The Security Program Lifecycle

Keeping a corporate security program evergreen means ensuring that security measures, policies, and technologies remain effective, compliant, and up-to-date as threats, business needs, and regulations evolve. This requires a combination of organizational commitment, ongoing monitoring, proactive process improvements, and strategic investment.

Key Evergreen Security Strategies:

• Understand the evolving threat profile. Have ongoing monitoring to assess generalized, proximate, and specific risks.

• Implement / adapt appropriate security measures. Continuously update and refresh security tools and systems ensuring nothing falls too far behind current standards. Update practices to address the current threat profile and emerging vulnerabilities.

• Regularly test and report all aspects of program efficacy. Beyond just by tracking incidents, gather and assess meaningful metrics and perform periodic reassessment of benchmarks.

• Seek process improvement and new approaches. Build a flexible security infrastructure that accounts for evolving business models, new product or service launches, M&A activity, and geographic expansions.

Security teams must stay adaptable, closely tracking both organizational direction and shifts in a company's threat profile. Evergreen programs include continuous training and communication to keep employees aware of evolving risks and the responsive measures in place.

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