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Is your organization’s cyber security a guessing game for you? We get it. Many small business leaders also struggle to find out where to start improving security, what to prioritize and how to measure and report. To find out the answers of these questions, conducting a CIS Gap Assessment is an effective starting point.
A CIS gap assessment is a step-by-step assessment of your existing security program. Our experts review your cybersecurity program against a IT security framework called the Center for Internet Security (CIS) 18 Critical IT Security Controls, also known as CIS Controls.
Assessing your cybersecurity program against this framework helps you build a solid security foundation to meet industry standards, from cloud to compliance.
Kobalt.io can support you using the 90 Days to Better Security Approach:
Ransomware, email fraud and data breaches are the common attacks that most businesses fear. However, gap assessments do not provide answers to the specific incidents that your organization is most susceptible to – risk registers do. That’s why gap assessments and risk registers are often conducted simultaneously.
Having findings of both gap assessment and risk register can help you map out the vulnerabilities and contributing factors to incidents. They can also help generate insights to build an effective cybersecurity roadmap as well as a list of best practices. Based on the needs of your organization, you can also conduct gap assessments against other standards like Canada CyberSecure, SOC 2, NIST and ISO27001.
CIS Gap Assessments starting from $5000.
Privacy gap assessments review the privacy portion of your overall cybersecurity program thoroughly. In the field of privacy, it typically has its own set of regulatory and compliance standards based on the industry you are in or selling to. Examples include GDPR, Bill 64, and CCPA/CPRA. Privacy gap assessments will assess your existing privacy policies, data processing procedures, privacy breach containment and more.
The answer is simple and straightforward – it is to ensure that you maintain compliance and safeguard sensitive data.
Clients expect you to help them solve problems, not to create problems. It is your responsibility to protect your clients’ data. If you solely rely on your CRM provider or financial institution to protect the sensitive data you collect, you are putting both your clients and your business at risk.
Learn more about how you can better protect your clients, employees and organization’s privacy, here.
Privacy Gap Assessments starting from $7500.
Your production cloud environment is critical to your business. It stores data that contributes to the day-to-day business operations. That’s why it is incredibly important to keep your valuable data and information safe and secure in the cloud.
A cloud security audit helps assess the security controls, vulnerabilities and compliance gaps in your cloud environments like AWS, GCP and Azure. With a better understanding and visibility of your overall cloud security posture, the Kobalt.io team can help identify and prioritize the areas that need improvements. This helps your team to have a strategic plan to follow while tightening up security.
Cloud Security Audit starting from $5000.
Do you know how susceptible your teams are to cyber attacks? Do a penetration test to find out before they fall victim to an attack.
Pentests (short for penetration tests) – sometimes also called ethical hacking – offer a practical way of testing your cyber security measures using trained professionals. Regular pentests form an essential part of any cyber security program and indeed are mandatory to maintain compliance with various standards such as SOC2 and PCI.
Kobalt.io works with you to recommend the most effective approach based on:
Penetration tests starting from $5000.
End users are the largest and most vulnerable target in most organizations. Phishing attacks grow every year, making an end-user security awareness training program and regular phishing tests essential for any security programs. We pair our phish testing with security awareness training. Learn more about our user education.
A phishing test is a mock phishing attack simulated by professional security experts. It is created to test how effectively an organization’s employees can resist phishing attacks. Depending on the test results, organizations can work with Kobalt.io to carry out various remediation measures to tighten up security and train employees.
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Penetration testing is an intrusive practice, as the name suggests. With the intrusive nature of penetration tests, testers get an intimate understanding of the organizations they engage with. Penetration testers can use their experience and identify gaps beyond what insiders may be able to identify alone. Penetration tests allow organizations to make informed security decisions. Penetration testing is also a requirement for organizations striving to achieve compliance to several industry-recognized certifications. |
Small and medium organizations often struggle with the preparation process to get ready for their penetration tests. Penetration tests follow a common approach. The reason there is a common approach is to help define repeatable processes while minimizing the impact of testing to the organization being tested. The steps are as follows:
1. Information Gathering
2. Analysis and Planning
3. Vulnerability Identification
4. Exploitation
5. Risk Analysis and Remediation
6. Reporting and Lessons Learned.
Organizations can modify and adjust the procedures to be catered toward their business processes, but they will typically follow the methodology. |
