ASSET™ moves
compliance beyond “approval” to ongoing security + risk
management excellence by accelerating and automating
community-endorsed controls that evolve as rapidly as your
assets.
CONNECTION
It’s no wonder that most organizations feel adrift when it comes to addressing all their enterprise security needs. Threats are proliferating, related costs are mounting, and long-standing compliance and risk management practices are failing to provide companies with the tools they need to address their specific risk circumstances.
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We know what it’s like. Businesses
with limited resources face a constantly evolving and
expanding universe of risks. At the same time, many are
experiencing a growing number of loss events with costly
financial, operational, and reputational impacts. While
various compliance requirements promise much security
“goodness” to help meet these challenges, their benefits too
often go unrealized. Today’s compliance process demands
increasing amounts of time, effort, and expense that deliver
only fleeting outcomes with inadequate security benefit. It
distracts from the essential, erecting barriers to risk
management innovation and discouraging the adoption of new
solutions that could better address emerging challenges.
SIGHT
Ark NSS offers organizations a better way – ASSET™ – a new security “north star” that helps prioritize key asset constellations and illuminates productive ways to protect them. ASSET™ provides this insight visually and in real-time to inform more effective risk management investment.
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To see is to experience. The ASSET™
method transcends the cumbersome and tedious nature of
today’s compliance process through a stunning optic display
that provides a complete picture of an organization’s assets,
the solutions implemented to secure them, and their risk
management impact. ASSET™ helps users rapidly recognize and
understand an organization’s compliance or vulnerability
levels in a single glance by leveraging the capacity of the
human eye. It does so in real-time and over time – allowing
users to target security investments and track their progress
in highly compelling ways. ASSET™ transforms traditional
compliance activity from a drudgery into an easy-to-use,
forward-leaning exercise that includes “gamifying” the
system. In the process, it makes the benefits inherent in
compliance requirements accessible to and attainable by
everyone.
IMPACT
Organizations require an improved, more cost-effective way to ensure that sustained compliance with security best practices, regulations, and standards truly makes them safer. ASSET™ meets this need by reinventing the compliance process.
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The ASSET™ method provides users with
automated, real-time awareness about whether their adopted
prevention and mitigation solutions actually work instead of
static check-box surveys that provide no such insight. ASSET™
immediately alerts organizations when chosen controls fall
short. It directs them to proven, peer-reviewed and
recommended alternatives that fill identified security gaps
in business asset deployments – as those deployments exist
today and as they evolve over time. Through these continuous
assessments, ASSET™ not only reduces the cost, time, and
resources needed for meaningful compliance but also helps
companies tie security investments to optimal solutions that
deliver proven security results. Thus, ASSET™ promotes more
resilient enterprises that not only survive but thrive across
the shifting risk landscape.
WHY?
To set a sure and steady course toward a desired destination, travelers first must find their bearings. Where have they been, where are they now, and where are they going? And when should they reorient to ensure safe and sound arrivals? Successful security journeys are no different.
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When approaching any risk management
challenge, the first question we ask at Ark NSS is: Why? Why
is it a problem? Why do organizations tackle it a certain
way? Why not consider alternative approaches that might
deliver better results? To overcome shared challenges with
the best possible solutions, organizations must ask why and
other basic questions before deciding new and true ways
forward. The ASSET™ method is a culmination of precisely this
kind of inquiry: why does today’s compliance process fall
short, what benefits should it provide, and how can it be
reimagined to deliver maximum security value?
KNOWLEDGE
Organizations today exhibit vastly different levels of risk management capability. What they share are similar loss experiences that might have put them out of business but for smart security choices designed to address their unique situations. Ark NSS provides a platform to share those choices, and wisdom, with everyone.
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To partner well, we must know the
compliance challenges that every enterprise faces. Energy,
financial, health care, retail, utility, and other
organizations all encounter and address risks differently. In
response, they strive to adhere to a slew of security
authorities– some specific to particular industries but many
common to all. Unfortunately, the innovative compliance
strategies that many organizations independently develop
often remain siloed away from peers who would benefit
immeasurably from shared knowledge. The ASSET™ method
recognizes that common risk management problems should
generate shared solutions. ASSET™ establishes a knowledge
repository that highlights individual security successes for
the benefit of all.
VANTAGE
A commanding view of the night sky includes the moon, the planets, and thousands of stars. A commanding view of an organization depicts its people, process, data, and technology assets; associated risks; and potential pathways to improvement. ASSET™ provides that view to all users, clearly and continuously.
