IT Security Directors





Member Benefits


Insight
How do you minimize the security risk to your business and IT infrastructure? How do you ensure security while reducing costs? With insight from Gartner, you'll be able to answer these and other questions critical to the security of your IT infrastructure.

Research
The IT Security Directors Membership Program includes all of the benefits of a Gartner Research advisor seat, including access to unlimited inquiry. You will also have exclusive access to a Web portal with research focused on your key security issues.

Security Executive Report
Members receive a copy of Securing the Enterprise: The Latest Strategies and Technologies for Building a Safe Architecture. This Executive Report provides focused, in-depth guidance and concise, actionable advice you need to make critical decisions about enterprise security.

Presentation Library
Download the latest Gartner presentations on pressing issues in IT Security to stimulate discussion within your organization.

Teleconferences
With your Membership Program you have access to our regular teleconferences with Gartner analysts. These informative group sessions are focused squarely on your IT challenges and those of your peers.

Event Admission
Your membership includes admission to a Gartner theme event, such as the industry-defining IT Security Summit.


Workshops*
These one-day, on-site workshops led by knowledgeable Gartner IT security experts help you to build consensus and understand the impact of the latest IT security strategies, technologies, and regulations on your enterprise.

Through pre-workshop discussions, topical presentations, and group working sessions, Gartner will assess your current situation, identify gaps, and recommend areas for potential actions.

Choose from one of the following ten options:

Remote Access Security Workshop
Examines the security issues, technologies and practices that will impact secure remote access over wireless and Internet connections.

Security Sourcing Strategy Workshop
Provides strategies to stay secure while outsourcing IT and helps you understand how to protect yourself from risks while giving up control of operations.

Security Management Process & Technology Workshop
Provides strategies for managing the vulnerabilities of Web Services and new technologies, including guidance on ensuring hardened systems, rapid patch deployment and effective shielding.

Identity and Access Management/External Access Management Workshop
Discusses how user account and privilege administration can be better managed, including the relationships between directories, single-sign-on and employee provisioning.

Network Security Strategy & Technology Workshop
Provides strategies for developing an integrated network security platform approach that will increase security and reduce the cost of ownership while preserving best-of-breed options.

Security Architecture Workshop
Identifies ways to marry risk management with security framework development to create a sustainable security architecture.

Security Executive Workshop
This engagement addresses the key elements of security policies and architecture: regulations, organization, return on investment and risk management.

Enterprise Risk Management
Examines the emerging role of enterprise risk management and advances in risk management techniques in light of increasingly complex regulation, competitive pressures and tighter cost controls.

Best Practices and Trends in Business Continuity Planning
Provides best practices for business continuity planning, including scope, approach, technologies and services.

Secure Electronic Communications and Anti-Spam
Provides strategies for blocking malicious code and spam, implementing effective anti-virus, and monitoring and securing electronic communications (email, Web, instant messaging) for compliance and risk reduction.

*Travel and accommodations for on-site sessions are not included in the membership cost.



Tools
Gartner Decision Tools can help you perform total cost of ownership analysis and support vendor selection. By understanding the total cost of ownership, you will be able to reduce costs dramatically while improving operational efficiency. By using an objective vendor selection methodology, you can overcome the challenges involved in complex technology decisions and make better, faster, more cost-effective vendor selections.

TCO Manager for Security (Charter Group)
This charter group subscription is focused on the Security Manager and offers access to critical security peer comparison reports. It includes time with Gartner analysts to help you fully understand the data collection process and performance analysis reporting.

Decision Tools for Vendor Selection — Provisioning Model
Provisioning Solutions provide your company with an efficient means of creating, managing and deleting user accounts, roles and groups. These tools allow for more consistent, secure, timely, and accurate granting of access rights across an enterprise.



Your Member Benefits
Your membership program includes the following products and services:
Insight:
Research
Executive Report
Presentation Library
Teleconferences
Event Admission

Workshops:
Choose one of ten

Tools:
TCO Manager for Security
Decision Tools for Vendor Selection - Provisioning Model

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