Solutions Overview

Assuria IT security and compliance solutions allow you to regain control of your IT infrastructure and comply with regulatory standards through built-in security intelligence, monitoring, visibility, forensic audit trails and automation.

Complexity and constant change in information technology, changing business and regulatory requirements and ever increasing cost pressures are exposing sensitive information held in corporate IT systems to risk of all kinds of abuse, from uncontrolled disclosure or theft, through to unauthorised change.

This can result in non-compliance with security policies and regulatory standards, as well as loss of corporate confidence and reputation. Responsible business organisations and public bodies need to know that security controls are fully functioning and protecting their IT infrastructure. This cannot be achieved without automated, knowledge based solutions.

Automated IT Security and Compliance

Assuria’s enterprise software products help you to control and monitor your physical and virtual IT infrastructure to protect critical information and data privacy, improve operational efficiency and maintain compliance with regulatory security standards. If a breach of information security does occur, Assuria solutions will allow deep forensic investigation into the causes of failure, potentially going back months and years.

Assuria helps organisations all over the world to gain this control by:

• Collecting actionable intelligence about the whole IT infrastructure and disseminating this intelligence where it's needed and when it's needed.
• Bringing deep security configuration knowledge and best practice to system administrators, no matter what level of experience they have.
• Providing clear visibility into the status of security controls and security sensitive user activity across the whole IT infrastructure.
• Monitoring and prioritising security related information to allow clear focus on events and changes that could weaken information security or take systems out of compliance with policy.
• Gathering event logs and activity data from across the whole IT infrastructure and securely storing it for future analysis or investigation.
• Automating critical but repetitive IT security tasks to ensure vigilence at all times and to reduce pressure on individuals.

Benefits gained through the use of Assuria solutions :

SECURITY BEST PRACTICE: Hardened, trusted systems with optimised security controls in place.
Organisations which process sensitive and confidential information face conflicting pressures to keep this data secure and yet to allow access by authorised users. Assuria solutions play a key part in resolving this conflict, assisting with the hardening of IT systems by identifying and assisting in removal of known vulnerabilities, checking that all appropriate security patches are applied and by ensuring that security controls and processes are correctly configured and operating normally.

OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY: Optimised, stable and known configurations. IT Operations Departments constantly strive to maintain efficient physical and virtual IT environments to support critical business processes. Availability, performance and security requirements must all be satisfied – a tough challenge. Assuria configuration audit and automated change monitoring solutions provide powerful support to operations departments in these endeavours, assisting in the creation and maintenance of stable, known system configurations.

COMPLIANCE: Verifiable compliance with International Standards, internal policies and accepted best practice. Increasing regulatory enforcement by Central Banks and Industry Regulators is a fact of business life, but achieving compliance within the IT infrastructure can be massively simplified through use of automated compliance solutions. Assuria compliance assessment solutions allow easy compliance assessment and remediation to rapidly bring systems up to a compliant state, and crucially, through automatic monitoring to
maintain that compliance on an ongoing basis.

AUDIT TRAILS: Securely stored forensic audit trails from the entire IT infrastructure.
A critical element of strong cyber defence is the creation of secure audit trails from all processes that handle sensitive or critical information, to allow forensic analysis and investigation of suspected security breaches or malpractice. By harvesting event logs from all critical systems, applications and devices, Assuria solutions automate much of this process, collecting and securely storing forensically sound logs in a central location.
Powerful dashboard, analysis and reporting features provide summary and detailed reports on a range of security and operations related events and patterns.

SYSTEM MONITORING: Efficient, automatic monitoring & reporting of system changes and significant system events. Once systems are configured correctly and in a known and trusted state, with all security controls fully active, it is essential to have systems which monitor all subsequent configuration changes (such as a users being granted increased privileges). These monitoring systems must quickly assess whether changes are authorised at the appropriate level and whether changes take systems out of compliance. Assuria configuration change detection and event monitoring solutions provide visibility and alerting of such changes.