Category: Security Program Advisory

Explore expert security program advisory insights to design, implement, and optimize cybersecurity strategies. Learn how to align policies, controls, and compliance frameworks to reduce risks and strengthen resilience.

  • What is Cybersecurity Framework Implementation?

    What is Cybersecurity Framework Implementation?

    Every organization faces cybersecurity threats to its digital assets, potentially compromising sensitive data or disrupting business operations. Implementing a comprehensive cybersecurity framework can help organizations prevent threats, mitigate attacks, and maintain business operation continuity. What is cybersecurity framework implementation, and how does cybersecurity compliance work? Read on to learn more. (more…)

  • What is the Most Common Form of Social Engineering?

    What is the Most Common Form of Social Engineering?

    Regardless of how robust an organization’s cybersecurity defenses are, cyber threat actors employing social engineering attacks remain a substantial threat. Unlike technologically-focused attacks that exploit vulnerabilities in an organization’s networks or the overall IT infrastructure, social engineering attacks leverage human psychology to gain network access. Phishing represents the most common form of social engineering attack. (more…)

  • What Should Security Awareness Training Include for Healthcare Companies?

    What Should Security Awareness Training Include for Healthcare Companies?

    Security awareness involves everyone in your company—from clerical and administrative staff to doctors, nurses, IT staff, and even your patients. Everyone plays an important role. Unfortunately, this often leaves organizational and IT leaders wondering, “What should security awareness training include?” (more…)

  • How to Build a Security Operations Center

    How to Build a Security Operations Center

    Security operations centers (SOC) comprise the people, processes, and technology that manage an organization’s cybersecurity strategy and its execution. Designing a security operations center architecture from the ground up or reorganizing an existing team will always revolve around these three components, and each necessitates specific considerations. (more…)

  • Common Challenges of SOC Teams

    Common Challenges of SOC Teams

    Security operations centers (SOC) serve as the primary cybersecurity hub for an organization, comprising all relevant personnel, processes, and technology. Responsibility for such a critical organizational role creates substantial security operations center challenges. (more…)

  • Implementing Secure IT Infrastructure for Startups

    Implementing Secure IT Infrastructure for Startups

    Cybersecurity is equally as crucial for small and growing businesses as it is for larger, more established enterprises. This is because cybercriminals can train advanced attacks designed for larger businesses on smaller enterprises’ relatively less mature cyberdefenses. (more…)

  • What is a Tailgating Social Engineering Attack?

    What is a Tailgating Social Engineering Attack?

    The threat of tailgating in social engineering attacks comes from unauthorized individuals attempting to sneak in behind authorized personnel or convince staff of their legitimacy to access a restricted area (e.g., server room, employee workstations). (more…)

  • Security Operations Center Best Practices

    Security Operations Center Best Practices

    Security operations centers (SOC) consist of the people, processes, and technology that comprise an organization’s cybersecurity management. These teams provide the critical efforts that defend digital and physical IT assets. (more…)

  • Best Practices for Implementing a Security Awareness Program

    Best Practices for Implementing a Security Awareness Program

    Regardless of the maturity and sophistication of your cybersecurity infrastructure, your IT environment’s safety depends on your employees’ threat awareness and cultivated habits that provide a critical element of deterrence. (more…)

  • Top Cybersecurity Staff Augmentation Strategies

    Top Cybersecurity Staff Augmentation Strategies

    Enterprises and their cybersecurity operations are dynamic. Sometimes, a significant event—such as navigating a data breach response and remediation—requires more expertise or involvement than your current employees can manage. (more…)