--- title: Build the Business Case for Effective Security Investments description: Business Risks, Data Security, Access Control, Productivity, Revenue, IT Process, IT Strategy image: https://encsolutions.ca/hubfs/sec_blog.png --- [![ENC Logo HEADER](https://encsolutions.ca/hs-fs/hubfs/ENC%20Logo%20HEADER.png?width=290&height=38&name=ENC%20Logo%20HEADER.png "ENC Logo HEADER")](https://encsolutions.ca/) [![ENC Logo HEADER](https://encsolutions.ca/hs-fs/hubfs/ENC%20Logo%20HEADER.png?width=290&height=38&name=ENC%20Logo%20HEADER.png "ENC Logo HEADER")](https://encsolutions.ca/) - [What we do](https://encsolutions.ca/what-we-do) - [How we work](https://encsolutions.ca/how-we-work) - [IT Department](https://encsolutions.ca/it-department) - [Co-Managed IT Dept.](https://encsolutions.ca/co-managed-it) - [Careers](https://encsolutions.hiringplatform.ca/list/careers) - [Blog](https://encsolutions.ca/blog) - [Contact](https://encsolutions.ca/contact-us) - [What we do](https://encsolutions.ca/what-we-do) - [How we work](https://encsolutions.ca/how-we-work) - [IT Department](https://encsolutions.ca/it-department) - [Co-Managed IT Dept.](https://encsolutions.ca/co-managed-it) - [Careers](https://encsolutions.hiringplatform.ca/list/careers) - [Blog](https://encsolutions.ca/blog) - [Contact](https://encsolutions.ca/contact-us) # Build the Business Case for Effective Security Investments [Gurmeet Judge](https://encsolutions.ca/blog/author/gurmeet-judge) Jan 7, 2019 Business leaders recognize the importance of security, but they often don't realize the urgency until they see something tangible. Encompass Risk Intelligence makes it concrete by assigning value to your data vulnerability, helping you build a strong business case for data protection and triage the most important problems to tackle. Some of the powerful features include: | - Data risk communicated as financial impact - At-risk data discovery - Deep vulnerability scanning - Risk trending reports - Discovery of inappropriate access and alerts - PCI and HIPAA compliance scans - and more |  ![sec_blog](https://encsolutions.ca/hs-fs/hubfs/sec_blog.png?width=267&name=sec_blog.png) | | --- | --- | ## Know the Financial Impact of Your At-Risk Data **Credit card data**: Find the most common types of 16- and 13-digit credit card numbers across your systems, know which devices pose the greatest risk, and get a total, organization-wide dollar amount for a breach. **Data breach risk baseline**: Pinpoint all sensitive data—including both personally identifiable information and your own custom defined file types—to get a financial risk number across your organization. **Data breach risk trend report:** View the change in your potential liability over time to demonstrate clear, financial improvement in your clients' risk posture. - Safeguard Sensitive Personal Data from Attack - Discover & Secure All Types of PII **Personal information**: Scan systems for email addresses, license plate numbers, bank accounts, social security numbers, ACH data, credit card numbers, and much more. **Payment data:** Locate all types of credit card numbers, including Visa, MasterCard, American Express, JCB, Diner’s Club Maestro Cards, and more. **Financial risk profile:** Receive a quantified financial risk assessment on each piece of PII. **Hard-to-find insecure data**: Locate sensitive data both in-transit and at-rest. **Protected health information:** Locate multiple kinds of PHI, including insurance numbers, patient photos, patient charts, medical records, account numbers, procedure codes, and more. **Customizable checks**: Leverage out-of-the-box scans or customize scans based on your organization’s needs. **HIPAA compliance:** Meet the important HIPAA compliance requirements for audit controls, ePHI authentication, and integrity controls. ## Help Ensure that Only the Right People Can Access Sensitive Data It’s not uncommon for employees to have access to data that’s not essential to their jobs. In particular, smaller businesses where employees wear several hats often don’t change permissions when people switch roles. ***Discover Permission Issues*** **Inappropriate permission discovery:** Discover permission mismatches with rich scans for sensitive data so you can help ensure that only the right people have access to the right information. ***Protect Yourself Against the Following Scenar*** **Leaked payment data:** Locate unsecured payment information collected by sales associates who work with clients **Loss of protected health information**: Protect health information that might be stored in human resource files. **Stolen customer lists:** Help ensure that your customer details remain safe in the event ex-employees attempt to poach customers. **Compromised trade secrets:** Discover vulnerabilities that could put intellectual property or trade secrets at risk. ## ***Locate Security Holes in Your Systems*** These days, hackers have more tricks up their sleeves than ever before. Whether it’s phishing emails, drive-by downloads, or old-fashioned malware, malicious attackers have a lot of options to try to exploit a company's IT security. Encompass Risk Intelligence scans systems not only for unsecured data, but for any potential vulnerabilities that an outside party might try to exploit. ***Run Powerful Vulnerability Scan***s **Host-based scanning:** Use host-based scanning to run vulnerability checks across devices on your networks without having to deal with permission issues per devi **Emerging threat discovery**: Encompass Risk Intelligence leverages the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) database to uncover the latest threats. **Cross-device search**: Root out potential vulnerabilities across networks, servers, workstations, applications, and mobile devices. Connect with us! 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