as - Blog - Global Risk Community2024-03-29T07:17:54Zhttps://globalriskcommunity.com/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/asSecurity as a Service (SECaaS): A Next Generation Technologyhttps://globalriskcommunity.com/profiles/blogs/security-as-a-service-secaas-a-next-generation-technology2019-04-26T06:11:20.000Z2019-04-26T06:11:20.000ZKBV Researchhttps://globalriskcommunity.com/members/KBVResearch<div><p><strong>All about Security-as-a-Service</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.kbvresearch.com/security-as-a-service-market/">Security as a Service (SECaaS)</a> is a security management outsourcing model. Security as a Service typically involves applications, such as Internet-based anti-virus software, but it can also refer to the security management that an external organization manages in-house. Security as a service (SECaaS) is an Internet security service management cloud computing model. SECaaS is based on the Service Software model but is constrained to specialized information security services.</p><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}8028291077,original{{/staticFileLink}}" target="_blank"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}8028291077,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-center" alt="8028291077?profile=original" /></a></p><p><strong>Why do industries need Security-as-a-Service?</strong></p><p>Personnel shortages are starting to hit critical levels in the information security field. Small and medium-size companies probably would not have the money to hire these professionals. IT leaders expect that before it improves, this problem will get worse. The budgets for technology feel the strain. Companies need to innovate in order to remain open to competition. There are very high costs for software maintenance, update, patching, and installation. Scale platforms and secure data storage on demand are additionally necessary. All these are cloud-based safety areas, giving stressful IT departments a relief measure.</p><p></p><p><strong>Where do we see Security-as-a-Service?</strong></p><p><strong>Web Security</strong></p><p>Threats are rising around the world, which sometimes has a serious impact on system functionality and business operations, due to expanding the use of the Internet. Internet security solutions are used to safeguard computer systems and ensure that activities are performed correctly. The Internet is an unsafe channel for information sharing because it is subjected to fraud or intrusion, like drugs. Different methods are used for the data protection and transfer of the data over the Internet, such as data encryption, firewalls, antivirus, etc.</p><p>As more and more people and organizations around the world connect with the Internet via the World Wide Web, email and VoIP and other services, the threat of security seems to increase every day. These attacks are more advanced and continue to evolve with the advancement of technology. The need to protect such applications against advanced threats, such as ransom wares, APT and zero-day attacks and malware, as well as unauthorized access, is a major cause of expanding Web security and e-Mail security in organizations' use of the cloud based web-based and e-mail applications.</p><p></p><p><strong><em>Click Here For Free Insights:</em></strong><em> </em> <a href="https://www.kbvresearch.com/news/security-as-a-service-market/"><em>https://www.kbvresearch.com/news/security-as-a-service-market/</em></a></p><p></p><p><strong>Application Security</strong></p><p>Enabling companies to securing their business - sensitive applications through more visibility, control, and use of existing Application security solutions and services, such as IAM, Web filters, and Application Whitelisting, enable the safeguarding of corporate applications and software codes against external and domestic threats. </p><p>Business sensitive applications are one of the main focuses of attackers, because they contain information about critical assets and processes followed by a company. Cloud-based security-as-a-service solutions for applications provide customers with economical and scalable functionalities, which induce high growth on this marketplace.</p><p></p><p><strong>Advantages of leveraging Security-as-a-Service</strong></p><p>Environmentally sensitive applications can be secured by means of more vision, control, and use of existing safety solutions like identity and access management (IAM), web filtering, and whitelisting, which allow the security of enterprise applications and software codes, including internal and external threats.</p><p>Security-as-a-service platforms can monitor an entire employee base along with balancing endpoint management. Results are delivered to the concerned destination in real time with automatic alerts triggered whenever unusual activity is recorded. Automatically completing such tasks allows trained professionals in technology to focus more on efforts that advance business while protecting much of the industry behind the scenes. Benchmarking, contextual analysis, and cognitive insights provide employees with rapid access to questionable items. This permits movement without the need to work drudgery in the background.</p><p></p><p><strong>The Bottom Line</strong></p><p>The SECaaS industry is driven by increasing cybercrime, growing sensitive organizational data and increasing mobile device trend. Over the years, the utilization of cloud technology has significantly increased and the need for more protective and economic security solutions has been created. The strict regulations of the government have pushed the market towards a better-integrated service that meets government regulations.