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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
  • Cybersecurity health checks
  • Penetration testing and vulnerability scanning
  • Technology due diligence
  • Privacy assessments
  • IT Audits
  • Cyber Risk Quantification
  • Common Controls Framework Implementation
  • GenAI Assessments
  • NIST framework solutions and advisory
  • Vendor/Third-party risk management
  • Cybersecurity risk assessments
  • Cybersecurity maturity assessments
  • Cybersecurity health checks
  • Penetration testing and vulnerability scanning
  • Technology due diligence
  • Privacy assessments
  • IT Audits
  • Cyber Risk Quantification
  • Common Controls Framework Implementation
  • GenAI Assessments
  • NIST framework solutions and advisory
  • Vendor/Third-party risk management

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, improper patching or human error. 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
  • Susceptible end-users targeted by phishing attempts

Aprio can also test your incident response capabilities through threat hunting and cyber-attack simulations (red team, blue team, and purple team exercises).

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)

Vendor / Third Party Risk Management

Ensuring a secure environment doesn't stop at your organization’s boundary, it also extends to third party suppliers and vendors that your organization may rely on. Third-party risk management (TPRM), also known as vendor risk management (VRM) assessments help identify risks that third parties may pose and provide an understanding of the security practices, compliance standards, and reliability of third-party vendors that you organization relies upon.

Aprio's team of professionals can provide critical insights into the impact and risks that third parties can pose to your organization through conducting TPRM assessments and implementation repeatable practices for evaluating vendors. Through these assessments, Aprio will provide actionable recommendations to help mature your supply chain security.

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.

Common Controls Frameworks

In today’s complex regulatory environment, businesses face an ever-growing number of compliance obligations. As these requirements grow, the need for a cohesive solution becomes more apparent. The reality is that most organizations struggle with defining the minimum security requirements that are necessary to address both their compliance obligations and needs for secure practices. Rather than managing separate data sets and solutions, organizations seek to combine efforts to reduce redundancies. Implementing a Unified Compliance Framework (UCF) or Secure Control Framework (SCF) helps organizations address these challenges by streamlining compliance efforts and providing a centralized approach to managing various regulatory requirements.

Aprio's team of professionals can implement a customized UCF or SCF to simply governance, risk, and compliance requirements and minimize duplication of effort across audits and assessments.

Cyber Risk Quantification

Cyber security risk assessment is a systematic process to identify, evaluate, and prioritize potential threats that could compromise the confidentiality, integrity, or availability (CIA) of a company’s digital assets resulting in a material business impact. Cyber Risk Quantification (CRQ) is a method of translating those CIA impacts into financial terms consistent with how management teams and boards understand and manage other enterprise risks. By adding CRQ to an effective cyber risk assessment program, companies can make more informed and effective cyber risk management decisions.

Aprio can help you understand how to strengthen your cyber risk assessment approach and incorporate methods and supporting technologies that are aligned to your company’s size, complexity, and needs.  Our professionals are certified and experienced in leading cyber assessment methodologies such as FAIR, ISO, NIST, and Octave/Allegro. While there are a wide range of technology tools and platforms that can supplement and enable your cyber risk and CRQ program, we take an agnostic approach to help you understand and deploy a solution best suited to your needs.

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.

Artificial Intelligence

Generative AI is artificial intelligence (AI) that can create content based on patterns learned from large datasets. If your organization has already adopted AI or is considering implementing AI, you should be aware of the risks that may arise, including strategy, governance, people, processes, and technology. Aprio's GenAI Assessment can help you align your organizations strategic goals to GenAI initiatives while identifying potential risks and challenges associated with GenAI adoption, including data privacy compliance and other ethics and regulatory obligations.

Enhance your cybersecurity program with Aprio

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

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