After years of viewing information security as a defensive strategy, organizations are demanding more from their security investments. Customers, such as First Data Corporation and MFS Investment Management are benefiting today from the security expertise of RSA combined with EMC Consulting industry expertise and business, application and infrastructure domain knowledge. They and other organizations recognize that security can also contribute to their success by helping drive new business initiatives, such as accelerating innovation and collaboration while reducing compliance costs.

EMC Consulting’s RSA Security Practice provides core strengths in assessment, implementation, and management of security in the areas of governance, architecture and operations. New and complementary services include:

• Standards and Compliance: A new Policy Driven Management service, based upon leading technology and services from Archer Technologies (acquired by EMC in 2010), complements existing information risk management, data classification, and Governance Risk and Compliance-driven (GRC) management solutions. These services together translate business objectives into policies and information risk strategies, delivered through technology, policy and program development, to help meet regulatory compliance and governance requirements

• Virtualization and Private Cloud Security: Security assessments for virtualized environments and new services to secure Virtual Desktop Infrastructures, leverage RSA best practices and established safeguards to help build secure virtualized and private cloud environments through technology, policy and program development

• Fraud Mitigation and Identity Assurance: A new Fraud Assessment and Strategy service provides actionable recommendations for addressing and mitigating risk, and complements identity assurance, program development, risk management and other comprehensive services to help to reduce the growing cybersecurity threat to the enterprise and mitigate online fraud

• Security Operations: Security operations strategy and assessment, analysis and design, and management to build an integrated security operations center.