BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - December 11, 2007) - Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks company (
NYSE:
HHS), today announced a new research report on "Security Governance and
Risk Management" which reveals that Best-in-Class organizations are more
effective than their counterparts at allocating their IT resources and
activities based on business objectives and acceptable levels of risk. By
developing superior capabilities in the area of security governance and
risk management, Best-in-Class organizations have demonstrated their
ability to improve security, sustain compliance, improve leverage from
existing IT resources, make faster decisions, optimize business processes,
and improve visibility across organizational and geographical silos.
The benchmark report shows that Best-in-Class organizations improved their
speed of decision making regarding security governance and risk management
by 28% over the past year, more than two times the year-over-year
improvement by the Industry Average. In addition, over the past year the
Best-in-Class were four times better than the Industry Average at reducing
the number of organizational and geographical silos for security
governance, risk management, and compliance information and analysis.
"Among the Best-in-Class organizations in this study, there is a real sense
of taking back the business from the tyranny of spending on security and
compliance for its own sake," said Derek E. Brink, vice president and
research director for IT security at Aberdeen. "Best-in-Class companies are
taking proactive steps to ensure that their investments in security and
compliance controls directly support their objectives for the business."
A complimentary copy of this research report is made available due in part
by the following underwriters: Xceedium and Polivec. To obtain a
complimentary copy of the report, visit:
http://www.aberdeen.com/link/sponsor.asp?cid=4446
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Contact Information: Media Contact:
Derek Brink
Aberdeen Harte-Hanks
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Derek.Brink@aberdeen.com