Exiis Corporation consultants assist enterprise class network infrastructures in mapping business requirements, regulatory compliance, security policies, and strategic mission-critical applications to current and expanding business strategies. Through a proven process of methodologies, best practice recommendations, and extensive experience, Exiis Corporation minimizes the risks associated with rapid expansion, disjoined network silos, and complex ad-hoc networks by consolidating and combining resources into a single, easily managed and well structured environment.

Exiis Corporations team of Information Security Consultants deliver strategies that create safe and secure relationships between network users, data, information repositories, and infrastructure resources. Our unique approach to balancing security and access to network information allows the organization to remain agile and able to respond quickly to rapidly changing business requirements.

Information security practices require organizations to:

·         Make direct investments into security software, hardware, and related equipment to protect the organization from physical damage, unauthorized access to servers and networking equipment, and to protect information from other sources of internal and external attacks.

·         Exiis Corporation consultants design well-structured process-change management processes that allow the organization to grow seamlessly and easily during rapid expansion periods.

·         A complete analysis of the hundreds of thousands of regulatory and legal requirements that need to be enforced based on your industry requirements. Businesses that are in the financial sector need to enforce Sarbanes-Oxley SOX), medical professionals need to address the Health Insurance Portability And Act (HIPAA), and most industries have to e-mail retention and archiving requirements.

·         Information must be analyzed to determine its specific risk factor and be categorized into the appropriate level of protective services. Managing information data and assessing risks associated to its content is paramount to a successful security plan.

·         Access to information needs to be controlled, audited, and managed to the point where accurate reporting of access to information is recorded bit not so strict as to permit users from having access to information they need to perform their job function.

Once Exiis Corporation consultants have completed their security assessment, the team will prepare documentation and best practices recommendations that should be implemented to enhance and improve upon current security practices. By establishing measurable milestones and timelines, the team at Exiis Corporation will be able to meet and fulfill security requirements along the way. Information collected will assist us the organization with:

·         Prioritizing and solving information risk management with security best practices.

·         Gather and report on internal security processes, enforcement, and access to information.

·         Build upon and improve on existing security practices.

·         Align information security with business requirements, applying the least-privileged approach to all information resources.

Assessing and Assigning Risks to Information Assets

Information security practices are constantly evolving and improving. In order to remain current with new technology practices requires a team of professionals dedicated to the subject matter of network security best practice. The team of security and network consultants at Exiis Corporation is constantly working with these new developments which allows them to remain focused and current with changes as the evolve.

Key business drivers such as confidentiality, legal requirements and regulatory compliance have increased in their requirements adding additional requirements to the business organization. Most of these new and emerging requirements come with a host of new regulations that demand independent security audits, assessments, and certified results. Today’s information technology environments require a strategic approach to these challenges along with a comprehensive understanding of information assets, threats to those assets, security controls, methods to implement and deliver those controls while at the same time producing results that fall within these regulations.

Enterprise organizations can no longer afford to rely on product supplied security processes—the additional requirements that come with the enterprise prohibits a single application solution from providing all the requirements that are expected from the organization Today’s network environment requires application-specific solutions that will cross operating system platforms, capture and enforce pertinent security policies, while remaining sufficiently application neutral to be used across the enterprise.

Risk Remediation Processes

Exiis Corporation consultants provide a broad-based security posture when assessing enterprise network environments. Based largely on the ISO 27002 standard for information security--the process entails augmenting best practices that have been developed and used throughout the industry. These time-tested products and services ensure the enterprise network is safe and secure providing and meeting the requirements of legal and regulatory requirements.

Essential, in-depth risk assessment entails the assessment of governance, policy, data protection, access, authentication and other business and technical security controls. Our approach to assessing these processes is based on best-practices and solid methodologies that have been time-tested time and again with numerous customer engagements. Exiis Corporation consultants work closely with key business units, managers, and technical stakeholders to structure and deliver solutions that are best suited to your organization.

Our process is in-depth and extremely exhaustive in its approach. Exiis Corporation consultants will discuss the goals and objectives that surround rick assessment and how those goals and objective will map directly to your organization. Our team will develop a comprehensive project plan, complete with a work schedule, milestones, deliverables, and a structured approach to analyzing and discovering existing risks to your network. An extensive review of the current infrastructure environment, policies, standards, procedures, security policies, scheduled and non-scheduled audits together with additional documentation will be used to a comprehensive and professional review. Our team will also go beyond the review of policies and procedures by interviewing key personnel together with the current enterprise security posture—key decision makers and stakeholders will be engaged throughout the entire project to ensure the accuracy of these processes and to assist in identifying additional gaps that may exist. The end result will produce the information needed to make additional, well-informed decisions based on ISO 27002 control categories, prioritization of security risks and provide a roadmap based on solid discovery and best practice recommendations.

Focused and Defined Approach to Risk Assessments

Exiis Corporation brings a solid and time-tested methodology approach to the enterprise risk assessment process. By applying lessons-learned from previous client engagements, together with evolving industry recommendations, Exiis Corporation will deliver the most comprehensive review of the enterprise and its current risks. Activities associated with this process include:

·         Identifying and listing assets that are at risk together with assigning a risk score based on the functions or services provided by these assets.

·         Review the possible threats to these assets, the likelihood of an attack, and essential pre-emptive security measures to avoid the risk.

·         Review the controls and countermeasures in place to eliminate vulnerabilities and to take measures to prevent these risks from becoming a real threat.

·         Perform analysis necessary to determine existing gaps within the organization, prioritize those weaknesses and determine the best method to eliminate or minimize the gaps as it exists today.

·         Exiis Corporation will report on the findings of their discovery process, make recommendations for reducing or eliminating gaps in current controls, and to provide additional countermeasures to address future possible threats.

At the completion of your security assessment, Exiis Corporation will have identified your security risks, assigned priorities to these risks, identified gaps in relation to the protection of data and countermeasures, and provide a roadmap that will mitigate if not eliminate many if not all the risks discovered.

With thousands of deployments, infrastructure security reviews, and countless support cases, Exiis Corporation has the proven track record necessary to provide network security assessments, to identify potential risks together with identifying gaps associated with those risks make Exiis Corporation the perfect partner for your security risk assessment.