Florian Muff
Cyber security has become about much more than just meeting compliance requirements and data protection laws. Today, the possibilities to collect and analyse data are unprecedented as the volume of digital information being shared between suppliers, contractors, business partners and clients just keeps growing. But as companies’ digital relationships expand, so too does their exposure to cyber risks. Cybercrime has become a very real threat for business continuity and reputation.
BDO supports you in establishing and embedding cyber security in your organisation’s risk management approach – to protect your business assets and data.
Cyber security model
Identify
- Evaluate existing securities measures and processes in relation to firewall configurations, network security structures, applications and application landscapes, software development standards and identity and access management.
- Establish a security culture: Cyber security is relevant for the entire organisation and needs to be included in awareness and training initiatives for management and staff.
Benefits for you
- Get clarity on your risk potential
- Know where you're vulnerable
- Ensure awareness of chief decision-makers
Protect
- Support management in identifying corporate assets and data that require protection.
- Develop and establish targeted protective measures to respond to potential attack scenarios such as identity theft, data corruption, manipulation or interception, spying, phishing, distributed denial of service (DDoS) or digital blackmail (ransomware).
Benefits for you
- Implement immediate first measures
- Get transparency on your liability risks
- Ensure a basic level of security
Detect
- Evaluate early warning tools and data analysis systems designed to prevent or minimise the damage of cyber attacks.
- Perform penetration testing to detect and identify cyber vulnerability.
Benefits for you
- Take a proactive approach to security monitoring
- Get peace of mind that your security mechanisms are working
- Enjoy budget certainty: Avoid additional expenses as a result of emergency measures
Respond
- Develop a response plan to effectively mitigate cyber attacks.
- Define behaviour towards relevant stakeholders.
Benefits for you
- Ensure rapid response
- Support strong resistance
- Remain in control in a crisis
Recover
- Develop and implement measures to restore functionality of your infrastructure.
- Safeguard recovery planning and implementation (crisis and business continuity management) in the event of a cyber attack.
- Develop and implement processes to subsequently identify and repair cyber vulnerabilities.
Benefits for you
- Restore normal status
- Enable ongoing security improvements
- Be robust for the future
Your introduction to Cyber Security & Risk
- Cyber Security Readiness – perform comprehensive assessment of risks and opportunities for process planning
- Vulnerability Scan – identify system weaknesses and define countermeasures
- Exposure Assessment – perform darknet research within legal boundaries
- Phishing – conduct awareness simulation as immediate measure against phishing attacks
- Penetration test – evaluation of the actual security by an ethical hacker
Watch our video to discover how a cyber defence strategy can help your organisation safeguard business continuity in the event of a cyber crisis.