Comprehensive Risk Mitigation Strategies

Governance

Governance is the foundation for transforming risk into business opportunity.

Governance

Our approach begins with the first principles of mission outcome and organizational benefits. Governance aligns culture, communication paths, and business outcomes to reduce friction, increase productivity, and minimize cost. Monitoring cybersecurity and privacy risks must be implemented in manageable, customizable methods that work for you. There is not a "one-size fits all" model; our design structures can strengthen your unique assets and soften your challenges. We accomplish this by analyzing your organization's current status, and building standards to elevate your organization.

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We use quantitative and qualitative measurements drawn from deep insights into organizational culture, mission, capacity, and structure.

Strategic Planning

Planning for cybersecurity and privacy risk management must exceed addressing vulnerabilities and compliance, and venture to focus on strategic outcomes. Our three-tiered planning methodology focuses on achieving strategic outcomes that can be operationalized and integrated seamlessly within the boundaries of your organization.

Anticipating Risk

Avoiding surprise is the bedrock of risk management.

Warning

Beyond traditional media monitoring, we trace patterns exhibited over time to provide the clarity around information for possible risk and cybersecurity warnings. We sift through critical intelligence and other resources to provide solid footing for the best risk-based decisions.

Evolving Landscape

More than ever, online presence is constantly shaping daily life. Data transmissions grow and consequently it grows demand for accountability. Cybersecurity, privacy, and other data risks are accelerating at astounding rates and are shaped by an increasingly shifting landscape of consumer sentiment, policy and regulatory action at all levels of government, and increasing legal and reputational peril.

Staying ahead of these risks is no longer a luxury, but is now a business imperative.

Third Party Risk

To manage across the full spectrum of data risks, an organization must look outside itself to manage the risk posed to it from its vendors, partners, and competitors. We take a holistic approach to managing third-party risk that includes assessing and monitoring third-party technical vulnerabilities, business models and processes, insurance coverage, and procurement and contracting risk mitigation.

Risk Framing

By holistically framing risk into your own context, we create organic solutions to your most pressing problems.

Scenario Analysis

Navigating through modern environments with dynamic threats and shifting expectations requires foresight. Measuring your organization's tolerance for risk will help us set up a new framework for priorities to contend with the complexities and uncertainties in the future. We help organizations anticipate their risk futures through empirically driven and imaginative scenario analysis that provides a solid grounding for overcoming ambiguities in risk management activities.

Individually tailored approaches seamlessly integrate risk management techniques.

War gaming & Simulation

Being prepared with a plan is not enough when a cyber event happens. Practice makes perfect. As an organization, you need to be confident that your plan will execute as easily as it is to prepare. Our suite of customizable war game and table-top simulation tools provide the ability to test response plans, exercise executive decision-making under uncertainty, and ensure effective internal and external communications.

Risk framing provides highly individualized perspectives to mitigating risk.

Alternative Approaches

Creating risk management solutions to your organization's unique cybersecurity and privacy challenges requires more than the usual approach. Every organization has its own set of biases and incentives that affect thinking about risk and that distort vexing problems. We will work with you to overcome these through counterfactual and design thinking, and consequence analyzes to leverage the culture, insights, and challenges unique to each organization. Our application of uncovering these opportunities develops problem-solving practices that are necessary but still integrate organically with your organization.

Data Risk Communication

Custom risk communication tactics protect and elevate your organization.

Board & Senior Executive Communications

Often, confusing and distracting language surrounding cybersecurity, privacy, and data use leads to ineffective risk communication for boards and senior level executives. The communications are disconnected from business priorities, do not provide meaningful risk context, and are too reliant on technical and legal verbiage. We work with your organization to frame and script communication based on corporate culture, brand alignment, business strategy, and risk tolerance levels. Integrating the meaningful metrics we develop into these communication methods, helps drive decision-making, and improve organizational oversight.

Effective communication about risk is vital to creating and achieving your business objectives.

Stakeholder Communications

Cybersecurity, privacy, and data use communications are needed across all dimensions of an organization yet are rarely viewed as a holistic business imperative. The three biggest impediments to effective stakeholder engagement are: an incomplete understanding of whom the stakeholders are, siloed and uncoordinated messaging, and appreciation of the varied audience expectations. We will customize and align communications for clients, internal employees, external vendors, regulators, and more, that are all essential to achieving your business objectives and protecting corporate reputation.