New Information-Centric Security Consulting Services From EMC

EMC announced five new information-centric security consulting services leveraging solutions from RSA, The Security Division of EMC.

These new consulting services are designed to provide customers with the business perspective, security expertise, and measurable results needed to accelerate the adoption of sound information risk management strategies. These new consulting services are also complemented by a wide range of design and implementation services for RSA technology.

Information-centric security consulting services are delivered by a growing security practice within EMC Consulting and leverage RSA’s deep security expertise and strong technology solutions. They help organizations align information risk management goals to business objectives, protect information assets, and ease the burden of regulatory compliance. The result is a highly effective information-centric security infrastructure that responds quickly to business changes with optimized policies, procedures, metrics, and controls.

"Aberdeen’s research has shown that companies with top performance are about twice more likely than their counterparts to have invested in identification and classification of information assets, as the groundwork for establishing sound and consistent policies for protecting critical data," notes Derek E. Brink, Vice President and Research Director for IT Security, Aberdeen Group. "They are also about twice as likely to have a clear association between their security controls and the complex collection of regulations, standards, and best practices to which they relate. Most companies, however, struggle to carry out these activities solely with internal resources, which are almost fully allocated to routine operations."

By utilizing a proven framework that leverages best practices, methodologies, and industry standards, EMC information security consulting services help customers identify, remediate, and manage information security risks while increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of their overall security program. As a result, customers can launch new business initiatives that accelerate revenue and profit while minimizing risk.

"Security consulting services from EMC have provided significant value in meeting our compliance objectives as well as helping our security program respond to the needs of our business. We have been very pleased with the EMC team, the process, and the results," said Daniel Barfield, Senior Director of Information Systems and Technology at Actel Corporation.

Significantly Expanded Security Consulting Services Portfolio

EMC’s new consulting services are designed to address a broad range of its customers’ information security challenges including alignment of security to the business risk profile, and reduction of cost and complexity in establishing a complete information security program.

• Information Risk Assessment provides a systematic overview of enterprise security capabilities and a roadmap for remediation by assessing governance, policy, data protection, authentication, access, and other security controls.
• Information Security Policy Development helps ensure compliance with internal and external mandates by defining and mapping policies to best practices, business requirements, and appropriate regulations.
• Information Security Program Development aligns an enterprise security posture with business objectives and helps meet requirements for regulatory compliance by providing guidance to improve the maturity of security capabilities, policies, organization, and controls.
• Data Loss Prevention RiskAdvisor provides automated discovery of unprotected sensitive information along with remediation processes and policy recommendations.
• Assessment Service for Storage Security improves protection of business-critical information by assessing security and prioritizing remedial actions for enterprise storage infrastructures including storage systems, storage switches, and management consoles.
• Classification for Information Security is an existing service that provides the basis for the implementation of appropriate security controls by cataloging and identifying the value, sensitivity, and protection requirements of critical business information.

The information-centric security consulting services are complemented by design and implementation services for RSA’s identity assurance & access control, data loss prevention & encryption, compliance & security information management, and fraud protection solutions.

"EDS clients understand the next generation of security capabilities are grounded in the principle of enabling business performance," said Bryan Palma, EDS Vice President Global Information Security. "EMC’s expanded services nicely complement EDS’ integrated security solutions, allowing our clients to take risks, not just minimize them. The strategic alliance between EMC and EDS continues to strengthen, and EMC’s services coupled with RSA technology solutions play an integral role in the growth of our global security practice."

"Our customers are looking for holistic security solutions that give them command and control of their information. Based on a proven information risk management strategy — EMC’s information-centric strategy and security consulting services help customers use risk to evaluate business initiatives, determine where security investment is necessary and measure security contribution to business objectives," said Kim MacPherson, Vice President of Information Security Consulting at EMC. "Armed with effective information security programs, customers can move aggressively to address business challenges and take the greatest amount of risk they are willing to assume in order to accelerate their business."

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