Secure by Design & Zero Trust Architectures
Why?
With cyber threats increasing in number and complexity, organisations’ security policies, procedures and tools need to evolve to remain secure. The challenge for many organisations is prioritising security measures against other competing projects and deliverables, which can leave systems exposed and at risk for too long.
All Internet connected infrastructures are potential targets of cyber-attacks, regardless of whether the attack is distributed or directed the impact of an attack can be disastrous. Effective security controls can reduce the potential impact of an attack and prepare organisations to recover from an attack and return to normal service as quickly as possible.
The majority of organisations still don’t believe they would be a target for cyber-crime based on their size, value, industry or nature of their business; but these factors are generally no longer relevant to cyber-criminals when they are launching attacks. This is evident from the significant increase in recent ransomware attacks, which have one common goal, to get paid a ransom by disrupting the organisation’s operations, with the added threat of selling on any stolen data, which in many cases, the impact is not realised until it’s too late.
The likelihood of a ransomware attack is high; however, by understanding what security controls are relevant and effective for an organisation, and implementing them suitably, the likelihood of a successful attack can be reduced. Ideally these security controls can be defined and integrated at the point of designing new systems; however, they can also be implemented retrospectively into existing infrastructures.
Who?
Cyro’s Cyber Architects are a team of talented Cybersecurity experts with decades of combined experience across a broad range of industries. This is supported by a broad range of accreditations and certifications from providers of industry standards and technology vendors.
Our experience enables us to work with you to understand how you operate and determine an appropriate level of security and allowing us to fulfill or become an extension of your security function.
What?
We will use our expertise to help your business understand how to protect your valuable assets by selecting suitable solutions, products and architectural designs, to implement whilst minimising any impact on your operations.
Whether you are implementing new systems, introducing cloud-based services, working towards compliance, remediating known risks, or wanting to understand what the security for your existing architecture is, we can assist you with defining suitable security measures and controls to reduce the likelihood of a data breach.
It’s not uncommon for vulnerabilities to be introduced during the design stages, so it’s vital that a ‘Secure by Design’ (SbD) approach is adopted to minimise this. SbD is a recognised methodology for applying a range of security practices and following the concept of security being built into systems by design, instead of being added retrospectively.
We can conduct an architecture and design review to uncover any potential vulnerabilities and provide insights for re-engineering your infrastructure to improve security, meet industry standards and align to your policies.
Zero Trust has become a common approach in cyber security methodologies, but what is Zero Trust, should it be adopted as a strategy and can it actually be achieved? We can help you understand more about Zero Trust, assess your readiness and then design, plan and implement solutions to work towards a Zero Trust architecture, whilst minimising impact to your users and operations.
Our approach to solutions will:
Ensure we understand requirements through discovery engagements
Apply an appropriate balance of security and operations
Align with existing processes
Ensure objectives are achieved within budget
Align with established frameworks and standards
Follow best practice build standards
Consider combined controls to provide a comprehensive security foundation
Produce supporting documentation for Designs, Architecture, Assurance, Blueprints, Processes
Conduct or support research and development
Where possible perform Proof of Concept/Value
Provide support for supply chain security for information sharing and/or remote support
Being proactive is far more effective than reactive, and responding to and recovering from a cyber-attack is costly and inefficient, but unfortunately very common. We will assist you in proactively defending against cyber threats; however, it’s also important to be able to detect potential threats and be prepared to respond to them, areas we can also support you with.
“How do you ensure that your security controls are still appropriate for your organisation and are effective?”
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