</p><p>However, the refusal to share sensitive information, availability of free security services and hesitation of the organizations' cloud-based security limit SECaaS adoption. Increasing e-businesses, increasing awareness of data protection, increasing the trend towards bring your own device (BYOD) and adopting managed security practices creates enough opportunities for the technology. In addition, in the near future, global security as a service market is projected to grow to a CAGR of 16.4%.</p></div>The Strategic Management Frameworks and the Delta Model: Putting Customers Before Productshttps://globalriskcommunity.com/profiles/blogs/the-strategic-management-frameworks-and-the-delta-model-putting-12018-05-29T15:30:00.000Z2018-05-29T15:30:00.000ZEnrique Raul Suarezhttps://globalriskcommunity.com/members/EnriqueRaulSuarez<div><p></p><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}8028271271,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="456" src="{{#staticFileLink}}8028271271,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-center" alt="8028271271?profile=original" /></a></p><h2 style="text-align:center;">The Strategic Management Frameworks and the Delta Model: Putting Customers Before Products</h2><p></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>The Dangers of the Conventional Definition of Strategy</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Strategy as Rivalry</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Enrique R. Suarez</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>suarezenrique@yahoo.com</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>suarezenrique@post.harvard.edu</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p>Until now, the prevailing view – shared by most practicing managers and academics – has been to define the goal of strategy as achieving sustainable competitive advantage.</p><p>Most, if not all, of the most respected and popular frameworks that guide the strategy development process are anchored in this concept. According to professor Hax, this is a mindset likely to cause severe problems moving forward.</p><p>First, it puts our competitors at the center of our management process. Competitors become our driving force, our relevant benchmark. We look at strategy, and consequently at management, as rivalry. In order for us to succeed, we have to beat someone.</p><p>Strategy is destructive; strategy is war. As recent history has confirmed, again, wars do not have victors.</p><p>Second, and equally troublesome, using our competitors as a way to define our course of action basically anchors us in the past.</p><p>On reflection, this is an approach that seems counterproductive in a time of revolutionary change, when we want to create discontinuities, not reaffirm old practices.</p><p>Often, companies seem obsessed with their competition, studying and watching it intensely to detect anything that could signal a way to operate more effectively.</p><p>To separate ourselves from our competitors, we must offer our customers something that is truly unique and distinctive. How do we do that?</p><p>Third, the excessive concern about competitors can lead us, consciously or otherwise, into imitating their behavior. Our products begin to take on similar characteristics of those of the leaders.</p><p>The development of our new products adheres to the prevailing standard of the industry, the channels of distribution that access our customer base are indistinguishable – in other words, the industry begins to converge into a well-established set of norms and standards.</p><p>The result of this congruency leads toward the commoditization of our business, which is the worst possible outcome for all players.</p><p></p><p><strong>Reject Commoditization – The Essence of Strategy Is to Achieve Costumer Bonding</strong></p><p></p><p>A large percentage of businesses have become commoditized. One of the fundamental objectives of any firm as a whole, as well as the individual businesses of the firm, is to achieve superior and sustainable financial performance as measured by long-term profitability.</p><p>In order to achieve this outcome, we need to differentiate ourselves through leadership and a sense that our business is distinctive, which is exactly the opposite of a commodity. Commodities, by their nature, are ordinary and undifferentiated.</p><p>It is not realistic to expect that a lackluster, commoditized business could generate any superior performance, let alone sustain it.</p><p>The commoditization of an industry tends to erode everyone’s profitability because it exacerbates the rivalry among competitors primarily by driving down prices for standardized products.</p><p>For superior financial performance to be sustainable, not only should the business aim at achieving a solid leadership position, but this position should be long-lasting, unassailable, and able to endure the inevitable changes that the environment will generate.</p><p>This calls for flexible adaptation to new circumstances and the will and ability to transform the organization continuously.</p><p></p><p>Upon request I will send you the price of the on-site two-day seminar that I can give anywhere in the wold. I have the same two-day seminar in an electronc version as well.