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Whatever its industry sector, an
organization working to satisfy its compliance obligations
must maintain a critical and continuous sense of its security
performance before it can contribute meaningfully to broader
insight. The ASSET™ method provides that capability in a
vividly beautiful way. ASSET™’s unique visual interface
literally “shows” viewers when solutions function as desired,
automatically flags problem areas, and seamlessly provides
security professionals with a range of action options to fix
detected shortcomings. Moreover, ASSET™ provides this
perspective in ways that are adaptable, flexible, and
scalable to the needs of every enterprise. Whatever an
entity’s profile, ASSET™ rapidly tailors its security
“picture to support quick comprehension of facts and
effective risk management response.
COMMUNITY
What good is knowing your organization has a security vulnerability if you don’t know how to fix it? What if you’ve hatched a tentative plan of action but seek peer feedback before confidently executing it? Ark NSS recognizes the value of such collaboration. ASSET™ makes it happen.
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People are an organization’s greatest
asset. They include the security practitioners, problem
solvers, virtuosos, and visionaries who can accomplish far
more together for enterprise risk management and resilience
than any one person can alone. Put simply, there is great
strength in diversity. The ASSET™ method provides a forum for
security professionals from both the private and public
sectors to come together; define common problems; and design,
develop, and recommend state-of-the-art services and
solutions to better address risk. Through this focused,
ongoing, and welcoming dialogue, individual enterprises,
entire industries, and the whole world benefit.
EXPERTS
No one organization can house all the experts needed to solve our shared security challenges. Their knowledge, moreover, means nothing if it can’t be put to practical use. ASSET™ bridges these divides, connecting experts with the front-line risk managers who need their insights most.
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Ark NSS has initiated an ongoing
conversation with compliance, risk management, and
standardization leaders in order to advance the state of the
art of security practice. We are asking these experts to
shift their efforts from the “micro” to the “macro” to share
best thinking in plain terms understandable to all. Such
sharing will ensure that stakeholders at every level of an
organization benefit directly from their collective
intelligence, helping both technical and non-technical
professionals make common cause against security challenges.
Through this engagement, the ASSET™ method will identify a
collection of continuously evolving risk management solutions
that every enterprise can easily adapt to their particular
requirements.
USERS
Effective risk management requires true partnerships where the know-how and needs of every party are constantly engaged to support joint and sustained action for good. ASSET™ enables exactly this kind of cooperation.
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The ASSET™ method is not a
pre-defined, static solution. Instead, it recognizes that
what the world considers “optimal” security today evolves
constantly through the combined experiences of experts,
consumers and vendors alike. ASSET™ meets our users where we
find them, responding in service to their individual
circumstances in ways that draw directly on this dynamic.
Informed by the latest ASSET™ insight, clients have the final
word on what we do with that knowledge on their behalf. They
define how and where we go together.
SIMPLICITY
ASSET™ incorporates a core characteristic that promotes swift and certain security achievement: simplicity. Anyone can use ASSET™’s straightforward approach to drive a highly successful, cyber-inclusive enterprise risk management program.
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When C-Suite and other executives
encounter a cybersecurity offering, their immediate reaction
often is, “that’s for our technical experts,” rather than,
“that’s a tool for me.” This typical response prevents
organizations from treating cyber risk as a genuine
enterprise risk management problem. As a result, they fail to
properly prioritize, resource, and address cyber risk in
relation to the many other business risks they face. The
ASSET™ method overcomes this shortcoming by familiarizing
business leaders with their companies’ cyber risk postures
through an intuitive interface that links directly to
easy-to-understand options for enhancing security. In so
doing, ASSET™ aligns those leaders more powerfully with their
cyber and other risk management teams – promoting closer
partnerships that advance wiser risk management investments,
more meaningful compliance, and more successful cybersecurity
outcomes.
INTEGRITY
Ark NSS is in business to provide security solutions and services. Our number one philosophy, however, is to empower our fellow users. If we can design or recommend offerings that enable them to accomplish themselves what otherwise would require significant external assistance, then we’ve done our job.REQUIREMENTS
We can handle more compliance requirements! They represent the informed judgment of countless security practitioners who know firsthand what works best to prevent risk losses. It’s the traditional compliance process that’s broken. ASSET™ simplifies and accelerates that process, making compliance requirements truly actionable – and effective – for the first time.
