HP Launches Security Metrics Services

To Help Businesses Reduce Risk HP Introduces New Information-Security Service.
Services to help clients make rapid, data-driven decisions about the management information-security risk across their organizations.

Dubbed HP Security Metrics Services, the new offering is designed to help customers understand the risks that a security incident could potentially have on business objectives.

According to HP, despite enormous amounts of threat information, organizations struggle to make effective and timely security decisions, instead making reactive choices and falling behind as risks surge.

HP Security Metrics Services utilize an organization's existing sources of security data, set parameters that give stakeholders a clear alert when their business objectives are at risk, and enable them to determine their overall risk posture, the company explained.

According to HP, the new services will help businesses in:

• Improving accountability for security actions
• Improving spending allocation and budget justification
• Speeding evaluation of risk exposure for timely action
• Mitigating reputation damage
• Demonstrating regulatory compliance with better incident reporting as well as trends in threats and vulnerabilities that may affect compliance
• Anticipating security incidents that have significant potential to affect executive business objectives
• Reducing risk exposure and minimize security incident damage by alerting key stakeholders to risks, enabling them to take timely and effective action
• Deepening executive-level security engagement by demonstrating how specific security risks imperil business objectives.
• Statistically model how business innovation and changes can affect risk trends on an ongoing basis, enabling scenario testing and leading to better risk-based decision-making

By utilizing a framework that links IT assets to 34 identified key risk components, customers can prioritize their business objectives and processes and correlate them to threats, vulnerabilities and incidents, HP said. These components are supported by a predefined library of security data sources, which specifies how the data is gathered and used to provide ongoing business-related risk information.

Good news is HP Security Metrics Services is currently open worldwide.