Cybersecurity Assurance
Continual assessment and penetration testing for confidence in your security
Validate your cyber defenses with rigorous monitoring and testing
The strength of your cybersecurity isn’t something you can afford to take on faith. Security controls, vendors, and partners must be tested rigorously and continuously — not only to confirm that they are performing as expected, but to assess whether any breaches have occurred, evaluate potential impacts, and take corrective action. The alternative is a false sense of security and an enormous risk of reputational damage.
Offensive security services and active penetration testing provide early detection and management of vulnerabilities and prepare your incident response teams to identify and contain breaches in hours instead of weeks. Regular, disciplined testing elevates your defenses from theoretical to practical, providing assurance that your cybersecurity measures are realistic, scaled appropriately, and fit-for-purpose.
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“It takes 277 days on average to identify and contain a breach: 207 days to identify and 70 days to contain.”
— IBM
74%
“74% of employees would be willing to bypass cybersecurity guidance if it helped them or their team achieve a business objective.”
— Gartner
30%
“The average cost of a data breach is reduced by 30% for organizations with a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy.”
— IBM
How BDO Can Help
BDO offers cybersecurity assurance services to help your organization achieve its goals.
Assess Application Risks
BDO works with you to identify vulnerabilities in business applications and infrastructure to better understand and manage potential security risks.
Prioritize Security Vulnerabilities
BDO analyzes vulnerabilities to identify and prioritize risks, quantifying their impact and guiding efficient mitigation.
Strengthen Cyber Defenses
Simulated attacks and team evaluations clarify vulnerabilities, strengthening your cybersecurity defenses and strategies.
Real-time Security Control Validation
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Capabilities
Your risk profile, and the policies and technological infrastructure you need to manage it, are fundamentally dynamic. BDO works with you to define your risks, design policies to address them, and operationalize those policies.
- Priority identification
- Policy development
- Technology evaluation and rationalization
- Architecting solutions
When a natural disaster or other emergency condition disrupts IT operations, a robust disaster recovery plan is essential to mitigating operational and reputational risk. BDO works closely with you to develop a policy-based approach that clarifies and codifies every step of your disaster recovery strategy — moving you back toward normal operations as quickly as possible.
- Business impact analysis
- Run-book recovery documentation
- Technical priorities and role definitions
- Communications planning
- Scenario planning
- Policy development, assessment, and testing
- Tabletop exercises
- Defining third-party risks and dependencies
- Policy and framework development
- Ongoing policy management
- Cloud Security
- Data Protection and Privacy
- Application and Offensive Security
- Program and Organizational Change Management
Your risk profile, and the policies and technological infrastructure you need to manage it, are fundamentally dynamic. BDO works with you to define your risks, design policies to address them, and operationalize those policies.
- Priority identification
- Policy development
- Technology evaluation and rationalization
- Architecting solutions
When a natural disaster or other emergency condition disrupts IT operations, a robust disaster recovery plan is essential to mitigating operational and reputational risk. BDO works closely with you to develop a policy-based approach that clarifies and codifies every step of your disaster recovery strategy — moving you back toward normal operations as quickly as possible.
- Business impact analysis
- Run-book recovery documentation
- Technical priorities and role definitions
- Communications planning
- Scenario planning
- Policy development, assessment, and testing
- Tabletop exercises
- Defining third-party risks and dependencies
- Policy and framework development
- Ongoing policy management
- Cloud Security
- Data Protection and Privacy
- Application and Offensive Security
- Program and Organizational Change Management
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