Managing Endpoint Risk for the Executive

C-Level executives are challenged with implementing internal controls to ensure that business runs efficiently, that corporate intellectual property (IP) is safeguarded, and that the organization complies with pertinent industry and regulatory security standards. Not being able to enforce such controls to manage corporate endpoint risk is simply too costly when you consider the following:

• Seventy-five percent of Fortune 1000 companies fell victim to accidental and/or malicious data leakage¹
  
• Nearly $5 million is spent on average per year per organization to recover lost or stolen corporate data²
  
• Fifty-six percent of CISO’s noted employee misuse of corporate data as the most serious IT challenge³

And the costs of not effectively managing endpoint risk extend to more than data leakage or non-compliance with regulations. Without endpoint controls in place to prevent these issues, organizations risk losing customers and ultimately revenue.

• Due to loss of customer/employee information, many customers have lost trust and discontinued support for organizations⁴
  
• As a result of a data breach, nineteen percent of customers discontinued their relationship with the company and more than 40 percent said they might discontinue their relationship⁴

Protecting corporate IP and implementing proper controls to manage endpoint risk is of top concern as most targeted attacks and data leaks - inadvertent or intentional - occur at the endpoint. The challenge is exacerbated by a largely mobile workforce, which extends the corporate walls to new boundaries.

Only through policy-driven protection and control security solutions can executives rest assured that:

• Risk is being proactively managed
• Disparate groups are working together to develop and enforce policy
• The organization is in compliance with security policies and regulations
• IT resources are being consolidated
• Costs are reduced and overall productivity is improved

Lumension Solutions Manage Endpoint Risk

Lumension assures executives that corporate risk is effectively managed at the endpoint by employing a policy-based framework that mitigates non-compliant behavior or vulnerabilities before problems occur. Lumension is uniquely capable of ensuring that desired security levels are consistently and continuously enforced throughout the enterprise. By using a proactive approach Lumension Security solutions provide the best first and last line of defense to effectively manage endpoint risk.

Best First Line of Defense

Enforcing application and device control policies, Lumension Security solutions enable only authorized applications to run and only authorized devices to be accessible on a network, server, terminal services server, thin client, laptop or desktop. Furthermore, the confidentiality and integrity of corporate IP, customer and financial records is ensured by enabling only authorized users to copy data to removable media and also enforcing encryption, with complete auditing of that action.

Best Last Line of Defense

Delivering rapid and automated patch and remediation of software vulnerabilities and configuration issues, Lumension Security solutions ensure that endpoints remain in compliance with industry and regulatory standards. By establishing and enforcing mandatory baselines, organizations can shut the door on vulnerabilities before they can be exploited.

Policy and Regulatory Compliance

Providing detailed and actionable audit information, Lumension security management solutions enable organizations to prove policy compliance as well as with certain industry regulations.

The result is the protection of corporate IP and compliance with industry and regulatory security and operational standards.

Managing Endpoint Risk for Executives:

• Ensures that proper internal controls are in place to keep business running effectively
  
• Safeguards the confidentiality, integrity and availability of sensitive data
  
• Protects against network security breaches where confidential data could be exposed to fraud or where network availability is disrupted
  
• Controls and monitors the flow of inbound and outbound data
  
• Assures compliance with policies and regulations governing privacy and internal controls

1 - 2006 CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey
2 – Ponemon Institute's 2006 Cost of Data Breach Study
3 – Merrill Lynch Security Software CISO Survey, June 27, 2007
4 - Ponemon Institute, 2005 National Survey on Data Security Breach Notification