Assured Advisory
Cyber Strategy
Cyber criminals are constantly innovating. CISOs must keep their cyber security measures up to date with current best practice, by driving continuous improvements across a number of different workstreams. With tight budgets and short deadlines, understanding where to most effectively allocate this budget to maximise risk reduction is critical to the CISO’s success.
Maturity assessments:
The NIST CSF, CIS 18, and ISO27001 standards and frameworks each recommend over 100 individual cyber security controls, highlighting the challenges that CISOs face when building their cyber security programs. Understanding if gaps in these standards and frameworks are pertinent to your organisation requires understanding of context and experience of working with them.
Our consultants have delivered maturity assessments for organisations across a broad range of industries and sectors. We highlight your greatest cyber risks and provide detailed resource plans to address these risks.
Roadmap & transformation:
Planning a robust cyber security program will involve multiple independant and interdependent workstreams, aligned to risk appetite, budget, and resource availability. Ultimately many projects will have setbacks and blockers. Planning for and anticipating these is a critical aspect of a mature cyber security program, and both require experience to get right. Our roadmap and transformation services centre around building an achievable plan for your cyber security program, prioritising addressing your greatest cyber risks first.
Our aim is to leave you in a position of confidence in your prevention, detection, containment, and recovery controls, so that you can strive for your most ambitious business objectives.
Due diligence:
A serious cyber breach can significantly undermine the value of an acquisition, and have a negative impact on a portfolio’s performance. Investment decisions should be informed by a clear picture of cyber risk to protect investors from the financial, operational, regulatory, and reputational impacts that cyber breaches can bring. But Deal teams are often faced with tight deadlines and limited access to key information, resulting in valuations being settled without the full picture of risk being adopted.
To solve this problem, you need a cyber security expert who understands cyber risk and the fast-paced nature of deals. Our pre-transaction cyber due diligence services help many different investment clients make informed investment decisions with jargon-free, risk-focused advice.
Physical security assessments:
The physical security of sites is an often-overlooked, but a critical part of a robust cyber security program. Weak access control mechanisms, porous perimeters, and detection blindspots can all be vulnerabilities exploited by threat actors to gain initial unauthorised access to your computer networks. Threat actors will seek to gain direct access to your company servers, as this will greatly simplify the exploitation process for them. We have created a physical site security assessment criteria, aligned to the guidance of the NPSA (National Protective Security Agency), which provides a comprehensive view of physical security controls, from beyond the perimeter through to your most-sensitive on-premise assets.