Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 29 | Page 97

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// t cht lk ADR platform, the security operations team is able to demonstrate agility and increased response capacity without adding scarce people resources. Remediation response vs reimage This metric measures business disruption. Disrupted business means substantially higher cost from delays, lost productivity or even liability to third parties. The more surgical and remote responses that are enabled by the ADR platform, the fewer ‘big hammer’ fixes of reimaging an end-user’s endpoint have to happen. That means less business disruption and inconvenience for employees. Business disruption can be quantified based on the staff role, affected device role and length of time for a response. www.intelligentcio.com “ DISRUPTED BUSINESS MEANS SUBSTANTIALLY HIGHER COST FROM DELAYS, LOST PRODUCTIVITY OR EVEN LIABILITY TO THIRD PARTIES. Taking someone’s laptop for a day to reimage it is an inconvenience. Taking down a payment processing server is a substantial disruption, even when hot backups and clustered failovers are part of the solution. The ADR approach thinks differently about security operations. ADR is based on a purpose-built platform designed to deliver validated conclusions about attacks, intrusions and compromises at any stage of the attack lifecycle while also automating the response capability to those attacks. This transformation enables new metrics that impact the organisations’ business and bottom line. Each of these metrics point to the potential and necessity of adopting an ADR approach and making it the cornerstone of your cybersecurity strategy in 2018 and beyond. n INTELLIGENTCIO 97