Develop a Network Security Roadmap to Lower Incident Costs and Increase Efficiency

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IT security and/or network managers are frequently stuck in fire-fighting mode, and are rarely able to dedicate the time to proactive planning.
Compliance and well-publicized breaches are providing increased motivation for IT departments to focus on a forward-thinking plan, but they often have the misconception that it requires outside help.
Unnecessary costs are often a result for organizations when they continue to not take their own actions or utilize the information that they already possess.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

Creating a roadmap does not have to be overly complicated.
If you get the right people in the room who will work hard, this project does not need a month to complete – you could finish a roadmap in two days using information your organization already possesses.
Consulting firms will just ask you questions you know you should be asking yourself – save the money.

Impact and Result

The short-term impact is that the process will prevent a lot of headaches and costs that an organization will experience if they attempt to create a roadmap through a consulting group.
The long-term impacts include increased protection against risks, fewer problems with network breaches, less time spent firefighting, and security costs evening out and eventually lowering as issues are proactively addressed.

Develop a Network Security Roadmap to Lower Incident Costs and Increase Efficiency Research & Tools

1. Conduct current state analysis

Understand risk tolerance levels and discuss organizational reality.

2. Establish an organization’s threat landscape

Recognize the threats that the organization is currently dealing with and what it might deal with in the future.

3. Create a prioritized network security roadmap

Know what the business requirements are before determining what is needed.

4. Obtain support from business

Highlight key messages for stakeholders to understand.

Develop a Network Security Roadmap to Lower Incident Costs and Increase Efficiency visualization

Save over $100,000 in consulting fees with a streamlined and accelerated process.

About Info-Tech

Info-Tech Research Group is the world’s fastest-growing information technology research and advisory company, proudly serving over 30,000 IT professionals.

We produce unbiased and highly relevant research to help CIOs and IT leaders make strategic, timely, and well-informed decisions. We partner closely with IT teams to provide everything they need, from actionable tools to analyst guidance, ensuring they deliver measurable results for their organizations.

What Is a Blueprint?

A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.

Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.

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Get the help you need in this 1-phase advisory process. You'll receive 4 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.

Call 1: Determine risk tolerance level

Understand how much risk an organization is willing to accept – this is a key influence on where your roadmap will go.
Call 2: Establish threat landscape

Understand the organization’s current threats and start anticipating future possibilities with the Information Security Event Analysis Tool.
Call 3: Create an implementation roadmap

Develop a roadmap tailored to an organization’s specific requirements – business and otherwise – with the Network Security Implementation Roadmap Tool.
Call 4: Secure business buy-in

Establish a strategy and create a plan to obtain support from business.