ISG understands the complexity of your organization and its partner ecosystem – which is why we take a holistic approach to bolstering your cybersecurity now and in the future.
ISG can help you:
In an increasingly connected economy, the importance of cyber security and risk management rises. You need to validate, re-orient and re-align your cybersecurity strategy.
Assess your capabilities and maturity with an ISG assessment built off of industry-leading frameworks (e.g., NIST CSF, CIS Top 20, ISO) and market-leading benchmark data. We’ll help you baseline your maturity levels and develop transformational roadmaps to move up the maturity curve.
Outsourcing cybersecurity tools and services on a stand-alone basis or as embedded services can be essential in times of scarce resources and increasing professional and advanced persistent threats.
When sourcing operational services, your chosen partner’s compliance with your corporate information security controls, policies and standards impacts your cyber security’s resilience. Managing your transaction and transition means carefully segregating duties between your organization, your partner and its internal governance.
Re-directed strategy, digitization approaches and sourcing of services and tools let you achieve the expected value leveraging holistically managed transformation measures. Digital tools and services improve efficiency and lower failure rates. End-to-end business processes and connected or digital products require extra-vigilant security protocols.
ISG knows the market best practices. We’ll enable your successful digital transformation with a cyber security operations and management model.
The Cyber Defense Center (CDC) of a large insurance company was interested in a user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) solution. Its goal was to build a new capability to detect insider threats. It also wanted to be able to perform anomaly detection at scale.
The insurance company brought in ISG to lead a proof of concept and enable management of a central UEBA strategy decision. Ultimately, this resulted in the company deciding that their upcoming security information and event management (SIEM) request for proposals process should include UEBA in the same contract.
First, ISG helped to align stakeholders on how to measure return on investment (ROI) in this space. One of the main indicators of ROI within the cybersecurity domain is the measured risk that any particular investment (tool or technology) mitigates.
Compared to most security tools that only create value after finetuning has been done, a UEBA solution utilizing machine learning is always continuously learning the behavior of users and assets within its environment. This means that the better the baseline of the solution is, the fewer false positive alerts it has.
In order to provide the company with a structure for making the management decision regarding a central UEBA strategy, ISG led the following activities:
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Learn MoreAs enterprises increasingly rely on cloud applications, remote workforces and interconnected systems, the complexity and sophistication of cyberthreats have escalated. This dynamic environment requires advanced security measures that go beyond traditional perimeter defenses. As cyberthreats continue to grow in sophistication, the adoption of such cutting-edge security measures will be essential for maintaining a strong cybersecurity posture.
In 2023, several high-profile data breaches and cyberattacks strengthened and drove the growth of the U.S. cybersecurity market. Data breaches in 2023 catapulted to 3,205 compared to 1,802 in 2022, affecting over 353 million individuals with compromises, including data breaches, leakage and exposure. The healthcare sector remained the primary target, witnessing more than double the number of data breach incidents compared to 2022, followed closely by the financial services industry, which experienced 744 incidents and marked a substantial increase.
To protect their digital assets and drive business growth, they need a new approach to security: Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM). CTEM software continuously monitors and manages the enterprise’s exposure to cyber risks, enabling a swift and effective response to any security incident. In this analyst perspective, we will explore how CTEM software works, why it is essential in today’s IT landscape and how it can align with broader business objectives.
Digital transformation demands the integrity of information, beyond reasonable – and sometimes unexpected – doubts. But few enterprises want to become – nor do they have the resources – to become digital security experts. Use our research to understand what is working and why, align spend on digital security, and make rapid improvement to achieve risk-adjusted value while making optimal decisions.
