Security Management Solutions:
Your organization faces significant security challenges in today's world, where protecting vital business data can be an expensive and daunting proposition. For example, you must proactively address security concerns that impact the applications, databases and other business assets that are essential to daily operations, convert raw security data into actionable business intelligence and comply with governmental and industry regulations, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Sarbanes Oxley Act, Basel II and Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA). Most importantly, you must ensure continuous business operations by mitigating risk at virtually every level of your organization all while maintaining budgets and achieving operational efficiencies.
Meeting these challenges requires new thinking; a new model for security management solutions that weaves the disparate elements that protect your business assets into a complete and easily managed solution. The new security management model aligns security with business needs by integrating three critical components in the security environment: identity and access management, threat management and security information management. Each component must be open and flexible, easily integrating with one another, as well as with third party solutions. Finally, security management demands a proactive approach and on-demand response to events within the ever-changing security environment.
When properly implemented, integrated security management solutions enables you to understand your security environment in all of its complexity, turning security data into actionable information, obtaining timely answers to critical questions about your IT environment and, based on those answers, taking proactive, aggressive action to protect assets and information across your entire enterprise. A comprehensive security management solution delivers multiple benefits, including reduced costs, less downtime, greatly reduced IT risk, improved regulatory compliance and increased productivity. It enables you to make the right decisions at the right time. Furthermore, proactive and integrated security management enhances your overall level of security and increases your business efficiency and effectiveness.
Enterprise IT Security Management Solutions
In order for IT organizations to succeed in solving their IT challenges, a holistic approach to IT management is required in which people, process and technology are used in concert. Enterprise IT Management (EITM) is CA's vision for unifying and simplifying the management and security of IT in support of the business.
The EITM vision requires that all IT management functions work together to meet the needs of the business. The focus of EITM is to manage and secure all aspects of the IT environment ? from IT assets and IT users to the application environments that bring them together, and finally to the IT services that the business consumes. By managing all of IT in an integrated way, organizations are able to unify and simplify IT so that it can be continually optimized in support of business needs (See Figure 1).
The key security management functions required for EITM fall into four main categories:
Security Management solutions include management of identity and access, security information, vulnerabilities and threats. Security management solutions deliver secure and audited access to the appropriate business systems and information, and mitigates risks from security threats.
Storage Management: Includes the management of storage resources, backup and recovery, and compliance and optimization.
Enterprise Systems Management: Includes management of networks, systems, databases, applications, desktop and client devices and web infrastructure.
Business Service Optimization. Includes service management, asset management, and project and portfolio management.
Achieving the EITM vision provides tremendous value for any organization, enabling them to:
- Manage Risk. Control who has access to corporate assets, systems and information, and provide a comprehensive approach for information backup, recovery and failover.
- Improve Service. Manage and secure critical IT services to meet the dynamic needs of the business functions they support.
- Manage Cost. Apply automation to decrease the labor costs required to maintain IT operations, thereby freeing resources for strategic projects and new development to grow the business.
- Align IT Investments with Business. Use information on how IT is being used and how much it costs to support the business to manage and optimize the use of IT ? ensuring all of your IT resources, including people, technology and projects, are being effectively utilized.
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