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We aim to create and share knowledge that helps you address your business opportunities and challenges in security, compliance and risk governance.

This section contains thought-leadership pieces, white papers, and other publications to help you respond to the emerging issues in your field.

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Audit Log Assurance: Trusted Visibility for Critical Systems Audit Log Assurance from CSC is a fully managed service that provides you with maximum flexibility to control the dynamics of a fluctuating network.
Business Continuity Planning CSC’s Business Continuity Planning service goes beyond IT-focused disaster recovery to help you calibrate the appropriate strategy for your business as a whole – analyzing how your business processes relate to personnel, applications and supporting IT assets and regulatory requirements.
CSC and RSA: Secure Information Management to Accelerate Your Business RSA, The Security Division of EMC, joins forces with CSC, combining the premier provider of security solutions for business acceleration with the single largest independent IT services company, to protect what should be your most important company asset—information. Together, we help enterprises reduce risk through protecting the integrity and confidentiality of that information. Combining best-in-class services and technology, our unique, integrated solutions turn information—its use, access, and storage—into competitive advantage.
CSC and Symantec : Bringing a New Level of Service and Protectio CSC's strategic alliance with Symantec combines two legendary strengths: Symantec’s relentless focus on security and data integrity and CSC’s proven ability to put IT to work in practical, bottom-line ways.
CSC's Protected Enterprise: A Complete Suite of Risk and Security Services CSC's Protected Enterprise is a complete suite of risk management and security services. It offers an innovative approach in taking a business-focused view, balancing risks and protection to create true business value from three distinct business practices: Risk Governance, Information Risk Management and Security Operations.
Data Loss Prevention Service Flyer CSC's Data Loss Prevention Service finds, monitors, and proactively protects sensitive data loss from enterprise data-in-motion, data-in-use and data-at-rest.
Managed Authentication Service: Advanced Protection for the Digital Enterprise In today’s mobile world, access to systems should be seamless, whether access is remote or from within the enterprise. However, different systems and methods of access require different levels of protection. CSC’s Managed Authentication Service provides protection on many different platforms and technologies ranging from mainframe to desktop, and from remote access services to SAP. Our expertise includes tokens, biometrics and smart cards.
Managed Encryption Service: Covering Your Assets If Lost or Stolen CSC’s Managed Encryption Service (MES) protects mobile and desktop devices by using full-disk encryption. The service offers a reliable and repeatable way to protect sensitive corporate and personal information.
Managed Intrusion Detection/Prevention Service: Dynamic and Timely Visibility for the Networked Enterprise This service exposes dangerous events as soon as they happen, preventing damage to the business and improving overall defenses. It targets Internet access points as well as business-critical systems, applications, and infrastructure worldwide to improve visibility.
Managed Vulnerability Assessment: Constant Vigilance for Your Dynamic Enterprise CSC’s Managed Vulnerability Assessment (MVA)service helps you identify and manage vulnerabilities to mitigate risk and improve your security posture.
Technology Compliance: Thriving in the Complexities of IT Compliance CSC’s Technology Compliance Service (TCS) simplifies IT security management and ensures conformance to corporate policy and regulatory and legislative requirements.
VAMP:The Missing Piece to Your Vulnerability Management Puzzle The Vulnerability Alert Management Program (VAMP) addresses clients’ security vulnerability needs by providing essential workflow management for critical patching activities and freeing your security organization to focus their talents much more effectively on actionable tasks.
Vulnerability Assessment Services: Self-Defense for the Digital Enterprise CSC provides hundreds of vulnerability assessments annually, helping organizations discover vulnerabilities and take measures to manage them.
Wireless Security Service: All-round Defense for Your Mobile Enterprise CSC’s Wireless Security Service (WSS) lowers the risk of liability from instances of system compromise, denial of service attacks and fraudulent internal system usage.

Thought Leadership

A New Approach to Critical Infrastructure Protection Ron Dick, director of CSC's Homeland Security Programs and former director of the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center, lays out a consequence-driven method that identifies the high-impact vulnerabilities lurking in physical and organizational systems.
Data Loss Prevention — Vital to Protecting Your Company & Customer Information: A Whitepaper Learn more about information protection, compliance, the value of data and the increasing costs and prevalence associated with it’s loss.
Digital Trust for Life Project Report A study released by the American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI) and CSC finds that life insurers are poised for additional enterprise payoffs based on their current approach and investments in IT security, but that capturing the payoffs requires an evolution from the gatekeeper model of security to a digital trust model
Digital Trust in the Cloud CSC's director of CSC's Global Security Solutions, Ron Knode, examines security and trust in the cloud in this research paper
Digital Trust Report Series Digital Trust examines IT security as a technology strategy that plays both offense and defense, recognizing enhanced business value and cost savings, while minimizing information risk exposure. The Digital Trust report features eight volumes covering six key areas: identity management, intellectual property protection, compliance management, liquid security, ethreats and countermeasures, and transparency and assurance.
GSS Vice President, Jim Menendez, writes about Protecting What Matters Global Security Solutions' Vice President Jim Menendez discusses how CIOs can effectively and strategically protect their enterprise while still achieving business objectives in this article featured on CIO Update.
How to Keep The Keys to Your Kingdom Jason Arnold, a member of CSC's Strike Force vulnerability assessment team, explains why your security guard is just as important as your firewall.

Videos & Podcasts

Podcast: CSC's Erik Winebrenner Speaks About Protection Against Imminent Cyber Security Threats CSC’s Global Network Security Architecture Manager, Erik Winebrenner speaks with Tech Talk’s Craig Ferguson about cyber security threats, security awareness and how users can best protect themselves from the associated risks.
Podcast: Introduction to Data Loss Prevention The Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Podcast will help you to understand why data loss prevention is so important in today's marketplace, what types of organizations can most benefit from the DLP service, why CSC's DLP Service is unique from similar offerings and what results DLP clients can expect to see with implementation of the service.
Video: CSC's Global Security Solutions CSC’s Global Security Solutions address all aspects of the enterprise to ensure total protection – from facilities and systems to people and information to provide cost-effective risk management to help solve challenges of compliance, information assurance, business continuity, physical and personnel security, privacy, fraud and cyber security.
Video: How to Develop a Security Strategy for Cloud Ron Knode, Director of CSC's Global Security Solutions and Leading Edge Forum Research Associate, discusses how to develop a security strategy for the cloud.
Video: Industry-Wide Standards for Cloud Security Ron Knode, Director of CSC's Global Security Solutions and Leading Edge Forum Research Associate, discusses industry-wide standards for cloud security.
Video: Ron Knode, Global Director Security Services, Defines Cloud Computing Cloud computing is a technology innovation that enables computing power and services to be delivered and accessed through the Internet, provided as a service instead of as a product. Customers access applications, operating platforms, data storage and other computing resources via the Web and do not need knowledge of or expertise in managing the underlying technology infrastructure.
Video: Trust in the Cloud Ron Knode, Director of CSC's Global Security Solutions and Leading Edge Forum Research Associate, discusses trust in the cloud.

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