Cyber Defense and Cyber Resilience Anticipate pitfalls and recover quickly A cyberattack can be devastating. The actions you take during the first 48 hours can be critical to a successful outcome.These are complex security incidents requiring specialised skills, tools, and knowledge. The most common scenarios you could face range from an uncertain response to handling security incidents and related outages to unseen threat actors bypassing traditional defenses and detections.Rigid incident response programs unable to counter dynamic threats and lack of business continuity and/or resiliency strategies, documentation, and response plans are also concerns.Whether you need help in preparation and planning, retaining direct assistance or simply need to raise your response readiness profile, Protiviti offers full-service cyber defense and cyber resilience teams with expertise to match your technology, industry and situation. Cyber Defence and Cyber Resilience services Our Cyber Defense and Cyber Resilience solutions: Pro Briefcase Strategy and Planning Develop strategic resilience response plans to guide an entire organisation in the event of a cybersecurity incident. Our incident response plans are brief, clear, resilient, and adaptable. Pro Building office Tabletop Exercises Whether you are rolling out an incident response process, stress-testing an existing process, or refreshing your team on the latest updates, we facilitate interactive sessions to test your resilience response processes against documented plans with the relevant stakeholders. Pro Document Consent Emergency Breach Response No matter how much you invest in security, incidents happen. We help minimise the impact on your business with our global on-call services. Pro Document Files Ransomware Advisory and Recovery Anticipate and map the threat landscape, react to a motivated and cunning adversary, and recover and adapt to maintain a resilient business model. Pro Document Stack Compromise Assessments Clarify potential threats, examine your network for compromise indicators, and guide responses if malicious activity is detected. Pro Legal Briefcase Cyber Threat Intelligence Access the dark and clear webs and conduct in-depth research and analysis to better understand threat actors and cybercrime and ransomware groups while also identifying potentially leaked credentials. Pro Workflow Flowchart Post-Event Review and Facilitated Lessons Learned After an incident, recovery mode begins. Identify and address an incident’s root cause, evaluate response procedures for future incidents, and reinstate protection confidence. We help clients prepare to perform the most-needed tasks Cyber defence approach Our cyber defence approach is built on three pillars, includingCrisis management (enabling leaders to achieve their goals in a disrupted environment), implementation without overload (effective and efficient preparation, response, and recovery through a core team), and enabling technical responders (ensuring the most technically skilled people remain engaged in what they do best).We help clients prepare to perform the most-needed tasks during a crisis for a faster response, minimal impact, and stronger long-term cyber and operational resilience. We help clients prepare to perform the most-needed tasks Believe in proactive responses to security events Emergency response on-call services If you believe you have an ongoing or potential incident, contact our on-call incident response team at [email protected]. Our incident response experts are always ready to help you plan and manage global incident response. We believe in proactive responses to security events. Protiviti experts are steeped in response execution, forensic analysis, and response plan development. Featured insights WHITEPAPER Network and information security directive 2 (NIS2) The European Commission has revised the NIS Directive, expanding its scope to include numerous new sectors. This revision aims to enhance cybersecurity across the entire European region by unifying national laws with common minimum requirements. For... INSIGHTS PAPER Best Practices for Building a Sustainable PCI DSS Compliance Programme Creating and maintaining a sustainable PCI DSS compliance programme is a crucial and complex task for organisations to protect payment card transactions and uphold consumer trust. However, despite the PCI DSS standard being around for almost 20 years... IN FOCUS Will CrowdStrike serve as a reboot on tech resiliency? 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She specialises in digital and technology strategy as well as transformational change with over 25 years’ experience across consulting, industry, and government sectors. She has ... Learn More Krishnan Venkatraman Krishnan is a director with over 14 years’ experience in professional services. He has specific expertise in technology risk consulting and has been advising clients both in the public and private sector in designing and implementing information security controls.Major ... Learn More What is next for CISOs? The CISO Next initiative produces content and events crafted exclusively for CISOs, with CISOs. The resources focus on what CISOs need to succeed. The first step is finding out “What CISO type are you?” Get Involved Crisis averted A medical device manufacturing company proactively partnered with Protiviti to pinpoint a hole in their technology, avoiding a publicity nightmare. Case Studies Protiviti helps U.K. bank demonstrate cyber resilience Situation: A U.K.- based financial market infrastructure firm was required to enhance its cyber resilience and undertake a self-assessment to identify and prioritise areas for improvement. Value: Protiviti supported the execution of a compliance assessment of the client’s cyber resilience framework, assisted and educated information security and management staff, and recommended ways to improve governance processes and a refined approach to the self-assessment with key stakeholders. Protiviti helps large university develop and execute incident response exercise Situation: A large private university with more than 1,000 faculty and 13,000 students sought a third-party partner to develop and execute a tabletop exercise to test the school’s responsive capabilities under various stress scenarios. 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Protiviti partners with SIFMA in Quantum Dawn global cybersecurity exercise Situation: The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) sought a partner to conduct its fifth Quantum Dawn cyber defense and response tabletop exercise. Value: Protiviti helped raise awareness within the global financial services industry of current information-sharing infrastructure limitations; also determined areas of improvement in sector cyber defense and response efforts.
