CyberSecOp Solutions for the Public Sector

CyberSecOp offers a multi-faceted Technical & Compliance Testing programs designed to identify and understand an organization’s network and data security vulnerabilities from a technical, administrative, and operational standpoint to assess the organization’s threat surfaces. CyberSecOp leverages proactive Vulnerability Scans to identify the effectiveness of an organization’s operating systems and third-party software patching operations, system vulnerabilities and security operations. Penetration Testing uses similar tactics and techniques to test digital defenses and Client awareness to better understand their complete cyber risk profile.

Our vCISOs provide a broad range of vision and authority to supplement or fully provide the responsibilities of a CISO by providing the following, but not necessarily limited to:

• Support and/or establish an organization’s Cybersecurity Strategic Plan
• Communicating company-wide security and privacy vision and goals
• Cross-functional role with the Data Privacy and Protection Officers
• As required, direct staff in identifying, developing, implementing, and maintaining processes across the organization’s information security.
• Assess and development of written policies and procedures.
• Coordinate deployment of remediation efforts that are a result of an Assessment and the subsequent Plan of Action Milestones – PoAM.
• Interface with appropriate legal or outside counsel concerning new regulations governing the collection and use of personally identified information – PII.
• Development and management of Security Awareness Testing/Phishing.
• Lead point of contact if an Incident Response event were to take place in the form of a ransomware attack.
• Monitor and lead the effectiveness of the overall Managed Cybersecurity program and privacy-related risk mitigation and compliance measures.
• Host Quarterly Business Reviews throughout the Cybersecurity Program.
• Establishment of a Third-Party Vendor due diligence Program.

GRC Advisory & Compliance Services is aimed at assessing and establishing a high-level measure and program of a company’s cyber maturity & readiness, degree of protection, and survivability in the event of a cyber-attack. The resulting Risk Register leverages multiple assessment and current state across the organization, providing a confidence score for each framework control and effective resiliency measurements. Program services come in the form of consulting, advisory and counsel concerning everything from implementation a full-scale GRC Program to remediation refinement that elevates and matures the client’s cybersecurity planning and deployment. The resulting approach will enable a client to anticipate, prepare for, and respond to the growing regulatory requirements across every framework providing peace of mind in a dramatically changing regulatory landscape.

CyberSecOp is fluent in all established standards such as NIST CSF, NIST 800-171 or 800-53, FedRAMP, ISO 27000, CIS, GLBA, GDPR, NYDFS, PCC-DSS, HIPAA, GLBA, HITECH, and FISMA. Identifying and understanding an organization’s cybersecurity vulnerabilities is critical to establish a prioritized list of security gaps with directed remediation planning, budgets and risk avoidance impact. Each Assessment will help an organization to understand their cybersecurity risks and weighted/appropriate mitigation priorities so they can defend against threats that are likely to occur and spread as a critical component of cyber safety and resiliency.

Cloud Security Risk Assessment - The complexity of cloud environments necessitates a sophisticated approach to risk assessment to provide a detailed examination and mitigation of potential risks, offering a holistic view of an organization's cloud security posture.

• Comprehensive Security Coverage - This approach addresses all aspects of cloud security, from workload protection to compliance, ensuring that organizations' cloud infrastructures are both safe and compliant.
• Multi-Cloud Environment Focus - Centralized reporting enables informed decision-making, ensuring comprehensive protection across cloud stores.
• Advanced Threat Intelligence - This proactive approach ensures organizations are always one step ahead of potential cyber threats.

Non-human Risk Assessment – Unmanaged non-human identities (i.e. Service Accounts, API keys, secrets, tokens, RPA accounts) are a huge and unresolved security weakness. The distributed and dynamic nature of enterprise systems drove exponential growth of non-human identities creating a massive attack surface that, if unmanaged, poses a greater risk for your data business operations.

• PAM - Focused on “break-glass” accounts used by humans and lacks visibility and posture required to serve non-human identities.
• Secret Managers - Don’t address secret access, usage risk, nor provide indication of secret coverage to ensure all risks were addressed.
• CSPM - Not “identity aware”. Doesn’t provide contextual visibility into workloads and secrets to enable taking action IAM Focused on human identities. Doesn’t meet visibility, governance and automation requirements of non-human identities.

Attack Surface Risk Assessment

Analyze the cyber risk exposures across thousands of unique data points, focused on organization’s attack surface and vulnerabilities providing a more accurate view of cyber risk.

• This Qualitative and Quantitative Risk Assessment provides holistic risk insights across your entire threat landscape starting with a transparent risk scoring model leveraging an empirical statistical model and NIST CSF Risk Management Framework (RMF).

A team of cybersecurity analysts and experts dedicated to security posture assessment, continuous security monitoring, deep threat detection, and incident response. An integrated solution with both human expertise and machine learning is architected to protect your business and clients by leveraging a combination of security technologies (such as SIEM, UEBA, XDR, EDR) and diligent processes such as vulnerability management, threat hunting loops, threat intelligence, incident response to ensure consistent and comprehensive cybersecurity and regulatory compliance.

In response to an Indication of Compromise (IoC) or Indication of Attack (IoA), the Managed SOC works to mitigate the damage and can provide guided remediation support and root cause analysis to aid you in response and further security hardening in conjunction with our Incident Response Team.

An internally trained team of cyber and forensic experts on standby to engage when an incident becomes a breach requiring swift and directive responses. In conjunction with our Managed SOC Team and the client, the IR Team provides a guaranteed SLA, Incident Response Readiness Assessment, Planning & Documentation and Reactive Services to engage with the threat actor if and when a ransom payment is the best business decision. Dark Web Monitoring, Tabletop Workshops, Air-gapped & Encrypted Backups and Continuous Monitoring are also available and often recommended.

A BIA predicts the many consequences of business disruptions. It can minimize business risks and ensure business continuity in the face of critical emergencies and disruptions by focusing on the prioritization of business risks and associated risk that are relevant to the client. CyberSecOp leverages leading industry practices and frameworks as well as peer benchmarking utilizing NIST 800-34 BIA guidelines to review the client’s business continuity program in order to identify potential gaps and determine residual risks. The BIA is closely related to the BCP, as its main objective is to protect the assets and operations of a business, both during and after a disruptive event takes place.

A BIA is a part of ISO 22301 and outlines a company's legal, regulatory and contractual obligations and the potential effects of a failure to meet them. By conducting a BIA, businesses can enforce the necessary controls to close any legal gaps and ensure consistent compliance with legal regulations, uncover application dependencies, identify third party risks and calculate downtime costs.