Develop a Network Security Roadmap to Lower Incident Costs and Increase Efficiency
Save over $100,000 in consulting fees with a streamlined and accelerated process.
- IT security and/or network managers are frequently stuck in fire-fighting mode, and are rarely able to dedicate the time to proactive planning.
- Compliance and well-publicized breaches are providing increased motivation for IT departments to focus on a forward-thinking plan, but they often have the misconception that it requires outside help.
- Unnecessary costs are often a result for organizations when they continue to not take their own actions or utilize the information that they already possess.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Creating a roadmap does not have to be overly complicated.
- If you get the right people in the room who will work hard, this project does not need a month to complete – you could finish a roadmap in two days using information your organization already possesses.
- Consulting firms will just ask you questions you know you should be asking yourself – save the money.
Impact and Result
- The short-term impact is that the process will prevent a lot of headaches and costs that an organization will experience if they attempt to create a roadmap through a consulting group.
- The long-term impacts include increased protection against risks, fewer problems with network breaches, less time spent firefighting, and security costs evening out and eventually lowering as issues are proactively addressed.
Workshop: Develop a Network Security Roadmap to Lower Incident Costs and Increase Efficiency
Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn't enough, we offer low-cost delivery of our project workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a roadmap in place to complete your project successfully.
Module 1: Conduct Current State Analysis
The Purpose
- Understand risk tolerance levels.
- Discuss organizational reality.
- Establish how much risk your organization is willing to accept.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Determine risk tolerance level.
- Understand that risk encompasses business and IT.
Activities
Outputs
Establish risk tolerance level (high, moderate, or low).
- Risk tolerance level
Establish organizational reality.
Module 2: Establish Organization’s Threat Landscape
The Purpose
- Understand current threat landscape.
- Predict future threats.
- Understand value of third-party pen-testing.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Establishes baseline of how well you’re handling current threats, and forces you to think more into the future and be more anticipatory of threats.
Activities
Outputs
Understand the threat landscape.
- Information Security Event Analysis Tool
Anticipate future threat landscape.
Module 3: Determine Roadmap Deployment Priorities
The Purpose
- Determine next steps in the form of a prioritized roadmap – what do we deploy and when?
Key Benefits Achieved
- Map business requirements to security needs, bridging an important gap in organizations.
- Create a roadmap with your organization’s needs in mind.
Activities
Outputs
Determine business requirements.
- Network Security Implementation Roadmap Tool
Establish security priorities.
Document currently deployed security tools.
Module 4: Obtain Business Buy-in
The Purpose
- It is one thing to create a roadmap, but business ultimately decides whether to pay for any implementations you request.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Demonstrate that you have taken business needs into consideration and addressed them within your roadmap to achieve stakeholder support.
Activities
Outputs
Understand business needs.
Establish a communication strategy to sell the roadmap to business stakeholders.
- Communication and Business Justification Deck
About Info-Tech
Info-Tech Research Group is the world’s fastest-growing information technology research and advisory company, proudly serving over 30,000 IT professionals.
We produce unbiased and highly relevant research to help CIOs and IT leaders make strategic, timely, and well-informed decisions. We partner closely with IT teams to provide everything they need, from actionable tools to analyst guidance, ensuring they deliver measurable results for their organizations.
What Is a Blueprint?
A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.
Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.
Need Extra Help?
Speak With An Analyst
Get the help you need in this 1-phase advisory process. You'll receive 4 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.
- Call 1: Determine risk tolerance level
Understand how much risk an organization is willing to accept – this is a key influence on where your roadmap will go.
- Call 2: Establish threat landscape
Understand the organization’s current threats and start anticipating future possibilities with the Information Security Event Analysis Tool.
- Call 3: Create an implementation roadmap
Develop a roadmap tailored to an organization’s specific requirements – business and otherwise – with the Network Security Implementation Roadmap Tool.
- Call 4: Secure business buy-in
Establish a strategy and create a plan to obtain support from business.
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