Deloitte and Verizon Team to Provide Business Risk and Technology Solutions for Cyber Incident Response

Alliance services to address entire life cycle of incident response: triage, respond, recover and sustain

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Mar 31, 2015, 08:12 ET

NEW YORK, March 31, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- With data breaches and other cyber incidents becoming more frequent, costly and destructive, Deloitte and Verizon Enterprise Solutions today announced a strategic alliance to deliver a comprehensive set of security and risk-management solutions to help businesses prepare, respond and recover more efficiently, effectively, and thoroughly when a cyberattack occurs.

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According to officials from Deloitte and Verizon, the strategic alliance represents a significant move to help clients in the U.S. address the many aspects of business resilience relative to cyber occurrences.

The Deloitte/Verizon alliance will leverage the strength of Verizon's global computer forensics, incident response, and investigation services in conjunction with the breadth and depth of Deloitte's cyber risk advisory services designed to fortify businesses in the areas of governance, strategy, business operations, risk and compliance, and remediation to deliver an end-to-end incident response experience.

"As the cybersecurity landscape becomes more formidable, this alliance enables enterprises to better prepare for today's new reality," said Mike Denning, vice president, global security for Verizon Enterprise Solutions. "We understand that companies need to have the mindset that being breached is a matter of when, not if. With our combined capabilities, we are preparing enterprises to better withstand a cyberattack before and beyond the breach."

Today's cyber breaches are about more than data theft and affected companies generally do not recover overnight. The recovery effort can go on for weeks, even months or years, often requiring the re-engineering of business processes and implementation of new technologies for better threat awareness and detection.

How damaging a cyber incident becomes depends, in part, on how rapidly the situation can be analyzed; how decisively leaders take action; and how effectively teams interact with customers, media, legal counsel, law enforcement, and industry peers.

According to Verizon's "Data Breach Investigations Report" series, the time to compromise usually takes days or less, while the time to detect a breach is often much longer. This can lead to widespread and potentially harmful data loss, brand reputation damage and lost customer trust, making cybersecurity a key imperative for organizations of all size across all industries.

"Together with Verizon, we offer a powerful integrated business and technology solution enabling companies to adequately prepare for and manage the entire life cycle of a cyber incident," said Ed Powers, national managing principal, Deloitte Cyber Risk Services, Deloitte & Touche LLP. "Organizations today need to quickly contain the damage, but they also need a solutions provider that can help them regain full business strength and improve their capacity to withstand future crises. We are making it possible for our clients to meet tomorrow's cyber challenges head-on while continuing to power performance in their businesses."

About Verizon
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ), headquartered in New York, is a global leader in delivering broadband and other wireless and wireline communications services to consumer, business, government and wholesale customers. Verizon Wireless operates America's most reliable wireless network, with more than 108 million retail connections nationwide. Verizon also provides converged communications, information and entertainment services over America's most advanced fiber-optic network, and delivers integrated business solutions to customers worldwide. A Dow 30 company with more than $127 billion in 2014 revenues, Verizon employs a diverse workforce of 177,300. For more information, visit www.verizon.com/news/.

VERIZON ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS ONLINE NEWS CENTER: News releases, blog posts, media contacts and other information are available in Verizon Enterprise Solutions' online News Center at http://www.verizonenterprise.com/about/news. News from Verizon Enterprise Solutions is also available through an RSS feed at http://www.verizonenterprise.com/rss-options/.

About Deloitte Cyber Risk Services
Deloitte's Cyber Risk Services help complex organizations more confidently leverage advanced technologies to achieve their strategic growth, innovation and performance objectives through proactive management of the associated cyber risks. With deep experience across a broad range of industries, Deloitte's more than 1,800 Cyber Risk Services practitioners provide advisory and implementation services, spanning executive and technical functions, to help transform legacy IT security programs into proactive, secure, vigilant and resilient cyber risk programs that better align security investments with risk priorities, establish improved threat awareness and visibility, and strengthen the ability of organizations to thrive in the face of cyber incidents.

As used in this document, "Deloitte" means Deloitte & Touche LLP, a subsidiary of Deloitte LLP. Please see www.deloitte.com/us/about for a detailed description of the legal structure of Deloitte LLP and its subsidiaries. Certain services may not be available to attest clients under the rules and regulations of public accounting.

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