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Kroll Virtual CISOs: Augmented Cyber Expertise Reduces Business Risk, Signals Commitment to Data Security

Irrespective of regulatory scrutiny in your industry or your organization, too much is at stake to not have a CISO on your team. A full-time data security leader has the specialized technical knowledge and corporate governance experience to help build not only a strong cyber security foundation, but also the agility to prevent, detect and mitigate evolving threats.

Kroll’s team of experts include former CISOs from a variety of industries who can strengthen your existing staff, set strategic objectives to support business-critical technology demands, and balance IT administration, as well as establish clear communication with the board of directors, investors, and government agencies.

Whether you are looking for an interim CISO or a longer-term arrangement, Kroll’s Virtual CISO Advisory Services provide the leadership you need, when you need it.

Sample high-level security strategy outline

You can rely on a virtual CISO from Kroll to have the technical expertise and business acumen to make an immediate difference. Our experts have served a broad range of industries — they will know how to align information security strategies with your company’s unique needs and challenges.

Kroll’s Virtual CISO Advisory Services help you prepare, protect and strengthen defenses

Our CISO Advisory Services are tailored to your specific situation and information security needs. While you have a number of options when it comes to the scope and length of services, there are five areas where most organizations benefit from the experience of a virtual CISO:

Strategy Definition

Guiding executives across business function and IT, Kroll’s virtual CISO helps identify business threats, baseline your current security program, and define security strategy in line with business objectives and technology strategies.

Assessment

Evaluating culture, processes and technologies from a security governance perspective, Kroll’s virtual CISO develops a prioritized set of actions to help effectively manage your information security strategy and program. Assessments can include:

Interviews with stakeholders across the technical, business and executive teams as well as gathering documentation
Robust reviews on a variety of areas, including information asset management, acceptable use policies, data classification, threat and vulnerability management and third party management

Oversight

Based on the assessment findings, Kroll’s virtual CISO can provide various types and levels of ongoing support, including:

Developing policies and procedures to close gaps in documentation
Developing a remediation plan with actionable, prioritized recommendations
Implementing the remediation plan
Providing ongoing strategic guidance that is less intensive, but assists the organization in maintaining long-term goals

Training

Security awareness is an important part of maintaining a robust program. Your virtual CISO can recommend and help implement training on topics for every level of user group within your organization.

IT Environment Security Design

For organizations looking to build from the ground up, Kroll’s virtual CISO can provide your team with necessary system hardening configuration guides and network designs. This will also include multiple security protections and incident monitoring controls.

Kroll Global Cyber Team Expertise

With offices in 20 countries and more than 30 cities, Kroll experts speak over 12 languages and have hands-on experience with regulations such as current European data protection laws, US HIPAA, PCI DSS, CASL, Hong Kong's DPO Principle 4, and GDPR measures. Many of our cyber professionals bring years of unique experience in a variety of industries as well as from their former service with law enforcement and regulatory agencies:

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)
Interpol
UK Intelligence and policing
Europol
Hong Kong Police Force
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
U.S. Secret Service
U.S. Attorney's Office

Virtual CISOs Bring Experience, Expertise, Leadership

Finding an experienced, well-qualified CISO in today’s competitive information security job market can be challenging, time-consuming and expensive. If you need a CISO now, then this is the perfect time to consider Kroll’s Virtual CISO Advisory Services.

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