Optiv Security increases efforts to help global clients optimise, integrate and operationalise their cyber security
As sectors undergo complete reforms, and at ever-faster speeds, the development of the global approach to cyber security to meet the new security challenges posed by the rapid digital transformation is lagging somewhat behind. Shortage of skilled personnel, more potential targets for attacks and persistent breaches are symptomatic of the unnecessarily complex and inefficiently constructed cyber security world.
Optiv Security, an international integrator that delivers end-to-end cyber security solutions, has implemented a new approach to cyber security services and a new business and engagement model that transforms the way cyber security is used and applied.
Optiv’s innovative approach has been specifically designed to provide organisations with integrated cyber security solutions that take into account the speed of business change by offering new consumption and result-based consulting services and cyber security solutions that ultimately result in higher performance and lower operational costs.
In particular, the company is launching the following services to better align the company’s capabilities with the customer-focused approach, and to bring more targeted, global cyber security solutions to the market that take people, processes and technology into account.
- New organisation for international services and activities – Optiv has tailored its services approach to customer-focused results and to deliver international capabilities to assist clients in their cyber security trajectory. The company’s range of services covers the full cycle of client security needs, with newly established business units for Advisory, Integration & Innovation and CyberOperations. This enables the company to provide clients with the required focus and scale to be able to implement full end-to-end projects and programs for cyber risk, cyber digital and cyber security.
- CaaS (Cyber-as-a-Service) platform – designed to ensure that organisations benefit from fully integrated solutions that can be scaled on-demand according to the needs of the company, and automatically adapt to changing business requirements. This approach enables Optiv to deliver complex and integrated solutions with an innovative integrated technology stack where the results are paramount for the client. The new CaaS – Optiv services can be used independently, or in combination with Optiv’s advisory, integration or managed services,
- to strengthen the security foundation in four critical risk areas for modern business:
- risk management and compliance, including resilience and insurance;
- cyber-digital transformation, including cloud, orchestration, automation and big data;
- threat management, including protection, detection and response; and
- identity and data management.
- Global Services Demand (GSD) organisation – coordination partner and team implementation model – Optiv has set up GSD to offer clients an optimal mix of centralised supervision and purchasing power, and localised technical resources and expertise. This new engagement model also brings together a seasoned team of experienced technical service managers to provide clients with an important engagement layer in addition to the more than 1,300 highly skilled and expert cyber security specialists from Optiv. These managers act as international coordination partners for our clients and as the person ultimately responsible for promoting the quality of complex end-to-end cyber security services and solutions.
Chad Holmes
“More than 40 years since the first virus appeared, the approach to addressing cyber security issues is still based on the same formula of action and response. The challenge is that the world has changed and the approach to cyber security has lagged behind, “said Chad Holmes, chief services and operations officer. “Sectors are being completely reformed through digital transformation, cloud and data models, artificial intelligence (AI), globalisation and much more. At the same time, the cyber security gap is widening due to an outdated approach to new and different business models. ”
Holmes continues: “Our new Cyber-as-a-Service consumption model, which we are launching in response to customer feedback and to meet rising market demand, is a powerful addition to our traditional service model. It offers clients different options for their cyber security consumption model so that they can transform the cyber security approach of their organisation and at the same time benefit from the same economic cloud aspects used to transform entire sectors.”
“This specially developed, innovative and integrated approach gives organisations greater flexibility and choice in acquiring cyber security – from stand-alone tools to integrated solutions – to address complex security issues and achieve better alignment with unique business requirements. Optiv is extremely enthusiastic about launching the new Cyber-as-a-Service platform, integrated business services and client management models, which strengthen our ability to provide clients with the right international resources at the right time so that we can interests in the best possible way. ”
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