Cybersecurity Assurance

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Validate your cyber defenses with rigorous monitoring and testing  

The strength of your cybersecurity isn’t something you can afford to take on faith. Security controls, vendors, and partners must be tested rigorously and continuously — not only to confirm that they are performing as expected, but to assess whether any breaches have occurred, evaluate potential impacts, and take corrective action. The alternative is a false sense of security and an enormous risk of reputational damage.  

Offensive security services and active penetration testing provide early detection and management of vulnerabilities and prepare your incident response teams to identify and contain breaches in hours instead of weeks. Regular, disciplined testing elevates your defenses from theoretical to practical, providing assurance that your cybersecurity measures are realistic, scaled appropriately, and fit-for-purpose.

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“It takes 277 days on average to identify and contain a breach: 207 days to identify and 70 days to contain.” 
— IBM 

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74%

“74% of employees would be willing to bypass cybersecurity guidance if it helped them or their team achieve a business objective.” 
— Gartner

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30%

“The average cost of a data breach is reduced by 30% for organizations with a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy.” 
— IBM

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How BDO Can Help

Real-time Security Control Validation

Are you prepared for threat actors targeting your industry? Is your managed security provider protecting you right now? 
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Capabilities

Your risk profile, and the policies and technological infrastructure you need to manage it, are fundamentally dynamic. BDO works with you to define your risks, design policies to address them, and operationalize those policies.

  • Priority identification
  • Policy development
  • Technology evaluation and rationalization
  • Architecting solutions

When a natural disaster or other emergency condition disrupts IT operations, a robust disaster recovery plan is essential to mitigating operational and reputational risk. BDO works closely with you to develop a policy-based approach that clarifies and codifies every step of your disaster recovery strategy — moving you back toward normal operations as quickly as possible.

  • Business impact analysis
  • Run-book recovery documentation
  • Technical priorities and role definitions
  • Communications planning

A cybersecurity incident poses grave business, reputational, and regulatory risk. BDO works with you to categorize different types of incidents, then develop policy-based strategies that codify IT responsibilities and actions and integrate them with the larger incident response strategy, including roles for Corporate Communications, Legal, Marketing, and more.
  • Scenario planning
  • Policy development, assessment, and testing
  • Tabletop exercises

Your cybersecurity risk profile includes not only the risks and vulnerabilities of your own IT ecosystem, but also those of your third-party vendors and partners. BDO works with you to help you understand and quantify the risks and dependencies every organization takes on through third parties, then develop appropriate risk management frameworks to mitigate them.
  • Defining third-party risks and dependencies
  • Policy and framework development
  • Ongoing policy management

Defining cybersecurity risks and developing and testing policies to address them are key to successful cybersecurity risk management. BDO also supports the technology implementation that’s essential to the execution and enforcement of those policies: delivering risk management transformation.
  • Cloud Security
  • Data Protection and Privacy
  • Application and Offensive Security
  • Program and Organizational Change Management

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