In today’s complex business environment, precipitate reactions to the latest technical security threat will not resolve flaws in the overall approach to security. Organizations must implement and maintain proactive security governance and security transformation programs to survive in today’s competitive market and to achieve operational excellence aligned to their strategy, vision and risk appetite.

How Neotrust can help?

With our Security Transformation CISO accelerator program, Neotrust helps organizations address a wide range of security requirements, using proven methodologies to design and implement programs and solutions around policies and standards, governance and strategy, technology architecture design, Cyberdefense, and automated risk and compliance solutions.

Neotrust proposition overview

With our proven CISO and CTO experience, we help our clients provide an efficient and long-term step-change in the structure, governance and approach to Information Security. Project lifecycle typically involves selecting a security framework, analysing current state, defining a future state vision, establishing a strategic roadmap to secure your critical assets, evolving your security culture, designing projects and lastly, its implementation with our vast industry knowledge to find and manage the best security partners (proven adequate solutions providers, experienced value added integrators, etc.) at the right cost and desired timing.

Benefits of our approach

• Experience – valuable advice from highly-experienced CISOs who have resolved similar issues with leading global organizations.
• Flexible – a service that will flex and fit the changing needs of your organization – you can engage with us at different levels to suit your specific requirements.
• Reduce risk – increase stakeholder value by aligning security with business objectives while balancing their need with identified risk.
• Optimize investment – organizations have specific budgetary needs and we deliver exactly the services/solution required for success.
• Increase engagement – security is not just about IT, but can be a complex business issue. We engage with your business, stakeholders, executives and the board to bridge the awareness gap.
• Remove obstacles – remove the ‘security as an obstacle’ stigma to further engage, align and empower security within your organization.
• Seamless – Neotrust will partner with you either in providing seamless transitions and/or seamless integration of our end-to-end cybersecurity services into your current organization.

Today, Boards of Directors and CISOs face numerous challenges. Threats are becoming more frequent and increasingly complex, leaving many companies struggling to find adequate cybersecurity resources. Developing a security transformation plan will protect your company’s interests and most valuable assets, but it requires time, expertise, leadership support, and the right resources to develop a program and proactively address risks. Often, knowing where to start is a challenge.

Is the leadership committed?

Security is never just an IT issue. To effectively manage risks, the board of directors and the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) must maintain a relationship of mutual commitment, asking the right questions, closely monitoring activities, and ensuring visibility of the CISO’s work so that decisions about security and overall risk are made jointly.

How to choose the most suitable executive CISO service

Set security standards at the board level. Protect your business by integrating an experienced security leader into your executive team. Our Executive CISO program connects your leaders with carefully selected, board-level seasoned security experts to help raise your risk awareness and comply with applicable regulatory requirements.

Our Executive CISO programs are designed to assist businesses of all sizes and sectors in facing their specific security challenges. When we engage with you, we start by understanding the specifics of your business as well as your objectives and needs, to define the most suitable Executive CISO services, which may include:

• CISO Transformation – a longer-term commitment where we act as members of your executive team to help you define a comprehensive and sustainable risk and security transformation program.
• Interim CISO – a temporary engagement to assist your business following the departure of your CISO or any other security leader; during the transition from one CISO to another, or to help you establish the role of your CISO or any other security leader.
• Chief Security Architect (CTO) – a technical strategist or Chief Technology Officer advising you in one or more specific application areas, working closely with the CISO to build and execute the security transformation plan.
• Executive Security Advisor – a trusted strategic advisor to support your current CISO in benchmarking, collaboration, leading a security initiative, or any other consulting service.

At the end of the security transformation program, once your company is ready to welcome a CISO or a Chief Information Security Officer (typically within 12 to 18 months), we commit to helping you recruit an effective security leader and ensure a smooth transition, allowing you to capitalize on your security investment with your new CISO over the long term.

“Since security is a marathon rather than a sprint”, dedicated security innovation programs make the biggest impact when they are incorporated into a company’s long-term security strategy. There are thousands of cybersecurity companies around the world, especially in Europe, the United-States, Israel and Asia. The innovation is so rapid that it is often challenging to keep track of the emerging capabilities.

Walking through all those companies is necessary but time consuming and can often be frustrating. Technology scouting does the qualifying for you by finding only technologies that can reasonably address your needs. Technology scouting takes care of the busy work and ensures that the technologies you are reviewing have a likely chance to meet your challenges.

Our objective

In a business era of evolving threats and increasing competition, Security Transformation has become a must-have for companies across industries. Hackers do not wait and constantly improve their attacking techniques. You must go as fast to protect your organizations. It is therefore no longer a question of whether to innovate, but how to innovate in a way that works best for your company.

With our ecosystem of security experts around the world, Neotrust identifies the latest Technologies, Trends, Innovations to close emergent need gaps by evaluating the optimal technology opportunities, solutions, and pre-qualified suppliers to maintain momentum in developing sustained and state of the art security strategies.

How it works?

Neotrust Technology Scouting service is a service provided to cybersecurity leadership in industries that have critical need for security and compliance. Leveraging familiarity with the cybersecurity ecosystem and personal relationships with many of the leaders/SMEs of the ecosystem Neotrust identifies the right technology for your needs. Standard Process:

• An Executive Innovation Briefing between you and the Neotrust Management Team is held, in which we discuss some of your current and emerging challenges, and qualify your needs.
• Neotrust provides a report of cybersecurity companies that have an approach to address your needs. This includes a mapping of capabilities to the NIST Cybersecurity Risk Framework.
• If you are interested in hearing more, Neotrust sets up a 30/60-minute demo for each company.
• If there is any interest, Neotrust can organize a complete security evaluation of the desired solutions in our Lab or in your environment, as well as manage the follow up and next steps (e.g. minimize the repeated calls from well-meaning but persistent salespeople).
• We can manage with you the PoC process and evaluate all the deployment benefits and limitations of the identified solutions within your environment and constraint to help you to perform the best choice.

Our goal is to innovate alongside our customers to transform their security strategy. Neotrust LAB and PoC-as-a-Service helps your organization to embrace innovation with a smarter and faster fully secure way to evaluate and adopt the right new technologies.

Neotrust empowers companies to run multiple proof-of-concepts from multiple vendors simultaneously, without exposing their real data to third party vendors. By centralizing the PoC process, Neotrust significantly shortens the time from discovery to deployment so the enterprise can adopt new technology while it is still new.
With Neotrust LAB and PoC-as-a-Service, you can:

• Define and open PoC opportunities that reflect your innovation needs and goals
• Configure and run dedicated PoC environments in a Cloud, Hybrid or tailored LAB that fits your needs
• Analyze, evaluate and compare security solution performance based on the technical and business KPIs that are most important to your business

With our technology scouting activities and our security evaluation services, we focus on security products that are emerging and next generation. We provide insight, clarity, and confidence for our customers during their adoption of new security technologies.

Benefits

Organizations are constantly upgrading and modifying their enterprise to prevent or respond to a litany of evolving threats. Some bolster their technological arsenal with the support of large systems integrators and/or others have their own network of technology sources. In either case, Neotrust extends their reach into pockets of technology they would not otherwise access.

Of course, Neotrust’s program reaffirms technology/vendor choices the client already knew about, but Neotrust also generates choices they did not know about. This comprehensive coverage provides the peace of mind when clients consider a new technology that it has made its decision from a pool of the most viable solution providers.