Outsourcing is a common practice, especially in big companies where the management of certain functional aspects are delegated to third parties. The security of data and information has always been a focal point of any company, especially since everything has been digitalized for to the IT unit. Business records are now stored on servers or, in the more advanced companies, on the cloud: this has allowed to simplify operations, storage and management but inevitably exposed companies to a higher risk for the protection of sensitive information.

Gruppo La Meridiana is one of the most popular partners on the market, thanks to innovative solutions and extraordinary care and attention to create a personalized management plan for each individual customer. Protect and organize the corporate security is a very important task for our Cooperative, which employs staff of excellence with a long experience and advanced tools with the sole purpose of meeting the demands and needs of customers, making the companies safe and inviolable.

The outsourcing arrangements are one of the keys to the success of a business, because help to improve the business, raising the internal resources from all duties not closely related to the core business. Entrusting marginal tasks to a third party, all the energy and resources are used in the development of the core business, resulting in a greater chance of success.

When a company decide to outsource the tasks of the control and management of data and information, is necessary to place the utmost trust in the service provider and in the external collaborators, to whom are in fact given the key to access to the heart and brain of the company, the nerve center from which the whole system depends.

So, it is important to make an accurate assessment of risks: the due diligence, in this case, is the basis of any agreement. It is accurate data analysis that will be made available to the supplier, so that in the negotiation is possible to have a complete view and 360 ° of the object in question, so as to make an accurate estimate of the risk.

Quantify and predict a compensation in case of problems, in fact, it is not enough when dealing with sensitive data of a company. We must think about the fact that the leakage of certain information has the potential to cause immense damage to the company, in economic and image terms, that no compensation may be able to compensate.

It should also consider the fact that even in the case of outsourcing of the security sector, in the case of hemorrhage of sensitive data, the first accountable to business partners and customers is ever the company, that only on second instance, maybe, can act against its supplier.

The risk assessment in the preliminary contract is crucial to individuate on what information allow the access and what professionalism can have the control, based on the skills and the guarantees provided. This is a basic form of protection, to which must be added the monitoring and constant supervision by an internal member, to which it must be delivered a realistic and periodical report on activities. The risk assessment must be carried out involving all company internal segments that may have the skills and knowledge to make a thorough analysis of all aspects of the contract to outsource the corporate security.

Gruppo La Meridiana offers itself as excellent partner for the management of sensitive data, with the only objective of preserving the safety and confidentiality. Meetings and regular briefings between those in charge of the group and the customer representatives, allow the creation of a careful and comprehensive management plan, in which both parties work together to optimize the result.

If you rely on an excellent partner, Gruppo La Meridiana will be by your side to achieve together big goals.