Optiv Security Recognized with Second-Highest Score in Current Offering Category for Cybersecurity Incident Response Services in Independent Analyst Report
Summary
The report cites that “Optiv … has an excellent current offering,” noting that “it has a well-stated engagement model, and its postmortem deliverables include remediation road maps to help clients avoid repeat occurrences, and its client references were positive across the board.” The report also states that “Optiv would be a good choice from incident preparation through remediation.” “Today’s business decision makers are faced with driving technology, product, and business growth, while being simultaneously tasked with maintaining cyber resilient programs that are ready to react, respond to, and recover from adverse events,” said Bill Young, Optiv’s vice president and general manager of advisory threat management. “Achieving cyber resiliency requires a strategy that leverages security best practices, including proactive incident management planning, programmatic penetration testing, effective detection and response capabilities, and real-time tailored threat intelligence. By addressing enterprise cybersecurity needs from the perspective of the enemy, organizations can create more successful cyber resilient programs that are built on factual-based offensive security testing.” Young continued, “Optiv is in a unique position in the industry to provide clients with unmatched insight, depth and breadth of services, as well as a bench that extends throughout the complete ‘plan, build, run’ cybersecurity lifecycle. We do this by helping organizations create, prepare, and execute incident response strategies that are honed and practiced as their organizations change, providing skilled and experienced resources to augment internal staff, and delivering supporting services, such as threat hunting and forensics capabilities that help reduce breach levels and data loss. At Optiv, we are modernizing cybersecurity to enable clients to innovate their consumption models, integrate infrastructure and technology to maximize value, achieve measurable outcomes, and realize complete solutions and business alignment.