Cyber Security Advisory

Cyber Security
Diagnostics

Our Cyber Security Diagnostic Assessment (CSDA) service evaluates an organisation’s security position, providing a comprehensive understanding of current threats to IT security, whilst offering actionable advice to improve cyber security resilience.

Challenges

With the increase in cyber security risk, it has become more crucial for businesses to invest in reinforcing their IT security to maintain customer trust and protect company reputation. Organisations must manage their security budgets while addressing specific security gaps within their business to maximise ROI and reduce overspend.

Service Capabilities

Exponential-e’s CSDA enables organisations of all sizes to quickly and easily assess their security posture and make informed decisions related to their security investments.
Customers undergo an in-depth assessment of their organisation’s IT security to provide an understanding of current threats, while assessing their cyber security profile against industry best practices to fulfil certification requirements.
Expert cyber security consultants provide a thorough on-site assessment across the business, including team interviews, to understand the current controls in place and identify gaps in cyber security practices, which may increase risk.
Customers receive a comprehensive report identifying mission-critical information assets and providing results of information risk assessments, while evaluating the current approach to risk assessment and offering clear recommendations for improvement.

Our CSDA service will target and prioritise existing cyber security risks, provide practical advice to mitigate these risks and remediate issues, whilst and offering a baseline summary to enable strategic planning of cyber security policies.
Information presented in our CSDA report also assists with compliance to national and international industry accreditations (e.g. Cyber Essentials and ISO 27001).
CSDA provides a full day on-site with a qualified cyber security consultant, who will assess different areas of the customer’s business throughout the day.
Our CSDA service provides a holistic overview of the maturity of an organisation's controls around people, processes and technology, to enable the mitigation of imminent risks and to protect business integrity and customer loyalty.

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Why Exponential-e

We are the only UK provider with this type of light-touch assessment at a price point affordable for SMEs.
Our team of senior cyber security consultants have approximately 40 years of collective experience and skills to provide detailed, expert advice and drive ROI.
Our experience working closely with the British Standards Institute to achieve and maintain our 9 ISOs, including the coveted ISO 27001 Information Security Management System accreditation.
We are able to provide additional cyber security support through further services, including cyber security training for staff, phishing campaigns, and Penetration Testing.
Privately-owned CSOC to monitor each customer’s entire cyber security estate when they choose Exponential-e as their end-to-end security provider.

Risk Assessment Service

Our Risk Assessment Service identifies, analyses and evaluates risk, to ensure that the cyber security controls that are chosen are appropriate to the risks an organisation faces.

Challenges

Conducting a risk assessment can be a complicated task, especially for organisations that do not know what standard to measure their efforts against. Cyber risk assessments should be an ongoing activity. A comprehensive enterprise security risk assessment should be conducted at least once a year or when significant changes occur to the business, the IT estate, or legal environment to explore the risks associated with the organisation’s information systems.

Service Capabilities

Our team of qualified cyber security advisers will provide business-driven consultation on the overall process of assessing information risk.
A risk assessment consultancy can be performed on organisations of any size – including where the IT infrastructure includes a combination of complex legacy systems and newer operating systems whose compatibility is not always seamless
The service identifies the assets that require protection, relevant threats, weaknesses and exploitable vulnerabilities.

Our experts then look at assessing the level of potential threat posed by cyber criminals, which highlights what the impacts will be to the business.
Once a security risk assessment has been conducted, advice on the risk acceptance threshold or level of acceptance will be provided, along with a suitable control implementation.
Our deep industry expertise and pragmatic approach helps our clients improve their defences and make key strategic decisions that benefit their entire business.

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Why Exponential-e

Exponential-e specialises in providing best-practice action plans, consultancy services, risk assessments, risk management and compliance solutions, with a special focus on cyber resilience, data protection, cyber security and business continuity.
Our experienced consultants offer a sensible approach to aid our clients in improving their cyber defences and in recognising important decisions that benefit entire organisations.
A solution that is recognised under the major frameworks, such as CREST, ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus.

Penetration Testing

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Exponential-e’s Penetration Testing Service will assess a business’ exposure to risk; identifying potentially critical issues, ensuring that organisations are prepared and protected from the dangers of the digital world, while also adhering to regulatory compliance standards.

Challenges

Businesses are regularly falling victim to billions of threats attempting to deceive and steal their valuable Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and data. Resulting in significant fines and reputation damage, cyberattacks are a growing concern for businesses. Unfortunately, most businesses simply don’t have the resources or time to extensively research the demanding threat landscape for the latest trends and cyberattack vectors. This makes them vulnerable to evolving threats that could have been prevented.

