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Best Practice Guide to Reducing Your Cost of Compliance

With IT budgets remaining flat through 2010 and the cost of compliance expected to rise, IT organizations must find ways to streamline compliance spending to maintain IT operations and IT security service levels in the coming year. Here are some useful best practices to slash regulatory overhead and improve the effectiveness of your compliance spend.

Why “Free” Patch Management Tools Could Cost You More

Today’s current economic situation underscores the importance of scrutinizing all business expenses, particularly within IT. Although point patching products may look more attractive on the surface, closer inspection often reveals hidden costs and missing capabilities. The result: fragmented patch management and weaker security posture while also being a more costly and cumbersome option for organizations to maintain.

The Total Economic Impact of Lumension Application and Device Control

This study, from Forrester Research, illustrates the financial impact of moving from a difficult-to-enforce, ”voluntary” compliance solution to the IT-driven Lumension Endpoint Security solution that automatically enforces endpoint security policies. The TEI study should be seen as a guide to better understand and evaluate Lumension Endpoint Security.

Ogren Group Security Analysis - Lumension: a Case Study in Proactively Managing Endpoint Risk

The Ogren Group found that EC Suite, a major processor of credit card transactions for e-commerce organizations, saved considerable time and effort in their IT and security operations as a direct result of their preventive security measures and procedures using Lumension solutions.

EC Suite’s preventive security approach has yielded a stronger security profile against malicious attacks, reduced overall IT and security operational expenses, and enhanced operational efficiencies. The primary direct savings come from Lumension Endpoint Protection Solution to thwart malicious attacks at the endpoints and Lumension Vulnerability Management Solution to rapidly close vulnerabilities in the infrastructure, while Lumension Data Protection Solution prevents leakage of confidential data that could be ruinous to the business.

Read this Ogren Group Security Business Analysis to learn how EC Suite achieved:

• 258.3% rate of return in the first year
• 964.0% average rate of return over three years
• 6-9 month payback period

Minimizing Security-Related Total Cost of Ownership

Any security professional worth his or her salt understands that the job at hand isn’t just a matter of protecting the technology ecosystem, it is a question of doing so without racking up costs that will raise the CFO’s eyebrows. In today’s economy, though, the antes have been raised. Nowadays security gurus aren’t just expected to keep security-related problems at bay as cheaply as possible. They are also counted on to find ways to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) of all IT assets by minimizing risks, reducing network complexity and optimizing resources. This whitepaper examines how to minimize your security TCO through proactive solutions that are no longer a luxury, but a necessity to compete in today’s economic environment. By investing in the necessary Endpoint Protection, Data Protection, Vulnerability Management and Reporting and Compliance solutions, IT resources can be freed up to work on strategic initiatives that drive profit to the bottom line.