Consultancy
Our consultancy service retains a global network of cyber security experts with extensive experience in industry and government in the areas of workforce development, cyber resilience, ISO 27001, cyber security audit, breach and attack simulation and penetration testing.
Our workforce training and development programme provides both application users and security operations staff with the requisite knowledge, skills and abilities needed by a competent cyber security workforce.
Business need for workforce development
While the adoption of information and communication technology creates many new economic opportunities, there are inherent risks. Cybersecurity challenges significantly impact today’s interconnected digital economy.
Cyber Benab understands the intrinsic economic opportunities and does not underestimate the importance of developing a workforce with the competency required to protect critical infrastructure. Organisations welcome digital transformation to improve value chain activities but are held back by the lack of workforce training.
Education for social transformation (EST) affects existing knowledge limiting economic growth, even if the perceived values do not readily provide a return on investment (ROI).
Cybersecurity is a cost centre that does not provide ROI. Investment in controls to mitigate cybersecurity risk requires continuous efforts and spending on activities with no visible ROI. The duality of risk, as avoidance or opportunity, can be reviewed in insurance investments. Here, the expected losses are known, and the impact is slow and based on individual or organisational behaviour. Therefore, the shifting landscape of threats, vulnerabilities, and countermeasures are factors that highlight the importance of developing workforce skills.
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In most organisations, a cyber security resilience review (CRR) is done periodically because the process involves lengthy interviews with security operations staff. CRR needs to be cleared with multiple stakeholders and scheduled many months in advance to fit in with stakeholders’ work schedules. Further, implementation of the recommendations can take just as long as the planning and execution of the review.
Cyber Security Risk Assessment and Measurement Platform (CS RAMP)
Our consultants use CS RAMP, a methodology which is premised on Active Cyber Defence (ACD) as defined by the NCSC. CS RAMP is an enterprise methodology which has been designed to protect critical infrastructure in government, health, finance, telecoms, media, and other strategic industries.
CS RAMP features include:
- Real-time risk assessment and measurement of enterprise level resilience to cyber threats
- Workforce Training and Development to ensure both critical application users and security operations staff have the knowledge, skills and ability needed by a competent workforce to protect critical infrastructure from internal and external cyber threats
- Tactical reporting of application, infrastructure and operational risks coupled with mitigation plans to remedy known vulnerabilities
- Strategic reporting of risk metrics to improve the performance of application, infrastructure and operational risk teams
- Governance feedback to control organisational risk exposure and ensure adherence to cybersecurity policies
This internationally recognized standard is essential for organizations looking to implement consistent security controls. These controls are vital to protecting business and value chain activities.
Information Security Management Systems
Cyber Benab consultants can analyse the current state of information technology and general controls and identify areas for improvement. Our consultants perform a comprehensive gap analysis and can support the implementation of policies, procedures, and operations.
Becoming ISO 27001 compliant is an iterative process that requires a tailored roadmap to certification and accreditation.
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A security audit is essential to identifying areas for improvement and understanding the current state of business or financially relevant systems.
Understanding the Organizational Context
Today’s organizations have several external and internal issues that impacts the operations and profit growth. External contexts include the competitive, economic, political, and social environments. Internal contexts vary from business strategy, structure, tacit knowledge, and resources to how information technology effectively supports dynamic outcomes.
Cyber Benab consultants have a variety of expertise to observe the organization through many lenses, ensuring that a well-tailored solution is achieved. These solutions align effective risk management with security controls that protect against cybercrime and threat actors.
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An effective incident response plan is essential to restoring business operations in the event of an undesirous data or network breach. Threat actors constantly target organizations and often masquerade unnoticed within the infrastructure for months.
Mean Time to Identify (MTTI) and Mean Time to Contain (MTTC)
The adversary’s ability to force projection without being noticed has a high cost to business. The mean time to identify (MTTI) and mean time to contain (MTTC) must be addressed through regular exercises to spot adversary behavior. A robust operational and situational awareness is essential to proactively converge response abilities.
Cyber Benab consultants examine the potential impact of cyber events, coordination and response capabilities, and repeatability of plans to effectively restore essential systems after an attack impacting availability.
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The vulnerability to cybercrime or criminals can cause unmeasurable consequences. A proactive approach to testing security controls and response capabilities helps improve the cybersecurity program and its merit.
Cyber Benab consultants perform several types of testing and evaluation to identify weaknesses in security controls. Often the challenges are not technology but the dynamics of monitoring heterogeneous systems and the vast among of generated data.
Our consultants leverage a broad set of expertise across audit, implementation, operations, and testing to provide the capabilities needed to verify the effectiveness of controls.
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