Organizations that attend to and achieve best practices are better prepared to stay ahead of security threats and compliance mandates. Preventative and detective solutions streamline and simplify IT’s job. An intelligent best practices strategy enables technology professionals to renew focus and support business goals and new ideas.

MENTIS builds prevention, detection and best practices into our solutions. We make it easy to let go and dream new dreams.

Minimize risk, maximize innovation.

Security and compliance may be a major necessity today, but they are not the core of your business. IT organizations have become driven by the burdens of protecting information, responding to the legal department and finding a fast return on any technology investment. Achieving best practices in this environment seems to be a time consuming and costly task, but embracing this approach not only saves time, money and corporate brand image; it allows IT the freedom to communicate across business groups and innovate with them.

The right information and competitive advantage.

MENTIS believes that any information security and compliance effort is more effective in the context of risk assessment and best practices. The MENTIS approach is one that shakes loose several competitive advantages:

• An organization can quickly assess whether or not its state of security is compliant with multiple acts of legislation. It can address security gaps and put preventative controls in place with no financial waste.
• IT groups can avoid most security breaches using authentication and authorization rules with several levels of security, saving unpredictable and potentially large damage costs.
• Users can do their jobs and see the information they need while masking or scrambling sensitive data they don’t need. Table structures stay intact for seamless IT related functions.
• Unlike other solutions, MENTIS tools do not require IT to add resource or supplemental hardware or software costs to the security investment. In fact, IT will spend much less time and money on defense, and more time using and developing their valuable skills for the benefit of the organization.
• Compliance groups can easily add a compliance acceptance test to new developer code, avoiding code that might result in a costly security mistake.
• Compliance Groups, Security Officers, Auditors and IT can communicate with multiple at-a-glance reports that each group understands. No wasted time developing unneeded procedures or training.
• Should a breach of security be attempted or happen to occur, IT is alerted and given the tools to stop the attack in progress and document the “who, what, where, when and how” of an internal or external breach. IT has the means to satisfy all information compliance requirements.
• When notifying customers that their information has been compromised, Compliance Officers can significantly narrow the scope and cost of notifications. They can quickly assess what specific customers and what sensitive information, if any, was seen by an intruder.
• Publicity Departments have the power of accurate information and the knowledge of specific actions taken to protect customers. They can proactively protect brand image.
• Customers have the confidence that their sensitive information is secure and will choose your organization over a competitor who has not taken their relationship as seriously.
• Because of its streamlined technology and service platform, your MENTIS data security and compliance solution has a low cost of ownership, and a quick return on investment that will please Finance.

“Cognitive psychologists have shown that the biggest hurdle to solving problems often isn't ignorance, it's that people can't put their fingers on the necessary information at the right time even if they've already learned it. Organizational memories are even tougher to maintain. Companies lose what they learn when people leave. Geographic distance, political squabbles, internal competition, and bad incentive systems may hinder the spread of ideas.”

Andrew Hargadon,
Director, Center for Entrepreneurship,
University of California, Davis

With MENTIS, you can tap necessary information when you need it and make space for creative thought – and a breath of fresh air.

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