Assurance and Accreditation for Risk and Compliance Management

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Information Assurance & Accreditation

Information Assurance & Accreditation

For many businesses implementing a new solution or system into your work environment you must be able to show that the risks associated with implementing it are sufficiently managed. In some cases there are standards and policies that can be adhered to and will ensure compliance and risk management. However, in other cases such as research projects, existing standards may not be deemed sufficient. In these areas Assurance is needed to provide justification that the security objective has been met. 

Nexor Security Consultants are experts in the field of Information Assurance and, working alongside your risk owners, assessor, or accreditors, will provide evidence documentation to support the security claims you are making. 

Accreditation is a process which confirms that a specific system employs appropriate security controls to allow information to be stored and processed with an acceptable level of risk. In any areas where the existing measures are not enough, Nexor's Consultants will create policy and procedure documents that will bridge the gaps in existing standards or policies you are trying to adhere to. 

The benefits

  • Cyber security risk is seen as a business risk

  • Digital and Security specialists work collaboratively together, and can build new digital services faster and to common specification to build cross department trust

  • Compromise is difficult as security vulnerabilities are anticipated, along with invalid user input. By using "good" software design practice and concepts and techniques can be applied early in the design process to enhance security down the line.

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Governance

For most projects or businesses ensuring that Risk Management and Security activities are understood at a board level will ensure that these practices can be embedded within the business. To do so Nexor Consultants can support you in ensuring that the activities we suggest can be integrated with your existing security governance process or define a suitable process if they do not currently exist. 

Information Security Management Systems & Security Management Plans

Perhaps one of the most important aspects of security is to have a resilient security management plan. This ensures that, in the event of a system compromise or failure, your business can minimise disruption and restore business as usual as quickly as possible. A robust management plan will have measures in place to cover an intentional disruption from threat actors as well as environmental factors like a burst water main.

Nexor Consultants have experience working in a wide range of environments and can advise on security management plans for a wide array of business settings. They will support you in creating a Security Management Plan that meets the needs of your organisation and can be maintained on a regular basis. 

CUSTOMER FOCUSED SCENARIO

Secure by Design Information Assurance for procurement of new Situational Awareness capability

A customer was in the early concept of procuring one of the largest situational awareness capabilities they have managed. Operating with classified data, it was critical to provide assurance that all information was secure.

Challenge

The project underwent significant changes in its early design phase with additional challenges introduced through the customer’s requirement to comply with their own information assurance governance and policy whilst they were transitioning from ‘accreditation’ to ‘secure by design’.

Solution

Establishing ourselves in a position of leadership to liaise with senior decision makers, we applied sound information assurance practices and processes across the project and managed them with an agile approach. Satisfying the customers requirement for compliance, our experienced consultants, with a long history of supporting the customer, added value through the application of wider best practices and frameworks.

Outcome

With Secure by Design implemented in the earliest phases of procurement, we established foundations to enhance the capability by applying modern cyber security practices. This ensured threats would be understood and security weaknesses identified earlier in the project lifecycle, exploiting opportunities as the design developed and embed appropriate security controls to reduce costs and risks to delivery.

What our customers say

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We achieved our primary objective of finding a proof of concept architecture that was technologically feasible and simple to implement.

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Protecting Government, Defence, and Critical Systems Worldwide

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