Develop a Network Security Roadmap to Lower Incident Costs and Increase Efficiency
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Please note that the content on this page is retired. This content is not maintained and may contain information or links that are out of date.Organizations need a network security roadmap because of:
- APTs – the threat landscape is more unpredictable than ever. You can’t afford not to plan.
- An increased focus on meeting compliance regulations due to the unpredictable threat landscape.
- Mobile device landscape – security must be applied beyond your perimeter, which means you’ll be dealing with different threats.
- Cloud proliferation – secure your networks end-to-end.
If you have a network security roadmap, there is:
- Increased preparedness (for the annual budget cycle and the ability to defend security).
- Increased security against risk.
- Proactive posture towards the threat landscape.
- Future-looking agenda to address security goals in the long-term.
- Minimized number of potential breaches.
- Minimized impact of potential breaches.
- Minimized cost and time of responding to breaches and dealing with potential network downtime (and subsequent employee and client dissatisfaction and business grief).
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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.
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| 1.1 | Establish risk tolerance level (high, moderate, or low). |
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| 1.2 | Establish organizational reality. |
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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: | |
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| 2.1 | Understand the threat landscape. |
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| 2.2 | Anticipate future threat landscape. |
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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: | |
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| 3.1 | Determine business requirements. |
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| 3.2 | Establish security priorities. |
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| 3.3 | Document currently deployed security tools. |
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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: | |
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| 4.1 | Understand business needs. |
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| 4.2 | Establish a communication strategy to sell the roadmap to business stakeholders. |
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