Enterprise Situational Awareness

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CSC

EXECUTIVE OVERVIEW

oday’s business environment is complex enough without compliance and security concerns. Tools to address these concerns are readily available, but most enterprises lack the experience to implement an effective strategy. The management’s capabilities are stretched, and in some cases, overloaded.

Today’s business environment is complex enough without compliance and security concerns. Tools to address these concerns are readily available, but most enterprises lack the experience to implement an effective strategy. The management’s capabilities are stretched, and in some cases, overloaded.

Enterprises face a set of seemingly conflicting factors, such as mobility of the workforce, growing regulatory schemes, and virtual and cloud infrastructures. In addition, technical drivers, such as cloud computing, virtualization, proliferation of endpoints1 add further complexity. Such multi-dimensional complexity is intimidating even with knowledgeable help!

Mission-critical capabilities, such as mobility and outsourcing, are coming on the scene as the enterprise adopts sophisticated new technologies. Perversely, these applications attract hazards and threat, such as advanced persistent threats (APT)2, which methodically harvest an enterprise’s sensitive, i.e., custodial and proprietary, data.

Today’s enterprise faces the challenge of managing these complex factors. The optimal response for situational awareness is in Architecture, Process and People, and Technology (AP2T). Acquiring an adaptive architecture is the realistic response to the challenge.

For compliance and security, CSC’s operational Security Operations Center (SOC) uses CSC’s strategic security stack, relies on the Enterprise Security Architecture (ESA), and achieves situational awareness.

Read more in our white paper Enterprise Situational Awareness: Around the Clock Global SOC