Security is just as good as the weakest link and many security incidents have reinforced this principle. Ever wonder why Organizations still suffer security breaches although large investments have been made to improve their security posture?
Business have been evolving to become more connected and more digitized to the extent that the most information assets, if not all, can be electronically accessible. The increasing ease of accessibility to information as well as the increasing reliance and dependency on information technology needed for business operations has made IT infrastructure an attractive target to the unauthorized attackers ranging from insiders, competitors, and hacktivists to state sponsored hackers, for a variety of reasons including personal fame, extortion, sabotage and theft. In addition, threats can also come from unintentional mistakes or acts of God. The theft of proprietary information by exiting staff, the misconfiguration of system settings that leads to business outages, the loss of information that impedes the normal functioning of business operations and unauthorized attacks carried out by hackers to bring shame to the organizations are just some of the obvious threats that can be easily associated to anyone working in a corporate world.
Many organizations respond to these information security threats on a reactive basis by implementing appropriate security control measures based on the scenario of the information security and cybersecurity breach. However, reactive application of information security control does not solve tomorrow’s problem as information security risks keeps evolving. Only holistic management of information security and cybersecurity on a proactive basis will help organization be better equipped against loss of opportunity, loss of productivity, and loss of reputation as well as unwanted litigation matters.
Maximus can assist any Organization by installing a program for holistic information security management which aims to achieve the following;
A clear mapping of the roles and responsibilities in terms of ownership and custodianship.
A governance structure to ensure transparent dissemination of directions and instructions.
A holistic risk management programme that exhaustively covers all information security risks ranging malicious attacks, unintentional mistakes or acts of Gods, internal and external.
A holistic testing and audit programme that is closely associated to the outcome of risk management program to achieve clarity in the effectiveness of the security control implementation.
Holistic management of information security involves both aspects of business and support operations. Maximus consultancy strength includes having a strong background on domain knowledge as well as a methodology to understand the organisational business and their interfaces.
With the understanding, Maximus will then be able to run an information security risk management process to identify the information security risks and its corresponding controls that are used as part of risk mitigation. One of Maximus signatory implementation is the strong linkage between risk management and audit where audit checklist is extracted from risk management outcome for auditing purposes. Root cause analysis workshop will conducted based on the outcome of the audit to determine the corrective actions necessary to prevent recurrence.
Upon installation of the program, the Organization may optionally get Maximus to issue a SOC Type 2 report or get an external assessor to certify the information security management program.
Our Solutions
Baseline Security Assessment
Security-by-Design & Privacy-by-Design Advisory
Information Security & Cybersecurity Risk Management
Development Of Information Security & Cybersecurity Management Framework
Information Security & Cybersecurity Process Engineering
Information Security & Cybersecurity Governance Engineering
Performance Monitoring & Audit
Root Cause Analysis
Management Review Facilitation
Want to learn more how we can assist your organization in operationalizing and managing multiple risk disciplines while keeping a fine balance in reducing audit fatigues? We're here to help.
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