With the increasing likelihood of cyberattacks and data breaches, a pragmatic approach to safeguarding your business is needed. Based on a known baseline of cyber control capabilities, with a defined Enterprise Security Architecture together with the business’ appetite for risk, allows organizations to effectively manage the dynamic threat landscape.

The stakeholders' role and approach must be effective and active in order to deliver a roadmap for governance, functional and non functional requirements, oversight and assurance to both high and low level design detail, covering these areas:

• Identify, protect and defend your critical information against attacks
  • Contextual Business Impact Assessment
  • Enterprise Security Benchmarking
  • Prioritised Threat Modelling
  • Attack Path Analysis
  • Risk Scenario Modelling
  • Dynamic Visualisation & Trend Reporting

Once the Cyber Security Strategy and Architecture has been defined, establishing wholesale improvements across an organization usually requires changes addressing several areas covering policy, people, operational process and technology. A Cyber Security Transformation Program is generally used as the means of coordinating complex changes across your business, whether its delivering missing foundational security capability or looking at Cyber maturity improvements.

These high level comments are all very well and good, however at the root is data. Data about your current capabilities, , choosing the standard or model, identify the risks involved by not fully meeting what is determined as your level of achievement, calculating the Return on Security Investment (ROSI) for every risk and your ability to plan and implement an improvement program. These are the first challenges. Often across many sites, and spreadsheets to many complex standards.

Non integrated solutions, makes decision making based on a holistic view with instant detail at your fingertips, very difficult. Furthermore, the additional complexities of the numerous standards, all interwoven with each other does not help when looking to choose the standards for your defense.

With ever increasing sophisticated cyber attacks, time to gather, assess and prioritize data becomes short, so it make sense that having this information in one place to easily compare and contrast capabilities and priorities.