Fractional CISO: Security Leadership and Management
Without leadership, success is unsustainable. This is true for information security as well. Effective leadership requires a blend of vision, action, initiative, judgement, and accountability. Fidelis Risk Advisory specializes in engaging with business leaders to teach, coach, and mentor in information security leadership and strategy development. Fractional support provides cost-effective security leadership for companies looking to reduce risk in the near term.
Cybersecurity Risk Assessments and Risk Management
Managing risk is the name of the game when it comes to information security. Is your current security program connected to a solid risk management strategy? Do you need to work toward compliance to a specific framework within your industry such as PCI DSS, NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF), NIST 800-171, NERC CIP, NY DFS, HIPAA, CIS Critical Security Controls, ISO 27000 Series, GDPR, SOC for Cybersecurity, or Trust Services Criteria for SOC2?
Fidelis Risk Advisory conducts risk assessments and provides a remediation roadmap for your company to follow in the compliance journey.
Information Security Program Development
Regardless of this size of your company, information security is a critical component. A documented information security program is necessary to guide and direct activities within your company. Your program needs to be functional, reliable, and defensible. Fidelis Risk Advisory will build and customize security policies, processes, and procedures.
Among others, Fidelis Risk Advisory helps companies build information security programs, conduct gap assessments, and support compliance around NIST 800-171 Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information, New York State Department of Financial Services 23 NYCRR 500 (DFS), PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Trust Services Criteria (TSC), SOC for Cybersecurity, and HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), ISO/IEC 27001(ISMS), and more.
Vendor Risk Assessment and Management
Leaders within organizations assume a large amount of risk by ignoring their supply chain. Fidelis Risk Advisory builds tailored Vendor Risk Management Programs and assists with strategic implementation. Additional support can be provided to conduct due diligence on vendors within the supply chain to determine their risk to the organization and provide true accountability.
Cybersecurity Awareness Training
We deliver customized information security awareness and resilience training unique to your organization and industry. If you want boring and rote online training to check a box, this is not for you.
Insider Threat Programs
Insider Threats is defined by CERT as the “potential for an individual who has or had authorized access to an organization’s assets to use that access, either maliciously or unintentionally, to act in a way that could negatively affect the organization.” Learn how to implement risk-reducing solutions and get quick wins as you build an Insider Threat Program.
Board Advisory
Very few boards have the organic expertise to ask relevant questions to their teams to hold them accountable. Fidelis Risk Advisory will advise and support the Board of Directors as they seek to hold the staff accountable and ask the right questions as they make critical governance decisions to implement company-wide accountability. People within organizations, both leaders and staff, always want to believe that they should be the exception to a security policy.
Leaders and boards must remember that a culture of exceptions will never breed an exceptional culture.