Secur-IT-ism offers a new and unique socio-ethical concept to deliver evolution in enterprise IT Security using IT graduates with high functioning Autism or Aspergers to carry out the repetitive tasks that are routinely carried out by very experienced Security professionals

These services are implemented on-site to offload the security burden on the existing IT staff to allow them to concentrate on enhancing the continuously evolving and increasing threats to corporate data

SecurITism consultants then use their natural inherent skills in anomaly detection, manual correlation of data flows and outputs from Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools, investigation, patching, remediation and the procedural work that this demands, reporting any suspicious events to the IT Security Officer

The nature of Cyber-attacks are constantly evolving and are now multi-layered and multi-faceted, coupled with the fact that there will always be new Web applications, for example Facebook, Twitter etc. also running on corporate networks, either knowingly or "tunnelled" through the Internet. As the threat landscape changes on a regular basis, there is a period of time when new exploits can potentially go undetected while the security vendors play catch up and deliver a satisfactory solution

SecurITism engineers use real time and active dynamic defences to identify and action against existing and future threats by examining and understanding the flows of data within and out of an organisation. Together with safe IT practices that are well communicated to all staff and backed with corporate compliance mandates allows the organisation to attain an optimum security posture. To the outside world this shows it is possible to do good business whilst maintaining very high levels of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Benefits of using SecurITism and the Strengths in Autism®

Trying to minimise the attack surface is a continuous process and this is where SecurITism can help by outsourcing the day to day monitoring, detection, logging and remediation tasks. This service is typically delivered by having a team of engineers using the latest SIEM tools on site and a (neuro-typical or "normal") relationship manager. The engineers and consultants at SecurITism are all IT degree graduates with a diagnosis of high functioning Autism, so that particular inherent and academic skills and levels of experience and on the job training are effectively managed on a customer site to be of immediate use

The advantages of using graduates or engineers with high functioning Autism and/or Aspergers are their abilities to work diligently and develop skills on a set of well communicated and agreed tasks using inherent strengths such as:

• Quickly spotting and acting on irregularities

• Possessing excellent memory

• Excelling at following procedure

• Strong visualisation techniques

• Not being politically motivated

• Being honest

• Diligently performing well defined tasks

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