Security

What Is Cybersecurity?

The goal of cybersecurity is to ensure the Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA) of information while also providing resilience in the event of a breach.

By reaching out to us, you have taken the first step toward addressing your organisation’s security concerns, mitigating risks, and strengthening your overall security posture in today’s dynamic digital landscape.

Where to Start?

First and foremost, a risk register needs to be created. This will contains all the risks gather by the security team from all departments. This answer the simple questions “What can go wrong?” and then “How do we mitigate it so it hurts less?”

Second, from the engineering side, start threat modelling as this will show you area of your infrastructure and code which are potentially weak and can be adversarially exploited.

Finally, “We don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.” Therefore, if you want a smooth response to security incidents, you have to train. This training can take the form of mock-up incidents or just table top role playing.

Together, we will guide you in creating a risk register and threat modelling to assist you in understanding your risk appetite and discover both known and unknown risks. Once your risks are identified, mitigating them is the next step. These mitigations need not be expensive software or cumbersome processes. We have the experience to guide you through the whole process. Finally, we will assist you in creating a bespoke incident response program tailored to your needs.

What Is Next?

All too frequently, security is an afterthought in the software development life cycle. This results in security being a patchwork of surface kludges that reduce the likelihood and potentially the impact of a security event. However, the underlying security issues are not addressed, unless some technical debt is added to the backlog.

Using Shift Left and DevSecOps principles, we will coach you how to embed security team members into the engineering teams from day 0. This will enable your development teams to make the right security decisions at inception time. The software thus produced will be secure by design. To reiterate, security is dye.

In harmony with your DevOps teams, we will advise on the best ways to keep your external and internal perimeters safe and secure — OT security. With your IT team, we will explore the best security for endpoints — including mobiles and remote work forces. With Human Resources or People teams, we can look at effective and engaging security training tailored to specific departments. We will also recommend on how to protect your data from internal and external threats.

Third-party Risk Management

Working along side the vendor management team, or champion(s), we will setup a third party management register. This will protect you against supply attacks such as the Solar Wind or Log4J incidents. This cannot be done in isolation, and all departments must be involved in providing a safe foundation for your business to flourish.

Compliance

Compliance is a by-product of security.

GDPR and HIPAA are all relevant to all branches of your business. On top of this, you will have litigation hold requests and other legal matters you must be prepared to for.

SOC-2 and ISO 27001 compliance are becoming the norm for most clients who rely on service software and even on software providers.

DORA is a regulation introduced by the European Union to improve the cybersecurity and operational resilience of financial entities in the EU. While aimed at banks, it will impact anyone doing business in the EU.

The alternative of answering security questionnaires is both time-consuming and ineffective. Achieving compliance is a long, expensive, and painful process if done at the late stages of a company. It can take a year or more to get accreditation, with many costs spiralling out of control.

We will coach and help you create small incremental changes which implemented now will bear fruit later.

Whether it be change management, endpoint security, or cybersecurity training, the sooner those are in place, the easier it will be to get certified. We have experience in frameworks such as NIST and CIS, which we can modify to consider your circumstances.

Data Sovereignty

Data sovereignty are dependent on local and international laws and regulations, as well as industry specific regulations.

Who controls access to data is a vital question to answer. While strong security will protect you from leaks, it cannot offer 100% safety. Therefore having mitigating security measures in place is essential in case some of your data gets leaked. Even within a company, the CIA of data is something you must consider. What tools you use to share those internal documents is often overlooked.

People over Tools

Everyone is responsible for security.

No matter how many outstanding tools one uses, the weakest point of security is not the tools, but the people. We will train your staff to all be responsible for security, using tailored and focused material that speak to them instead of being boring. Be it phishing, or social engineering, or even AI generated deep fakes, we can make your staff care about cybersecurity.

Final Thoughts

When it comes to security, “one size fits all” actually fits no one. Badges and certification can show your customers and investors that you take it seriously, but the application of security best practice goes deeper than that.

Together, we will build a strong security culture that works for your business and transforms security considerations from a potential weakness to a strength.