What is Comprehensive Security Assessment?
Understanding your organization’s information and cyber security risks and identifying vulnerabilities are essential to protecting sensitive data. Having this understanding is also integral to regulatory compliance efforts. Not knowing your security risks can leave your organization open to attacks and breaches that can result in the loss, misuse or exposure of proprietary information. Security breaches even lead to significant financial losses, as well as damage your reputation and the trust of your customers.
To establish an effective security strategy, you must begin with an accurate evaluation of your current information security posture. The Comprehensive Security Assessment incorporates industry-leading penetration tests that use human expertise, creativity and logic to discover vulnerabilities that tests often miss. It provides a realistic view of what a cybercriminal could get into if he or she intentionally targeted an organization.
Methodology of Comprehensive Security Assessment
Wilson Consulting Group’s Comprehensive Security Assessment identifies and thoroughly tests potential points of attack to pinpoint vulnerabilities. A typical comprehensive security assessment consists of the following assessment areas:
- External assessment
- VPN assessment
- War dialing
- Wireless security assessment
- Social engineering
- Server configuration assessment
- Microsoft® Windows® assessment
- UNIX environment assessment
- Network architecture assessment
- Mobile security assessment
- VoIP security assessment
- Physical security assessment
- Firewall assessment
The WCG Approach
Our assessment and security penetration test will:
- Assess
We will conduct assessments and health checks to evaluate your current information security posture. According to your needs and business goal, we also determine if your security program properly and cost-effectively addresses your real risks and threats.
- Design
We will work with you on strategy development and the architectural design of your networking systems to help protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of critical data. Then we will provide proof of concepts and deployment recommendations for mitigating identified risks based on the globally recognized ISO 27001 standard and other specific industry best practices.
- Manage
WCG supports efforts to comply with government and industry regulations. We also assist with cloud migration or provide a hybrid cloud strategy to ensure your cloud security.
Benefits of our services
WCG’s security consultants will identify risks and outline specific, actionable steps to improve your overall security posture.
Regardless of an organization’s size, resources or security budget, a Comprehensive Security Assessment uncovers issues that wouldn’t otherwise show up on an automated scan. WCG’s security assessment experts use their creativity and expertise to provide a complete picture of an organization’s security posture.
It also includes a thorough report that suggests remediation projects based on the degree of vulnerability, complexity, business relevance and other factors of importance to the organization. This helps the organization prioritize not only its security efforts but also its security budget.
WCG’s security assessment experts explain strategies to address threats uncovered during penetration testing and help organizations address compliance issues. But they also go a step further to educate organizations so they can build ongoing programs, improve their security training programs and raise their overall security awareness.