Strategic Cyber Security Consulting
CISO-as-a-Service
Our CISO services provide highly experienced security leadership on an interim or fractional basis to support your organisation for a fixed period or an ongoing basis.
Interim CISO
Full-time security leadership acting as an Interim CISO, or equivalent, during periods of transition for your organisation. The exact activities vary across clients but typically include:
- Business-enabling security strategy development and execution
- Leadership of the security team and management of relevant 3rd parties
- Ownership of in-flight security projects
- Accountability for security activities, budgets, and performance
- Senior stakeholder management and provision of assurance
Fractional CISO
Part-time security leadership to direct and accelerate your security programme working alongside the existing team. The exact activities vary across clients but typically include:
- Focal point for decision making and security prioritisation
- Check and challenge of security activities
- Leadership for security improvements and support for wider business projects
- Acceleration of discreet initiatives based on ASH experience and knowledge
- Facilitation of security governance through existing groups and boards
Security Programme-in-a-Box
Rapid security strategy and programme development based on light-touch assessment around modern cyber security threats and actual causes of incidents
Accelerated by ASH’s experience and knowledge, we co-create a meaningful and coherent security strategy and programme to support your organisation’s business objectives.
- Targeted assessment of current security maturity using agreed frameworks, such as NIST CSF, but focused on high-impact security controls
- Understanding of organisational business and IT strategies, as well as external drivers, to define the supporting security vision and strategy
- Definition of security programme, and prioritised workstreams, to deliver the strategy and achieve the desired state of maturity
- Outline workstream activities, timelines, and milestones alongside indicative view of effort required and costs
- Ongoing stakeholder engagement and management to deliver “hearts and minds” support for the strategic programme
Security Technology Optimisation
Development of a proportionate security technology map and roadmap to meet cyber threats whilst focussing on real business value
Creation of your reference security technology and capability map, with supporting roadmap to operationalise technologies and maximise ROI.
- Identification of current security technologies with a high-level assessment of coverage and capability against agreed frameworks, such as the Cyber Kill Chain
- Definition of target technology and capability aligned to industry good practice and leveraging ASH experience around highest impact technologies
- Appraisal of new technology plans and review of existing vendor / reseller agreements to develop a phased roadmap of for security technologies over time to deliver proportionate capability whilst effectively managing investment to focus on real business value
- Define a security technology roadmap to fully operationalise recommended security technologies, deliver demonstrably robust security controls, whilst maximising the value from investments in people and technology
- Technical IT hygiene assessment to provide data-driven security findings and recommendations
Cyber Hygiene Assessment
Visibility of your cyber assets, who owns them, and what risks they present - with data-driven recommendations for prioritised improvement
Led by security leaders, and leveraging agent-based, agentless and/or manual assessments we provide a view of assets and the cyber hygiene of your estate in weeks.
- Identification of all assets across your estate including where they are and how they are managed
- Visibility of all endpoints and their security configuration posture; alongside a detailed view of your security tooling coverage and sensor health status
- Consolidated view of all vulnerabilities, their severity and exploitability, with prioritised and pragmatic remediation
- Surfacing of 'unknown' and/or duplicate assets across your estate that require action
- Realtime presentation of data-driven findings and recommendations as well as summary report of the assessment
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