Reacting to security incidents instead of preparing for them leaves you one step behind attackers and places you and your organisation at risk. Business needs aren’t met, users get frustrated, and leaders lose confidence.
Taking stock of your situation to identify current vulnerabilities or high impact areas for improvement is next to impossible in reactive mode. You’re too busy dealing with problems to get ahead.
Become proactive in your IT Security management! Collect key organisational data to effectively assess and manage IT Security, achieve confidence and adaptability in security practices, and get buy-in from business leaders.
The Problem:
Security is complicated, fast-moving, and difficult to measure, so it often gets ignored by the business and managed reactively by IT.
We can help you…
- Understand the strengths and weaknesses of your current security governance and management functions.
- Develop a roadmap of practical and prioritised action items to improve and optimise your target security governance and management functions.
- Analyse gaps between IT and business perceptions in terms of security confidence and the amount of friction for business processes.
- Optimise IT security policies and processes, and drive improvement in technology usage and decisions.
Our Solution:
Collect key enterprise data to effectively assess and manage IT Security, achieve confidence and adaptability in security practices, and get buy-in from business leaders.
Service Overview:
The IT Security Diagnostic service is a low-effort, high-impact service designed to help IT security leaders assess and improve their security practices. Gather and report on IT security governance, business satisfaction, and effectiveness to understand where you stand and how you can improve your governance and management practices as they apply to IT security. It will help you identify risk points, mitigate against threats and can prepare you for an audit.
The process is simple: provide a list of key business stakeholders within your organisation and we will craft a survey that will be sent via email to them. Once completed, we will generate reports and present it to you.
The results of this brief, single-user (or a collective small group) survey will provide proactive management of security practices and highlight areas that need attention.
Use our automated tools to conduct assessments of your critical IT processes – including applications, security, and project management – turn them into actionable insights to communicate with stakeholders.
Service deliverables:
- Governance & Management Scorecard Report (example) .
- IT Security Business Satisfaction & Alignment Report (example).
- Security Process & Technology Effectiveness Report (example).
Frequently asked questions:
What Security issue does IT Security Diagnostic solve?
Achieve confidence in security practices and get buy-in from the business.
Audience
IT Security + Business Leaders
When is the Right Time for the IT Security Diagnostic?
- When there is new leadership in Security.
- After a negative security-related audit finding.
- When transitioning security practices from informal to formal.
- After a negative security feedback from business units.
Who does this go out to?
IT security leader(s) and managers (if needed)
How long will it take for participants to complete the survey?
10-15 minutes
How many questions are there?
up to 60 questions
What is the target participation rate?
100%
Are anonymous results available?
No
How is the survey invitation sent?
CISO FOR HIRE sends uniquely addressed survey links via email to identified participants
What preparatory documents are required?
None
Can I customise the questions?
No
Is benchmarking data available?
Yes
Is there a built in year-over-year comparison?
Yes
Thinking your organisation is sufficiently protected against security threats isn’t good enough – You need to know.
