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Information Security Health Check

Posted on the 25 July 2012 by Litcom

With cybercrime and data breaches on the rise, organizations often struggle to find the right strategy between implementing effective information security controls and achieving business objectives of cost reduction and agility.
Information Security Health Check 150x150 Information Security Health CheckWith cybercrime and data breaches on the rise, organizations often struggle to find the right strategy between implementing effective information security controls and achieving business objectives of cost reduction and agility.

Recognizing this challenge Litcom has developed an innovative approach to conducting an Information Security Health Check that will assist organizations assess their readiness to face today’s threats as well as evaluating the effectiveness and adequacy of existing controls against industry leading practices. Litcom’s Information Security Health Check includes the evaluation of critical elements of the client’s information security practices:

Strategic Alignment:
Are you missing the opportunity to leverage emerging technologies like cloud services due to the lack of confidence of your security function? Litcom will assess and determine whether or not the security strategy in place aligns with business objectives.

Security Management and Governance:
Is an information security organization and governance framework defined to enable execution of the organizations strategy? Litcom will evaluate if the right organizational and policy structures are in place to support security function(s).

Security Operations:
Are the required processes in place? Litcom will verify the adequacy of incident response, identity and access, and vulnerability and risk management processes.

Privacy and Compliance:
Is compliance achieved in a cost effective matter? Litcom will help determine the opportunity to strengthen and optimized compliance and regulatory requirements such as privacy protection and PCI.

Technical Architecture:
Are the organization’s systems secure and are their security tools effectively utilized? Litcom will assess technical and logical controls (e.g. network, application resilience against cyber and internal threats). Optionally, this may also include technical vulnerability assessments and penetration testing.

Please contact Litcom for more information. The Information Security Health Check, delivered by CISM and CISSP certified specialists, is comprehensive, simple and can be customized to your organization's specific needs.


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