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Cybersecurity Advisory Services

Identify hidden risks, enhance your cybersecurity program, and protect your organization’s value

As technology capabilities continue to evolve at a rapid pace, it’s difficult for internal IT departments to remain adequately equipped to protect systems and networks against a cyberattack.

Aprio’s Cybersecurity Advisory Services team can help you take a proactive approach to implement and maintain an effective cybersecurity program that protects the assets most vital to your company.

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Atit Shah - Service Leader

Atit Shah,

CISA

Cyber, Governance, Risk & Compliance Leader | Partner

Aprio Advisory Group, LLC

Holistic Cybersecurity Advisory Services tailored to your needs

Aprio comprehensively examines the cybersecurity landscape across people, processes, and technology to provide recommendations that can safeguard the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of your organization’s data. Our integrated approach protects your assets and brand reputation by performing:

  • Cybersecurity risk assessments
  • Cybersecurity maturity assessments
  • Penetration testing and vulnerability scanning
  • Technology due diligence
  • Privacy assessments
  • Third-party risk management
  • NIST cybersecurity framework solutions
  • IT audits

Strengthen your cybersecurity risk management with a top-down, risk-based approach

An effective cybersecurity program begins with a risk and maturity assessment. By leveraging the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) and the Risk Management Framework (RMF), Aprio can assess inherent risks to your organization from the top-down and provide actionable recommendations to enhance your overall cybersecurity effectiveness and keep your company ahead of the curve.

Penetration testing and vulnerability scanning

The ever-changing technology landscape can increase the risk of unidentified security gaps that can potentially be exploited. Vulnerability scanning and penetration testing identifies holes in your systems or networks caused from a variety of things such as misconfigured firewalls or improper patching.

Leveraging an external partner, like Aprio, can help you identify, analyze, and repair true vulnerabilities including:

  • Configurations that do not meet compliance
  • Unpatched or out-of-date servers
  • Unauthorized changes to configurations
  • Unencrypted file stores and data connections
  • Improper configured systems and networks
  • Exploitable weaknesses and false positives

Technology Due Diligence

When it comes to M&A transactions, evaluating the technological environment of a company you’re considering buying is a necessary step for a successful deal. Existing technical risks within a target company can influence deal terms or pricing and provide insights that may influence ROI.

Aprio’s comprehensive assessment offers a clear picture of the target company’s technology stacks, costs, security posture, and compliance obligations.

Privacy Assessments

Privacy is often top of mind for both regulatory requirements and consumers, and requirements may vary based on location of operations and type of data held. Evaluating data handling practices and identifying potential risks are critical to safeguard privacy rights.

Aprio can help your organization with any privacy requirements or concerns, including:

  • Health Insurance Portability and
  • Accountability Act (HIPPA)
  • General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
  • California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
  • New York Privacy Act (NYPA)
  • Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)

Third-Party Risk Management

A secure environment also extends to third-party suppliers that your organization uses for operations. Third-party risk management assessments focus on understanding the security practices, compliance standards and overall reliability that your organization relies upon. Understanding the risks that third-parties pose is crucial in the remediation of these risks.

By performing third-party risk assessments and implementing repeatable practices, Aprio’s team of professionals provide critical insights into the impact and risk that a third-party can pose to your organization. Aprio will provide actionable recommendations to help ensure your supply chain remains secure and resilient.

NIST Cybersecurity Framework Solutions

NIST assessments help organizations mitigate cybersecurity risks and enable organizations to demonstrate adherence to federal organizations through CMMC, FISMA, FedRAMP, and StateRAMP by utilizing Independent Verification & Validation (IV&V) reports.

Aprio’s cybersecurity team can support the entire NIST SP 800 lifecycle, including NIST SP 800-53 and NIST SP 800-171, and guide your organization through new governance, risk and compliance (GRC) requirements, continuous reporting requirements, and cybersecurity maturity assessments based on the applicable NIST SP 800 series.

IT Audits

Given the complex and evolving nature of IT, leveraging specialists to manage the IT internal audit helps organizations manage risk and ensure accuracy. IT audits span a breath of controls, including change management, access management, licensing, separation of duties, cloud security, software development lifecycle, asset management, and more.

Aprio’s team of professionals can help develop a customized audit approach based on the organization’s risk tolerance level and areas of concern. Throughout the IT audit, our team will identify control deficiencies based on an existing set or best practices and provide detailed recommendations for remediation.

Enhance your cybersecurity program with Aprio

Gain actionable recommendations to reduce your risk exposure and strength your cybersecurity program.

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