Save over $100,000 in consulting fees with a streamlined and accelerated process. Your Challenge IT security and/or network managers are frequently stuck in fire-fighting mode, and are rarely able to dedicate the time to proactive planning. Compliance and well-publicized breaches are providing increased motivation for IT departments to focus on a forward-thinking plan, but they often have the misconception that it requires outside help. Unnecessary costs are often a result for organizations when they continue to not take their own actions or utilize the information that they already possess. Our Advice Critical Insight Creating a roadmap does not have to be overly complicated. If you get the right people in the room who will work hard, this project does not need a month to complete – you could finish a roadmap in two days using information your organization already possesses. Consulting firms will just ask you questions you know you should be asking yourself – save the money. Impact and Result The short-term impact is that the process will prevent a lot of headaches and costs that an organization will experience if they attempt to create a roadmap through a consulting group. The long-term impacts include increased protection against risks, fewer problems with network breaches, less time spent firefighting, and security costs evening out and eventually lowering as issues are proactively addressed.

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Member
Understanding
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I’m an IT security or network manager and:
• My team and I are constantly in security fire-fighting mode
• Our security strategy is to add solutions piecemeal and I
know it would cost us less if we planned better
• Despite our attempts to patch the “leaks,” we’re dealing
with more problems than we need to. There are definitely
gaps in our architecture – which is leading to higher costs in
network maintenance and lost productivity throughout the
whole company
• I keep getting surprised by new threats
As an IT security or network manager, to solve these problems I need to:
• Understand what my organization currently has in place and optimize it
• Identify what we’re missing and develop a plan to address those gaps
• Prepare a strategy to secure business buy-in to justify costs and create a more
comprehensive security plan
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Overall Insight
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Key insight: If you get the right people in the room who will work hard, this project will not
require a month to complete – you could finish it in 2 days.
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Sub-Insights
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• Completing a roadmap proactively instead of reactively (e.g. after an incident)
keeps stakeholders impressed instead of unhappy.
• APTs – the threat landscape is more unpredictable than ever. You can’t afford
not to plan.
• Increased focus on meeting compliance regulations due to the unpredictable
threat landscape encourages planning.
• Mobile device landscape – security must be applied beyond your perimeter,
which means you’ll be dealing with different threats.
• Cloud proliferation – how do you secure end-to-end?
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value creation, etc. Be sure to
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unique approaches, etc. that
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Project Steps
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Insights by Step
• Step 1: Conduct current state analysis
• Risk tolerance plays a larger role than you think in where
your roadmap will end up.
• Step 2: Establish an organization’s threat landscape
• Your present-day threats don’t always inform your future;
be prepared.
• Step 3: Determine roadmap deployment priorities
• Your roadmap must be informed by not only what you
currently have in place, but by your business and
compliance requirements as well.
• Step 4: Communicate to stakeholders
• Buy-in won’t necessarily come easily; you need to sell your
roadmap using their language.
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