Technology Vendor Validation Process
Your Security Technology Should Fit Like a Glove
Make the Smartest Pick for Your Environment
With thousands of security technologies on the market, it’s never been harder to pick the right one. The selection process can get dicey for businesses with limited resources and expertise, especially when decisions can mean the difference between a strategic advantage and a big waste of time and money.
You don’t have to go in unprepared. Our experts are ready to:
Provide the knowledge you need for a thorough, efficient selection process.
Help test your organization’s requirements against reality… before you lock into anything.
Explain the shortcomings of each vendor under consideration to plan around limitations from the start.
Leverage Our Experts for Solution and Vendor Validation
True to its name, Optiv’s Objective Technology Analysis & Validation (OTAV) service doesn’t play favorites. Our partner-neutral approach helps you select the best-in-class security technology that’s best for you.
Our Solution and Vendor Validation Process
We start by analyzing your business requirements, priorities and use cases. Your unique insights let us apply our broad industry expertise to actively compare the most apt technology solutions and validate their claims.
Creating an analysis scorecard
Developing a functional test plan
Testing vendor solutions
Providing documented results and recommendations
Welcome to our technology bake-off, where you’ll:
- Compare, test and validate each product under consideration
- Identify product functionality gaps and risks
- Avoid ill-suited solutions and buyer’s remorse
- Make the smartest security technology choices
- Determine the best next steps for your technology journey
Take Your Technology Journey A Step Further
As far as technology services go, OTAV is just the beginning. We offer a broad range of services to help you get the most out of your security technology investments.
Our assessment identifies redundancies and program gaps, helping to improve your security coverage and effectiveness and providing a complete picture of your technical security control environment.
We offer a complete set of services designed to minimize risk with new products, including advising, deploying, maturing, supporting and even managing your security technology solutions.
Our team can help you with a detailed security technology review to identify specific gaps in network security architecture.
Delivering Best-in-Class Technology Together
We work with a legion of world-class security partners. And because our broad industry relationships represent the entire spectrum of security technologies, we’re equipped to build out solutions that are truly custom fit to your organization’s one-of-a-kind requirements.
Let Our Experts Help
When it comes to playing technology matchmaker, our team has been around the block a few times. And when it comes to your organization, finding a perfect fit is our number-one priority.
Diverse, hands-on
experience
Deep expertise across the entire security stack
An objective approach to testing, result collecting and reporting
A matured method for a thorough and efficient validation process
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