Cybersecurity Strategy
Risk assessment, policy development, and active response planning tailored to your organization
Build practical defenses and prepare responses to modern cyber threats
Cybercrime is a booming industry — as much as $10 trillion per year and growing. The threats are evolving rapidly, and rising demands for AI-powered tools are forcing organizations to revise and clarify their security policies. Staying ahead of these looming cyber threats requires a proactive cybersecurity strategy designed to protect sensitive information and critical operations.
BDO cybersecurity strategists will begin with an objective assessment of your current cybersecurity state and risk profile. We work with you to develop and deploy robust, governance-based security policies and controls to reduce risk, strengthen business continuity, and improve regulatory compliance. Your security strategy will be tailored to your IT environment, resources, and vulnerabilities, safeguarding your reputation and keeping you ahead of emerging threats.
60%
“Organizations that invest in advanced cybersecurity measures experience 60% fewer security breaches.”
— Microsoft
3x
“Companies with a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy are three times less likely to experience a major data breach.”
— Cisco
Start Your Journey
with a Microsoft cloud cost control & security posture health check.
In order to get started on the road to maximizing Microsoft licensing and security investment, we recommend our customers undertake an initial Health Check - during which immediate savings and risk reduction opportunities are discovered. The Health Check presents a solid case for optimization, with a typical customer able to uncover an average of 25%-45% in savings.
What to Expect from the Active Insights Health Check:
- Savings and optimization opportunities identified in Microsoft 365 and Azure environments
- Visibility into underutilized resources, user licenses and functionality
- Security at-a-glance, outlining areas of cybersecurity improvement not supplied natively by Microsoft
- A fresh understanding into how governance and reporting can be refined and implemented across the organization
Get started on the road toward a bright, secure Microsoft future.
How BDO Can Help
BDO offers cybersecurity strategy services to help your organization achieve its goals.
Modernize Your Cybersecurity
BDO can assess your cybersecurity posture and vulnerabilities, then work with you to develop an agile, cloud-native approach that’s aligned to your current state and your growth strategy.
Empower Transformation
BDO delivers agile cybersecurity strategies and tools to support confident business growth and technology adoption.
Advance Cybersecurity Maturity
BDO brings up-to-the-minute experience and best practices to assess and strengthen your cybersecurity policies and posture.
Align Security Outcomes
BDO helps leaders shift cybersecurity performance evaluation focus from activity reporting to measurable business and financial benefits.
Strengthen Incident Preparedness
BDO helps build and update response plans to mitigate cybersecurity incidents and ensure swift business recovery.
Manage AI Risks
BDO helps deploys tools and frameworks to enable secure AI adoption while protecting data security and privacy.
Enhance Cost Efficiency
BDO can help rationalize expenditures through policy review and technology assessments that help identify and remove low-performing and legacy tools.
Maintain Compliance
BDO designs cybersecurity strategies to meet key government and industry standards like NIST, CIS, FFIEC, and ISO 27001.
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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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