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Any time a group of experts identify
the best way to configure a device, secure a network, or
design a communications protocol, it moves security forward.
Compliance requirements embody a tremendous amount of this
insight and operations perspective about what companies
should do to protect themselves from risk losses. They
typically are the product of years of debate and
consensus-building that define an ideal that security
professionals then study and strive to achieve. Requirements
are always adapting, developing, and progressing in order to
address new risks and rapidly changing technologies. And
frankly, more of them might help – if they are made easier to
implement. The problem with compliance is not requirements
themselves but the present process through which they are
incorporated, managed, and assessed. The ASSET™ method fixes
that process, making requirements the powerful risk
management tools that their developers intended by tying them
directly, in real time, to a range of controls proven to
enhance security performance.
DOCUMENT
To excel in today’s economy, a company must show that it’s a “safer” risk. ASSET™ provides organizations with proof that their chosen security approaches have and will continue to help them weather even the most potent hazard.
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Proof is powerful. It’s what an
attorney needs to make a strong case. It’s what a scientist
uses to support a hypothesis. It’s what an organization needs
to tell its risk management story to business partners,
clients, credit rating agencies, insurers, investors, and
others. That story is critical to all these audiences who
increasingly seek assurances that an enterprise is a safe
business bet because it enjoys a verifiably robust risk
posture. The ASSET™ method provides that proof, making
previously complicated security demonstrations to commercial
and compliance stakeholders easy. Through shareable, trusted,
and up-to-the-minute assessments, ASSET™ clearly shows
whether an organization’s chosen solutions are working,
determines their impact during experienced loss events, and
directs users to current, peer-recommended alternatives to
address deficiencies. It goes further, moreover, by providing
organizations with advance evidence of their enterprise
resilience. ASSET™ enables users to stage their environments
and experiment with alternative solutions that best protect
them – all before committing a single resource dollar toward
a particular security investment.
CONTINUOUS
When Ark NSS says, “continuous compliance,” we mean it. To support an organization’s security and resilience efforts, ASSET™ provides live insight into its compliance status. At the same time, ASSET™ presents new solutions for an organization’s consideration while logging its security progress.
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In recent years, “continuous
compliance” and “continuous monitoring” have become popular
but commonly misunderstood catch phrases. They generally
entail infrequent checklist approaches to risk management
often based on stale and outdated risk information and
processes. We offer users something completely different. The
ASSET™ method is truly “continuous,” performing real-time,
human-to-organization, machine-to-machine and machine speed
risk calculations that promote constant awareness of
performing and non-performing solutions. This insight helps
companies maintain an elevated state of compliance with far
less effort and quickly directs their attention, dollars, and
time to real problem areas. In this way, ASSET™ establishes
organizations as resilient enterprises positioned for
decisive competitive advantage.
DISCOVERY
Like travelers who once used the stars to guide their journeys, organizations today use ASSET™ to reach a common security destination: clarity on how to spend limited risk management resources most wisely. Ark NSS has embarked with the entire security community to find needed answers.
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Which risk management activities
should a company undertake? Where, and under what
circumstances? These remain confounding questions for most
organizations that struggle to determine what investments
offer the most security “bang for the buck.” The ASSET™
method lays the groundwork for discovery by supporting robust
information sharing about best-in-class solutions and how
they fare against real-world incidents. Now and over time,
ASSET™ will not only help identify top security risks and
effective controls across multiple industry sectors but also
clarify the risk management return of particular solutions.
ASSET™ will also promote more informed peer-to-peer
benchmarking and sector differentiation that highlights the
need for and development of industry-specific approaches.
This knowledge will support the kinds of risk forecasting,
trending, and modeling that will keep companies ahead of the
risk management curve.
MISSION
Ark Network Security Solutions (Ark NSS) was founded to help organizations respond to the proliferating number of requirements imposed by today’s compliance process. That resource-intensive undertaking can stifle innovative thought and delay the deployment of critical operating systems. Well-intended policies have repeatedly resulted in circumvention of procedures, exception application, and static results that are obsolete moments after “compliance” is obtained. Ark NSS has revolutionized the traditional compliance process and created a holistic approach to continuously meet compliance requirements and enhance organizational resilience. Our patent-pending methods and technology provide organizations with real-time accreditation, no matter how simple or complex their systems, which delivers clear and measurable security value.CONTACT
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