Security Posture
“Cyber-security is much more than a matter for IT.” — Stephane Napo
Establishing your security posture is a critical aspect of doing business today. We provide extra eyes on your security posture and help ensure protection from known and unknown threats. We provide the steps and possibilities you can consider that best fit your business.
We assist with improving your security posture, performing risk assessments, establishing risk management, planning business continuity, and reviewing IT security audits.
Protects Sensitive Private Data
Helps preserves reputation
Enhances Productivity
Assists the Remote Workspace
Regulate Compliance
Improves Security Posture
Better Data Management
Helps Education and Train Workforce
Helps Maintain Trust and Creditability
Cultivate Consumer Trust
Streamline Access Control
Supports the IT Team
Lower Cybersecurity Insurance Premiums
Technology Management
IT Risk Advisory Services
Our IT risk advisory services provide a framework for gaining valuable insights into processes and technologies. We provide comprehensive IT audits and compliance reviews to ensure your organization has effective and efficient technology controls that align the technology function with its business and risk strategies.
- Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning
- Cybersecurity
- Data Privacy Services
- HIPAA Compliance
- HITrust
- Information Technology Audit
- IT General Controls Audit
- IT Risk Assessment Services
- NIST Framework Compliance
- Third-Party Risk Management
General and focused IT audits are examinations based on standard processes, guidelines, and methodologies (COBIT, ISO27001, NIST). They include a review of the IT security management and regulation and the general controls of the IT environment.
We help our clients identify and assess IT security risks and develop a control environment that complies with federal and state legislation and international standards.
Starting at $5,875.00 – based upon organizational size.
Security Advisory Services
Our security advisory services assess your organization’s administrative, physical, and technical systems. Typically, this assessment measures your organization’s security posture against an audit checklist of industry best practices, externally established standards, and/or federal and state regulations. We provide consulting and “done-for-you” services combined to audit, assess, evaluate, create, implement, monitor, and recommend policies, procedures, and guidelines for your organization to improve your security posture.
IT General Controls (ITGC)
IT general controls (ITGC) are the basic controls that can be applied to IT systems such as applications, operating systems, databases, and supporting IT infrastructure.
- Logical access controls over applications, data, and supporting infrastructure
- Program change management controls
- Backup and recovery controls
- Computer operation controls
- Data center physical security controls
- System development life cycle controls
IT Risk Assessment & Risk Management
A correctly performed risk management system of people, processes, and technology enables an organization to establish objectives aligned with values and risks. It is a nonstop process and changes over time. A successful risk assessment program focuses on risk and commits the necessary resources to control and mitigate risk.
Repeating and continually monitoring the processes can help assure maximum coverage of known and unknown risks. It is critical to identify threats and vulnerabilities the organization currently faces, determine the probability and impact of those threats, identify existing mitigating controls, and design audit procedures to test their effectiveness.
Thus, the business protects itself from uncertainty, reduces costs, and increases the likelihood of business continuity and success.
Data Privacy Services
Data privacy is paramount, as it protects a highly valued and targeted asset across all industries and organizations. Knowing how to manage and protect it effectively as technology and regulation change is critical.
An effective data privacy program is not just necessary; it’s a strategic advantage. It can set your business apart in your market and industry. By being transparent with your data practices, proactively addressing patient or customer concerns, and demonstrating that your employees with access to customer data are well-trained, you can build and maintain customer trust, giving your business a competitive edge and accelerating the sales cycle.
Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA)
Business Process and Data Flow
Data Privacy Control Assessment
Privacy by Design
Privacy Regulations and Compliance
NIST Privacy Framework Compliance
Information Security Management Program
Access Control
Human Resources Security
Risk Management
Security Policy
Organization of Information Security
Compliance
Asset Management
Physical and Environmental Security
Communications and Operations Management
Information Systems Acquisition, Development and Maintenance
Information Security Incident Management
Business Continuity Management
Privacy Practices
HITRUST Controls
The HITRUST Common Security Framework is a certifiable, non-industry-specific framework that provides a comprehensive, flexible, and efficient approach to regulatory compliance and risk management. It assists in:
- Establishing governance over your risk management and information security programs.
