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Getting the best bang for your security buck

Six tips for cutting costs and streamlining operations

July 15, 2002 12:00 PM ET

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  1. 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.

  2. Take advantage of your size: Leverage purchases with vendors by standardizing and buying products and services in bulk.

  3. Assure quality: Set and align security configuration policies, then audit compliance.

  4. Don't build a security empire: Share security responsibility -- and expenses -- with business units, other IT departments and auditors.

  5. Avoid duplication: Merge multiple security management control networks into one.

  6. 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.
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