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Intelligence-Driven Security
Minimize Risk by Mastering the Motives, Strategies, and Tactics of Your Cyber Adversaries

Written by:

Christopher Ling and Bill Wansley

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Introduction
As you expand your business in cyberspace, you increase the opportunities for cyber adversaries to steal intellectual property and assets, disrupt global networks, and shut down global supply chains because traditional perimeter defenses are no longer sufficient to stop them. To prevent, detect, and predict cyber threats before they strike, you demand a dynamicdefense approach to security a holistic approach that integrates your people, processes, and technology to produce the actionable intelligence you need to stop adversaries before they harm your business. workforce, social media is opening new avenues to grow and nurture customers, and the cloud is allowing you to cost-effectively collect and analyze data, gain valuable insights, and make more informed business decisions. Though such digital technologies open up opportunities, they also open your company up to unprecedented levels of risk. Consider: Digital technology allows complex financial transactions to traverse multiple locations and approvals in nanoseconds, but how do you respond when the approval process is infiltrated and corrupted? Innovations with just-in-time inventory have revolutionized your manufacturing operations and are saving you millions, but how do you keep your operations running when your system has been breached and your supply chain has been disrupted? How do you enjoy the benefits of cyberspace without facing increased risk?

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CYBERSPACE OPPORTUNITIES: GROWTH, PERFORMANCE, PROFITABILITY

Thanks to technology innovations in cyberspace, your company is enjoying opportunities to expand to new markets, partner with low-cost providers in emerging economies, implement efficient just-in-time supply chains, and drive profitability and shareholder value. Mobile devices are improving the productivity of your increasingly dispersed

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Modern Cyber Threats: A Risk to Your Image, Operations, and Bottom Line

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Needed: Intelligence-Driven Security

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To that end, we embed layers of security not just in your IT networks and systems, but across your enterprise your policies, operations, management, and people.
We implement smart, proactive security policies, and train and inform your people on how to apply them, to limit opportunities for your adversaries to strike. This fully integrated approach to security gives you complete visibility and understanding into all potential risks across your enterprise and the actions you must take to prevent, detect, and predict cyber attacks before they harm your ability to conduct business freely in cyberspace.

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Incident Response:

Rapid Remediation, Long-Term Analysis

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Threat Intelligence: Understanding Your Adversaries

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Preemptive Response: Developing a Strategic Roadmap

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Integrated Remediation:

Continuous Feedback & Improvement

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It Takes a Network to Defend a Network

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Conclusion
Booz Allen is a thought leader in the use of sophisticated analytic tools that identify anomalies that help us identify breaches, gather intelligence on perpetrators, and shut the perpetrators down. Our intelligence-driven, dynamic-defense approach to security will deliver the confidence you need to prevent, detect, and predict rapidly evolving cyber threats, respond with maximum speed when breaches occur, ensure that your business is secure, and continuously improve your defense processes to keep you several steps ahead of todays adversaries. We will help you secure cyberspace so you may grow your business freely.

About The Authors

CHRISTOPHER LING
A Senior Vice President at Booz Allen Hamilton, Christopher Ling leads our military intelligence support operations and specializes in high-level strategies that improve intelligence support. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Physics from Cambridge University and won a National Science Foundation fellowship for advanced physics at Harvard University.

About Booz Allen Cyber Services

Booz Allens intelligence-driven, dynamic-defense approach to security helps organizations build secure cyber architectures and develop and implement effective standards to ensure interoperability, integration, and innovation. Our thousands of experienced cyber professionals nationwide offer unparalleled expertise in cyber assurance, engineering, solutions, IT management, and mission assurance.

Christopher Ling

WILLIAM J. WANSLEY
A Senior Vice President at Booz Allen Hamilton, Bill Wansley develops advanced intelligence-based security services to better understand and predict cyber security threats. He holds a BS degree in engineering from the US Military Academy, West Point, an MBA from Creighton University, and an MMAS in theater operations from SAMS.

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