Getting the best bang for your security buck
Six tips for cutting costs and streamlining operations
July 15, 2002 12:00 PM ETComputerworld -
- Do a risk analysis: Know where your most proprietary secrets are to ensure that you're spending money to defend information that really matters to the business.
- Take advantage of your size: Leverage purchases with vendors by standardizing and buying products and services in bulk.
- Assure quality: Set and align security configuration policies, then audit compliance.
- Don't build a security empire: Share security responsibility -- and expenses -- with business units, other IT departments and auditors.
- Avoid duplication: Merge multiple security management control networks into one.
- Cross-train: Have incident response teams learn firewall administration and other skills they can use between incidents.
Source: Charles Neal, vice president of managed security services at Exodus Communications Inc., a subsidiary of Cable & Wireless Internet Services Inc. in Santa Clara, Calif.
Additional Online Resources:
- Cambridge, Mass.-based Giga Information Group Inc.'s Security Action ReportCard: www.gigaweb.com/mktg/sarc/default.asp
- The Center for Internet Security: www.cisecurity.org
- Carlsbad, Calif.-based Computer Economics Inc.: www.computereconomics.com
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