</p><p></p><p>You can donwload the entire PP presentation in the below link:</p><p></p><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}8028271472,original{{/staticFileLink}}">Frameworks_Delta_2018.pdf</a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p></div>Why SaaS ERM and GRC Software Vendors make Better Strategic Partnershttps://globalriskcommunity.com/profiles/blogs/why-saas-erm-and-grc-software-vendors-make-better-strategic2015-09-03T15:30:00.000Z2015-09-03T15:30:00.000ZSteven Minskyhttps://globalriskcommunity.com/members/StevenMinsky<div><p><strong>Take the Risk out of ERM and GRC Software</strong></p><p>Forrester predicts that by the end of 2015, over half of all ERM and <a href="http://www.logicmanager.com/grc-software/">GRC software</a> implementations will be done through Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) models. While <a href="http://www.logicmanager.com/erm-software/editions-pricing/saas-benefits/">SaaS GRC software</a> is undoubtedly gaining traction and market share, many organizations are still hesitant to pursue SaaS solutions. Organizations fear housing organizational data “in the cloud” (a myth we explore below), and fall victim to the common misconception that on-premise solutions provide greater flexibility due to the professional services and customizations marketed by those vendors.</p><p><a href="http://www.logicmanager.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Team.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.logicmanager.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Team.jpg?width=350" width="350" class="align-right" alt="Team.jpg?width=350" /></a></p><p><strong>Redefining Flexibility</strong></p><p>Often, companies misinterpret flexibility as the ability to heavily customize a system’s back end with professional services, and subsequently compound this mistake by underestimating the cost, complexity, and time associated with those changes. <a href="http://www.logicmanager.com/grc-software/">Real GRC software flexibility</a>, the kind that saves money and provides efficiency, evolves with industry practices while empowering the user to define fields, processes, and workflows so that the program can keep up with their business.</p><p><a href="http://www.logicmanager.com/erm-software/editions-pricing/saas-defined/">SaaS ERM and GRC software</a> providers do not charge professional service fees for configuration, customizations, or installation. In fact, if you come across a vendor that charges these fees on an hourly or ongoing basis, it’s a good indication that what you’re buying isn’t true SaaS. Rather, it’s all the disadvantages of a traditional on-premise solution with none of the benefits, and it’s in a data center that you don’t own!</p><p></p><p><strong>Aligning Incentives</strong></p><p>Professional service fees work twofold against the customer. First, they require a large investment to get the product to a point where it’s usable by your employees, which takes at least a year and often more. Second, because these fees offer a huge revenue stream for the vendor, the vendor has no incentive to improve their base product or provide better customer services.</p><p>Furthermore, because most of these vendors get nearly all of their revenue upfront from the customer, there is no incentive to provide great customer service. They already have your money, and outside of the small maintenance fees, they often won’t receive more of it <em>unless</em> you require additional professional services.</p><p>Worst of all, offering these types of implementations for an entire customer base diverts resources away from the vendor’s ability to innovate and respond to customer needs, and to testing compatibility and an increased cost of ownership. This is why implementation timelines are more than one year for traditional on-premise and hosted solutions, verses the typical 90 day time to value for SaaS offerings.</p><p>SaaS vendor business models require vendors to be accountable to their customers over the lifetime of their agreement. SaaS GRC software is subscribed to on a yearly or quarterly basis, so the vendor is only as good as their last 90 days. This subscription model motivates vendors to continue improving their product and respond to customer needs. If for some reason the software or service lags, the customer has few barriers to exit. Hint: if your vendor won’t offer an unconditional satisfaction guarantee, you are not getting a SaaS solution.</p><p></p><p><strong>Ask these 5 Questions of Customer References when Evaluating an ERM or GRC Software:</strong></p><p>1) How much has your organization paid in professional services to your GRC vendor?<br /> 2) How long did it take from contract signing to your 1st day of actually using the software in your job?<br /> 3) How much internal IT time was needed, and how long did it take to make a change in your configuration?<br /> 4) How often are your feature enhancement requests adopted into the core software without any cost to your organization?<br /> 5) How many users have actually logged into the system at least once in the past year?</p><p> </p><p><span>LogicManager has led the Software-as-a-Service ERM and <a href="http://www.logicmanager.com/grc-software/">GRC software</a> market since 2007. To learn more about the flexibility and true cost of ownership of real SaaS versus hosted and on-premise ERM and GRC solutions, <a href="http://www.logicmanager.com/erm-software/editions-pricing/saas-defined/">get a detailed definition</a> or <a href="http://www.logicmanager.com/erm-software/editions-pricing/saas-benefits/">read this detailed SaaS comparison</a><em>.</em></span></p><p></p></div>