1. Enterprise/Security Alignment Review
Security Executive Council
Tools & Solutions Snapshot
Enterprise/Security Alignment Review
Welcome to the Security Executive Council’s Tools & Solutions Snapshot: Enterprise/Security Alignment Review. This presentation is designed to give you insight into how the Council develops its tools, solutions and services and how security and risk practitioners use them.

2. Strategic Initiatives Protect People, Assets, Processes, Brand
We continually take the pulse of the Council community to determine what initiatives are important to them. These strategic initiative categories continue to be at the top of the list. The Enterprise/Security Alignment Review program can incorporate elements of each of these initiatives.
Protect People, Assets, Processes, Brand

3. Background
With no standards to follow, security executives struggle to find reliable guidance in and evaluating existing programs as well as developing new ones.
The security professional, unlike colleagues in finance or law, has no commonly accepted standards by which to build and judge success in managing security programs. When a security executive wants to develop a new program or initiative, when he or she simply wants feedback on the quality of an existing program, or when management begins to question the validity or success of programs, it may be difficult to find a source for a subjective, valuable review. The Security Executive Council recognized this need and developed the Enterprise/Security Alignment Review program.

4. Program Offerings Stakeholder Interviews Risk Assessments
Program Review
Benchmarking
Results and Recommendations
This program pairs security or other executive clients with former security executives who have found success in managing risk in corporations. These reviews are specifically tailored to meet the needs of each client company and have covered such topics as strategic review, identification of risks, organizational blueprint for security management, and new program development. The process incorporates five core elements: stakeholder interviews, risk assessments, program review, benchmarking, and results and recommendations.

5. Increase alignment with the business Identify emerging risks
How Practitioners Are
Using This Resource
Increase alignment with the business
Identify emerging risks
Improve succession planning
Understand structural issues
Confront compliance concerns
The Enterprise/Security Alignment Review has been used to help security executives understand the relationship between the company’s strategic business objectives and its security programs. It has also been used as an effective tool for succession planning. It helps the security executive to understand structural issues surrounding the development of security programs, including program maturity, cost considerations, emerging risks and a growing body of regulatory and compliance issues.

6. About the Security Executive Council
The Security Executive Council is a risk mitigation research and services organization for security and risk executives from corporations and government agencies in charge of corporate and/or IT security programs. The Council capitalizes on practitioner input, professional staff, and a distinguished faculty of former security executives and security content experts to develop tools, solutions and services. The mission of the Council is to work with its member community to help lower the cost of their security programs, make program development more efficient and establish security as a recognized value center. The Council has a vast library of tools and solutions based on years of research and input from successful practitioners available to members. We work one-on-one with our members at a leadership level to implement change and to create successful security programs. In partnership with its research arm, the Security Leadership Research Institute, the Council is building a centralized source of research and analysis related to the security industry.
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