Verizon Business launched Risk-Correlation Service

Verizon (News - Alert) Business launched its Risk correlation service to help enterprises more effectively and efficiently secure their IT environment. The fully automated, managed-security solution that automatically calculates risk and displays the results via an online scorecard is immediately available to managed security services customers throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific. Current and emerging threats when once discovered by the service can be checked by planning a strategy and by allotting security related spending.

 

Verizon Business (News - Alert), a unit of Verizon Communications, deals in communications and IT solutions by delivering communications, IT, information security and network solutions by securely connecting today's extended enterprises of widespread and mobile customers, partners, suppliers and employees.

 

Michael Marcellin, vice president of global managed solutions at Verizon, said that in today's economy, businesses are working hard to accomplish even more with less. He added that the beauty of the Verizon Risk-Correlation Service is that it empowers customers to focus their security efforts on what is most critical to the business so that now enterprises only need to react to true threats.

 

According to Counse Broders, senior research director at Current Analysis (News - Alert), Verizon Business is not only offering customers a solution that encompasses security monitoring and addresses risk understandable to business, but it is also bringing together all the pieces of the security puzzle with an approach for customers that will help them better deal with the ever-changing security landscape.

 

The Verizon Risk-Correlation Service uses the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), which helps in accessing the attack, i.e. whether it is aimed at a device’s confidentiality, integrity or availability, thus helping to decide the best remedy possible. Verizon Business synthesizes this information and presents it in an at-a-glance view with text and graphical images using a risk intelligence scorecard, which also includes a confidence score. The higher the confidence score, the more information Verizon Business has obtained about the asset and threat, allowing it to make intuitive threat forecasts for customers.

More than 1,100 security professionals of Verizon Business around the globe deliver these offerings through a range of managed services, professional services and technologies, based on what best suits the customer.

 

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