IBM Security Health Check

Do you have an overall view of how effective your security plan is? Are the right IT security controls in place to protect the information that is critical to your business? To prevent data exposure due to inadequate security controls, it is necessary to evaluate the wide range of management processes and technology mechanisms in place protecting the various aspects of your business, including your hardware and software systems, networks, databases and human resource systems.

An IBM Security Health Check can help you safeguard your business-critical information by providing high-level security assessments of your existing information technology (IT) security controls enabling you to identify current security exposures. After identifying the strengths and weaknesses of controls in ten management areas, IBM security consultants will recommend effective security programs consistent with industry-acknowledged practices and your specific business needs. Also, with on-going compliance requirements and evolving security concerns, a periodic health check would ensure your security structure and processes are maintained at their most effective levels.

Security health check services include:

• A review of your IT security controls across the following areas:
  1. Policy.
  2. Organization.
  3. Asset classification and control.
  4. Personnel.
  5. Physical controls.
  6. System access control.
  7. Network and computer management.
  8. Application development and maintenance.
  9. Business continuity.
  10. Compliance.
• An analysis of the review findings for "gaps" between your current security practices and industry practices. To provide an objective assessment that can be used repeatedly to measure changes over time, IBM uses as a model its own security methodology in conjunction with the industry-practices baseline recommended in ISO 17799 (27001:2005).
• A final report documenting the strengths and weaknesses of your current security controls, with recommendations on how to improve the existing security program and reduce potential risk.

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For more than 20 years, IBM's security and privacy consultants have been helping clients think about and resolve their security problems in innovative ways. While countless companies proclaim their technologies, products, services — and themselves — to be "innovative", few are in the business of helping other organizations innovate. Begin a conversation with us and an IBM representative will contact you in two business days with an initial response. We look forward to an opportunity to discuss your security needs in detail.

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