Fractional CISO

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Looking for a partner to solve your
cybersecurity and compliance challenges?

Assura’s Virtual ISO™ is the answer.

With Virtual ISO™, you can rest assured your organization will have industry-best protection, backed by our AuditArmor® Audit Defense Guarantee. We’ve got you covered, from security policies, procedures, and planning to risk assessment, third-party vendor oversight, and more. We understand there isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution for every organization, which is why we offer customizable options for this service.

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What do you get with Virtual ISO™?

Fractional Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Security policies, standards, and guidelines
Security processes, procedures, and plans
Business Impact Analysis
Security awareness training
Security and compliance assessments

Risk assessment
Third-party vendor oversight
Secure system development
Investigate and lead the response to security breaches
Recurring compliance activities management
AuditArmor® Audit Defense

Your total security and compliance solution.

We map out a fully functional and compliant program, then build it together
You’re guided through all program management decisions
You decide how your organization will run the business end of cybersecurity
All the unsexy work of documentation will be taken care of by your Virtual ISO™ team
Your IT experts implement the necessary technical safeguards

We work closely with your IT folks to make sure your system is secure
Once the program is in place we continue to keep it maintained and compliant going forward
Users are trained in security practices to help defend against attacks
We take on cybersecurity planning activities such as system security plans if applicable
In the unfortunate event of a cyber incident, we advise on how to handle it

Customizable Virtual ISO™ features and
add-ons to fit any organization’s needs.

Features

Assigned primary and backup Information Security Officers
Cybersecurity Incident Response Plan development, testing, and exercises
Compliant and actionable program implementation and operational roadmap
Managed compliance tracking, calendar, and workflows
Expert guidance to support your Fractional ISO such as incident response and security engineering experts
Program dashboarding and analysis delivered monthly to meet progress goals
Enrollment in Assura’s Cyber Heads-Up delivering you immediate alerts about new threats and vulnerabilities.
Customized cybersecurity policy and procedures for your organization
Business Impact Analysis
Risk assessments
Risk remediation planning
Management and technical security guidance
Initial and annual security training for end-users
IT disaster recovery plan development, testing, and exercises
Sensitive system security plans
Monthly social engineering and security awareness campaigns development
Initial and annual security training/briefings to executives and boards (*additional charges for travel may be included for in-person training)
AuditArmor® Audit Defense Guarantee
Other cybersecurity-related task items as mutually agreed

Add-ons

Third-party vendor risk assessment and management
Digital Forensics and Incident Response Management (DFIR)
Vulnerability Management as a Service (VMaaS) to include internal and external vulnerability scanning, reporting, remediation tracking, and validation of vulnerability remediation activities
Penetration Testing
Extended Detection & Response (XDR)
Multifactor Authentication (MFA)
Managed Detection & Response (MDR)
Cybersecurity Monitoring (SIEM)
Application Vulnerability Analysis
Administration of KnowBe4 security awareness and training tools
Cybersecurity engineering support
Initial and annual security training for IT system administrators and developers

Compliance and security for any industry.

Guaranteed compliance with the following standards and regulations.

CJIS

COBIT

FERPA

FFIEC

FFIEC CAT

CMMC

GDPR

HIPAA/HITECH

HITRUST CSF

ISO 27001/27002

ISO 31000

IRS 1075

NIST CSF

NIST SP 800-53

NIST SP 800-37

NIST SP 800-171

PCI DSS

SOX

GLBA

SEC530

SSAE-18/SOC 2 & SOC for Cybersecurity

State-level data breach reporting and cyber security standards and data protection laws

If you get audited, Assura has you covered. Our AuditArmor® Audit Defense Guarantee means that we guarantee our work to be compliant with the identified cybersecurity frameworks and regulatory requirements (unless waived by you). We defend our work at no additional cost. Yes, we’re serious. And yes, we’re that confident in the quality of our work. We have you covered from entrance conference to exit conference and will work with your auditor or regulator to defend our work. On the off chance that a change needs to be made to the deliverable, we’ll do that for free. It’s that simple.

How we’ve helped to protect industries like yours.

Education

Protecting a university’s network against both hackers and a student workforce.

A university approached Assura with a unique challenge that most other organizations don’t have. Because they employ students to help run various aspects of the school, they needed a way to ensure these work-study employees didn’t accidentally put the university’s data at risk.