Accliviti information security dashboard launches to help prevent data breaches

Accliviti, the most advanced software platform to quickly assess and visualize a company’s entire information security posture, launched May 12 at Secure360, a conference in St. Paul, Minnesota that assists companies in data breach prevention.

Accliviti is a robust information security dashboard that answers the call for better reports and visuals in cyber risk management, a problem documented recently in the Wall Street Journal.

Replacing slow manual assessments with faster automated templates, Accliviti enables chief information security officers (CISOs) to measure in detail their level of compliance with established security standards and industry best practices—including the human behaviors implicated in most data breaches. Accliviti analyzes the results and provides expert recommendations to achieve desired security compliance levels at optimal costs. Clear, visual reports are easily understandable by senior management and boards.While Accliviti is available for license to organizations of all sizes, its strongest value is managing security programs across large enterprises or businesses with multiple locations. The platform’s developer, Secure Digital Solutions (SDS) of Minneapolis, developed the proprietary methodology in 2009 for an executive who requested a “clear, quick picture” of his company’s security posture. It has been refined over the last six years with highly regulated clients of SDS, culminating in today’s SaaS platform that operates on a tablet or laptop.

Using Accliviti, security officers can rapidly gather status reports from those responsible for security processes across their organizations, including incident response, third-party risk, vulnerability management, and 40 other processes tailored to specific industries. Accliviti measures each process on six dimensions of maturity for an accurate, real-time picture of breach readiness and regulatory compliance.

Accliviti instantly mines the responses into visualizations that identify gaps and threats, along with cost and resource estimates required to address them. The conclusions guide security plans and budgets, and unite organizations around clear priorities. As improvements are completed, Accliviti dynamically updates the security posture of an enterprise, powering a continuous cycle of rapid assessment, measurement, analysis and improvement in key security program metrics.

“In information security, you can manage only what you’re able to accurately measure and communicate to those with budget control,” said Chad Boeckmann, CEO of Secure Digital Solutions. “Accliviti accelerates this process at a fraction of the time and cost of traditional methods.”

Accliviti provides a timely solution for financial services firms answering to new guidance on security oversight issued last month by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Proactive measurement and reporting is lacking in security programs across all sectors. According to the 2015 Global State of Information Security by PricewaterhouseCoopers, only 53 percent of surveyed companies have a methodology to measure the effectiveness of their information security programs.