Avnet Introduces New Security Assessments at HIMSS17
February 20 2017 - 10:00AM
Business Wire
Allows partners to offer specialized
cybersecurity threat analyses for their healthcare and retail
customers in 40+ key areas
Avnet (NYSE: AVT) today unveiled two new security assessment
services tailored to the unique needs of the healthcare and retail
industries. Partners in the U.S. and Canada can leverage these
services to quickly determine the strength of their customers’
security postures and measure customers’ security approaches
compared to the overall healthcare or retail industry. The
assessment services also provide partners with the critical
information needed to create an action plan to improve their
healthcare and retail customers’ security, reduce risks and
determine the security technology solutions most beneficial to
protecting their customers.
“It’s no surprise that avoiding breaches tops the privacy and
security concerns of both healthcare organizations and retailers,”
said Alex Ryals, vice president of security and networking
solutions, Avnet Technology Solutions, Americas. “The first step to
helping these customers strengthen their security is understanding
their current environments. Our new security assessments give our
partners a proven model to rapidly analyze their customers’ level
of maturity and any gaps. This will ultimately give our partners
the knowledge needed to make technology recommendations that will
take their customers’ security postures to the next level.”
The breach security assessments leverage Intel Corporation’s
“Security Readiness Program” and require a one-hour workshop with a
security assessor to measure security safeguards in a healthcare or
retail organization against the related industry security maturity
model. After the assessment, a partner will be able to provide the
organization with a report summarizing the findings, including the
customer’s maturity level, how they compare with the rest of the
industry, any gaps, and a multi-year plan to incrementally
reinforce their breach security. Partners will also be able to
share quarterly update reports for up to one year after the
assessment with their customers, showing where they stand relative
to their industry. The security assessments also offer visibility
into compliance with privacy and security regulations, data
protection laws, and standards, such as HIPAA, PCI/DSS and
NIST.
“We are thrilled to see these new security assessment services
emerge from Avnet to help healthcare organizations measure and
improve their security maturity,” said Jennifer Esposito, general
manager of Global Health and Life Sciences at Intel
Corporation. “Avnet is in a great position to help their
reseller partners and customers evaluate and adopt new security
solutions that can substantially reduce their risk.”
The new healthcare and retail security assessments are part of a
collaboration and program with Intel to enhance companies’ security
abilities. These supplier-agnostic assessments are designed to help
partners determine their customers’ risks across a wide range of
top breach concerns, such as ransomware, cybercrime hacks, loss or
theft of mobile devices or media, malicious insiders, fraud or
snooping. This will enable partners to prioritize security
initiatives for their customers. As a result, partners can identify
needs that often lead to deeper subsequent engagements including
policy creation or updates, risk assessment, penetration testing,
vulnerability scanning, audit, user training, or implementation of
various breach security safeguards.
“At Lumenate, we see great value in the use of Avnet’s breach
assessment tool, as it provides customers immediate insight into
their security environments,” said Drew Robinson, chief security
officer, Lumenate, a technical consulting firm focused on enabling
and securing the virtualized enterprise, and an Avnet partner. “The
results of the assessment allow us to reinforce the importance of
governance as it relates to federal guidelines mandating
protections around confidentially, integrity and availability in
the handling, transmission, use and storage of electronic-protected
health-related information. Thus, we are able to work with our
customers to architect strong cybersecurity frameworks by
identifying gaps in tools, applications, processes and procedures
needed to effectively govern and protect their environments and
open the doors to other opportunities that may not have been
visible otherwise.”
The new security assessments are part of Avnet’s growing
security services portfolio, which includes its recently launch
managed security service program – Recon™ – that allows partners to
easily offer their customers 24x7x365 security monitoring and
management. It also builds upon Avnet’s solutions specialist
approach to accelerate the channel’s abilities to capitalize on the
next-generation technologies that are rapidly growing and defining
the future of computing and the data center. Partners will be able
to engage Avnet’s dedicated solutions specialists to develop
complete security solutions. Avnet also provides the channel with
in-depth expertise and education services in complementary
technology market segments, including: cognitive computing, data
analytics, the data center, the internet of things (IoT), mobility,
security and enterprise networking, and training and education.
For additional information, please visit the Avnet Security
Assessment Program webpage and the Avnet Security and Networking
solutions information page.
Avnet at HIMSS17
At this year’s Healthcare Information and Management Systems
Society (HIMSS) conference and exhibition, Avnet’s contingent will
be located at booth #5550. Avnet will feature live demonstrations
and discussions of how its latest healthcare-related offerings are
helping partners excel while capitalizing on next-generation
technologies that are redefining the future of healthcare IT. Avnet
is a HIMSS Platinum Corporate Member for this year’s event, which
is being held at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando,
Fla., Feb. 19-23, 2017.
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