White Papers for International Standards Organization (ISO) 27002 (17799)

The Evolution of Managed Security Services

ISS

Demands placed on information technology organizations have never been higher. The emergence of new cyber threats and e-nuisances continue to wreak havoc on aging security technologies and under-protected systems. New laws and regulations for business governance and data privacy/protection impose severe fines and penalties on organizations for compliance failures.

All of this requires IT professionals to maintain constant vigilance and necessitates security programs that have a strong balance between proactive and reactive measures. Even with increased security budgets, IT organizations still face the challenges of staffing skilled security experts, keeping up with rapid security technology advancements and developing successful security procedures. Most importantly, they must figure out how to manage and monitor all of these security technologies in a manner that provides real-time protection against threats that never rest. Internet Security Systems (ISS) has developed the Virtual
Security Operations Center (Virtual-SOC) integrated services architecture to help IT organizations such as yours address these challenges.
ISS Virtual-SOC is a framework for integrating security tools, services and intelligence into a consolidated view, to manage and monitor security operations from a single point. The Virtual-SOC architecture provides a comprehensive view of your security posture combined with actionable security information to help you stay Ahead of the threat. Utilizing advanced artificial intelligence systems that aggregate security events and network logs, Virtual-SOC correlates this information against security vulnerabilities. Virtual-SOC then produces prioritized actions based on your individual organization's security posture.
Using the Virtual-SOC, you are able to manage your entire security operation: managed and unmanaged devices (both ISS and third-party), security intelligence, reporting, archiving, remediation, escalation and collaboration with ISS Managed Security Services analysts. Virtual-SOC is accessible anytime and anywhere through the powerful, easy-to-use Virtual-SOC Portal that allows for real-time decision-making.
Your organization's Virtual-SOC solution can be customized from an array of managed and monitored security services along with the suite of ISS Security Enablement Services. This provides you with the flexibility to outsource the management and monitoring of certain devices to ISS, while using the Virtual-
SOC to monitor other security with in-house resources. Virtual-SOC further simplifies security management, monitoring and reporting by consolidating and normalizing logs and events across your organization's deployment of multi-vendor security technologies whether those technologies are managed by ISS
or by you in-house.

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