NEW YORK, March 31, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- With data breaches
and other cyber incidents becoming more frequent, costly and
destructive, Deloitte and Verizon Enterprise Solutions today
announced a strategic alliance to deliver a comprehensive set of
security and risk-management solutions to help businesses prepare,
respond and recover more efficiently, effectively, and thoroughly
when a cyberattack occurs.
According to officials from Deloitte and Verizon, the strategic
alliance represents a significant move to help clients in the U.S.
address the many aspects of business resilience relative to cyber
occurrences.
The Deloitte/Verizon alliance will leverage the strength of
Verizon's global computer forensics, incident response, and
investigation services in conjunction with the breadth and depth of
Deloitte's cyber risk advisory services designed to fortify
businesses in the areas of governance, strategy, business
operations, risk and compliance, and remediation to deliver an
end-to-end incident response experience.
"As the cybersecurity landscape becomes more formidable, this
alliance enables enterprises to better prepare for today's new
reality," said Mike Denning, vice
president, global security for Verizon Enterprise Solutions. "We
understand that companies need to have the mindset that being
breached is a matter of when, not if. With our combined
capabilities, we are preparing enterprises to better withstand a
cyberattack before and beyond the breach."
Today's cyber breaches are about more than data theft and
affected companies generally do not recover overnight. The recovery
effort can go on for weeks, even months or years, often requiring
the re-engineering of business processes and implementation of new
technologies for better threat awareness and detection.
How damaging a cyber incident becomes depends, in part, on how
rapidly the situation can be analyzed; how decisively leaders take
action; and how effectively teams interact with customers, media,
legal counsel, law enforcement, and industry peers.
According to Verizon's "Data Breach Investigations Report"
series, the time to compromise usually takes days or less, while
the time to detect a breach is often much longer. This can lead to
widespread and potentially harmful data loss, brand reputation
damage and lost customer trust, making cybersecurity a key
imperative for organizations of all size across all industries.
"Together with Verizon, we offer a powerful integrated business
and technology solution enabling companies to adequately prepare
for and manage the entire life cycle of a cyber incident," said
Ed Powers, national managing
principal, Deloitte Cyber Risk Services, Deloitte & Touche LLP.
"Organizations today need to quickly contain the damage, but they
also need a solutions provider that can help them regain full
business strength and improve their capacity to withstand future
crises. We are making it possible for our clients to meet
tomorrow's cyber challenges head-on while continuing to power
performance in their businesses."
About Verizon
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE,
Nasdaq: VZ), headquartered in New
York, is a global leader in delivering broadband and other
wireless and wireline communications services to consumer,
business, government and wholesale customers. Verizon Wireless
operates America's most reliable wireless network, with more than
108 million retail connections nationwide. Verizon also provides
converged communications, information and entertainment services
over America's most advanced fiber-optic network, and delivers
integrated business solutions to customers worldwide. A Dow 30
company with more than $127 billion
in 2014 revenues, Verizon employs a diverse workforce of 177,300.
For more information, visit www.verizon.com/news/.
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About Deloitte Cyber Risk Services
Deloitte's Cyber
Risk Services help complex organizations more confidently leverage
advanced technologies to achieve their strategic growth, innovation
and performance objectives through proactive management of the
associated cyber risks. With deep experience across a broad range
of industries, Deloitte's more than 1,800 Cyber Risk Services
practitioners provide advisory and implementation services,
spanning executive and technical functions, to help transform
legacy IT security programs into proactive, secure, vigilant and
resilient cyber risk programs that better align security
investments with risk priorities, establish improved threat
awareness and visibility, and strengthen the ability of
organizations to thrive in the face of cyber incidents.
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LLP, a subsidiary of Deloitte LLP. Please see
www.deloitte.com/us/about for a detailed description of the legal
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