Category Archives: Program Maturity Assessment

Cybersecurity Policy Enforcement: Strategies for Success

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Introduction Your organization has invested significant effort in formally documenting its approach toward cybersecurity to enhance accountability and awareness of security processes; however, operationalizing and enforcing this policy library can appear challenging. Failure to consistently enforce cybersecurity policies generally leads to a degradation of the environment, as individuals come to understand that they will not…

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Why Risk Assessments are Essential for Information Security Maturity

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Introduction Many compliance frameworks require Information Security Risk Assessments, and some organizations may receive third-party requests for Risk Assessment results. Organizations without any compliance obligations will still benefit from Risk Assessment as they are a key tool for efficiently increasing Information Security maturity and, more importantly, aligning Information Security with business needs and constraints. This…

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Building a Strong Foundation With the Information Security Accelerator

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Bottom Line Up Front Common threats like malware, ransomware, web application hacking, insider and privilege misuse, and targeted intrusions don’t have to spell disaster. Mid-market companies and small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) can cut through the confusion of how to build a solid security program. Our Information Security Accelerator service is designed to help your organization chart…

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Measuring the Impact of a Security Awareness Program

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Our goal in building a security awareness program is to embed security into our partners’ existing organizational culture. Impacting culture is a long-term process that can take years and requires executive support. If you are tasked with managing a security awareness program, it is your job to measure and show leadership that your program is…

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Maturity, Effectiveness, and Risk – Security Program Building and Business Resilience

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One of the most common questions asked by business leadership is also one of the most challenging to answer: “How secure are we?” Now, some of you reading this may already be cringing or yelling at your screen that this question on its own shouldn’t have a simple answer with little actionable value. However, when…

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Yes, It’s Time for a Security Gap Assessment

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For many organizations, rapidly implementing work-from-home initiatives over the past year due to the COVID-19 pandemic required quickly rolling out new processes and deploying new technologies without adequate time for attention to Information Security standards. Perhaps your company recently acquired a new line of business, and you want to make sure the integration won’t adversely…

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One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Penetration Testing Maturity

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As the security industry continues to progress, companies are focusing on their own security programs, trying to figure out what works and what doesn’t. One of the areas of focus that goes to the early days of the security industry is penetration testing. Penetration testing has always been a validation method to identify exposures and…

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Using Effectiveness Assessments to Identify Quick Wins

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An organization’s overall security posture can be viewed from multiple different angles, such as technical assessments, program assessments, controls assessments, and risk assessments. A number of different frameworks for each of these assessment types exist, intended to help both technical teams as well as leadership organize security program building activities. Some of these include: Penetration…

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Want Better Alerting? Consider Your Business Processes

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Logging, monitoring, and alerting programs are some of the most critical elements of any security and compliance program, but traditional approaches for implementing and upgrading these capabilities are often noisy, expensive, and laborious. Traditional Alerting Approaches are Failing During program assessments, we find that a lot of clients are generating so many alerts that they…

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Vendor Enablement: Rethinking Third-Party Risk

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Third-party risk management is an essential element of information security. It is common to see news about a large company being breached, and after learning more, you find out the breach was the result of a vendor. When you depend on another organization for a critical business process and allow them access to your network,…

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