Cyber Risk Management

It’s No Secret That Cyber Risk Today is Increasing, and for any Organization, a Cyber Attack Can Have A Detrimental Impact on Finances, Reputation, and Customer Loyalty.

CYBER RISK

Assessment Of Your
Cybersecurity Risk is Vital

It’s no secret that cyber risk today is increasing, and for any organization, a cyber attack can have a detrimental impact on finances, reputation, and customer loyalty. An integral part of a successful security program with policies and procedures in place that effectively protect your valuable data is a clear picture of what you are protecting and why.

At Digital Forge we offer expert assessments that provide insight into your current cyber risk and not only how well your security program is currently performing, but what steps you need to take to improve your security posture.

Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) has existed as a critical part of business for some time now, so many organizations have policies in place to properly manage and mitigate risks, but with recent digital changes, these policies are not always adequate.

Technology is changing the way enterprises do business, and operations are becoming more interconnected every day. Most of a company’s valuable information is now digital, including not only financial data, but also customer data, trade secrets, and the personal information of employees.

Digital Forge helps to protect this valuable data through detailed and careful analysis of information, risks, threats, and security controls.

Our assessments use a customized approach to discover your organizations IT security needs and vulnerabilities, analyze security findings to prioritize threats and spending, and provide a comprehensive report that allows you to make informed decisions about your security policy.

When our risk assessment is paired with vulnerability and penetration testing services, we’ll not only find vulnerabilities in your system, but we’ll also perform cyber risk to really gauge the threat potential. Based on these tests, we’ll work with you to implement the best security solutions for your organization.

Contact Digital Forge today, and see how our experts can help your organization secure network infrastructures and meet and maintain compliance while saving you time and money.

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SECURITY

Cyber Risk Assessments
Cloud Computing

In recent years, cloud computing has attracted more and more attention from businesses and organizations across all industries because it acts as an effective method of exchanging information that keeps IT infrastructure costs at a minimum. And the growth of cloud systems and cloud providers isn’t stopping, with projections showing a 17.3% increase in 2019, to a cloud market value of over $200 billion.

But cybersecurity intelligence experts understand that with the many benefits of cloud computing comes huge risks. And with cybersecurity breaches impacting big names in the cloud platform world like Evernote, Adobe Creative Cloud, Slack, and LastPass, the cyber risk of cloud systems and cloud providers are becoming more evident.

Private Cloud

In a Private Cloud, the system is made for use by only one organization offering services to consumers, and the single organization owns the infrastructure.

Public Cloud

In a Public Cloud computing, the system is built to allow open public use, and the infrastructure is owned and operated by a cloud service provider or third party, and not the organization itself.

Risk Assessment
Framework

At Digital Forge, our managed security services include risk assessment frameworks that have been proven to work across industries, but are catered and customized to your particular business or organization.

These risk assessment frameworks are imperative to evaluate and assess any risk with your cloud computing provider and to create an effective risk response system to minimize threats.

The Risk Of
Cloud Computing

Because of a lack of trust between cloud service providers and users, it’s a crucial component of successful business to assess the complete security of all data. If effective cybersecurity management is not implemented, many risks exist, including:

Loss or theft of intellectual property

Compliance violations

Regulatory actions

Loss of control over end-user actions

Malware infections

Targeted attacks

Contractual breaches

Decreased customer trust

Loss of business and customers

Loss of revenue and profit

NETWORK RISKCyber Risk Assessments
Network Risks

Now more than ever before, every company needs to be concerned with the high risk of hackers accessing their networks. The first step to building a strong defense against cyber risk is a network risk assessment.

A complete security risk assessment by Digital Forge does a lot more than inform you of the current security state of your network, it also provides your organization with the decision-making tools necessary for continued growth and success.

NETWORK

Benefits Of Needing
A Risk Assessment

Identify
Security
Vulnerabilities

Identify current security risks in your network before a cyber attack reaches them. When we perform a risk assessment, we’ll also identify any inefficiencies and compliance issues.

Determine Security Requirements

Once vulnerabilities, inefficiencies, & noncompliance are identified, we determine appropriate actions to fix these vulnerabilities & issues, minimizing cyber risk.

Evaluate Existing Security Controls

During a risk assessment, your current security controls will be assessed to identify areas of improvement, allowing your organization to maximize IT investments.

