What is the next step in your program

A Complete Security Blueprint

This blueprint breaks our service offerings out into a roadmap for your organization to follow. By analyzing your existing program, work completed, and using our categorization—ongoing, foundational and developmental—you should be able to place yourself and get an idea of what’s next for your security program.

Ongoing Engagements

These are services that information security programs of all maturity levels might implement and benefit from.

vCISO (Virtual CISO)

Virtual CISO is an all-encompassing engagement. A vCISO will help identify what initiatives and technologies are needed and when they are appropriate to deploy, regardless of the overall maturity of your security program.

vCISO Services

Risk Assessment and Roadmap

Quantify risk, prioritize remediation actions, and establish a baseline security posture. Risk assessments identify and quantify risk, providing a roadmap of actions to be taken to improve your organization’s security posture.

Risk Assessments

The SecureRisk™ Method

The SecureRisk™ Method is more than “checking a box”, or adding to your “advanced security stack”. We emulate the attack lifecycle to measure cyber risk in a standardized and scalable way. We don’t just passively observe – we actively interrogate targets.

SecureRisk™

Foundational Services

These services provide the framework your security program and ensure that the basics are firmly in place. The fundamentals are often overlooked or hastily completed, so these steps are crucial to addressing easily exploited gaps in your security.

Risk Assessment & Roadmap

  • Quantify risk
  • Prioritize remediation actions
  • Establish a baseline security posture

Risk assessments identify and quantify risk, providing a roadmap of actions to be taken to improve your organization’s security posture.

Risk Assessments

Policy Coaching

  • Sets the framework for the program
  • Formalizes things like risk assessment and penetration testing frequency
  • Defines things like acceptable use of systems

Policy coaching is intended to educate clients on what should be included in policies and WHY those things are included.

Policy Templates

Asset Management

  • Know what systems you have
  • Know what software is installed and where 
  • Know what data/information you have and where 

You can’t secure what you don’t know you have. If you experience a compromise, do you know what data and systems have potentially been affected?

Asset Management

IR/DR Plan Coaching

  • Having a plan in place can significantly reduce the impact of an incident/disaster if one does occur
  • Should be updated and tested annually

This coaching is done with the organization’s team to ensure that the IR/DR plan is comprehensive. It also helps educate the organization on the different roles and responsibilities in each plan.

Regular External/Internal Vulnerability Scanning

  • Identify openings that allow attackers to infiltrate your network
  • Ensure patches are applied properly

Verify your patch management tool is doing what you think it is by regularly scanning to double-check.

Attack Simulation

Vulnerability Management

  • Asset Management
  • Vulnerability Scanning
  • Remediation, Prioritization and Assistance

Vulnerability Management helps companies understand what they need to secure, identify gaps in their security, and how to implement the fixes.

Vulnerability Management

The SecureRisk™ Method

  • Attack Surface Monitoring
  • Attack Surface Detection
  • Vulnerability Scanning
  • Threat Vector Tracking
  • Risk Scoring

At the cutting-edge of cybersecurity solutions, SecureRisk™ revolutionizes IT management. It empowers us to proactively maintain your asset inventory and seamlessly detect and respond to changes that affect your IT environment’s attack surface.

Developmental Services

You have developed the foundation of your security program, and you’re ready to begin addressing more advanced threats, and expanding your in-house team’s capabilities.

Compliance Requirements

  • Align your security program with regulatory requirements and industry standards

Our approach is that by developing a mature security program over time, you should meet most of your compliance requirements naturally. However, for organizations in highly-regulated industries, it’s important to make sure regulations are being met.

Compliance Preparation

Third-Party Risk Management

  • IT may not be aware of all your vendors if they are not involved with them directly
  • Important even for organizations without a regulatory requirements

Understand who your vendors are and what risk they present to the organization based on what services they provide and what assets they have access to.

Vendor Risk Management

Gap Assessment

  • Determine which regulation must adhere to
  • Identify which controls are in place
  • identify shortcomings in your environment

Whether it’s a government body, a contractual obligation with a customer, an industry requirement, a private-sector framework, or a nonprofit authority, organizations often have a set of rules and security controls they must adhere to.

Gap Assessment

Our Cybersecurity Frameworks

    • Lets start protecting your business

    Secure Shield has the expertise and resources required to design, develop and manage the Information Security platform that you need, giving you the time and confidence to do what you need to: run your business and protect your data

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