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Intellectual property, customer information, sensor data, audio files, video assets—whatever combination of structured and unstructured data your organization relies on, it’s a critical asset that must be properly protected.

The more effectively you’re able to mine and analyze data, the more value it has for your organization in terms of the insights you can glean from it—and the more carefully it must therefore be secured. Otherwise it can become a liability.

If any of your data gets leaked or goes missing, your organization could run the risk of regulatory non-compliance or damage to its brand reputation. What’s more, you could lose a valuable source of intelligence. In addition, if the missing data gets accidentally or maliciously shared with your competitors, your competitive edge could be affected.

INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL RISKSThe majority of organizations have security policies and procedures in place to protect traditional sources, but good data security depends on ensuring they’re up to date and able to protect new sources of data—and that people understand and follow them.

Most of the data breaches reported in the media are caused by internal users’ mistakes, negligence or ignorance—such as a briefcase of confidential information left on the train, an unencrypted disk of personal data that goes astray in the post, or a video innocently posted to YouTube.

But the data organizations use and the way they’re using it are changing, making security risks harder to quantify and prevent. In the past, the data you used tended to be stored inside your organization, so securing your perimeter and managing security behind it was usually enough to keep your data safe.

Today’s organizations increasingly make use of externally held information and resources, such as data generated on social networks and the latest web-based tools for data analysis and visualization. This sharp rise in the level of external connectivity, combined with increasingly prevalent and sophisticated external threats, introduces more potential vulnerabilities—and calls for new approaches to security that extend beyond the perimeter.

HOW CSC CAN HELPCSC can help you safeguard your data more effectively. Our dedicated security practice draws together specialist with capabilities and expertise in areas such as information assurance, risk management, compliance, governance and security testing. We’re familiar with the general and industry-specific regulations for data protection around the world, and we meet national and international standards for information security best practice.

We understand the new ways organizations are combining structured and unstructured, internal and externally owned data to create new business

insights. Our security consultants can carry out assessments to identify risks and vulnerabilities in your environment and put in place a program to address any gaps or issues in your security architecture. They’ll help you understand the risk attached to different data categories so that you can protect it according to the value at risk.

We can also work with you to define, adjust or strengthen your approach to security in a specific area. If your business or operating model is changing—for example, you’re moving customer payments online; you’re considering moving data into a highly virtualized or cloud-based environment; or you want to make greater use of data on mobile devices—we can help you assess the related risks and implement the required security policies, procedures and techniques.

PREVENTION, INVESTIGATION AND REMEDIATIONAs well as consultancy we offer a full range of project services to mitigate risks, and managed security services delivered from our security operations centers to provide ongoing operational support and help you develop the integrated approach to data security that today’s complex threat landscape requires. Many of our services incorporate high levels of automation that make it easier to enforce standards for protecting data and ensure compliance with regulation and your security policies.

The data organizations create, store and process is expanding in volume and variety. The value of

that data is changing and at the same time regulatory requirements are becoming more stringent,

and external threats more sophisticated. If you experience a security breach—whether accidental or

deliberate—and data gets lost or falls into the wrong hands, it can have serious consequences for your

organization’s competitiveness.

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In particular, our Data Loss Prevention service will help you protect against the risk of data breaches and loss. It helps you identify your critical data and assets, and tracks and monitors them—whether they’re in motion, in use or at rest. If anything happens to a piece of data or an asset that doesn’t meet your defined policies—for example, confidential information is sent to an external email address—an alert is generated so that you can take action; or we can configure the service to actively prevent such information being emailed externally.

CSC also offers forensic investigation and remediation services in the event an organization suffers a data breach. Using specialist skills and toolsets, we can investigate the breached assets and identify what happened, when and how, with reporting to evidential standards if required. We can then help remediate the situation—for example, by implementing tighter security controls, or plugging gaps in the security architecture—to help avoid future similar breaches.

MAXIMIZING THE BUSINESS VALUE OF DATAImproving data security will deliver benefit to your business. But if you’re really looking to transform the way you work with data and extract greater business value from it, talk to a CSC expert today.

In addition to helping you protect your data, we offer consultancy and solutions for optimizing your data center and improving the way you store and manage data. Once you have the right infrastructure foundation in place, we can help you on your journey to becoming an intelligent enterprise that can:

• Exploitmoreunstructuredandfast-changing data, and blend data from both internal and external sources

• Applyadvancedbusinessanalyticstechniques to gain new insights for competitive advantage

• Deliverthoseinsightsinnearrealtimeto the people and applications that need to act on them

FIND OUT MORE Contact us to learn more about how CSC Big Data can help your business. We’d be happy to discuss your situation in more detail.

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ENTERPRISE SECURITY ROADMAP. Provides an end-to-end assessment of your security requirements; and delivers a comprehensive security transformation plan, recommended activities and a set of prioritized security change initiatives or improvement projects.

MANAGED SECURITY SERVICES. A set of managed, integrated cyber security offerings that improve operational efficiency and effectiveness, and enable you to evolve your security posture to fit your organization’s business and risk profile:

• CSC ENHANCE establishes perimeter defenses and protects against external threats; integrates compliance, incident and vulnerability management reporting; and enacts a security practice baseline to achieve confidence

• CSC EXTEND builds upon Enhancebyprovidingcontinuous monitoring and situational awareness; integrates encryption, authentication, monitoring and management to promote internal and external data security; includes a security dashboard giving full oversight to organizational stakeholders

DATA LOSS PREVENTION. A managed security service that identifies and classifies sensitive data, monitors it, and protects it against loss whether it’s in motion, in use or at rest.

CSC SOLUTIONS FOR SECURITY AND DATA PROTECTION

WORLDWIDE CSC HEADQUARTERS

The Americas3170 Fairview Park DriveFalls Church, Virginia 22042United States+1.703.876.1000

Europe, Middle East, AfricaRoyal PavilionWellesley RoadAldershot, Hampshire GU11 1PZUnited Kingdom+44(0)1252.534000

Australia26 Talavera RoadMacquarie Park, NSW 2113 Australia+61(0)29034.3000

Asia20 Anson Road #11-01Twenty Anson Singapore 079912Republic of Singapore +65.6221.9095

About CSCThe mission of CSC is to be a global leader in providing technology enabled business solutions and services.

With the broadest range of capabilities, CSC offers clients the solutions they need to manage complexity, focus on core businesses, collaborate with partners and clients, and improve operations.

CSC makes a special point of understanding its clients and provides experts with real-world experience to work with them. CSC is vendor-independent, delivering solutions that best meet each client’s unique requirements.

For more than 50 years, clients in industries and governments worldwide have trusted CSC with their business process and information systems outsourcing, systems integration and consulting needs.

The company trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “CSC.”

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