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The Virtual CISO

By providing the necessary thought leadership to address cyber resilience, the virtual CISO becomes your critical friend and points, and keeps you, in the right direction.

 
 
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Assess The Risk

This involves a series of assessment (threat, vulnerabilities and risk), the development of a set of information security policies – normally aligned to a ‘standard’ ISMS such as ISO 27001, an analysis to the HEI’s adherence to those policies (which turns into a regular audit of compliance) and the development of an information security strategy and plan to remediate any ‘gaps’ between where they are and where they need to be over time.

 
 
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Protect Your Assets

Protecting your information assets takes many forms and depends on the environment, the assets your protecting and your organizational maturity. It normally takes a combination of technical and operational capability from secure configuration and patch management through to firewalls, network and service access controls, intrusion prevention, secure development and the implementation of a SIEM to monitor log activity.

 
 
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Operate With Confidence

Having the appropriate information security management system in place gives you the confidence to safely operate your institution across administration, teaching and learning, and research. Behind the scenes monitoring services, threat hunting and investigation, and consistent and active incident response and remediation supports that confidence and along with a regular targeted awareness programme completes the information security management cycle.

 
 
 
 
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The Threat

If you are online, you are a Cyber target. Invariably it is your personal data, intellectual property and valuable information that the cyber-criminal will aim to steal, corrupt, or deny access to it.

Their motivation is driven by an intent to steal from you, to disrupt your business operations, or embarrass you. With a well-informed Cyber Risk Management process, coupled with Cyber intelligence, you can prepare to address the threats as they arise and respond to them effectively. This is why we created our virtual CISO Service..

 

The Virtual CISO

Outsourcing cyber security operations to a Virtual CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) is not only possible, but highly beneficial – especially in the face of increasing complexity, the continual evolution of the cyber threat and the current shortage of skilled cyber practitioners.

At a business level, a CISO needs to retain overall control and management of the organisation’s security strategy, embedding policy compliance, disaster recovery, regulatory aspects such as GDPR and high-level incident and media management, but it is perfectly feasible to hand-off many of these to a trusted virtual CISO who helps you embed cyber resilience to protect your business and enable competitive edge.

A full time CISO may not be affordable for many colleges and universities, so an alternative solution is to employ a Virtual CISO to shape the governance, risk, and compliance aspects whilst setting a roadmap for more mature cyber resilience through technology, people, and processes.

These are skilled and experienced CISOs who can provide board level advice, strategic leadership, capability development plans, and fully independent support, to ensure compliance and risk management requirements are being met and that outsourced providers are fulfilling the necessary service levels, at a fraction of the cost of a full-time employee.

Core to our service is advising on where best to invest your funding to get the best reduction in risk. Too often we see businesses spending money in the wrong places to achieve the wrong effect. The key is balanced investment to suit the needs of the business goals but ensuring risk exposure is reduced to acceptable levels.

Typical Virtual CISO security services that we deliver are assessments on cyber resilience, current risk posture, followed by sensible costs balanced capability development across the technical, people, and processes space. 


The Virtual CISO From Expede

Our CISO service looks at gaps in contractual, regulatory, and legal compliance, and advise on threat intelligence to shape the graduated build of defensive capability based upon trusted environments. Our CISO service also looks at your Cloud resilience and provides vital insight into core gaps that criminals seek to exploit no matter where your data resides. 

The culmination of a CISO engagement is a programme managed service to close down vulnerability, and increase monitoring, detection and response, all within sensible investment levels to suit the business mission.

We act with skilled ‘Thought Leadership’ to address Cyber Resilience – and act as ‘Critical Friends’ to clients who need to understand and then address the problems with a cost effective and holistic approach.