Service Capabilities

Our PEN Tests produce advisory reports with actionable insight, to ensure the customers gain all the relevant information to act on and improve their security posture.
Our services are designed to provide comprehensive analysis, advice and actionable plans, enabling a business to resolve weaknesses before cyber criminals find them.
The PEN Test consultants have vast experience in business and management, allowing them to view a business as a single entity, instead of as an amalgamation of separate departments and divisions. The tests can be as in-depth as required, targeting data as well as systems.
An objective report is generated, which provides a summary of the organisation’s vulnerabilities.

Our service advises on the number of tests a customer should undertake. It may be seen that one test a year is not sufficient for the business, and instead multiple tests should be carried out, to ensure the security infrastructure is robust.
PEN Tests will look at all Internal and External infrastructure as well as web applications.
Walk-throughs are available for teams and stakeholders, to go through the PEN Test findings with remediation steps.
This service can be further complemented by the rest of our Cyber Security Ecosystem of managed end-to-end services.

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Why Exponential-e

A tailored service to meet individual companies’ processes and compliance requirements.
All tests are undertaken by security experts who are CHECK, CREST or Tiger accredited, and use the proprietary testing methodologies and tools.

Complete Infrastructure Assessment

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Our Complete Infrastructure Assessment scans a business’ infrastructure for vulnerabilities, which is key in a volatile market where the exposure grows in line with a company’s infrastructure.

Challenges

As organisations become more and more successful in a dynamic commercial world, the growth of their infrastructure is unlimited. With the availability of Cloud services, increased capacity and throughput of the hardware on physical or virtual servers, as well as different teams creating services on the same platform, the security risk grows.

Service Capabilities

Our Complete Infrastructure Assessment service helps recognise vulnerabilities which customers may not have known existed. This is a key strategy for maintaining a smooth-running business, while providing a high-quality platform for the customer to monitor both the internal and external structures.
These servers seek out internal and external vulnerabilities like a hacker would.
The tools provide an in-depth analysis of exactly where the risks lie, on what server or application and where on the network.
Reports are produced to show the current state of risk for the infrastructure.

The ultimate goal of our Complete Infrastructure Assessment service is to identify the risk exposure of an organisation’s cyber assets.
Throughout the process, all network devices and services that could be a source of vulnerabilities, are addressed appropriately.
Our consultants can review a company’s security processes and artefacts, then design a new architecture that is able to mitigate risks, reduce operating costs and enable new business drivers and opportunities.

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Why Exponential-e

Our consultants are equipped to talk customers through the reporting process, to ensure any complicated results can be translated in simple terms.
We are able to absorb the contents of the reports produced and then respond with appropriate solutions and remediation process to improve an organisation’s security stance.
Exponential-e can overlap multiple security solutions, minimising vulnerabilities by adopting appropriate layers of protection.

Incident Response Service

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When you are compromised, a fast and efficient response is needed to understand the depth and impact of the incident on your business functions.

Challenges

Preparation and planning are key to minimising the negative effects that a security incident may cause and reduce the likelihood of a breach occurring. We can help your business to effectively prepare to deal with a compromise. It is only when the incident occurs, that the true value of preparation is acknowledged.

Service Capabilities

We tailor our services to meet the customer’s needs - effective incident response requires specific, measurable, repeatable, and time sensitive execution against a clearly defined plan.
We work with the business to mitigate against disruption, brand damage, and data loss whilst reducing the operational impact to critical business functions.
Our Incident Response consultants have longstanding industry experience, technical knowledge and a passion for helping our customers through what is likely to be the most significant event a company will face.

To hunt for an incident and respond, the following cycles are completed:

Preparation - Employees must be trained and prepared to perform effectively and avoid critical mistakes.

Identify - Early identification of the nature of the attack can help any forensic investigations and increase situational awareness.
Contain - Containing the breach is important to minimise the impact. This can create strategies such as updating and patching systems, reviewing access protocols, reviewing user and administrative access credentials and strengthening passwords.
Eradicate - The root cause of the incident is eliminated, with any malware removed and updating and strengthening systems.
Recovery and Lesson Learnt - Systems and devices need to be restored to a safe state. At this stage, any analysis needs to be done to conduct a critical review of the incident. With the information gathered at this stage, businesses can enhance their ability to defend against future attacks.

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Why Exponential-e

Support is available around the clock, with our Partners only a phone call away when an incident strikes.
Seamless integration with other security solutions.
24 / 7 CSOC services to monitor real-time traffic, ensuring full visibility of all attempted cyberattacks.

Cyber Security Consultancy Services

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Our Cyber Security Consultancy Services are delivered by a team of experienced consultants who have an invaluable understanding of the cyber risks businesses face today. We can help implement the best possible security solutions, tailored to any business requirements or budget.

Challenges

With significant advancements in recent technologies, cost and convenience have been largely prioritised over cyber security considerations. Malicious users exploit this vulnerability, often causing serious harm to organisations.

