAM Improvement Strategy

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