An effective and practical security policy is the cornerstone of a complete and well integrated security strategy. But creating a good policy means accounting for many complex factors and the guiding principles must be driven by your business objectives. We work closely with your management team to ensure that your policy integrates all relevant aspects of application security. The result is a policy which is operationally sound, technically feasible and can be realized within budget.

OPTIMA policies reduce effort and costs

• Development Checklist: They can be used as "checklists" by project managers during both the planning and development phases of a project to verify compliance early in the project. This can save enormous costs later, since the costs of making a fundamental design change late in project development are 10 - 100 times higher than making those changes early on.
• Long-Term Stability: A good policy offers policy offers long-term stability that outlasts implementing technologies. OPTIMA's extensive experience in secure development lets us create policies that don't have to be changed when the next hot trend hits the IT market..
• Secure Outsourcing: They can be integrated into an outsourcing contract in order to help define the security criteria that the software must meet, without touching on the implementation details. This is an excellent way to guarantee that the delivered software is truly secure prior to acceptance.
• Auditing Criteria: They make it possible for security officers to audit applications for compliance, and thus perform a risk analysis. Without such an audit, organizations may be open to legal prosecution in case of a security breach, for not having adequately analyzed their security.
• Legal Protection: Creating and applying an application security policy is a sign of commitment to security. Without proof of such commitment, organizations may be open to legal prosecution in case of a security breach, for not having performed an adequate analysis of their security.