Feel Secure?

"If you know both yourself and your e​nemy, you can win a hundred battles without a single loss".

​Sun Tzu, The Art of War​​​

Who needs it?

Every organisation, from the smallest upwards, faces security challenges. These include:

• ​Obtaining relevant, high quality information which allows you to make the correct security decisions.
• Keeping up with a constantly changing threat landscape environment
• Identifying the ‘smartest’ approach to compliance with laws, regulations and industry standards.
• Applying agile security management models to legacy systems and the existing organisation.
• Managing a heterogeneous environment in a consistent way.
• Leveraging any investment in security to obtain a better security posture overall, rather than focussing on reducing a single, specific risk. ​​

Executive Summary​

Among the many challenges facing today’s CIO, that posed by security must rank as one of the most pressing. No longer is it a matter that can be handed over to a specific team: executives at all levels need to take responsibility. Security encompasses the entire organisation: the people; the processes; the technology; the information. The threat landscape is changing constantly. The skills of criminals and fraudsters are becoming ever more ingenious; while the world’s media ensure that sensitive security breaches are highly visible.

Reply has developed a Security Practice which will help Companies to gain a deeper understanding of their security posture. Reply consultants work with you to apply innovative models and techniques which enable you to move to a mature enterprise security position. We help you to achieve a homogeneous approach that will give you a holistic view of the whole organisation’s security status.​​

Reply added value

To successfully implement an Enterprise Security Architecture depends on a number of factors. It is in overcoming these challenges that Reply’s Security Practice consultants can add particular value.

Managing the change

Strong internal commitment is essential. Reply recommend the use of a bottom-up approach, starting from a specific area or pillar, and not touching the organisational model. Reply consultants will help you to create the appetite to ‘get things done’ in a mature way. Reply will manage the internal Enterprise Security Architecture adoption process, with our own key performance indicators. Most importantly, we Reply use social engineering techniques to help! Speaking the same language All areas within the organisation need to ‘speak the same language’. This is often not the case, with risk management, security management, compliance teams and business people unable to communicate effectively as a result.​

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