Cybertrust has launched their "Partner Security Program", a solution for organisations to manage the compliance of their extended enterprise.

This service will enable Cybertrust customers to identify and eliminate risks that result from opening up its networks and systems to partners, customers and other vendors that may not be compliant with an individual organisation's security requirements.

A recent Cybertrust study found that nearly three quarters of organisations world wide feel that business partners increase their levels of information security risk, and approximately one third of respondents reported that their organisations had suffered a security incident involving business partners within the previous year. However, organisations conducting some form of business partner security assessments experienced a more than three-fold reduction in the likelihood of security incidents.

Cybertrust's programme was developed to help customers understand and manage the risks of doing business as an extended enterprise through a repeatable and scalable process that controls costs and minimises the level of effort. "Partner Security Program" provides customers with a single view into the status of all internal business units, external business partners and other entities performing compliance validation activities via a Web-based dashboard. In addition, customers can document and demonstrate to customers, partners, auditors and regulators that they have performed effective due diligence on third parties.

The service can assess a customer's extended business partners and internal business units against industry standards including ISO 17799, HIPAA, and Sarbanes-Oxley, as well as its own custom-developed security standards. An automated questionnaire response scoring engine provides the ability to adapt scoring for individual standard or customer-specific needs, and can be tailored entirely for the customer's internal standards.

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www.cybertrust.com/solutions/partner_security_program

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