Security Audit and Assurance
Cyber security is not just a technology issue anymore, it has become a Board Level issue, either driven by regulatory compliance or business competitiveness.
A cyber breach can literally bankrupt your company and take you out of business. Depending on the industry you are in and the regulatory framework guiding your industry, you may have implemented certain global standards – ISO 27001, PCI DSS, SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA and others. In some cases, you may not be required to adhere to any of the standards, but as an organization, you may have implemented best practices and cyber controls to improve your cyber security posture.
Cyber threat is a fluid challenge. Nature of attacks, vectors of attacks and other aspects surrounding cyber threats keep changing rapidly. It is almost impossible to implement information security without constantly monitoring and tweaking it to meet the ever-evolving threat landscape. Most of the security compliance standards require organizations to go through regular and periodic security audits to maintain compliance. With security talent being so scarce and expensive, it makes sense for organizations to engage consulting firms like Shieldify to provide audit and assurance services.
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Prevention is better than cure – this is so apt when it comes to cyber security. It is particularly important to understand the vulnerabilities that are present on your network infrastructure and in your applications. This step becomes the starting point for any remedial steps your organization wants to take.
Our consultants use industry standard tools, combined with their expertise and knowledge on resources like CERT, NIST and others, to scan your network and identify all the vulnerabilities that exist. Our team of expert ethical hackers subject your infrastructure and applications to penetration testing to verify potential vulnerabilities and the impact they can have on your business operations. We assess security safeguard effectiveness and controls against a wide range of simulated, targeted, and motivated attacks. Our consultants use the same tools and tactics leveraged by cyber criminals. We help you map your entire network so that you know your assets and enable asset management systems to track them.
We deliver a detailed report after engaging in VA/PT that can be used to present to your board and senior management, the threat posture of your organization. Our senior auditors can participate in these meetings to address any questions or concerns your board might have.
Traditional application development process does not include testing for security flaws in the final product delivered to the end users. While security by design is an accepted norm in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), it is seldom practiced.
Shieldify offers Application Security Testing as a service with the following salient features:
- Our experts come with a unique combination of experience both in, software development and implementation of cyber security practices
- We map the business processes and logic on top of application workflow to identify potential security gaps and their impact
- We approach the whole exercise as a test case driven effort, which is well understood by software development organizations
- As a baseline we test applications against OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities. Above and beyond this, our experts come up with customized tests based on business process, APIs, and other fundamental constructs of any modern application
- We offer detailed consultation sessions to developer community and explain the vulnerabilities and potential code level fixes
Depending on the nature of the industry you operate in, you may have to comply with various security standards – ISO 27001, PCI DSS, SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR and others. Before you go in for external audits, it is critical that you employ either your own team or engage consultants like Shieldify to help you with internal audits.
Internal audits help you identify gaps and give you an opportunity to implement remediation steps and controls so that you do not waste your investment on expensive external audits. Our experienced auditors work with your internal stakeholders, CISO/CIO and prepare you by following a time-tested scientific methodology.
Some of the steps involved are:
- Understanding your business context and goals before mapping them onto the standard you want to implement
- Scientific risk assessment and risk calibration exercise to arrive at a comprehensive risk matrix
- Gap assessment to identify controls that need to be implemented to adhere to your selected standard
- Identification of PII and data sources where this information is stored and processed
- GDPR impact assessment on data subjects in case of a data breach
- Document and train internal resources so that your organization is ready for external audit
- Tracking and guiding your team during control implementation and in some cases, we even identify vendors for you to help with implementation and negotiate with them on your behalf
Prevention is better than cure – this is so apt when it comes to cyber security. It is particularly important to understand the vulnerabilities that are present on your network infrastructure and in your applications. This step becomes the starting point for any remedial steps your organization wants to take.
Our consultants use industry standard tools, combined with their expertise and knowledge on resources like CERT, NIST and others, to scan your network and identify all the vulnerabilities that exist. Our team of expert ethical hackers subject your infrastructure and applications to penetration testing to verify potential vulnerabilities and the impact they can have on your business operations. We assess security safeguard effectiveness and controls against a wide range of simulated, targeted, and motivated attacks. Our consultants use the same tools and tactics leveraged by cyber criminals. We help you map your entire network so that you know your assets and enable asset management systems to track them.
We deliver a detailed report after engaging in VA/PT that can be used to present to your board and senior management, the threat posture of your organization. Our senior auditors can participate in these meetings to address any questions or concerns your board might have.
Traditional application development process does not include testing for security flaws in the final product delivered to the end users. While security by design is an accepted norm in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), it is seldom practiced.
Shieldify offers Application Security Testing as a service with the following salient features:
- Our experts come with a unique combination of experience both in, software development and implementation of cyber security practices
- We map the business processes and logic on top of application workflow to identify potential security gaps and their impact
- We approach the whole exercise as a test case driven effort, which is well understood by software development organizations
- As a baseline we test applications against OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities. Above and beyond this, our experts come up with customized tests based on business process, APIs, and other fundamental constructs of any modern application
- We offer detailed consultation sessions to developer community and explain the vulnerabilities and potential code level fixes
Depending on the nature of the industry you operate in, you may have to comply with various security standards – ISO 27001, PCI DSS, SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR and others. Before you go in for external audits, it is critical that you employ either your own team or engage consultants like Shieldify to help you with internal audits.
Internal audits help you identify gaps and give you an opportunity to implement remediation steps and controls so that you do not waste your investment on expensive external audits. Our experienced auditors work with your internal stakeholders, CISO/CIO and prepare you by following a time-tested scientific methodology.
Some of the steps involved are:
- Understanding your business context and goals before mapping them onto the standard you want to implement
- Scientific risk assessment and risk calibration exercise to arrive at a comprehensive risk matrix
- Gap assessment to identify controls that need to be implemented to adhere to your selected standard
- Identification of PII and data sources where this information is stored and processed
- GDPR impact assessment on data subjects in case of a data breach
- Document and train internal resources so that your organization is ready for external audit
- Tracking and guiding your team during control implementation and in some cases, we even identify vendors for you to help with implementation and negotiate with them on your behalf