SECURE-BPI™
U. S. MANUFACTURING
USE INFORMATION SECURITY TO IMPROVE PROFITABILITY
Manufacturing is complex, fast moving and highly competitive. Protecting the Intellectual Property (IP) and trade secrets that give your business its edge is just as fast changing and complex.
Many business leaders all but ignore managing the risk to their enterprise posed by cyber criminals. Do you think that your company has nothing of value to lose?
How long did it take your engineers to tune your business processes?
At what cost?
Your business has a wealth of proprietary information: mixtures, fixturing, procedures, process, g-code, research, simulations, partner’s IP etc…
Your company is liable and it does have a lot to lose.
Question: How confident are you that your business will quickly recover when it is attacked?
Old Protection Methods - Not Good Enough
TRADITIONAL CYBERSECURITY
NOT THE ANSWER
Traditional cybersecurity methods begin with a risk assessment (RA) of your entire company. RAs are typically done to meet regulatory compliance requirements and avoid liability. Once the RA is complete, and many threats and vulnerabilities are identified, where do you start? Now you must conduct a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) to identify the most expensive and most likely risk to your company and start there.
Typically done to meet regulatory compliance requirements and avoid liability. Once the RA is complete, and many threats and vulnerabilities are identified, where do you start? Now you must conduct a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) to identify the most expensive and most likely risk to your company and start there.
With this traditional approach, where are your business goals addressed? How do you prioritize security and operational goals with spending? How does this align your people, technology, and processes with your goals? It does not. And, how do you measure what you have bought?
Sadly, your new security setup is only good until the next software update, regulation change or a new business direction is initiated. The results have a very short life cycle.
Addressing these issues requires more.
GROW AND PROTECT YOUR BUSINESS
WITH SECURE-BUSINESS PROCESS IMPROVEMENT™
The Secure-Business Process Improvement™ (Secure-BPI™) framework solves these issues by keeping your strategic business goals front and center. The process begins with identifying your goals and works through a pilot process to help your team deliver on the goals while discovering and protecting business-critical information and processes.
This approach educates your people so that they can gradually scale the pilot project to progressively include more of your enterprise.
DIFFERENT THINKING REQUIRED
- Start with your 1-2 year business goals - Not the typical risk assessment and BIA.
Growing your business demands that you start with well-crafted strategic goals. No matter where you start with your strategic business goals, you must discover and use data and information about your company to make fact-based decisions.
- Discover and innovate with your business information – Do not just back it up and forget it – USE IT!
- Prioritize revenue growth and innovation – while building Information Security into your business.
Use the Secure-BPI™ framework to combine and align your strategic goals with cybersecurity requirements for maximum benefit your company.
Secure-BPI™ Builds Protection into your business processes and exposes opportunities to extend your company's capabilities.