Security Strategy and Management

        Is your security program aligned with your business strategy and processes?

        Do you understand the regulations, laws, and best practices that govern
        security and privacy in your organization?

        How effective is your security program - and can you prove it to your auditors,
        partners, and clients?

As business and IT strategies are aligned, security and privacy must be integrated into both. DigitalDefence can assist you in preparing your organization for where it needs to be now, and where it needs to be in five years. 

Our proactive security strategy service enables you to effectively manage your security program.

Our strategic security consultants will partner with your organization to ensure that:

• Your organization can recognize, understand the risks, and respond to information security threats
   
• There is a balanced and effective security solution based on technology and business processes
   
• Costs associated with regulatory compliance have been minimized
   
• You have maximized the return on your security investment

Service Description

When developing your security strategy, DigitalDefence can assist you in several areas: 

• Assist you in developing a security strategy and an implementation roadmap, allowing you to effectively plan your budget and required resources for a 3-year period
   
• Alignment of strategy to business operations –develop a comprehensive baseline of existing security practices, identify critical gaps, and prepare a roadmap for future development
   
• Business Impact Assessments, BIAs, to identify critical data management areas that must be secured
   
• Threat Risk Assessment, using the Canadian Federal government’s Harmonized TRA Methodology, or the Facilitated Risk Assessment Process
   
• Security organization – assist in identifying governance issues, creating a security group, and integrating security into job roles and responsibilities across your organization
   
• Staffing augmentation, providing short- and long-term technical, management, and executive staff to provide mentoring and leadership
   
• Management of vendors and security projects, ensuring that you articulate your requirements during the RFP and contract processes, and the vendor delivers a quality product or service
   
• Benchmarking of your security performance in relation to peers, competitors, internal standards, and regulatory requirements; development of a reporting methodology
   
• Leadership training, including customized mentoring programs and our industry-leading CISSP preparation workshop