Information Security Consulting: A Safety Package
Technological innovations and advancement has had a number of positive effects on the global economy. It has paved way for organizations to go global, increase their customer base and raised the productivity and quality levels to satisfy the customers and their growing demands. However, this technological growth has also had some negative impact to the organizational growth in the form of cyber threats, malware and web application attacks.
Security breaches arise with the extended use of the corporate network, global information exchange, password mismanagement even unauthorized access to critical corporate information leading to great loss in revenue and brand image. Organizations thus need to work out an information security-consulting framework in line with the business needs. A security issue leaves its impact in every organization whether it’s a business conglomerate or small and medium enterprise. Securing the information would mean protecting the critical organizational content or data and its information systems from any unauthorized access, disruption, and disclosure of information, modification of data or destruction.
Information security is concerned with maintaining the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data. Protecting confidential information is a business ethical and legal requirement of any business organization. With technological innovations, information security consulting is now available for specialized network surety, infrastructure security, applications and databases security, security testing, information systems auditing, and business continuity planning. Organizations should provide this as a service help desk package to the end–users.
The top notch service providers of the information security services service offers their clientele an security consulting services to meet the overall global security requirements and in compliance with various regulatory standards. With a team of certified consultants and domain experts these organizations provide
1. PCI- DSS Consultancy and certification service
2. ISO 270001:2005 Consultancy and implementation service
3. Information Processing Policy and consultancy
4. DLP Consulting
5. Anti-Fraud Consulting services
6. Application management service
Providing information security consulting services benefits the customers in improving their security standards. Such services when offered as a service desk mode or as 24/7 software help desk streamlines the security process and helps the organizations efficiently manage their security risk and compliances even at end-user locations. Further, this ensures a secure access to the critical organizational data and also helps to align the security process with the business goals.