Strategic guidance to build and mature your security program, aligned with your business objectives. We help you design security architecture, assess risks, and develop security strategies tailored to your industry and business needs.
Effective security isn't just about implementing controls. It's about building a security program that aligns with your business objectives, manages risk appropriately, and evolves with your organization. At Charlie Defense, our security consulting services help you build and mature a security program that protects your business while enabling growth and innovation. We take a strategic, business-aligned approach to security that goes beyond technical controls to address people, processes, and technology.
We begin by conducting a comprehensive assessment of your current security posture. This includes evaluating existing security controls, policies, procedures, and organizational structure. We assess your security architecture, identify gaps, and understand how security is currently integrated into your business processes.
We conduct interviews with key stakeholders including executives, security team members, IT staff, and business unit leaders to understand security priorities, pain points, and business objectives. We review existing documentation including security policies, procedures, risk assessments, and incident response plans. We also assess your security tools and technologies to understand what's working well and what might need improvement.
This comprehensive assessment provides a clear picture of where you are today, helping us identify strengths to build upon and weaknesses to address. We document findings in a current state assessment report that serves as the foundation for our recommendations.
We conduct a comprehensive risk assessment to identify and prioritize security risks to your business. This includes identifying critical assets, potential threats, vulnerabilities, and the business impact of security incidents. We use industry-standard frameworks and methodologies while tailoring our approach to your specific business context.
We develop threat models that identify potential attackers, attack vectors, and security concerns relevant to your industry and organization. We consider various threat actors including external attackers, insider threats, nation-state actors, and business competitors. We assess the likelihood and impact of various threat scenarios to help prioritize security investments.
Our risk assessment considers not just technical risks, but also business risks, compliance risks, and reputational risks. We help you understand how security risks translate to business impact, enabling informed decision-making about security investments and risk tolerance.
Based on our assessment and risk analysis, we design a security architecture that addresses identified risks while aligning with your business objectives. We develop security architecture that is scalable, maintainable, and cost-effective. Our architecture designs consider defense in depth, least privilege, and other security principles while remaining practical and implementable.
We design security controls across multiple layers including network security, endpoint security, application security, data security, and identity and access management. We consider how security controls integrate with each other and with your existing infrastructure. We design security monitoring and logging capabilities to provide visibility into security events and enable effective incident response.
Our security architecture designs are documented in detail, including diagrams, control descriptions, implementation guidance, and integration requirements. We provide architecture designs that your team can use to guide security implementation and infrastructure decisions.
We help you develop a comprehensive security program that includes policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines. We develop security policies that are clear, actionable, and aligned with business objectives and regulatory requirements. We create procedures for security operations, incident response, vulnerability management, and other security processes.
We help you establish security governance structures including security committees, roles and responsibilities, and decision-making processes. We develop security metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure security program effectiveness. We create security awareness and training programs to ensure your team understands security policies and procedures.
We develop incident response plans that define how your organization will detect, respond to, and recover from security incidents. We create business continuity and disaster recovery plans that consider security incidents and their business impact. We develop vendor security management programs to ensure third-party vendors don't introduce unacceptable security risks.
We help you understand and meet compliance requirements relevant to your industry and business. This includes assessing compliance with regulations such as GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOX, and industry-specific requirements. We develop compliance roadmaps that identify gaps, prioritize remediation efforts, and provide guidance for achieving and maintaining compliance.
We map your security controls to compliance requirements, helping you understand how security investments support compliance objectives. We develop compliance documentation including policies, procedures, and evidence collection processes. We provide guidance for compliance audits and assessments, helping you prepare for and respond to regulatory inquiries.
We develop a prioritized implementation roadmap that guides your security program development over time. This roadmap considers business priorities, resource constraints, risk levels, and dependencies between security initiatives. We help you understand which security improvements will provide the most value and should be prioritized.
Our roadmaps are practical and achievable, breaking large security initiatives into manageable phases. We consider implementation complexity, resource requirements, and business impact when prioritizing recommendations. We provide timelines, resource estimates, and success criteria for each phase of the roadmap.
We design security architectures for new systems, cloud migrations, and infrastructure modernization efforts. We develop security architectures that are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with business objectives. Our architecture designs consider current and future business needs, helping you build security that grows with your organization.
We conduct comprehensive risk assessments to identify and prioritize security risks. We develop risk management programs that help you make informed decisions about risk tolerance and security investments. We provide ongoing risk assessment services to ensure your risk management program stays current as your business evolves.
We help you understand and meet compliance requirements including GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and industry-specific regulations. We develop compliance roadmaps, create compliance documentation, and provide guidance for compliance audits. We help you build security programs that support compliance objectives while providing business value.
We help you build comprehensive security programs from the ground up or mature existing programs. We develop security policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines. We establish security governance structures and develop security metrics to measure program effectiveness.
We develop comprehensive incident response plans that define how your organization will detect, respond to, and recover from security incidents. We create playbooks for common incident types, establish communication procedures, and develop relationships with external incident response resources. We conduct tabletop exercises to test and improve incident response capabilities.
We help you assess and manage security risks from third-party vendors. We develop vendor security assessment processes, create vendor security requirements, and establish ongoing vendor security monitoring. We help you understand and manage the security risks that vendors introduce to your organization.
Our security consulting services utilize industry-standard frameworks and methodologies while tailoring our approach to your specific needs.
We use the NIST Cybersecurity Framework to assess and improve your security posture. The framework provides a common language for understanding, managing, and expressing cybersecurity risk.
We help you implement and maintain ISO 27001 information security management systems. We develop policies, procedures, and controls aligned with ISO 27001 requirements.
We use the OWASP Application Security Verification Standard to assess and improve application security. The standard provides a framework for secure application development and verification.
We use the MITRE ATT&CK framework for threat modeling and security control assessment. The framework helps us understand how attackers operate and assess your defenses against real-world attack techniques.
We use the Factor Analysis of Information Risk (FAIR) model for quantitative risk assessment. FAIR helps us provide risk assessments in business terms that support informed decision-making.
We develop custom assessment tools and methodologies tailored to your specific industry, business model, and security concerns. These tools help us provide assessments that are relevant and actionable for your organization.
Our security consulting services are delivered by experienced security professionals who understand both security and business. We don't just recommend security controls. We help you build security programs that align with your business objectives and provide real value. We understand that security must enable business, not hinder it.
We take a practical, business-aligned approach to security consulting. Our recommendations are realistic, achievable, and consider resource constraints and business priorities. We help you make informed decisions about security investments by clearly articulating risks, costs, and benefits.
Our consulting engagements are collaborative. We work closely with your team throughout the engagement, ensuring our recommendations are practical and implementable. We provide ongoing support and guidance as you implement our recommendations, helping you achieve your security objectives.
We have experience across various industries and business models, allowing us to provide consulting services that are relevant to your specific context. We understand industry-specific security concerns, compliance requirements, and business models, enabling us to provide consulting services that are tailored to your needs.
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