Webinar Wrap-up: Continuous Monitoring and Real Time Risk Scoring
Posted by Heather Howland in Federal, Security Intelligence, Webinars
Government agencies, like their private sector brethren, are knee deep in IT security challenges, threats, and regulations. While that’s not much of a shock, this might be – according to the Government Accountability Office, the number of reported security incidents increased by over 650 percent during fiscal years 2006–2010. At the same time, government agencies have widespread deficiencies in security controls, leading to vulnerabilities undetected breaches, and insider fraud.
To help meet these challenges, the federal government is implementing a risk-based IT security strategy based on deploying enterprise continuous monitoring solutions. These solutions will continually assess the actual security state of agencies’ IT networks and systems, while providing scoring information that managers can use to prioritize actions needed to reduce risk and improve their security grades. Continuous monitoring will enable agencies to determine their own security health and compare it to other agencies. Scoring will also allow the different lines of business within an agency to more effectively work together, while enabling agencies to gain the same operating efficiencies from IT investments that Fortune 500 companies have realized.
Recently, along with our friends at 1105 Media and partner Accuvant, we discussed the importance of continuous monitoring and related steps agencies should take while approaching it. Security intelligence plays a critical role in achieving continuous monitoring because of its ability to centralize information into a single console from various data sources.
Most importantly, we talked about how many government agencies are successfully addressing previously disparate functions — including SIEM, risk management, log management, and network behavior analytics — into a total security intelligence solution that fits the constrained budgets and resources of government agencies. The QRadar Security Intelligence Platform enables our customers to leverage existing assets, stabilize budgets, and easily comply with new mandates while maintaining a proactive stance on risk management and security.
If you missed the webinar, or just want to revisit it, watch the whole thing HERE. For a deeper look at how security intelligence helps federal agencies adopt a continuous monitoring security program without requiring additional resources, download this white paper.
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