Enhance Complete Security

The clear understanding of IT risk will produce more security solutions, practices, and policies, improving the overall security of information exchange in your organization.

Make
Smart
Purchases

Cybersecurity is no place to cut corners when it comes to cost.
A thorough risk assessment allows your organization to benefit from smarter spending & avoid overspending on a problem that doesn’t require a costly solution.

Determine Security Awareness & Readiness

A risk assessment will involve
IT security, managers,
and employees, so it will
help determine how knowledgeable members of your organization are about cyber risk , practices, and solutions.

Justify
Security
Spending

A risk assessment will help your organization understand the financial risks of a cyber attack to make a case for security spending, as well as help calculate the costs of security improvements vs. potential losses.

Security
Due
Diligence

Since cyber attacks are becoming more common, more regulations are made, & a record of completed risk assessments will help you meet these regulations. And have the ability to provide appropriate security solutions.

The Three Step Risk
Assessment Process

When you work with Digital Forge, we’ll deliver all of the benefits above and so much more with a three-step risk assessment process that involves evaluation, risk assessment, and risk mitigation.

EVALUATE

Getting to know your organization & understanding the resources impacted by a threat. Once we know the at-risk resources, we’ll determine the current network vulnerabilities that can affect them.

ASSESS

Once risks and vulnerabilities are determined, we will assess the likelihood of their occurrence to determine which threats and weaknesses need to be prepared for.

MITIGATE

Once risks & vulnerabilities are identified, Digital Forge will help to minimize threats, and equip you with the information & tools to face a potential attack or vulnerability through methods of prevention, mitigation, and recovery.

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IOT FUTURE

Cyber Risk Assessment
Endpoint

ENSURING A SECURE FUTURE FOR YOUR INTERNET OF THINGS (IoT).

A shielded and complete network of connected devices is essential to the optimized utilization of IoT. The cloud and network infrastructure that support these connected devices must follow a strict security protocol.

Those who consume, create, and operate IoT follow unique security requirements that must be carefully orchestrated. Digital Forge assists security leaders to better understand the expansive risks for cyber attacks that the IoT model presents and how to best defend against the many evolving threats. We provide testing, monitoring, and securing of the physical and digital assets within your IoT ecosystem.

Digital Forge safeguards all integral levels of your IoT environment by securing your products, infrastructure, and services to protect your customers and reduce threats. Whether you’re bringing products to market or adding IoT functionality to your current infrastructure, we’re here to help.

When you work with us, we establish a continuous security program that encompasses compliance and best-in-class security protocols. We will detect potential vulnerabilities in your connected environments, embedded devices, back-end services, applications, APIs, and cloud platforms.

Our IoT Security
Solution Includes

Risk Assessment

Incident Response Planning

Infrastructure Penetration Testing

Application Validation and Securit

Analysis of Firmware Security

24/7/365 Diagnostics and Monitoring

Encrypted Device and Data Security

IoT Policies and Procedures

The experts at Digital Forge have an in-depth understanding of how cybercriminals exploit IoT. We use this to skillfully apply security protocols that protect your organization from attacks and minimize risks.

Cyber Risk Assessment
Applications

With cybercriminals and cyber risk growing every day, and with the threat landscape more sophisticated than it’s ever been before, inadequate security solutions for your web, mobile, cloud, and open source applications can be immensely damaging to your organization’s financial health, reputation, and customer base.

Applications are a strategic component of business innovation and are used by organizations across all industries, but they’re also a huge target for cybercriminals. Without proper security solutions, applications can compromise security across your entire organization.

Digital Forge’s application security solutions identify and remediate application vulnerabilities, keeping your organization safe and secure during every phase of the application lifecycle.

Through a combination of our highly experienced cyber intelligence professionals and implementation of the most innovative and advanced cybersecurity technologies, we enhance your web and application security, maintain and improve application security management, and boost regulatory compliance for organizations of all sizes and across all industries.

Prioritized Remediation

We want the best for all our clients, and that means working hard to ensure that your security investments are worth it. With that mindset, we use comprehensive analytics security to assess vulnerabilities and determine which are high priority risks so that we can maximize remediation efforts.

Identifying Vulnerabilities

When we handle your application security, we take a proactive approach and look for vulnerabilities from the very start, working to identify them in the software development stage.

