Strategic Planning

CSS Partners with organizations to understand their business and technology environment in IT, Security, Compliance or Risk Assessment departments to develop forward-looking tools and processes that assist them define their strategy and assist them to make decisions to manage their business or pursue a particular goal.

To achieve these goals, CSS collaborates with organizations to develop long-term information-security strategies, whether the aim is continuing improvement or addressing legal and regulatory compliance issues. We can help organizations develop foundational policies and security programs that provide organization-wide guidance and awareness. At the conclusion of a CSS strategic consulting engagement, organizations possess a strong foundation upon which to grow and improve overall information security.

As part of a process of continuous security and compliance process improvement, we examine information security as a dimension of quality, rather than as an independent metric unrelated to your core business. CSS uses tools and methods proven across many industries to reduce IT costs, while dramatically increasing an organization's information security performance. See our Security Kaizen FAQ for more information. View (pdf)

Measuring security management process outputs is an important step toward using corporate resources more efficiently. The Balanced Scorecard provides an insightful feedback loop about the outcome of business strategies. Its framework addresses four critical perspectives that are key to comprehensive security management: 1) Customer; 2) Financial; 3) Business Process; and 4) Learning and Growth. When applied with Strategy Maps, the Balanced Scorecard helps an organization effectively communicate project rationale and establish performance objectives that increase efficiency and explicitly target financial return on investments.