Information security assessments centered on standard controls – NIST, ISO, CSC 20
Information security posture assessments using one of the industry accepted control frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27002, or CSC 20 provides organizations a strategic view of their overall security health and resilience. The assessment provides a baseline from which to evaluate the effectiveness of current security processes and allows IT security teams to set objectives and priorities.
Security assessments are diverse in how they are conducted in terms of what is assessed and how that assessment is leveraged to improve security processes and resilience. Using established control frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27002 or CSC 20 has become a best practice in terms of measuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of an organization’s assets across critical domains. Understanding where you are, where you want to be and how to get there from a security health or posture perspective is critical to improving your processes and controls efficiently.
Evaluate current state of IT security processes and resilience
Create target profile or posture maturity and set
goals
Prioritize gaps between current state and
desired posture
maturity
Develop a risk-based strategy to address weaknesses and improve overall maturity cost effectively
The vast majority of organizations struggle with the complexity and resources to conduct comprehensive security posture assessments. SecureOps has developed tailored services to meet each organization’s scope and budget in order to cost effectively reduce risk, improve security posture, and meet compliance requirements.
The consistent and ongoing service delivers:
- Experts to provide an executive level overview and specific recommendations
- A gap analysis with prioritized, practical, cost-effective improvement plans
- “What if” scenario examples to assess point-in-time specific organizational risk
- A detailed ROI evaluation on planned IT security investments
Learning More About Security Posture Assessments
The comprehensive and often overwhelming task of evaluation an organization’s security posture is often more complicated and time-consuming for in-house teams to handle cost effectively. Having experts trained in evaluating asset value, control standards, resiliency, and current threats is critical to assess security readiness.
SecureOps partners with organizations to provide the expertise to bring together the critical information, best practices, and recommendations to improve security controls. Reducing risk is critical in our current environment; assessing how to achieve that goal cost effectively is how we can help.