- Improving overall security posture through the recognized, reputable, and certifiable framework.
- Differentiates by adopting an efficient, flexible, and scalable standard.
Our Process Management Portal
Our easy-to-use Service Solution Packages include access to our custom Management portal that allows you to manage your employees, employee-related documents, and training at your fingertips.
- Share and share your important organizational documents.
- Allows for electronic signatures.
- Access to customizable forms, policies, and procedures.
- Online training modules, such as employment, HIPAA, IPC, OSHA, and more.
- Customized Employee Onboarding and Orientation.*
- Customized Compliance Assessments, Review Calendar, and Documentation
Security and Cybersecurity Posture
Our security and cybersecurity audit is a comprehensive technology assessment of your organization’s information systems; typically, this assessment measures your information system’s security against an audit checklist of industry best practices, externally established standards, and/or federal and state regulations. It provides a roadmap of your organization’s main information security weaknesses and identifies where it is meeting the criteria the organization has set out to follow and where it isn’t.*
* Completed with your Managed Service Providers (MSP), your IT Department, or our IT MSP Audit Partner.
Managing with Information Security Policy
As part of your organization’s governance, the information security policy is a set of rules and/or statements developed by the organization to protect its information and related technology. It helps guide behaviors and is the first step toward building the security infrastructure for technology-driven organizations. Small and medium organizations must pay more attention to formulating this advantageous policy. We’ll help you formulate yours, even if you are not a start-up.
Day-to-Day Information Technology
Your IT management plans, builds, runs, and monitors activities in alignment with the direction set by the organization’s governance to achieve its objectives. Procedures and guidelines are the purview of operations. Procedures are documented, and steps are defined for achieving policy objectives and implementing the policy’s intent. We help you identify the need for specific procedures to improve your organization’s security posture.
Legal-ishness: Reasonable Assurances, No Guarantees
A security audit (or any audit) cannot prove anything other than an audit was done. The main reason is that security controls, as a subset of a company’s internal controls, are overseen and owned by the management of that organization. As external independent actors, auditors cannot attest to security controls not subscribed to by management.
Therefore, auditors may only attest to the assertions of the organization’s management, and if necessary, security controls to achieve particular principles that need to be added or improved should qualify their opinion issued to management. It is management, not the security auditor, who ultimately decides to secure an organization.
Employee Handbook
Your customized legal employee handbooks protect your practice that answer what it is like to work at your business. We keep them compliant when laws change.
Organizational Management
Organizational governance and management tools of policies and standards set the stage for what rules and procedures are needed.
Business SOPs and Guides
Operational manuals communicate how to complete certain standard jobs and procedures. We help you break them down into easy-to-follow actionable tasks.
Who We Work With
We are excited to offer individualized consultation and "done-for-you" services to our small to medium business and healthcare-based clients.
- Accounting / Bookkeeping
- Cybersecurity
- Human Resources
- Marketing / Sales
- Customer Experiences / Patient Experiences
- Regulation / Compliance
- Security Audits and Assessments
- Healthcare: Audiologists, Eye Care Clinics, Family Therapists, Chiropractic Clients, Dentistry, Private Physician and Practitioner Offices, Mental Health Psychologist Offices, Long-Term Facilities and Homes, Home Health Care Providers, Rehabilitation Clinics, Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF), Adult Family Homes (AFH).
- Business Associates: Medical Coders and Insurance Specialists, Medical Equipment Providers, and Medical Records and Health Information Specialists (Coding).
- Small & Medium Businesses: Information and Technology, Real Estate, Rental and Leasing, Oil and Gas Service Providers, Educational Services, Non-Profits, and many others.
Regulation and Compliance
Three Pillars of Privacy & Security
Data Privacy
Security Governance
Data privacy refers to ensuring proper use of personal data by giving individuals control over how their data is accessed, used, or shared.
Regulation and Compliance
Data Security
Security Management
Data security is protecting data against unauthorized access, use, or destruction by implementing appropriate technical controls, mechanisms, and procedures.
Safeguards and Frameworks
Data Protections
Data Security
Data protection covers data availability, immutability, preservation, deletion/destruction, and “data privacy” and “data security.”
Business Continuity
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