More than ever before it's imperative any organisation in order to survive must evolve and innovate but business change can be complex and a venture into the unknown. A new mailing service, website, CRM tool, new intranet, adoption of a cloud service, roll-out of a new Point of Sale (POS) system, an upgrade of a critical monitoring capability are just a few examples of types of innovations organisations go through. But, not all organisations have the budget, time or experience to build or scale up an in-house team of experts experienced in reviewing business change projects so cyber risks are identified as early as possible and mitigated taking a pragmatic, risk-based 'secure by design' approach.
With our central team of seasoned and trusted cyber security consultants you can help your business get on the front foot in delivering robust and safe innovations. Leveraging communications technologies including secure messaging, video and teleconferencing, our UK based specialised team of Cyber Security experts will work as part of your project team every step of the way to determine scope, threats, security requirements, solutions and risks.
Providing expertise and recommendations throughout your project delivery lifecycle, you can ensure your business change teams are delivering solutions that are safe and secure.
A key stage to ensure the proportionate selection and implementation of security controls is to understand the value of the information the business change will store, process and transmit. The greater the importance of the information the stronger the controls required.
Every project will have set requirements, a budget and time by when it's objectives must be met. Understanding the key features of the business change are paramount e.g. if data will need to be accessible from the internet, what third parties will be involved during development & operations, will any data need to be disposed of etc.
Each organisation's digital footprint (data centres, use of cloud providers...) and ways of working (employees numbers, office locations, collaboration technologies...) will be different. Couple these with previous incidents or threats specific to the industry or even the organisation itself and a unique picture of required security controls emerges.
The culmination of determining the importance of the information, the business change requirements as well as assessing the threats, risks and vulnerabilities faced by the business change is to establish security policy and standards based controls the project must meet. Here the security controls (sometimes referred to as 'security non functional requirements') will be documented for auditability and once met will ensure the security of the information to be protected.
Most business change project sponsors, project managers, system engineers, programmers, analysts etc have limited knowledge in the implementation and operation of cyber security controls. Having cyber security experts to contextualise the security requirements and work through challenges unique to every organisation and project is critical in ensuring successful delivery.
Proving a security control is operating effectively is essential in removing a false sense of security as well as allowing management to substantiate to key stakeholders that the information is being guarded effectively against known risks. Testing and collecting evidence to substantiate the implementation and operational effectiveness underpins an organisation's confidence in it's cyber security.
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