WHY MONITOR
WHY MONITOR SECURITY THREATS
REASONS
Protect personnel, protect assets, protect operations, protect reputation.
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Receive relevant updates enabling informed decisions.
Reduce the impact of potential threats.
Allow insights enabling early response and mitigation towards public sentiment and intent.
Threat and risk monitoring professionals and a highly experienced team protecting your interests.
LEGISLATION
Monitoring threats to businesses is complicit with the PSR and the HSWA.
PROTECTIVE SECURITY REQUIREMENTS (PSR)
The New Zealand government security standard, PSR places obligations upon agencies for protective security and includes:
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Take a risk based approach (Gov 2)
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Be able to respond to increased threat levels (Gov 7)
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Understand what you need to protect (Physec 1)
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"That means including all types of threats from all sources, so you can generate a balanced response".
"Draw on internal and external sources of information".
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HEALTH & SAFETY AT WORK ACT 2015 (HSWA)
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSWA) places obligations upon persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU). This includes monitoring potential areas of threat to personnel.
WHY NOT DO IT YOURSELF
Company employees self-monitoring may be a distraction from their core role and impact their efficiency.
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Ad hoc monitoring, if not done consistently and professionally, may result in loss of valuable intelligence
Company employees may get 'burnout' from over exposure to constant negativity about the company.
OVL's primary focus and core role is monitoring threats to companies. Through years of experience and understanding the threat environment OVL can interpret intent even if it is not obvious.
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OVL has the resources to provide the service 7 days per week, 365 days per year.
OVL tools and processes have the capacity to scroll through thousands of posts to determine threats, including the deep and dark web.