Compliance Readiness Assessments
We thoroughly assess your organization’s alignment with relevant regulations and proactively identify and address compliance gaps. Our process prepares you for successfully passing audits and maximizes your ongoing compliance processes which will reduce the risk of non-compliance penalties and improve operational transparency. Some of the regulations and frameworks we prepare you for are as follows.
| CIS | CMMC | FTC / SEC / FINRA |
| GDPR | HIPAA | HITRUST |
| ISO 27001 | NIST 800-53 | NIST 800-171 |
| NIST CSF 2.0 | PCI DSS | SOC1 / SOC2 |
Virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO)
While organizations need an experienced CISO to drive critical initiatives and oversee their security programs, not every organization has the budget for a full-time, top-level CISO.
With many years of experience in security consulting and advisory services, Guard Street delivers a vCISO service that applies expertise where it is needed most. We’ll help you and your organization develop a roadmap, manage your compliance and implementation activities to ensure they meet the requirements of controls from any cybersecurity framework. The vCISO is your expert to keeping your projects, policies and documentation updated and compliant and who will ensure they are completed to increase the cybersecurity maturity of your organization.
Continuous Compliance & Cyber Resiliency
Guard Street’s continuous compliance service may be focused on maintaining important cadence for any of the compliance frameworks listed above or may be dedicated to an ongoing cyber resiliency service designed to create and maintain a strong cyber posture. Our services are designed to allow our clients to obtain ongoing, strategic and tactical advisory services. The typical objectives of our services include the following.
- Create and follow the plan of action and milestones necessary to be compliant.
- Establish a dedicated Cyber Risk Council within the company that will provide ongoing identification, visibility and management of cybersecurity risks to management and the executive team.
- Facilitate and provide accountability within organizations and their vendors to comply with the requirements in order to maintain compliant status.
- Provide immediate and dedicated attention to drive compliance which often entails becoming the designated role for the organization and freeing up management time.
Provide ongoing access to an experienced and expert cybersecurity specialist to obtain ongoing advice, internal auditing and best practices.
Incident Response Planning
Guard Street can help your organization to review and develop security incident response plans to ensure that your procedures are comprehensive, actionable and robust. Our methodology ensures that you have incident response plans that cover:
Preparation
Establish management commitment, organizational accountability and allocation of resources to prepare.
Identification
Identify and detect an incident as soon as possible
Containment
Develop procedures to help contain damage and restore affected systems to their normal operating state.
Eradication
Help develop procedures focused on the removal of threats for infected systems. Pondurance may recommend eradication procedures that are designated for internal execution and others that may be best executed by third parties (i.e., forensic analysis, memory scrapping and analysis, system cleaning, etc.).
Recovery
Develop procedures that provide a basis of recovery for minimum or normal operations.
Learning
Develop a process for validating the plan, facilitating tabletop exercises and adopting a lessons learned process from real-world events.
Tabletop Exercises
Our tabletop exercises will test plans, policies, and procedures; identify gaps; and enhance communication and coordination among team members in a simulated crisis environment. Guard Street’s CISOs will customize a discussion-based, scenario-driven exercise where participants, guided by our CISO, discuss how they would respond to a hypothetical incident or emergency, often done in a non-threatening, conference room or video setting.
Our combination of customizing the scenarios for your organization and inclusion of videos in the scenarios drives a higher level of engagement from employee-led incident response teams.
Vendor Risk Assessments
As required by most frameworks and insurance companies, Guard Street provides a systematic process used by organizations to identify, evaluate, and manage the risks associated with engaging with third-party vendors, suppliers, or contractors.
We’ll manage the process to organize the criteria for the assessments and assist in mitigating potential risks that could arise from relying on external entities, ensuring data privacy, financial stability, regulatory compliance, and operational performance are not negatively impacted.
What Sets Guard Street Apart
Guard Street stands out with our rapid, tech-enabled solutions and forward-thinking adaptability. Our custom-fit, multi-framework CISO services are intelligently designed to be responsive and seamlessly align with your organizational processes. We prioritize a client-first approach, ensuring our services are high-quality, straightforward, and frictionless.
We obtain and leveraging extensive knowledge across all major GRC platforms. Our certified CISOs challenge automated tests and have conducted numerous assessments. Our “trust, but verify” process emphasizes thoroughness and reliability in every engagement.
