Aligning business strategy with information security

In the past, cybersecurity was a word rarely heard in the C-level boardroom. Security is typically treated as an IT function distant from the overall corporate risk. Those days are gone. Nowadays, all sectors are a target for cyber-attacks. Security information has become an increasingly challenging risk that Boards must know and address.

Our strategic consulting aims to support the C-level in the strategy of security information. We help the Board to ask the right questions about security information and to identify levels of security and compliance. Know your security risks, the impact and be prepared for incident response.

Strategic Consultancy Services

IRM believe that a strong cyber security strategy begins with the Board. Ensuring your organisation’s executives are fully aware of your business risks and how to manage them will create a top-down approach to a positive cyber security culture. IRM currently offers the following strategic consultancy services. Learn more each service further down on this page.

  • Cyber Executive Briefing

  • Board-level Maturity Assessment

  • Executive Security Talent

  • Cyber Governance Framework and Dashboard

  • Governance, Risk and Compliance Tool

Cyber Executive Briefing

A briefing designed for senior executives and management who need a business overview of cybercrime.

Executive Boards have an individual and corporate responsibility to fully understand their cyber threat landscape. The plethora of Government schemes, legislation and compliance standards means it’s important to identify the areas to engage with and adhere to.

IRM’s Cyber Executive Briefing will allow you to learn what the real threats are, how they can be categorised and how they evolve through technology and business change.

⇒ Contact us about Cyber Executive Briefing

Board-level Maturity Assessment

You’re heavily invested in technology, process and compliance – so what could possibly go wrong? Hackers don’t play fair, they look for the path of least resistance. IRM has seen FTSE 250 organisations hacked because the head office back door for smokers was left ajar.

IRM’s Board Level Maturity Assessment consultants take their understanding of business objectives to provide a strategic roadmap for security information alignment. This ensures the Board have a maturity model to work towards with bench-marked stages of progress against key criteria – making sure the right people, processes and technologies are in place in the event of a cyber-attack.

The objective assessment utilises questions from 10 steps, Cyber Essentials, PCI DSS, ISO 27001 and the GDPR. The process will provide a pathway to improvement, helping you to achieve business change to minimise cyber risk.

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Executive Security Talent

With UK industry and public sector fighting over the limited supply of Information Security senior managers, IRM can provide the perfect interim solution.

Whilst you search for your permanent replacement, we can provide an Executive to plug your talent gap. This avoids any disruption to your cyber security programmes, ensures your business runs smoothly within safe parameters and minimises your exposure to potential threats whilst you search for your long-term candidate.

Our consultants can help you develop employee awareness. This allows you to build a security information culture, ensuring your ready to identify a cyber-attack.

⇒ Contact us about Executive Security Talent

Cyber Governance Framework and Dashboard

Manage cyber security related risk effectively with your existing resources to secure overall business buy-in with the IRM Cyber Governance Framework.

IRM’s Cyber Governance Framework service helps your organisation to clearly demonstrate the critical business data and services, ensuring necessary resources are allocated to protect and preserve them.

IRM deliver prioritised, flexible, repeatable, and cost-effective Governance Frameworks through experienced consultants who know how to mould cyber security to corporate strategy. Once a framework is established, it will help bridge the gap between information security best practice and current business requirements.

Using our GRC platform, SYNERGi, we can produce a security dashboard with KPIs to present the level of security and compliance to the C-Suite.

⇒ Contact us about Cyber Governance Framework and Dashboards

Governance, Risk and Compliance Tool

Once our consultants help you draw up a security masterplan, you need a way to continuously monitor the ongoing risk and compliance of your organisation.

Our SYNERGi GRC platform support the C-suite by mapping security risks to existing business risks. It provides management and alignment of Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) covering multiple frameworks including NISD, GDPR, ISO 270001 and any bespoke internal frameworks.

⇒ Contact us about SYNERGi

Cyber Executive Briefing

Executive Boards have an individual and corporate responsibility to fully understand their cyber threat landscape. The plethora of Government schemes, legislation and compliance standards means it’s important to identify the areas to engage with and adhere to. Learn more about how IRM’s Cyber Executive Briefing can help.

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