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Risk. The possibility of suffering
harm or loss. The potential for realizing the unwanted negative
consequences of an event.
Translating business requirements
into IT resources is always a challenge. It is a greater challenge
when security is involved. IT staff need to fully understand their
business’ mission-critical requirements. Then, they need to
find the sets of ways to allow the enterprise to conduct its business
while ensuring that the business’ information is available,
confidential, and secure. Misunderstandings can be costly. Critical
information may be inadequately secured, and non-essential information
may even be over-secured.
Polar Cove’s information
risk management and gap analysis approach uses quantitative and
qualitative tools to enumerate our clients’ security risk
exposures. Consultants lay the foundation by gaining agreement with
clients about specific risks in direct relation to their missions
and their essential IT assets. After these risks are identified,
Polar Cove works in cooperation with management to ensure that operational
and business units work together to understand and address the information
security needs of the enterprise. As a result, clients can close
the gaps between business requirements and the IT resources that
protect them. Risks are managed, not merely experienced.
Information Risk Management and Gap
Analysis Includes:
- Building Asset-Based Threat Profiles.
Polar Cove examines key enterprise-wide information assets,
the specific threats to those assets, the resulting security
requirements, existing security practices, and potential vulnerabilities.
- Identify Infrastructure Vulnerabilities.
Evaluating the key operational components of each client’s
information infrastructure uncovers possible technology flaws
that can be exploited.
- Developing a Security Policy, Strategy,
and Plan. Based on the specific information developed
in the steps above, Polar Cove works with management to establish
a tailored, effective protection strategy for each client. Security
policies developed for each are based on prioritized risk assessments,
the available or necessary assets, and the organizational requirements
for mitigating risk.
Polar Cove risk assessment and
risk management consultation enables clients to make information
management decisions and develop effective security policies, based
on management’s decisions about specific business information
and its uses. The result is a program tailored to ensure critical
controls and protection for each enterprise.
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Average
Hourly losses in the event of Data center Outage, by industry
| $1,107,274 |
Retail |
| $1,202,444 |
Insurance |
| $1,344,461 |
Information
Tech |
| $1,495,134 |
Financial
Institutions |
| $1,610,654 |
Manufacturing |
| $2,066,245 |
Telecommunications |
| $2,817,846 |
Energy |
Source: META Group
The cost savings realized by integrating
risk management and security into business operatons and
IT planning can be tenfold.
Source: Gartner
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