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How SysSecOps Can Help Lower Costs, Improve Security, and Make Admins Look Like Heroes
Abstract: Organizations rarely attempt to measure the ROI of the security tools they deploy to protect their information assets. The emergence of SysSecOps could change that as the concept takes hold in more organizations stretched thin by the shortage of skilled security and operations professionals. SysSecOps combines endpoint protection, security and operations functions to provide a common view across those disciplines of how the endpoint security posture affects the overall risk within the IT environment. It helps to break down the walls between different silos within the IT organization, which enables greater collaboration and a more streamlined approach to securing and assuring the availability and performance of a range of different endpoints. The ability to easily understand, in precise detail, what is actually running on the endpoint is key to achieving hard cost savings and soft cost savings. It is also essential to see how programs residing there are behaving. The growing crop of SysSecOps tools, such as Ziften's Zenith platform, allows IT organizations to discover unused assets and eliminate the costs associated with them, streamline help desk operations to better serve end users and improve their productivity, and improve vulnerability management to stay ahead of threats, especially costly ransomware. |
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