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Seven essential steps to achieve, measure and prove optimal security risk reduction

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It's impossible to secure what you can't measure

Published July 2009

The security status of your infrastructure and your organisation’s ability to rapidly mitigate emerging threats needs to be continuously monitored and measured.

This is accomplished by obtaining an accurate network baseline, classifying IT systems, identifying and prioritising system vulnerabilities, validating their remediation, and capturing the intelligence needed to measure security posture and improvement over time.

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