Cybersecurity
Today, most cyber threats come from within organizations.
Actionable Cybersecurity is an ecosystem-wide practice that is defined in two spheres: Prevention and Response.
Prevention is designed to limit the damage to at-risk assets and to deploy formalized business practices to avoid potential vulnerabilities.
Response is designed to assess, categorize, and deploy resources and coordinated efforts to reduce the scope of the attack and to find and neutralize the attacking party.
Cybersecurity Today
Due to the ease of deploying cryptographically secure data over distributed networks, security breaches often aren’t due to a “hack.” As organizations grow, so do the potential vulnerabilities of gaps in data policy or malicious crimes of opportunity.
The biggest threat to an organization’s assets are the members themselves.
In mission-critical situations, organizations must establish a fundamental cybersecurity policy that permeates the entire network, for both data and agent, to deploy solutions effectively.
The Security Lifecycle
Modern Cybersecurity deployments operate in an ongoing loop whose elements reinforce and support one another. The loop can be simplified into four major points.
1. Establish a Data Flow from beginning to end.
Organizational tooling, agents, and data all need to be structured with their dependents to present a large-scale overview of the organization's requirements.
2. Test the Systems (Existing and Newly Designed).
With experienced social engineers and extensive unit testing.
In the event of a breach, track the Data Flow to immediately find and plug holes in order to maintain accountability and engineer response.
3. Develop Threat Responses.
With more and more exploits found in low-level systems, security experts aren’t concerned about if another gap is found — they’re concerned about when it will be found.
Heartbleed (2014), EternalBlue (2017), and DROWN (2018) each caused millions of dollars of damage to organizations.
These recent examples each require an immediate response before the vulnerability is detected and exploited in the organization.
Some of the most successful cases have levered established protocols to minimize exposure to low-level attacks, thereby limiting organization exposure.
4. Maintain and Update Practices.
As organizations grow, so do their requirements. Reactive policies must change to incorporate new agents, branches, and tooling. New branches must follow established procedures to rapidly and easily deploy existing solutions.
Security Solutions
Applied Cyber Solutions
Tailored cyber/social Engineered Responses to direct problems. Usually involving high levels of experience.
Managed Solutions
Provide Long-Term Support to uphold business practices as organizational structure changes to Maintain Quality of Service.
Industry Solutions
Deployable Solutions in At-Risk Industries. Policies are easily scalable as industry ecosystems grow and change.
Cyber Defense
Proactive measures to Shore Up Existing Defenses and evaluate threat responses.