Effective security and compliance measures are essential to safeguarding your business and protecting stakeholder value. Balancing this protection with the corresponding costs—both direct and in terms of reduced productivity and business agility, is a demanding challenge.

Overview

CSC’s Protected Enterprise is a unique new approach to managing security and compliance. It focuses on the wider context of risk and business value, rather than on implementing multiple, reactive point solutions that add complexity, are difficult to manage and hamper flexibility.

CSC’s substantial IT expertise and the specific skills and experience of more than 100 Lead Information Risk Managers (LIRMs) ensure that Protected Enterprise solutions are measured and effective: balancing risk, cost and business impact. Like all CSC services, Protected Enterprise solutions are integrated with your business processes, easy-to-manage and inherently scalable.

Benefits

• Aligns security expenditures with business priorities and compliance imperatives, ensuring protection is in proportion to the value-at-risk — no under-protection and no over-spending
• Deploys a cohesive, enterprise-wide security strategy, from policy to operations
• Makes compliance a fundamental part of business process, rather than a disconnected, reactive afterthought
• Provides a shared, realistic insight as to the likely business impact of actual/anticipated security incidents, revealing the impact of information risk on shareholder value

Offerings

CSC’s Protected Enterprise is a tried-and-tested framework that will deliver the most effective security and compliance solutions for your particular organization. An extensive set of technical capabilities across a wide range of platforms enables you to build a comprehensive security and compliance infrastructure that includes a number of important elements.

Risk Governance

The most strategic element whereby we equip executives and policymakers with the data and support they need to integrate information risk data and insight into a unified enterprise risk strategy.

Information Risk Management

These strategic consulting engagements strengthen and inform executives’ risk governance deliberations with vital information via three risk analyses and associated workshops. Thus facilitating risk policy decisions that commit resources commensurate with enterprise value-at-risk.

Security Operations

CSC Protected Enterprise implements information security programs for compliance management, IT infrastructure and application protection and disaster recovery, applying the expert services of over 1,000 information security practitioners, industry best practices and best-of-breed tools. A robust suite of programs are matched to specific clients needs and balanced with scope of value-at-risk.

Key Features

• Aligns business priorities, risk-management requirements and security objective to:
• Measure the wider, potential impact of possible security incidents to make sure the cost of protection is commensurate with the value at risk
• Balance protection against all potential costs: lost productivity, remediation, damage to goodwill, bad decisions, loss of stakeholder confidence
• Make compliance fundamental to the way business is done
• Link security policies to stakeholder value and deploy appropriate preventive, mitigation and insurance measures
• Is delivered and supported by Lead Information Risk Managers (LIRMs) who are experienced security professionals with a thorough business understanding and the ability to communicate at board level
• Is a tried and trusted framework adopted by many of the world’s most demanding security customers including the US Department of Defense, US Intelligence community and premier Global 2000 commercial corporations. CSC was the first organization to achieve independent, third-party SSE-CMM Level 3 rating and has also secured SSE-CMM Level 4 rating for our strength in protecting the integrity of client information.

For More Information

Download a brochure about the Protected Enterprise.

 

Read the article where CSC's Global Security Solutions Vice President, Jim Menendez, discuss Protecting What Matters with CIO Update.

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