CyCognito Solution Brief

Best Practices for Monitoring Subsidiary Risk

Whether your organization has one or 1,000 subsidiaries, you should ensure that your team is using these best practices for security risk management.

A key challenge for holding companies, multinational corporations and other conglomerates is monitoring the IT security risk of their subsidiaries.

Subsidiary IT environments contain assets and networks that you don’t manage but they can nevertheless put your organization at risk. In fact, unknown and unmanaged attacker- exposed assets in subsidiary environments can easily be the source of your organization’s most critical cybersecurity risk.

So, even if you lack chain-of-command authority over subsidiary IT, you still must ensure that your entire IT ecosystem is following security best practices in order to protect your organization’s data, business, brand and reputation.

And of course the challenges of monitoring and eliminating risks in your subsidiary environments increases with the number of subsidiaries you have. Many global companies have hundreds or even thousands of subsidiaries under their corporate umbrellas.