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In today’s fast-paced and constantly
evolving global market, ensuring the
safety of your organization’s critical data is
no doubt a high priority. However, firewalls
won’t stop an intruder from gaining
physical access to your business, and it’s
just as important that your physical assets ONE | KnoW your tHreats,
are as equally secured as those in the cloud.
ONE |understand your risKs
Physical security is the first line of defense
against unwanted breaches to your “You do not achieve victory by defeating your enemy but
enterprise, but with rapidly advancing rather by defeating your enemy’s strategy.” – Sun Tzu
technologies, vendor and manufacturer
consolidation, and increasing internal • Effective security is designed in layers
organizational complexity, selecting the
right solution and provider can prove to be • Identify key assets and high risk, high
a daunting task. vulnerability areas
Evaluating all options and charting the • Talk to your internal people throughout your
course for sound foundational solutions organization – a lot!
that are capable of evolving as your • Feedback from key areas of operations within your
business needs change requires more organization creates well defined knowledge of
than just product education and industry vulnerabilities, exposes areas of opportunity to add
experience. It requires insight into value to the overall organization and creates a culture
market direction and provider positioning. of security
Additionally, variability in both internal
and external risks to the success of your • Consider both traditional and non-traditional threats
security program further intensifies the • Increasingly, the focus on core systems revolves
criticality of having a solid programmatic around “the Security of Security”! Who has accessed
and technological approach.
your systems? What data is being reviewed,
Well designed and deployed solutions that exported, and made accessible to unapproved users?
enable security and business practices • Identify key processes and process changes that
are the result of an intentional and well- need to be implemented first. Then begin evaluating
informed process. This methodical and investing in technology solutions that will meet
approach provides a comprehensive those needs.
roadmap, positions your security
organization to drive improvement, and
delivers exceptional value to your overall best practice
organization. Consider developing internal organizational security
“champions” who inform your understanding of both
traditional and non-traditional sources of security threats.
