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Contego represents a highly focused professional services practice committed to IT Risk and Compliance Management engagements. Partnering with our clients, we identify the most critical risks associated with their business and IT infrastructure. Contego then provides holistic solutions for effective IT risk mitigation and compliance management.

IT RISK MANAGEMENT+

Computer crime and information security breaches are on the rise... and so are the financial implications associated with it. As technology becomes more of a business critical operation, new threats leave companies exposed to financial, legal and corporate risks.

Yet, how do you weigh the risks against the costs? While many losses can be directly related to costs, others are cannot, but they can be just as devastating: loss of customer confidence, exposed proprietary information, a damaged reputation.

Contego's IT Risk Practice has solutions that address real business needs, manage your risk, and guide you toward the true goal of information security: protecting the assets you value most. Information Security is a business problem, not a technology problem. Without a clear link between security posture and the priorities of a given business, (security¦ has no context or meaning.

Our security methodology encompasses the entire security lifecycle. From the definition of policy and process, through architecting and implementing means of enforcement, to testing and re-assessing posture, we provide our clients with the adaptable defenses they need to weather any threat. While every company is at risk, some industries have additional mandatory compliance regulations - we can help!

+ and COMPLIANCE MANAGEMENT

Contego's compliance remediation and security practice helps companies ensure the integrity and value of their business information. Contego helps ensure, both pre- and post-audit, that regulatory compliance issues are adequately addressed to mitigate the risk that may adversely impact legal, financial and brand integrity aspects. Contego's associates assess validation strategies, development methodologies, company policies, procedures and techniques and provide viable solutions to help ensure regulatory compliance for legislation. Security solutions offerings, from assessment through deployment, are also available.

Contego's RoadMap for managing and maintaining compliance picks up where the auditors leave off by giving you an executable IT plan for your required compliance. This RoadMap can also be used to successful prepare you for a compliance audit.

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Compliance spending offers benefits besides security
Security and compliance spending is often viewed as a necessary evil by CFOs, whose endless quest for cost-cutting opportunities is the bane of every CIO. Even the threat of an expanded risk profile is sometimes not enough to loosen the purse strings.

MySpace, Facebook ignoring basic principles of security
Social networking websites MySpace and Facebook present a significant security risk to users, largely because their wide-open application programming interfaces (APIs) are a tempting target for malicious hackers.

ID theft ring attacked retailers on multiple levels
A ring of identity thieves that targeted U.S. retailers used sophisticated and multifaceted attacks to steal more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers from TJX, OfficeMax, Barnes & Noble and other companies, according to court documents.

Spammers leverage interest in Olympics
Public interest in the Olympic Games is helping spammers, who are using text related to the games in e-mails to get users to click through to their malware and phishing Web sites, or to go to product sites, according to an executive at Symantec.