Risk & Compliance Shield™

Risk & Compliance Shield™ assists organizations with establishing a standard, integrated approach to becoming SECURE and COMPLIANT. Risk & Compliance Shield™ uses a risk-based approach to categorize liabilities associated with the various applications and networks that store, process and transmit sensitive data by identifying the people, policies, processes and technology associated with business-sensitive information. By making an informed decision to use specific industry standards and applicable regulations the risk-based approach will:

1. Provide a baseline of your organization’s people, policies, processes and technology
2. Identify gaps between the baseline and the selected standard(s) or regulation(s)
3. Create a remediation plan prioritized based on identified risks and their severity.
4. Track progress toward being secure and compliant within an established time frame.
5. Achieve a state of security and compliance knowing the controls that must be monitored to remain secure and compliant
6. Provide continuous monitoring and testing of the controls, changes in business policies, processes and technology, repeating the cycle of risk assessment, gap analysis, remediation and testing.

Sword & Shield’s Risk & Compliance Shield™ methodology is designed to be flexible and adapt to your organizations governance risk and compliance efforts. Our main objective is to ensure consistency, efficiency and transparency for management and maintenance of multiple controls and processes throughout an organization, with collaboration from areas such as IT, Legal, Human Resources, and other business units

Such collaboration can only be achieved when a common technology framework and infrastructure is in place to help unify silos, standardize processes, improve communication among areas and reduce operating costs.

Risk & Compliance Shield™ consists of three phases to becoming secure and compliant.

Phase I Risk Assessment and Gap Analysis

As market, government, regulatory agencies and customer demands increase, knowing and addressing risks is no longer just a technical necessity, but has become a strategic corporate issue. Corporations will want to implement risk management processes to map and mitigate risks that can prevent them from achieving business goals.

Risk & Compliance Shield™ provides quantitative and qualitative results for identified risks, enabling actions to be prioritized to support the decision making process and help follow-up on improvements as risks are addressed. Additionally, Risk & Compliance Shield™ helps organizations assess and achieve compliance with SOX, PCI, ISO 27001, HIPAA, COBIT, FISMA, FISAP, NIST 800-53-a and BS 25999. It can be customized to:

• Implement a common framework to manage all governance and risk and compliance-related processes
• Produce multiple compliance reports
• Identify, assess, and prioritize risks
• Control and map policy
• Self-assess and measure IT control
• Create custom IT asset repositories
• Facilitate remediation and exception management
• Advance IT risk evaluation and compliance dashboards
• Develop Governance Risk Map

Phase II Closing the Gap

At the conclusion of Phase 1, you will have a prioritized Remediation Plan based on associated risk factors and you will be ready to assign tasks and budgets. As each task is completed, the central repository is updated to reflect the status compared to the target industry standards and regulations. Closing the Gap will be different for every customer. Here are a few of the possible action items that may be required.

• Policy Development / Remediation
• Network Security Architecture Design
• Network Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing
• Wireless Assessment
• Social Engineering Training
• Physical Security Assessment
• Application Testing;
• Security Solutions & Integration
• Create Company Risk & Compliance Shield™ Portal to Track Success
• Incident Response Plan

Phase III Continuously Monitoring

Maintaining a security posture that protects sensitive information and meets the requirements of regulatory bodies requires continuous monitoring. New business units are formed, business applications are changed or new ones are developed, management structures change, new service providers are added, regulations change, new hosts are added to the network and/or new routers/switches and firewalls are added or changed. All these changes may interrupt the security controls that are necessary to protect sensitive information. Phase III of Risk & Compliance Shield™ allows organizations to:

• Update controls as change happens
• Consistently test the controls
• Reduce testing expense
• Link controls to business risks

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Sword & Shield has been outsmarting cyber-criminals and improving security for enterprises around the world since 1997. Fill out our Consultation Request form or contact us by phone so we can begin securing your future.

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