HP has announced its new services group, HP Security Metrics Services, which are consulting services designed to help organizations make rapid decisions about IT security risk management .
Security threats and incidents can easily impact business objectives, so it's important for organizations to be aware of the risks and know how to address them. That's exactly what HP Security Metrics Services provides.
The benefits of the new service include improved reporting on security actions, reduced reputational damage, better management of security risks and policies. It also helps executives understand how poor security impacts the operation of the organization/business, which is very useful for cost allocation and budget justification.
The services leverage customers’ existing security data sources to determine whether business objectives are at risk. Stakeholders are informed of the overall risk situation and its source is revealed. This allows them to take action before an incident occurs.
HP Security Metrics Services are designed to help organizations identify risk metrics using a framework that links IT issues to 34 key risk components. When there are changes in the risk metric, stakeholders are notified and informed of the category that caused the change.
