Cyber Protect
Advisory services to protect your organisation
Control Risks’ Cyber Protect team provides advisory services that help organisations, and their security leaders make risk-based, cost-effective and forward-looking improvements to their cyber security. We can help you to assess, manage and improve your cyber security, reducing the impact of a potential breach.
Our consultants have extensive expertise in the public and private sectors and are well-equipped to support organisations of all sizes, sectors and locations.
How we can help
We provide a wide variety of services to help your organisation develop a full breadth approach to managing and improving your cyber defences, aligned to your business priorities.
- Baseline risk assessments: Identifying the critical security risks to your organisation and providing actionable and prioritised mitigation advice
- Threat-led risk assessments: Working with our Cyber Threat Intelligence team to assess the maturity of your organisation based on specific cyber threats, and to protect your most critical assets
- Crisis management exercises: Reviewing and developing your organisation’s capability to respond to cyber attacks through tabletop and simulation exercises
- Ransomware readiness: Assessing and improving your organisation’s capability to respond specifically to ransomware incidents
- CISO-as-a-service: Providing expert advice and support from our experienced security professionals to transform your organisation’s security and protect your most critical assets
- Cyber due diligence: Conducting due diligence on potential suppliers, future investments, acquisitions and portfolio companies to establish whether sufficient security is in place to protect your organisation’s interests
- Security reviews and audits: Providing reports on your organisation’s compliance and maturity with industry standards and regulations such as ISO 27001, the US NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework and the EU’s GDPR
- Training and awareness: Developing your organisation’s cyber security culture with training and awareness strategies, including in-person and remote briefings to executives, high-risk teams, workforces and private clients
- Technical assurance: Working with our technical security specialists to design and build defences within your systems and to ensure security by design is at the heart of your IT operations
- Digital strategy advisory: Creating and reviewing digital transformation strategies to ensure planning is cost-effective and proportionate to cyber threats
- Information governance: Helping you identify the best approach for handling, storing and processing information within your organisation
- Red team assessments: Delivering end-to-end cyber attack simulations to test your organisation’s security defences, and providing recommendations for improvement
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