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Avnet Introduces New Security Assessments at HIMSS17
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 (News - Alert), 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 (News - Alert) 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 assessmentsare 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 (News - Alert) County Convention
Center in Orlando, Fla., Feb. 19-23, 2017.
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