Minimize Cyber Attacks

Through our application testing process, we work to ensure minimized cyber attacks by testing applications before deployment and continuing with risk assessments to ensure that new vulnerabilities or security changes don’t go unnoticed.

SMALL BUSINESS OWNER'S

Cyber Risk Assessment
Small Business

Small employers and small business owners often don’t consider themselves a target for cyber attacks, thinking they don’t have much to steal or are too small.

As a small business owner, it’s time to take your cyber defense and cybersecurity to the next level.
Understanding your threat landscape as a small business, and the actions you can take to increase cyber defense and keep your valuable data secure is essential to making the right cybersecurity investments and running a secure and successful business.

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MORE THAN JUST BUSINESS

Security Solution Steps
You Can Take Today

STEP 1SECURE WIFI NETWORKS

Install a firewall to protect your WiFi connections, and any WiFi connections used by remote workers. It’s also recommended to keep your network encrypted and hidden by setting up your wireless network or router so that it doesn’t broadcast the network name or by using a Virtual Private Network (VPN).

STEP 2PROTECT AGAINST CYBER ATTACKS

Ensuring that all business computers are protected with antivirus and antispyware software is essential for limiting risks from phishing and other tactics. All updates for antivirus and antispyware software should be made either immediately or set to update automatically to ensure any new vulnerabilities are corrected and systems function optimally.

STEP 3DOCUMENT CYBER SECURITY POLICIES

Highly effective cybersecurity defense involves all members of an organization. It’s imperative that you define clear organization-wide cybersecurity and cyber defense policies that dictate how employees should handle valuable and sensitive data. These cybersecurity policies and the repercussions for violating them should also be documented and updated when needed.

STEP 4EDUCATE & TRAIN EMPLOYEES

Train all employees on your cybersecurity policies and all factors that impact the safety of your data. As cyber defense evolves, it’s essential that cybersecurity policies are updated and training is provided regularly. Hold employees accountable by having them sign documentation stating that they’ve been made aware of cybersecurity policies.

STEP 5IMPLEMENT PASSWORD PROTECTION

Proper password etiquette can provide more security than you might think. Ensure all employees set strong passwords that are changed regularly, and that employees are trained on password best practices. For added cyber defense, implement multi-factor authentication for your account, especially for vendors that handle sensitive information and for financial applications.

STEP 6PREPARE FOR MOBILE DEVISE USE

As the bring your own device (BYOD) movement continues to rise, mobile devices present a new set of cybersecurity challenges. For complete security, you must include mobile devices in your cybersecurity policy. It’s recommended that employees password protect their devices, encrypt data, install security apps, implement automatic security updates, and more.

STEP 7BACKUP DATA REGULARLY

Cyber defense is vital, but it’s also important to be prepared in the event of a cyber risk or security breach. Part of this preparation is regularly backing up all critical data from computers and the cloud, including word processing documents, databases, electronic spreadsheets, financial files, accounts receivable/payable files, and more.

Application

Security

Can any application pull data from your servers? Personal emails and social media are heavy culprits in application security.

During

Application
Development

During application development, security features can be created for seamless implementation before ever encountering an end user. Even in agile development processes, these elements should be addressed throughout.

Audit your security platform to assure it meets or exceeds all currently identified vulnerabilities. Where gaps are discovered, build out a solution while still in the development stage or next iteration.

Maximize encryption where possible, making vulnerable data pathways less appealing to threats.

Harden everything by minimizing access points to the data. The less chance of stealing data the better, especially if encryption is not a viable option.

Track vulnerabilities to integrate preventative measures into development.

Even Once

Functional And
Deployed

Even once functional and deployed, security features must be able to be adjusted and added in application updates to accommodate the evolution of security threats.

Log all data used and exchanged by the application. Tracking allows for the detection in changes in patterns. If the rate of a data transfer changes it can likely be linked to a user pattern and may identify a breach before the data travels far.

Maintain servers and software - keep everything up to date. Preventative maintenance is just as important for your software as it is for equipment or your car, don’t let it slip and keep your applications updated.

Maximize encryption where possible. Even though we dealt with this during development, as opportunities arise and can be expanded post deployment, increase encryption through system updates.

Track vulnerabilities to act quickly when identified. Cybersecurity and technology are evolving at astounding rates, when vulnerabilities are identified post deployment, address them and act quickly to keep your data safe.

Simple rule of thumb in maintaining application security is limiting the number of applications allowed to access your data.