How does your ‘security stack’ stack up?
Typically, a Security Controls Assessment reviews the coverage and effectiveness of an organization's preventive and detective security tools. This will include but is not limited to firewall and UTM, email gateway, perimeter and web content security, endpoint, and ransomware protection.
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The assessment will be conducted via tabletop discussion, documentation review, and testing in order to assess gaps and weaknesses against an appropriate framework for security controls (e.g., NIST, SANS, CIS, etc.). The design of controls will be assessed and tested, along with actual implementation and configuration factors. Ultimately, an actionable and prioritized workbook is produced with recommendations to mature your security controls.
Know where you stand and where to go from here
Considering what's at stake in terms of the monetary and reputational impact of security incidents, it should be a given that security programs aim to be proactive and preventative. When investing significantly in security technologies, it's unsettling to know that seemingly minor control gaps or misconfigurations of existing controls can render all of your efforts and investments ineffective.
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Security controls maturity is a moving target and never a final destination. For this reason, we must routinely evaluate and test our controls against established standards and targeted testing as a form of due diligence to ensure that our controls are as effective as we expect them to be.
How Heighten can help
Our team's experience has been built by many collective years of architecting and implementing security solutions, responding to incidents and analyzing their causes. We are knowledgeable and well-equipped to measure the effectiveness of your security controls via an interactive engagement with the purpose of providing actionable outputs for your team.
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Our approach first seeks to establish a baseline and inventory of your controls, for which we will engage your teams to put your controls in context of your technical environment and business processes. Once inventoried and contextualized, your controls will be mapped to an appropriate industry framework in order to perform analysis and gap assessment. Results can be measured against relative risk and thus inform the prioritization of actionable recommendations.
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