Does compliance actually mean better security? I am sure that
you have been heard this question several times in multifarious debate sessions
which was held between many security professionals. The simple answer of this question is
compliance does not improve security. Compliance is primarily about the
reporting, arise covering and finger pointing. Security on the other hand is
about truly protecting information and requires changes to your corporate
attitude, systems and people. Though, every IT firm needs IT Security & Compliance act as a threat management solution.
The advent of technological innovation and the globalization
of the business space have made organization dependent on technology to
collaborate, communicate and share all valuable data through the web based
applications. These include information sharing via email, web conferences,
blogs and even the social networking sites. However, these technologies also
expose the organizational data to the variety of threats in the form of
security breaches, data leaks, and cyber crimes causing heavy losses to the
organizations worldwide.
Adequate compliance policies need to be in place to reduce
the amount loss of intellectual property through data thefts and cyber crimes.
Given the diversity of business security needs, visibility and identification
of the risks are matters of concern. To survive through this, organizations
today opt for threat management wherein, unified security monitoring solutions
are used, while allowing access to the various applications and data required
time and again by the users.
A number of IT organizations have forayed into providing
integrated IT security services. These services use a cloud based delivery
model and facilitate end-to-end security monitoring coupled with IT governance
and risk management. Though basically used as a cloud based model, this can
also be deployed on the premises.
One of the main advantages of using such threat management
solutions is that it provides integrated IT compliance, which can be built into
the framework to support various regulatory compliance's. Further, it can be
customized to country specific compliance regulations and facilitates
automation of all security, audit needs.
Integrated with dashboards; this support cyber security in IT operations
and management with clarity, accountability and transparency across operational
platforms. With the flexibility to adopt new governance requirements, it
defines the policies and procedures to ensure good return on investment. By
reducing the manual process through it automation, it also lowers the cost.
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