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Integrated Approach to Security

The technology and business landscape is changing in cybersecurity. Traditional techniques for protecting your systems and data are no longer enough. All businesses are at risk with cybercrime becoming a big business with services like Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) becoming a reality.

The good news is that significant advancements in cybersecurity are now available and can be combined into a next-gen integrated security framework. This framework could include a wide variety of next-generation security solutions, with the following four providing a strong foundation for success.

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Threat Risk Assessment

The standardized Threat Risk Assessments (TRA) process will identify areas of risk, assess those risks, and identify activities to reduce risks to an acceptable level.

The output of this process will help identify appropriate controls for reducing / managing risk.

Security Vision and Trends Review

Developing an effective IT & Cyber Security strategy is challenging. Staying abreast of the current risks, tools, and mitigation techniques is even more difficult. Security risks are constantly evolving and changing. Costs related to a security breach have a much larger impact than most organizations realize.

Data Perceptions’ Security Team lives in this IT security ecosystem. Our industry experts will lead a collaborative discussion with your key security stakeholders to review your current vision for IT security and help you understand the impact of industry trends and directions.

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IT Security Assessment

Information Security and Operations Scorecard

This workshop-based review provides a forum to discuss development of a security vision and strategy with respect to current cyber security trends. It covers a broad spectrum of current cyber security industry trends and helps identify what is most relevant to your organization.

This is a relatively short engagement compared to a full security assessment. It is focused on high level discussions of the most important aspects of cyber security needed for improving your security posture.

This review provides a summary of relevant security trends and collaborative recommendations for potential roadmap items.

Components of a Security

Architecture

When making improvements to security operations, consider a combination of people, process, and technology. Security operations digital transformation needs to ensure that the design and architecture fit operations well.

Security operations digital transformation makes business operations more productive, more reliable, more agile, and more secure.

Consider the following areas when undertaking this challenge.

Security Awareness Training & Testing

An excellent Cost Effective Cyber Security Investment.

Cybercriminals use your employees as the weak link to gain access to your systems.

Well developed security awareness training can reduce an organization’s vulnerability to cybercrime by 75% in the short term with further improvement within the first year.

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Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC)

The United States Department of Defense is requiring its suppliers and related supply chain to be compliant with the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC). The level of service or product that you are supplying, will determine the required level of certification, ranging from Level 1 and working your way up to Level 5, for higher risk solutions.

Data Perceptions can assess your organizations’ current cybersecurity maturity and provide a cybersecurity and operations roadmap to becoming compliant with the appropriate level of CMMC maturity.

This can be challenging but the criteria for CMMC compliance are based on good practices and have a lot of overlap with other cybersecurity frameworks like ISO 27001, CIS, and NIST.

Performed

17 Practices 0 Processes

- select practices are documented where required

Documented

72 Practices 2 Processes

- Each practice is documented, including Level 1 practices

- A policy exists that includes all activities

Managed

130 Practices 3 Processes

- Each practice is documented including lower levels

- A policy exists that includes all activities

- A plan exists, is maintained, and resources that includes all activities