Change Management Program Building
Essentials
Change management is the process of ensuring changes happens
in a predictable, yet planned manner. The change management
process is designed to prevent unexpected problems and issues.
The process includes, testing changes in a staging environment
and establishing plans to reverse the changes if unexpected
results occur in the production environment. Although often
assumed to be an IT operations issue; lack of a working change
management program will have security implications. For example,
as new systems are brought online and changes are made to
existing systems, this could introduce unknown, uncontrollable
vulnerabilities into your environment a change management system
is in place.
Benefits
In today’s fast paced business environment, the drive for
improved performance and usability sometimes means that change
management ends up on the back-burner. Without change happening
in a planned and predictable manner, essential systems may
become unreliable or may go down altogether. Established
back-out plans allow for a reversal of the change if unexpected
results occur. Implementing a change management system will help
ensure stability in your environment and allow for more rapid
troubleshooting when a problem occurs.
Expertise
SecureState’s Risk Management team has experience in program
building, security operations and security management. By
leveraging this wide range of skills, they have the expertise
needed to build and implement a reliable and supportable patch
management program in your organization in which fits your
company’s culture.
Did You Know?
- Regulations such as PCI require a change
management process
- Implementing a change management process will
make it easier to troubleshoot problems when they do
occur in your environment
- A functional change management program will
provide many benefits to groups outside of security
- SecureState recommends your change management
program be reviewed yearly to make sure it is
functioning properly and to also find optimizations
that may improve this critical program
- When a new system is placed on the Internet it
will be scanned within 15 minutes
- The weakest link is a system your security team
does not know about. Without a strong change
management program, it is impossible to know what
systems are in your environment
- Your Change Management Program should be
reviewed during your annual Security Program
Assessment (INFOSEC).