In Managing risk through security and compliance continues to be a leading concern of organizations the world over. Meeting the requirements of increasingly demanding regulations while reducing exposure to the new classes of sophisticated threats and having an accurate understanding of risk and compliance at any point in time can be challenging.
To better understand how organizations are meeting these challenges, McAfee retained Evalueserve to conduct an independent assessment of the factors organizations that use risk and compliance products face in 2012. This is the third in a series of global studies that highlights how IT decision-makers view and address the challenges of risk and compliance management in a highly regulated and increasingly complex global business environment.
In their responses to this survey, IT leaders and managers demonstrate the value of risk management programs that reflect a maturity in their understanding of and visibility into their operations that enables them to:
Assess their vulnerabilities,
Prioritize the threats against them, and
Take effective remediation steps.
Mature forward-thinking companies have implemented or are in the process of refining their risk management and compliance initiatives. They are avoiding check-box compliance and fire drill responses to security incidents in favor of sustained, continuous and actionable risk management programs that address IT security as a business risk.
This survey provides insight into how organizations are leveraging strategic risk management and mitigation solutions such as risk analysis, security information event management (SIEM) and vulnerability scanning as part of their overall risk and compliance programs.
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