Security Articles & Whitepapers

2009 Gartner: Four Risk Management Mistakes That Threaten Your Security Budget

In a period of constrained budgets and staffing, many IT expenditures are coming under intense scrutiny.  Efforts are further complicated as the risk environment and regulatory requirements expand.

Gartner recently assessed that “The keys to justifying and optimizing security spending are to ensure that security and risk control practices are meeting explicit business objectives, and — crucially — to persuade the business to take ownership of risk.”  Access the Gartner report Four Risk Management Mistakes That Threaten Your Security Budget, made available to you by SecureWorks, to learn how avoiding these common mistakes helps ensure your security expenditures are well-justified and aligned with business objectives.

Utilities: Critical Infrastructure Protection

The purpose of this whitepaper is to provide the reader with an understanding of the security and compliance challenges faced by energy companies and how SecureWorks helps them to protect their critical cyber assets.

SecureWorks Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of MSSP Magic Quadrant

SecureWorks is positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for MSSPs, North America for 2009. The Gartner Magic Quadrant is a graphical portrayal of vendor performance in a market segment, including categories for leaders, challengers, visionaries and niche players. Criteria by which the vendors are measured include a company's completeness of vision and ability to execute. 

Gartner Survey Highlights Company Burden of Vetting Third-Party Security Controls

According to Gartner, "Gartner clients report that assessing security and privacy controls of their service providers and partners has become a priority and an increasing drain on the resources of security and risk groups." This research note will help companies understand how organizations are assessing third-party security controls and compare their efforts with those of their peers.

Essential Series - Security Information Management

In The Essentials Series: Security Information Management, readers will learn about the fundamental processes and technologies that support security information management (SIM) operations, as well as the business justification for SIM. The series includes an examination of different options for implementing SIM and evaluation criteria for selecting the best options for a particular organization. Article 1: The Business Case for Security Information Management, Article 2: Foundations of Security Information Management, Article 3: Making SIM Work for Your Organization

What Organizations are Spending on IT Security

According to Gartner, "Many CIOs and chief information security officers (CISOs) are uncertain about what is a 'normal' level of security spending in terms of a percentage of the overall IT budget - especially during economic uncertainty." This research note will help IT managers understand how organizations are investing in their information security and compare their spending with that of their peers.

Hand-in-Hand: Security and Compliance

SecureWorks' Ted Keniston and Yankee Group's Sandra Palumbo discuss the importance of keeping security and compliance initiatives aligned and working toward the same goals. Listen as they discuss key guidelines, the hottest trends and the relationship between security and compliance.

Forrester Total Economic Impact™ of SecureWorks' SIEM Service

The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework for evaluating the potential financial impact of SecureWorks' SIEM Service on client organizations. Forrester's aim is to clearly show all calculations and assumptions used in the analysis. Readers should use this study to better understand and communicate a business case for investing in SecureWorks' SIEM Service.

Forrester: The Total Economic Impact^TM Of SecureWorks' Managed Security Services

Forrester applies their Total Economic Impact model to assess the value provided by SecureWorks to "a multibillion dollar international media company that owns newspapers, television stations, and Web sites in the United States and abroad."