Service Capabilities

Our expert cyber security consultants are able to explain complex security solutions in simpler terms, ensuring that the overall advisory process is less daunting to the customer.
With cyber-attacks becoming more sophisticated, it is more important than ever to receive expert advice to help with safeguarding customer assets.
Ensure that customers are not liable to the consequences of a cyber-attack – our experienced consultants can help them put appropriate measures in place to reduce the risk of an attack.
With experience across a wide range of sectors, we understand that business objectives and threat levels vary considerably.

Exponential-e can accommodate any necessary requirements a business may have, regardless of the sector.
Our cyber security consultants are security cleared.
Our consultants act with integrity, proportionality and objectivity. We protect customer confidentiality and we are compliant with all relevant regulations, including ISO 27001, BS 10012 and Cyber Essentials Plus.
We continuously aim to be ahead of the advancing threat landscape and increasing cyber security demands, to ensure we meet our customers’ needs.

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Why Exponential-e

We can provide a dedicated consultant, committed to helping businesses stay ahead of cyberattacks and ultimately reduce both risks and cost.
Many of our consultants are Certified Information Systems Security Professionals.
CompTIA Security + Certified consultants.
24 / 7 CSOC services to monitor real-time traffic, ensuring full visibility of all attempted cyberattacks.

GDPR Readiness and Review Assessment

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Our GDPR Readiness and Review Assessment is a process that helps organisations identify and minimise risks resulting from data processing. Cyber Security compliance is not only a legal requirement, however it ensures businesses are prepared and protected from the dangers of the digital world.

Challenges

GDPR compliance carries extensive consequences for businesses worldwide. Breaches of data regulations or non-compliance can result in severe fines, brand damage and the suspension of data transfer.

Service Capabilities

Our GDPR assessment provides an on-site evaluation of the data protection risks associated with any existing or new data processing operations within businesses.
We can offer recommendations on appropriate solutions to mitigate data risks.
This assessment provides indicators of a business’s compliance level, as well as highlighting focus areas that need attention.
Our GDPR Assessment reviews data processing, data management, privacy policies, rights of the data subject, governance and data protection.
Businesses need to meet compliance standards from both a legal and industry standpoint, in order to hold financial information on behalf of customers.

The assessment offers an expert, impartial view of a business’s risk, compliance and security frameworks.
Exponential-e has the expertise to help businesses handle data and avoid potential breaches.
We identify an organisation's critical data and processes to control end-user personally identifiable information (PII)
Our GDPR Readiness and Review Assessment consists of a consultative engagement, followed by a dedicated report with areas for consideration highlighted.
Conducting a GDPR Assessment shows that a business is fully aware of its data protection vulnerabilities, which we can help to resolve.

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Why Exponential-e

We provide independent and objective advice on GDPR compliance.
We offer a variety of solutions to put in place, in order to improve a customer’s GDPR compliance.
Exponential-e can provide PEN Testing, Compliance Auditing, Cyber Essentials Standards and more.
All test personnel are security checked and CHECK and CREST accredited.

Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus

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Cyber Essentials helps a business guard against the most common cyber threats whilst demonstrating commitment to cyber security.

Challenges

It is seen that cyber-attacks can cause a lot of disruption and downtime, leading to a loss of substantial amounts of money. There seems to be no correlation in the type of business the attacks are focused on, with hackers exploiting any weakness in IT infrastructure and software.

Service Capabilities

Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus are Government-enforced industry schemes to help protect organisations against security threats while showing a proactive commitment to Cyber Security.
Cyber Essentials addresses the basic security needs and shows how a company can protect against common attacks.

Requirements for Cyber Essentials include the following:

Configuration and Firewall protection is used on all devices including those connected to public and untrusted Wi-Fi networks.
Only software, accounts and apps that are necessary to the business are used.
Access is managed efficiently with access and privilege rights given to only those who need it.
All apps, devices and software are always kept up to date.
The scheme addresses and defends against attacks such as hacking, phishing and password guessing.

All devices which are connected to the internet are ensured that there is protection on confidentially, integrity and availability of data stored on these devices.
This certification guarantees that a business has put measures in place to protect them from cyber-attacks.
In order to gain a Cyber Essentials certification, an accreditation body will need to be selected. We will help the customer to identify the correct body and verify that all standards are being met. A questionnaire will need to be completed and verified to be awarded with the certificate.
Cyber Essentials Plus has all the same requirements as Cyber Essentials, as well as meeting the requirements of the technical security controls, which are firewalls, secure configuration, user access control, malware protection and patch management. Along with this, an independent assessment will need to take place.

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Why Exponential-e

Seamless migration and 24 / 7 support along the journey, through dedicated Sales Specialists, Solutions Consultants, Delivery Experts and our 24/7 UK Support Desk.
Extensive partnership agreements with key suppliers, to support customer transition.
Fully managed end-to-end solution for complete peace of mind.
Working closely with the BSI to achieve and maintain our 9 ISOs / Standards.
Additional support from Exponential-e’s own CSOC, if required.