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Attend this webinar to learn how McAfee and Brinqa are working together to bring you solutions that help you tame your security risk. You will learn how to:

•   Aggregate data to achieve security intelligence
•   Report high-quality information in real-time
•   Identify that needle in the haystack of data

Brinqa proudly touted its GRC suite at this year’s event, with staffers fielding dozens of questions and information requests and performing countless demonstrations.

“It was a great conference for us at RSA this year,” said Brinqa vice-president of sale, Kevin Gallagher. “We were able to connect with some of our partners and of course it is always great to be able to demonstrate our latest release to potential customers.”

Like most people at conferences in any industry, there was a lot of networking and a lot of sizing up the competition. “It is definitely a great way to see what the rest of the industry is up to,” Gallagher said.

After RSA, the Brinqa team headed off to the Shared Assessments conference in Boston. Brinqa was one of the sponsors of the conference, which focused on in-depth discussions on such varied topics as the future of IT outsourcing, cross-industry perspectives, and featured presentations from regulators who offered invaluable insight into current and future regulatory concepts so important to GRC firms like Brinqa.

And the road show is not stopping. Brinqa is a sponsor of this year’s ISACA – LA conference in April, which will focus on Threat and Risk Intelligence, and a sponsor of the FS-ISAC meeting in Miami in May.

“In Miami, over and above the usual meet and greet, we are obviously going to focus on the issues facing the financial services industry and our recent significant success in that industry sector,” Gallagher said.

In June, it’s on to the Garner Security and Risk Management Summit in Washington, DC. This year’s event will focus on “strategic roadmaps” to reduce enterprise risk and will feature expert industry analysis, case study presentations, and extensive networking opportunities.

For more information on where you will be able to meet the Brinqa team in person at the upcoming conferences, please email sales@brinqa.com directly.

We will see you soon!

Brinqa, a worldwide leader in governance, risk management, and compliance solutions, has announced that its upcoming GRC Suite 4.0 will be integrated with IBM’s zEnterprise 196 next gen core mainframe platform.

The zEnterprise mainframe was developed by IBM not only to speed processing and allow cloud support, but also to easily integrate various software packages such as Brinqa’s GRC Suite.

Brinqa offers its GRC package as a fully integrated system at the time of installation, ensuring smooth operations and ease of use.  Brinqa’s integration brings Risk Manager’s advanced analytics and metrics reporting together with System z’s high availability and fast output.

We are addressing the changing economics of IT, which today include additional devices, workloads and data increasing while IT budgets face continued pressure.  Brinqa took the opportunity to integrate early after seeing an increased demand for workload optimization as well as big data and analytics being a high priority for our customers.

Additionally, Brinqa has added an integration point with iSIGHT Partners, a worldwide leader in risk mitigation.  iSIGHT’s strength is in helping customers manage human, electronic and physical threats, so the strength in the integration with Brinqa’s next generation GRC Platform creates a powerhouse for insight into measureable threat intelligence.

Finally, Brinqa has added an integration with WhiteHat Sentinel.  WhiteHat offers continuous vulnerability assessment and management services for websites.  Together with Brinqa’s Risk Manager, this brings timely, comprehensive and verified vulnerabilities together for a unified view of threats and a stronger continuous risk management solution.

Automated, streamlined, scalable, and easy to understand, Brinqa’s GRC suite of services is a perfect fit for our joint customers who struggle to make sense of the hordes of data they consume daily.   “Our customers consistently tell us they have problems measuring their threats as well as how complex it is to make those findings actionable”, said Amad Fida, Brinqa’s CEO.

The goal of any of our joint solutions is to help our customers understand their security risk while affording them the opportunity to leverage their complex multi-vendor environments.  As a result, we have a comprehensive security data management platform that scales to the big data requirements of large enterprises.  Brinqa combines powerful data analysis to derive security intelligence and meets the need for versatility and the assurance of accuracy.

For more information on Brinqa, contact us directly at sales@brinqa.com or visit us at www.brinqa.com

Customer Profile

This customer is a Fortune 500 technology company and leader in its market, which is focused on the business of selling products and services to consumers, small and mid-sized business, education, enterprise and government agencies.

Business Drivers

The Company has a need for a full lifecycle application security as well as supplier security.  Some of the building blocks have been put in place over the years and can be leveraged in the overall solution.  However, the focus will be to design and build an end-to-end solution to ensure the functions exist for easily identifying, measuring, monitoring and controlling risk as they relate to applications and suppliers.

The comprehensive Brinqa GRC solution will establish:

•      Aggregation of information from various sources
•      Application risk assessments and risk reporting
•      Full lifecycle of issues and remediation
•      Vendor assessments and risk reporting

The Solution

The Brinqa GRC Platform, together with Brinqa’s Risk Manager and Vendor Risk Manager provides the complete solution and establishes the foundation for going from this initial corporate initiative to taking small steps toward enterprise wide risk and compliance. The first order of business is to get a process established for identifying and managing application and vendor security.  To accomplish this, we start with the basics of data aggregation.   The Brinqa GRC Connector Framework is used to directly connect to the company’s critical applications, including vulnerability management and event management applications.  The automated collection means reducing human effort as well as reducing human error.  Next we look at two primary requirements in solving this company’s problem: Risk and Assessment Models.

Risk Modeling and Prioritization — The risk model is at the core of the Brinqa’s Risk Manager.  The risk model provides advanced quantitative risk scoring, statistical risk models and scenario testing.  Quantitative risk score calculations factor in all relevant parameters such as weights, tolerances, thresholds, aggregations and data normalizations in establishing an accurate representation of risk across applications.

Assessment Model — The Brinqa Assessment Model provides the ability to categorize vendors by, for example, building a risk profile.   A standard assessment would be established using the assessment model, defining a specific set of questions that ultimately would establish a risk score associated with that vendor thereby identifying the level of risk that vendor presents to the company.

In addition, all issues resulting in the completion of an assessment or a risk would be tracked and remediated either manually or automatically when applicable.

The following diagram describes an example of the full life cycle of an issue

Benefits

The ability to put the GRC Platform in place established the foundation for building the customer’s security processes and provided the building blocks to manage critical business processes.  Once applications and vendors are set on a risk management life cycle, reporting and managing issues become a daily exercise of informed decision making.

Key benefits of the customer’s solution include:

GRC Platform based architecture — A robust platform to ensure common management services and guarentees that GRC initiatives reduce redundancy associated with various silos and are consistent across the enterprise.

Automated Risk & Control Assessments — Automated risk and controls assessment using the customizable Connector Framework.

GRC Warehouse — A robust and comprehensive warehouse with the ability to maintain history, trend data and forecasts

Key Metrics Monitoring — Brinqa provides the ability to continuously monitor key metrics and delivers robust dashboards and reports with actionable information for executive management.

About Brinqa

Brinqa provides enterprises and government agencies with governance, risk management, and compliance solutions that enable the continuous improvement of operational and regulatory efficiencies. Brinqa’s offering is the most comprehensive available on the market today, based on our forward-thinking vision of a centralized, fully automated, and re-usable governance, risk and compliance (GRC) platform combined with targeted applications to meet program specific GRC needs.  Brinqa streamlines compliance through automation, monitoring of controls, measurement of key metrics and visibility through executive dashboards and reporting.

For more information please contact us via email at sales@brinqa.com or visit us at www.brinqa.com.

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