Cybersecurity Strategy

Risk assessment, policy development, and active response planning tailored to your organization

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Build practical defenses and prepare responses to modern cyber threats

Cybercrime is a booming industry — as much as $10 trillion per year and growing. The threats are evolving rapidly, and rising demands for AI-powered tools are forcing organizations to revise and clarify their security policies. Staying ahead of these looming cyber threats requires a proactive cybersecurity strategy designed to protect sensitive information and critical operations.  

BDO cybersecurity strategists will begin with an objective assessment of your current cybersecurity state and risk profile. We work with you to develop and deploy robust, governance-based security policies and controls to reduce risk, strengthen business continuity, and improve regulatory compliance. Your security strategy will be tailored to your IT environment, resources, and vulnerabilities, safeguarding your reputation and keeping you ahead of emerging threats.  

60%

“Organizations that invest in advanced cybersecurity measures experience 60% fewer security breaches.” 
— Microsoft

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$4.88M

“The average cost of a data breach in 2024 is $4.88 million.”
— IBM

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3x

“Companies with a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy are three times less likely to experience a major data breach.”
— Cisco

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with a Microsoft cloud cost control & security posture health check.

In order to get started on the road to maximizing Microsoft licensing and security investment, we recommend our customers undertake an initial Health Check - during which immediate savings and risk reduction opportunities are discovered. The Health Check presents a solid case for optimization, with a typical customer able to uncover an average of 25%-45% in savings.

What to Expect from the Active Insights Health Check:

  • Savings and optimization opportunities identified in Microsoft 365 and Azure environments
  • Visibility into underutilized resources, user licenses and functionality 
  • Security at-a-glance, outlining areas of cybersecurity improvement not supplied natively by Microsoft
  • A fresh understanding into how governance and reporting can be refined and implemented across the organization

Get started on the road toward a bright, secure Microsoft future.

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How BDO Can Help

Modernize Your Cybersecurity  

Legacy approaches aren’t equal to the security challenges of hybrid and multi-cloud IT. BDO can assess your cybersecurity posture and your vulnerabilities, then work with you to develop an agile, cloud-native approach that’s aligned to your current state and your growth strategy. 

Empower Transformation  

Business decisions such as strategic acquisitions, growth initiatives, and the onboarding and adoption of new technologies require the confidence of a robust, agile cybersecurity strategy with the tools and management capability to support transformation. 

Improve Cybersecurity Maturity

Evolving threat environments combined with continuous pressure for business transformation mean proliferating cybersecurity challenges. BDO brings up-to-the-minute experience and best practices to evaluate and advance your cybersecurity policies and posture.

Align Cybersecurity to Outcomes 

We help CSOs, CISOs, and CIOs reframe their cybersecurity performance evaluations, moving from a focus on activity reporting to one that defines cybersecurity in terms of business and financial benefit.  

Prepare for Incident Response and Disaster Recovery

Whether you are updating legacy plans or standing up a completely new, policy-based program for IT recovery, crisis communication, restoration, and return to business, BDO can help you prepare for and mitigate the effects of cybersecurity incidents, operational interruptions, and more.  

Manage AI Risks

Applications and services powered by generative AI combine great capability with novel risks to data security and privacy. We can help deploy tools and compliance frameworks that enable AI adoption and use without compromising essential security.  

Improve Cost Efficiency 

Many organizations have built their cybersecurity infrastructure in a series of reactive steps, straining to keep up with business growth and evolving threats. BDO can help rationalize expenditures through policy review and technology assessments that help identify and remove low-performing and legacy tools.   

Maintain Compliance 

Our cybersecurity strategies are crafted to satisfy essential government and industry compliance frameworks including the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (2.0), CIS Critical Security Controls, FFIEC, ISO 27001, and others.  

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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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