Smart Security Centers Around Strong Policies

Find Out How Your Policies Stack Up with a Security Policy Assessment

Put Your Policies To a Real-World Test with a Comprehensive Security Policy Assessment from Enterprise Integration

Do you have your security policies written down and in a central location?
If so, do they adhere to your compliance needs while taking into account your organizational culture and prime drivers of productivity?
Are these policies designed to address potential vulnerabilities in today’s threat-replete security environment?

The Details Matter

When conducting your security policy assessment, EI’s seasoned security operations team will:

Evaluate your current security policies for adherence to required standards
Review related security documentation to ensure they are up-to-date and compliant
Ensure your policy revolves around the triad of confidentiality, integrity and availability (CIA)
Immerse ourselves in your organizational culture
Assess whether or not your current policy deters employee productivity in any way
Provide a report with recommendations for policy improvement
Detail potential paths forward for plan enhancement

If you’re not required by law to have a written security policy, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have one.

If you do have one, it’s critical to ensure that it’s effective and useful for your organization while meeting international guidelines

Shoring Up Your Security Policy Can Pay Dividends Down The Road

Here’s How It Has Helped Companies Like Yours

“I have worked in the IT industry for 19 years and I have worked with many different managed service providers from large tier one service providers to small specialty service providers. My experience has been that the larger providers tended to have great depth of resources, but due to their size you tended to lose accountably and attention to detail particularly if you were not one of their larger clients. With the smaller service providers you get the personalized service, but lose the depth of resources which is vital when something goes wrong. Enterprise Integration brings the best attributes of both. They have the depth of expertise needed to address enterprise-grade solutions while maintaining the responsiveness of a smaller service provider. I would recommend Enterprise Integration as a service provider for a small business or an enterprise size corporation. The people at Enterprise Integration understand what needs to be done and they do it.”

-Steven Hodges, IT Manager Battery Point

A Security Policy framework is integral to your company’s IT infrastructure. While it can be tempting to simply integrate security considerations into your procedures without taking the time to craft a specific policy document, your entire team will find such a document very useful as they make decisions in which security plays a part – and these days, that’s almost every decision you face.

That said, if and when you do create such a document, it’s critical that it covers all the bases. That includes the CIA triad as well as a clearly stated scope, specific goals, an attainable objective and responsibilities for compliance – as well as what happens in the event of noncompliance. If your organization is required to meet certain standards such as PCI, HIPAA or the Basel accords, your policy must adhere to those requirements. Simply filling in a template won’t cut it, as the policy should be specifically tailored to your organization’s culture and preferred productivity methods.

Why You Need Our IT Security Policy Assessment?

Expertise:

EI’s CISO has 20 years of focused security experience, having overseen the creation of hundreds of effective security policy documents in that time. Backed by ITIL and CISSP certifications, our subject matter expertise and experience will provide an effective assessment that gives you the knowledge you need to develop successful and efficient policies.

Alignment:

As part of a Security Policy Assessment, our team of policy experts will work to gain an understanding of your organization’s systems, mission and goals to ensure your security policies line up with them, or to identify how to bring those that don’t into alignment.

Comprehensive:

A security policy is a living document that evolves and grows over time in parallel with your business. Reviews, evaluations and updates are required to ensure your policies are working for you. A comprehensive assessment from EI will identify any areas of your security infrastructure that lack policy strength to help ensure your policies continue to meet your needs.

Compliance:

If your organization is in an industry that is subject to regulatory compliance or legal standards, our experts will determine if your current policies are in adherence and in alignment with best practices and provide recommendations for remediation of any weaknesses.

Security Policy Assessment FAQ

Q: How does a Security Policy Assessment fit within the range of security assessments?

A: Knowing how your security policies stack up is arguably more important than knowing your online and physical vulnerabilities. A policy assessment is an integral part of a complete security program.

Q: How can I check whether my policy incorporates best practices?

Q: How often should we update our Security Policy doc?

A: If you look at a doc from just a few years ago, odds are you’ll find a number of aspects that are outdated in your current business environment. Old security policies that don’t take into account new threats and industry best practices can be actively harmful to your organization.

To that end, it’s essential to keep your Security Policy document updated. Ideally, your doc will be easily extensible so you can modify it when organizational conditions or the security environment change.

Q: Why should we have Enterprise Integration assess our security policy?

A: At EI, our team of highly skilled security experts will provide actionable insights into your current security policies. Leveraging our experience and expertise, we’ll evaluate your existing policies, identify any weaknesses, areas of noncompliance, or instances where the business has grown beyond current policy capabilities and provide recommendations for remediation to continually improve your security coverage.

Q: It’s been a while since we performed a security policy assessment, but not much has changed. I’m sure everything is still ok, right?

A: While there may have been a limited amount of change internally, regulation requirements and legal standards evolve and change on a regular basis. You may also be surprised at how much change has occurred upon reviewing the details of your internal operations. Seemingly insignificant changes could very well necessitate a security policy update. Making an assumption is a risk. Performing a regular assessment mitigates that risk.

Put Your Policies to the Test …

Does the quick-change nature of security requirements sometimes make it hard for you to define and implement a current and appropriate policy?

Are you certain that all areas of your business are covered by a security policy that’s current and appropriate for your needs?

A Foundation for Cyber Resilience

An effective security policy should clearly define security expectations, roles and responsibilities. It should be built with clear-cut agreements, rules and standards that adhere to regulatory requirements and industry best practices. It should serve as the foundation for a successful security program that protects your information and recovers quickly from disruptions. It should. The only way to know if it does, however, is to put it to the test.

With a comprehensive Security Policy Assessment from EI, we’ll do just that. Our team of experts will assess your existing security policy to identify any weaknesses, lack of coverage, or areas of noncompliance to ensure that your policies set the tone for a successful security program.