Compliance & Security Consulting

Your organization’s networks might be firewalled, protecting them from some inbound attacks from the outside; but, does that mean your organization is truly safe? Is your environment both compliant (limiting legal and contractual liability) as well as secure (protecting your organization’s assets and name)?It is of utmost importance that today’s highly-networked organizations constantly review their compliance and security status, and this is greatly supplemented with outside, expert support. As seen in recent news, even employing firewalls and knowledgeable IT staff is not always enough.

Even multi-segmented networks with many tiers of trusted zones are penetrable through the proper chaining of vulnerabilities–do you trust each and every computer and piece of third-party hardware and software installed in all the reaches of your organization’s networks to not include unknown or unpatched vulnerabilities? Do you trust that none of your employees’ terminals or other technologies will ever become infected with viruses, worms, or other malware, which can easily make outbound connections through almost any firewall and grant immediate access to network resources to intruders?

Most proprietary third-party technologies are unacceptably under-tested for vulnerabilities since they are not as popular as common commodity hardware and software, and new vulnerabilities are discovered every day for even widely-used and well-tested technologies.

A security and compliance policy is incomplete until it includes each of the following:

• Intrusion prevention
• Intrusion detection
• Intrusion mitigation

How does your organization prevent intrusion? How does your organization employ detection techniques so it will know if an intrusion occurs? What is your organization’s plan for handling the intrusion such that risk may be minimized but uptime maximized?

It is no longer safe to assume that a network is only vulnerable from the outside. In today’s world, it is by attacks from the inside that an organization’s networks are most vulnerable. We are here to help.

The unfortunate truth is that even with compliant software and hardware, it is possible to configure your network in such a way that your organization is either no longer secure or violates obligatory industry compliance. With our over ten years of advanced security and compliance experience, let us help review your organization’s security and compliance status.