Keep settings consistent
An unusual setting may be necessary, or it may be a forgotten workaround. Check the difference, record the reason and avoid letting one temporary exception become the unspoken rule.
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Security management
A security finding needs more than a place in a report. Someone has to decide what happens next, make the change and check that it works. We help keep those jobs moving across the systems covered by your service.
How it works
Keep security connected to everyday IT
Policies, settings and business applications need to work together. We help you maintain the controls you have chosen and deal with the practical obstacles to improving them.
Follow findings through
Give each action a priority and an owner. Where a fix needs a supplier, a budget decision or application testing, make the dependency visible rather than leave the finding to reappear next month.
Check the effect on people
A stronger control can still cause disruption if an important application stops working. Significant changes need suitable testing and an explanation for the people whose access or working habits will change.
Technology partnerships
Technology partners you know
We help you choose and look after the technology your team uses every day.
The work between a policy and a working control
Security management is the continuing work of maintaining settings and following through on decisions. It may include configuration administration, access reviews and tracking remediation across the systems you agree with us. It is not the same as carrying out a one-off audit.
For example, deciding that an access exception is no longer acceptable is only the start. Someone needs to identify the affected service, arrange a suitable change, test the result and update the records. Without those steps, the policy and the actual environment drift apart.
Security monitoring looks for signals that need investigation. Management looks after the controls themselves. The two can work together, but responsibility for responding to an alert should not be inferred from responsibility for maintaining a setting.
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Client experience
What our clients say
“I’ve worked with Proxar for a number of years and have always found them to be honest, knowledgeable and informative.”
Your service
A clear record of what has changed
Your team needs to see the settings being maintained, the decisions still waiting and the work that has actually been completed.
The starting position
A record of the agreed controls and access arrangements, including intentional differences that need to stay in place.
The next actions
Named owners for changes and remediation, with the approvals and application dependencies needed to carry them out safely.
The follow-through
Completed work, unresolved actions and accepted exceptions recorded in a way that makes the next review useful.
Before you decide
Your questions, answered
Is security management the same as monitoring?
No. Management maintains controls and follows through on changes; monitoring looks for activity that may need investigation. You can include both in a wider arrangement, but each needs its own responsibilities, coverage and handover. Maintaining a security product does not by itself promise a staffed response to every alert.
Will every finding be fixed straight away?
Not every change can be made safely at once. Priorities depend on business impact, access, approvals and technical dependencies. The useful outcome is a clear decision and an owner for each action, including a reason and review point where a change has to wait.
Can our own team keep approving security changes?
Yes. We agree the decisions your staff retain and the work Proxar can carry out within the service. Changes that affect access or important applications need an understood approval route. That also helps avoid an urgent request bypassing the people responsible for the affected business service.
What happens when a control cannot be applied?
We need to understand why, which systems are affected and who can resolve the obstacle. An exception should be recorded and reviewed, not treated as a permanent solution by default. Any temporary alternative also needs to be considered in the context of the application and the risks involved.
Your next step
Have security actions stalled after the report?
Tell us which findings or settings need attention and what is holding the work up. We will help you separate the practical changes from the decisions your team or application suppliers need to make.