MAPPING
THE RISK
(R)EVOLUTION
The rapid adoption of digital technologies and IoT has greatly increased infrastructure complexity and enterprise attack surfaces. Constrained security resources and maturing attacker capabilities demand that businesses remain vigilant and that risk management evolve.
Let’s map the risk (r)evolution.
The age of check-box compliance
ANNUAL
ASSESSMENT =
GREEN LIGHT
Historically business risk managers would complete an annual assessment. That assessment would take a picture of what the risk landscape looked like at a specific moment in time.
And that was good enough.
Business leaders had different priorities, playbooks and vocabularies, often far different from those of the security teams. Security risk was managed separately from business risk, and not aligned to business objectives.
LEADERS SPEAK
DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
Digital transformation
changes the landscape
Digital transformation, the evolution of business models through digital technologies, has impacted every aspect of business as we know it. Digital transformation introduces new risk challenges and creates new exposures.
DIGITAL WORKPLACE BRINGS SECURITY HURDLES
Conventional risk policies and assessment regimens are no match for today’s increasing volume and velocity of change. Data classification, data loss prevention/leakage and cloud data security rank as the top three challenges for business executing on Digital Transformation.*
SECURITY LEADERS STRUGGLE
TO KEEP UP
The attack surface expands
The proliferation of digital technologies means many businesses do not fully understand what their enterprise attack surface is comprised of. Relying on traditional vulnerability scans is no longer effective in an evolving environment.
SECURITY TEAMS
LACK VISIBILITY
Reactive security programs mean teams are too busy dealing with outside threats to stop and look at their program from the inside out. More focus is put on prevention vs. detection and response capabilities.
REACTIVE VS. PROACTIVE SECURITY TEAMS
Businesses can no longer assume compliance is synonymous with security. An annual or semiannual compliance assessment is not an accurate view of an evolving security environment.
COMPLIANCE
DOES NOT EQUAL SECURITY
The digitization of business demands all industries monitor cybersecurity risk in the same fashion as other business risks—in
a proactive, ongoing and real-time manner, continuously adjusting based on benchmarks, business priorities, compliance mandates and risk monitoring.
THE SEPARATION OF RISK CAN NO LONGER OCCUR
It's time for a risk (r)evolution
Businesses must fundamentally rewrite how they manage cybersecurity to achieve business resilience. And it starts with a proactive and continuous risk management strategy.
Optiv will help transform cyber insecurity into a risk-centric business program that is not only compliant, but grounded in thoughtful risk management.
*Forrester, Fix Your Culture Gaps to Speed Up Digital Transformation, February 2018.
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Enterprise risk management calls for an inside-out view of the business.
18%
of organizations score high in alignment of business objectives and security program management.
Optiv Security, 2018.
86%
of survey respondents agree or strongly agree that the digital world is creating new types and levels of risk for their business.
Gartner Market Insight: 10 Business Outcomes Every IRM Solution Must Deliver, August 2018, figure 1.
77%
of survey respondents think investment in risk management is not keeping pace with actual risk.
Gartner Market Insight: 10 Business Outcomes Every IRM Solution Must Deliver, August 2018.
Optiv Attack and Penetration teams gained access to client systems through weak or default passwords in 40% of Q2 2018 client engagements.
Worlds collide
191
days elapse before the average data breach
is identified.
Ponemon Institute, Cost of a Data Breach Study, 2017.
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