Cybersecurity Services
Protect your digital assets and meet privacy compliance requirements.
The cybersecurity threat and data privacy compliance landscape is constantly evolving, and CREO helps organizations navigate it with a business-driven approach that mitigates risks, meets regulatory requirements, and increases stakeholder confidence.
How We Help Clients
Security & Privacy Programs
We provide cybersecurity leadership and teams to advance your security and data privacy objectives at a fraction of the costs of hiring full-time security experts.
CHALLENGES
Security needs to be integrated with the business’s goals, priorities and operational processes. To do that effectively, you need security experts with a deep understanding of how to align security best practices with your organization’s mission and objectives. Full-time, highly-qualified information security officers and teams are expensive and in high demand. Relying on non-skilled personnel to fulfill these critical roles puts your reputation and revenue at risk.
Our Solutions
Fractional CISO and DPO
Collaborating with IT and business stakeholders to drive strategy and initiatives to mature your security program.
Security & Privacy Program
Our experts in security and data privacy will develop a strategy, document policies and procedures, identify and manage gaps, create a plan of actions and milestones, and assist with implementing ongoing improvements.
Audit Readiness
Preparing you for an audit through our pre-audit readiness assessment to identify your gaps and define a plan of action before your auditor arrives.
Security & Privacy Regulations Advisory
Leverage our expertise in industry frameworks including: GPDR, HIPAA, NIST SP 800-53, 800-171, CMMC, ISO 27001, 21 CFR Part 11, HIPAA, FISMA, FedRAMP and other models to develop the best approaches for your business.
Integrated Risk Management
We first seek to understand your business then help you efficiently protect it.
CHALLENGES
The business drives security. There is little need for security if your organization can’t effectively serve its customers and generate revenue. That’s why we take a risk management approach to security. Not only does this align investment in security controls with your valued data assets and business risks, but it also helps employees understand their role in safeguarding the organization.
Our Solutions
Risk Assessment & Strategy
We know that it is important to understand your risks and to measure the effectiveness of your risk management strategy, and provide leading methodologies that help you demonstrate progress.
Data Protection & Governance
CREO understands that data is the lifeblood of most organizations, and we focus on understanding what the most important data is, where it resides, and how it flows before defining a plan for protecting it.
Third-Party Risk Management
Partners, contractors and suppliers may pose a risk to your organization, and we’ll help you identify and reduce those risks.
Culture Transformation
We have seen firsthand how the best security controls will fail if people don’t understand their roles and expectations. We take time to understand your users and provide engaging and impactful security training that connects.
Threat Operations
We help protect your organization from persistent cyber threats so you can focus on driving your business with confidence.
CHALLENGES
Cyber attackers are always improving their techniques, and they never sleep. Vulnerabilities such as software bugs and system misconfigurations provide an open door for attackers to exploit. Staying ahead of attackers is a tall order, and not all businesses can afford the resources to monitor for threats around the clock.
Our Solutions
Managed Detection and Response Services
We provide 24 x 7 monitoring of your networks, endpoints, and cloud environments to help you detect, investigate, and eradicate cyber-threats.
Incident Response Preparedness
We define and test your incident response procedures to ensure stakeholders know their roles and responsibilities to quickly respond to cyber-attacks and data breaches.
Penetration Testing
We test your security controls using sophisticated tools and social engineering techniques used by attackers to identify and correct vulnerabilities before they are exploited.
Security Operations Support
We assist your IT team with managing its security tools, monitor security incidents, and investigate potential threats and alerts for rapid remediation.
Cloud & Infrastructure Security
Our security experts help you protect your valued data and applications so you can focus on the benefits of the cloud.
CHALLENGES
While cloud computing, storage, and Microsoft 365 offer many improved security controls, they also introduce risks that are often not well understood. Organizations using cloud service providers often have a false sense of security by assuming that the provider is protecting their mission-critical systems and data assets. Your cloud security is only as effective as your systems are architected, designed, and configured, and many of these responsibilities remain with your organization.
Our Solutions
Security Architecture & Design
Whether you have an existing system, web application, or are building a new solution, CREO’s security experts can identify design vulnerabilities that may have been overlooked and provide technical remediation guidance.
Tools Selection & Implementation
Limitless security tools available can be confusing and often have overlapping functionality. CREO will help you select the right tool(s) for your specific needs and assist with implementation.
Microsoft 365 Health Check
We conduct a technical security review of your M365 tenant(s) and provide actionable configuration improvements.
SaaS Security Assessment
We conduct security assessments of your software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendors to ensure they store and protect critically sensitive data assets for both you and your customers.
I was impressed with CREO’s ability to effectively partner with functional leaders throughout the company and quickly build trust. CREO’s first priority is always to address how they can help BioAgilytix be successful!”
— Todd L., BioAgilytix
Our People
Connie Pearcy
Senior Managing Director
To each new engagement, Connie brings her leadership experiences working in nonprofit, private, and public companies across…
Dennis DeWolf
Senior Manager
Dennis is currently serving as the Senior Manager for Cybersecurity and Technical Operations at CREO, leveraging over…
Clifton Medford
Engagement Manager
As a leader in Information Technology, Clifton brings excellent professional experience in Information Technology Management…
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