DNS - CSC Rolls Out Enhanced Global StrikeForce Security Assessment Suite

In an effort to provide businesses and governments with a cost-effective way to understand and mitigate risk against proliferation of cyber threats, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC (News - Alert)) has announced the launch of enhanced CSC Global StrikeForce Security Assessment suite.

CSC is a provider of technology-enabled solutions and services. The company’s security offerings comprises of business and technology-oriented security and privacy solutions that facilitate organizations to achieve their regulatory, compliance and risk management objectives.

According to CSC, its Global StrikeForce Security Assessments is an enhanced solution suite that provides organizations with a quick and a cost-effective way to understand cyber threats, prepare for compliance audits, enact a security incident investigation, understand architectural or technology changes and provide assurance regarding the threat profile.

Precisely, the CSC Global StrikeForce Security Assessments provides visibility into current risk, threat and compliance profiles by evaluating the technical controls that are associated with people, process and technology. The suite can also identify the gaps and delivers a remediation plan.

Apart from offering vulnerability assessment to help detect, identify and report on security weaknesses in an environment, the enhanced CSC Global StrikeForce Security Assessment suite also provides a foundation for improved, risk-based decision making in order to achieve compliance as well as prioritize investments.

The suite also includes Web application assessment for complete examination of both commercial and in-house applications for vulnerabilities and security threats within applications.

In addition, the suite also provides technology compliance assessment to help meet regulatory compliance and corporate policy requirements, as well as physical and social engineering assessments to examine non-technical issues with the potential to impact sensitive information.

Gordon Archibald, chief technology officer for CSC's Global Security Solutions, said, "Stricter legal, regulatory and compliance mandates, dynamic and complex operating environments, growing remote and mobile workforces, and an increasingly hostile threat environment are challenging organizations to manage information security risks more effectively."

Archibald added, "CSC's elite Global StrikeForce team knows how to treat client data without disrupting systems and help clients understand the vulnerabilities present in their environment."

CSC is focused on system design and integration, information technology and business process outsourcing, applications software development, Web and application hosting, mission support and management consulting.