Cyber Risk Management

Expert vCISO

Cybersecurity requirements and cyber risk management become more difficult to navigate every day. If you don’t have the budget to hire a dedicated CISO, how do you plan and develop a roadmap for the future?

Do you need help fulfilling a specific customer requirement, or gaining critical insights on how to effectively handle threat assessments and analysis, cybersecurity strategy, and best practices?

When you need to take a proactive approach to strengthening your security team, implementing a security framework, identifying gaps in your current compliance requirements (such as HIPAA or PCI), passing a compliance audit (like SOC2), fulfilling customer security requirements, or improving your overall cybersecurity posture, you can engage one of RITC Cybersecurity’s experienced and accredited vCISOs. RITC Cybersecurity’s team will provide you with guidance on how to best enhance your cybersecurity posture, based on years of real-world experience—at a fraction of the price of hiring a full-time CISO.

Our goal is to provide your team with a roadmap for the future, broken down into activities by month and quarter, empowering your team to take the lead in strengthening and maturing your company’s cybersecurity practice and program.

Want help maintaining a strong cybersecurity posture? If so, contact RITC Cybersecurity today.

Risk Assessment

The first step in improving your enterprise’s cybersecurity position is a cyber risk assessment against a cybersecurity framework like NIST, CIS, ISO, or a compliance framework like HIPAA, SOC 2 Type 1 or 2, or SEC/FINRA.

The goal of enterprise IT risk management is to identify risk by:

• Assessing your environment
• Planning to address your future
• Analyzing your technology strengths and weaknesses
• Identifying missing processes
• Understanding employee or contractor-related risks
• Documenting and improving existing processes and governance

Consistently identifying technology, process, and human-related risks is critical for any business’s growth and even survival. Assessment and testing activities don’t stop at locating risk; they provide a clear roadmap for how to eliminate, remediate, share, or even when to accept risk.

Assessments of cyber risk management controls for technical, administrative, and procedural risks can be a time-consuming task and take away from the KTLO responsibilities of your already lean IT team. RITC provides services that will empower you to identify risk and develop a plan to harden your enterprise’s security posture.

A risk assessment will provide a baseline for risk-based, prioritized, and informed decision-making.

Disaster Recovery

Your Disaster Recovery (DR) plan, or Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan (DRBCP), is only effective when it is continuously reviewed and tested. An effective Disaster Recovery Plan requires, at a minimum, an annual review, and updates should occur every time there are major changes in infrastructure. There should also be an annual walk-through of the plan by the critical staff and their backups so they are familiar with the plan should an emergency occur that requires its implementation.

RITC’s team will help you test your existing process, recommend updates as needed, and help you develop a plan for the restoration of your infrastructure. RITC will guide your team in developing procedures for not only high-impact systems that need to be recovered within hours, but also in identifying the order in which systems should be restored to ensure the most efficient recovery and minimize service outage.

Incident Response

Just like a Disaster Recovery (DR) plan, an Incident Response (IR) plan needs to be developed and tested. However, unlike a Disaster Recovery plan, an Incident Response plan should be tested quarterly. The goal of your IR plan should be to define your network security monitoring process and intrusion detection/prevention procedures when responding to computer security events. Additionally, your Incident Response Plan should be used to ensure cybersecurity-related incidents are identified, responded to, and recovered from as rapidly and safely as possible. The Incident Response plan needs to minimize the duration of enterprise outage, reduce financial and reputational loss, and document the resolution to help protect against future incidents.

By acting quickly to reduce the actual and potential effects of an attack, a strong Incident Response plan will make the difference between a minor and a major incident.

When was the last time your Disaster Recovery and Incident Response plans were reviewed and tested? Have you ever had an experienced third party walk your team through the plan or lead a tabletop exercise? Are you new to your position and trying to evaluate your readiness? There is good news—RITC Cybersecurity can help with our experienced CRISC and CISSP team members!

Change Management

Your Change Management Policy is effective when it is comprehensive, tracked, and, most importantly, followed. RITC Cybersecurity recommends using a holistic, enterprise-wide approach that encompasses all changes, including infrastructure, cloud, client-facing applications, and more.

RITC Cybersecurity defines change as the addition, modification, or removal of anything that could have an impact on client-facing, production, development, and QA environments.

The goal of the Change Management process is to ensure that standardized methods and procedures are used for the efficient and prompt implementation of all changes. The Change Management process will minimize the impact of change-related incidents upon service quality, consequently improving the day-to-day operations of your company.

RITC Cybersecurity’s team will work with your team to implement a streamlined approach for planning and managing the orderly introduction of changes across your enterprise.

GRC - Policy and Procedure Development

Few people, if any really, like writing policies. Policies, however, are a critical piece of your cybersecurity practice and critical if you are required to be compliant with HIPAA, CMMC, PCI, or SOC2. When you are designing your policy set it is important to have the support and guidance from someone who has the experience to make this as painless as possible. RITC Cybersecurity’s team of certified experts will guide you and your team through the 4 stages of policy design to support your needs.

RITC Cybersecurity will lead you through this simple 4 step process.

Step 1 Current State Assessment

We review your existing policies, risk assessments, controls, and procedures to identify compliance gaps. Our team will develop help you develop a plan to get you where you need to be!

Step 2 Design and Implementation

RITC Cybersecurity will work with to eliminate any policy gaps identified in stage 1 and work you’re your team to design and implement the controls that will fix any technical gaps.

Step 3 Education

RITC Cybersecurity will work with you to educate your team members on the new policies and procedures.

Step 4 Reassess

After the initial assessment, design and implementation, education, and we need to reassess what has been implemented annually to identify any new risks, perform policy review and updates, and fix any new gaps.