Building Your Security Program

An effective security program begins with tough considerations to make with leadership and your own team. Lucky for you, we've outlined four key considerations to make when building your security program, including:

• Creating a security program baseline
• Benchmarking goals (and whether your organization needs them)
• Determining return on investment (ROI) and communicating it to the C-suite
• Investing in technology driven by business goals (rather than as a "shiny new toy)

Download the eBook here.

Now Available: Standard Operating Procedure Templates

Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are an essential and vital component of any security plan. They provide a clear and concise set of guidelines to help your security team understand their roles and responsibilities no matter how long they have been on the job.?We're outlining ALL the benefits of SOPs in a new blog here.

This starter packet includes templates for SOPs that can be customized and used for your global security operations center (GSOC) operators to follow during incident triage.

Get the templates here.

Product Focus: Command Center

Account Executive Katie Hathaway said it best when she said, "Enough with the band-aid solutions!" in her latest blog.

"What I’ve learned in the last few months – and during our time at ISC West this year – is that there are a lot of band-aid solutions out there that are doing a disservice to security teams.?And here’s where I make the bold claim: HiveWatch? Command Center is everything you need to run your security operations."

In this article, she talks about how Command Center is used to make security operations more efficient and provide a centralized location for critical resources that are needed across security teams.

Read the full blog here.

HiveWatch News Roundup

And in other HiveWatch news:

• HiveWatch promotes Aaron Volkmann to VP of Engineering (announcement here).
• Ryan Schonfeld writes about "The Forgotten Mission of Security Operations for Venues" in the June issue of Security Technology from ASIS International (here's a link to the article).
• Jon Harris ?? answers the SecurityInformed.com/SourceSecurity.com roundtable question, "How is the role of the manufacturer changing in security?" (Read all the answers.)
• Ryan Schonfeld and Jordan Hill talk with Don Morron, MBA , host of the podcast AI PHYSEC TODAY about "AI/ML, the Force Multiplier" and it's a must-listen conversation (find it here).
• Jenna Hardie examines some of the biggest trends we're seeing in today's GSOCs (read the full article here).