Advisory Services
Advice is like medicine—make sure you're getting the dose right.
From virtual CISO offerings to strategic planning, SEVN-X offers access to executive expertise that drives cybersecurity maturation and compliance.
Advisory Services
Security Program Development
Today’s digital threat landscape requires a transition from preventative, perimeter security controls to a more resilient cyber defense strategy to ensure your organization can detect, investigate, and remediate sophisticated attacks within minutes.
Determine what to build, prioritize, and set as policy. Ensure you have a strategic road map and the technical resources it needs to maintain a safe and defensible information security posture.
We do policies too. Create a foundation of security best practices that scale with your organization and meet industry compliance requirements.
Security Governance
Define organizational processes for cybersecurity governance to define a strategic framework and processes that direct and control your organization's security activities. Monitor both security initiatives and “steady state” elements of the Cybersecurity Program, align with business objectives, manage risks within an acceptable appetite, and comply with legal and regulatory requirements.
Acquisition Due Diligence
Conduct in-depth assessments of the target organization’s security posture, compliance status, and vulnerabilities to ensure the target’s systems, policies, and practices align with your organization’s security standards.
Third-Party Due Diligence
Develop and implement processes to identify, assess, and mitigate risks that arise from your organization's reliance on external entities, such as vendors, suppliers, and service providers.
In the end
It's all about the report.
We're big on content, short on fluff.
Executive Summary
More art than science, conveying the results of a very technical work to non-technical people is a skillset unto itself. We believe we've cracked the code on making this content accessible and understandable to the highest levels of management in an organization.
Strategic recommendations to support and enable executives in making decisions, packaged for executive delivery.
Assessment Results
Findings—categorized, prioritized, and ranked by criticality and estimated remediation effort.
Each finding receives a detailed breakdown including a description of the risk, detailing the threat it poses to the organization, where that issue was observed and how to remediate it. When applicable, screen captures and steps to reproduce the issue are documented.
Appendices
Cyber Kill Chains provide step-by-step walkthroughs, illustrating the severity and impact of various risks and how an attacker may leverage them.
Detailed summaries, processes, and results for engagement campaigns (i.e., recon, wireless, physical testing), which include images, statistics, tools, and techniques used.
In short, we provide all the steps necessary to show our work.
Qualified & Experienced.
Our vCISOs' risk-based approached stems from broad experience in building cybersecurity programs designed to protect data and meet regulatory compliance requirements. Many have actually served as full-time CISOs in industry and hold security certifications such as CISSP, CISA, CRISC, and the list goes on.
Team Approach.
Our vCISOs are able to call upon the expertise of our technical team to assist in building a comprehensive cybersecurity program that also solves for those pesky technical problems.
“Doing business in a digital business world requires a proactive approach to cybersecurity, SEVN-X provides terrific support necessary to test platforms for possible vulnerabilities and to provide fractional CISO talent to ensure business platforms are safe and secure.”
COO, Risk Management Firm
“We've had a great relationship with SEVN-X over the years. They are knowledgeable, super easy to work with and always do a great job in understanding our goals of an engagement so that the outcomes produced provide the right value.”
IT Security & Compliance Director, Investment Trust
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