Protecting against loss of reputation, money and IP through cyber attack
The challenges of cyberspace are broadening and deepening. Whether this is from the systemic aspect of threat, the limited understanding of cyberspace, or the fragmented and slow response to cyber insecurity there is much ground to make up.
Losses to individuals and enterprises are rising rapidly, through theft of cash, intellectual property, corruption of critical data, or loss of reputation. Repairing the damage following a cyber attack can be expensive and if critical suppliers experience an attack, then the knock-on effects to business value chains can be severe.
This cyber insecurity is in a period of migration moving from the responsibility of the IT Department to becoming a Boardroom issue. Cyber protection now reaches far beyond anti-virus and firewall, and is a responsibility of much wider stakeholder group than hitherto. The Harmonic ICA2 process reflects this change by engaging with an entire enterprise from CEO down to support staff, and also with critical business partners providing:
- An assessment of the enterprise that measures the awareness and management of cyber-related risks, providing knowledge to create a regime that mitigates exposure to business risk
- Access to a deep understanding of the cyber security domain through our relationship with policy makers, thought leaders and the intelligence community
- A knowledge of best practice, in order to catalyse a migration to an agile, coherent and relevant response
- The provision of expertise reaching beyond simple technological know-how to include knowledge of current threats, the wider stakeholder environment, and the configuration of the current regulatory regime
Rather than addressing simple technological countermeasures, ICA2 analyses the management of cybersecurity within an enterprise, including strategy, awareness, communications and crisis management, providing the Boardroom with a concise assessment of an enterprise’s ability to protect, detect, deter and respond to a cyber attack, and helping to develop longer term capability development.