As Internet-based businesses build and scale their operations, the need to protect their user's information and their own IT infrastructure becomes increasingly important. Information security is a big concern as recent high profile breaches at leading internet companies have demonstrated, and many Internet-based businesses see the value of using technology to build and sustain robust information security and IT risk management programs that protect them from emerging cyber threats.
A leading Internet-based social networking company recently selected the MetricStream IT GRC Solution to improve its overall information security and risk management program. The client's rapidly growing user-base and large-scale IT infrastructure, which is made up of thousands of servers around the world, makes the organization highly susceptible and vulnerable to cyber threats.