Address business risks
Risk assessments are foundational to all our processes.
If you have ever felt overwhelmed by the “what ifs” and “we need this” coming at your team from all departments, as each level of the business strives to meet goals and maintain core business services, then you are ready for a practical, risk based process development process that your whole team can embrace.
Threats are abundant
Every year new weather patterns emerge potentially interrupting business, new malware or technology failure happens. You don’t need to keep up; you just need to establish technological controls and processes focused enough to move through risks without falling apart and flexible enough to adapt to emerging risks.
Identify, quantify, plan
Our team starts all client relationships with discussion and review of known and perceived threats, and we bring an incredible depth of historical insight to the table from past security events, because we have watched history repeat itself!
Once threats are identified by type of threat, we then help quantify the real probability and impact to your business. These are aligned to current controls, configurations and security practices used by your team, to find the real weight of a threat, should it occur, employees, members, customers, and business operations.
This Threat Risk Assessment is then utilized as the foundation for building out processes to assess software and hardware, web applications, critical business partners, and the Information Technology Risk Assessment.
As our team develops a full Information Security Plan with your staff, your business partners and your key stakeholders, the Threat Risk Assessment continues to be referenced, discussed and validated throughout the development process. High risk items are a consideration whether configuring new software, partnering with a new vendor or planning incident response and disaster recovery.
Knowing threat behavior matters
Impacts of threats can be unique. For example, a storm that takes out power doesn’t just interrupt power. It can block roads your employees use to get to work, take down cellular towers and close gas stations. Our team has worked through these events, worked with the first responder communication networks, and has a network of business partners just for such occasions!
Cyber threats are similar in nature. While it can appear to wipe or encrypt data, experiences with ransomware response, collaborating with our forensic team partners, cyber attorneys and of course the cyber insurance team, often leads to multi-level events, requiring systems to be quarantined and the network to be isolated—this means no email in or out. Having collaborated with teams who were not yet prepared, our team knows how to best recover and keep your people safe during the process.
Solid risk assessments up front, built with confidence from working with our experienced team, will provide the foundation your information security program needs to grow without overwhelming your team.
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