Security Awareness and Assessment
Elevate your Cyber Security: Enhance awareness and assessment for robust protection
Cyber Maturity Program & Vulnerability Assessment
Understanding what’s happening behind the scenes can be challenging, especially when IT vulnerabilities remain hidden from view. That’s why a vulnerability assessment is crucial—it sheds light on potential security gaps within your network and equips you with the necessary tools to address them effectively.
Vulnerability assessments delve deeper, identifying broader risks within your network infrastructure. It’s often the unknown factors that pose the greatest threat, making it essential to protect yourself from potential risks.
During times of organisational change, vulnerability assessments offer expert guidance to identify and prioritise steps for enhancing your security roadmap. Upon completion, you’ll receive a personalised priority list of vulnerabilities, ranked by severity. Our expert team will then collaborate with you to develop a clear action plan, ensuring timely remediation of issues and fortifying your security posture for the future.
Phase 1: ASSESS
The Cybersecurity Maturity Program commences with the following activities to assess your business’ current cyber maturity status.
Key Stakeholder Surveys: The first step involves brief, in-person, one-on-one surveys with up to two executive team members to gather information, address concerns, and gauge business priorities.
High level audit: A Huon IT security expert conducts a discreet, non-invasive high-level audit of your business’s current security systems, including infrastructure, software, policies, and configurations.
Cyber Maturity Meeting: A two-hour meeting is conducted by Huon IT’s specialist with C-level executives, IT personnel, and compliance managers.
Huon IT will then collect responses post-workshop to evaluate the business’s security status and create a detailed report for future planning.
Phase 2: PLAN
Based on the report, our specialists will prioritise actions for the improvement program, focusing on realistic goals for the next quarter. This program aligns with the NIST framework, covering five key areas:
Identify: Assessing assets, policies, threats, and required assessments for creation or enhancement.
Protect: Implementing access controls, staff education, and policies to ensure adequate protection levels.
Detect: Establishing methods for detecting security breaches and monitoring them effectively.
Respond: Outlining procedures for responding to threats or breaches, including third-party involvement and compliance with Australia’s mandatory requirements.
Recover: Planning for recovery in case of breaches or data loss through disaster recovery, backups, and relevant policies.
Phase 3: GUIDE
Within 12 months of starting, Huon IT offers complimentary quarterly review calls with your account manager for managed clients. These calls aim to:
– Review previous agreed actions and gather updates from all parties.
– Discuss new issues affecting security, such as incidents, new requirements, business changes, and emerging threats.
– Update the Baseline Maturity Report.
– Set actions for the next quarter.
For non-managed clients, these services are available at a consultation rate of $150 per hour for each quarterly review. Huon IT records agendas and minutes for compliance purposes, aiding businesses in meeting regulatory requirements.
Essential Eight Assessment
The Essential 8 framework is a set of eight fundamental cybersecurity strategies developed by the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) to help organisations protect their digital assets and reduce cyber risks. These strategies include application whitelisting, patching applications, configuring Microsoft Office macro settings, user application hardening, restricting administrative privileges, patching operating systems, multi-factor authentication, and daily backups. By implementing these measures, businesses can establish a robust baseline for their cybersecurity practices, significantly mitigating their exposure to common cyber threats such as malware, ransomware, and data breaches.
An Essential 8 assessment evaluates an organisation’s current cybersecurity posture against the Essential 8 framework, scoring each strategy from 0 (non-compliant) to 3 (fully compliant). This assessment provides a clear picture of the business’ strengths and weaknesses, helping to prioritise areas for improvement. For businesses, this assessment is critical as it not only highlights vulnerabilities but also guides the enhancement of their cybersecurity measures. By regularly conducting Essential 8 assessments, businesses can ensure they are continuously improving their defences, maintaining regulatory compliance, and safeguarding their sensitive information. This proactive approach is more cost-effective and efficient than responding to cyber incidents after they occur, ultimately protecting the business’ reputation and operational resilience.
Get your business Essential 8 compliant
Contact us today to see how prepared your business is when it comes to Essential 8 and how we can help you to improve your cybersecurity posture
Cyber Security Training
Even with robust IT security measures, user behavior poses significant risks, making all employees vulnerable to malicious emails. Educating your staff on threat recognition is crucial for safeguarding your company’s data.
Cybersecurity is a collective responsibility, with phishing and ransomware attacks targeting employees. Our training program, powered by KnowBe4, offers tailored and supervised 12-month sessions to enhance awareness and security.
Educating your staff on identifying phishing scams and malicious attacks is vital for safeguarding your company’s data. Here are three reasons why cybersecurity awareness training is essential for your business:
- Equal Risk: Cyber-criminals target all employees in your organisation, making everyone susceptible to malicious emails.
- Swift Improvement: According to KnowBe4, companies initially have an average of 27% phish-prone users. After just 90 days of training, this decreases to 13%, and within a year, it plummets to only 2.1%.
- Mitigated Risks: Without proper training, your business faces financial losses from fraud, business interruptions, and reputational damage.
Equip your staff with the knowledge to protect your data and uphold your business integrity.
Penetration Testing
Cybercriminals actively seek vulnerabilities within your system, prompting us to identify and address them proactively. Amidst the daily hustle, it’s common to assume that your current IT security measures are sufficient, unaware of potential hidden gaps and backdoors that could compromise your company’s security. Discover more about our Network Penetration Testing to stay one step ahead of potential threats.
A penetration test simulates real-world hacking techniques to uncover overlooked vulnerabilities despite advanced cybersecurity measures. Unlike vulnerability assessments, penetration testing is an external evaluation by a third-party to assess the integrity of your web-exposed elements. Although no system is impenetrable, a strong defense should deter cybercriminals.
Typical issues detected in a penetration test include open ports, system vulnerabilities to known exploits, misconfigured devices, default settings on devices, unpatched systems, weak passwords and encryption, inadequate authentication mechanisms, system responsiveness to threats, susceptibility to social engineering, and deficiencies in internal company processes such as user exit procedures and password complexity requirements.
Policy Review
At Huon IT, we provide comprehensive IT policy reviews tailored to meet the unique needs of your organisation. Our expert team meticulously examines your existing IT policies to ensure they align with industry standards, regulatory requirements, and best practices.
Whether you’re looking to update outdated policies, enhance security measures, or streamline operations, our thorough review process will identify areas for improvement and provide actionable recommendations. With our IT policy review services, you can rest assured that your organisation’s IT policies are robust, compliant, and optimised for maximum effectiveness.
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