Cybersecurity

In today’s information economy, data can be your organization’s most valuable asset, but with the rise of mobile technology, cloud computing, and an exponentially growing volume of digital information, keeping that data secure also becomes one of your greatest challenges. Whether on a mobile device, a desktop, or other digital tool, the ever-expanding mass of electronically stored information requires reasonable and measured levels of security that are agile and adaptable to the risk and needs of each client, as well as their business or home.

Our specialized, responsive professionals are dedicated to delivering constant vigilance above and beyond what traditional in-house IT staff might offer, by constantly monitoring cyber activities and anticipating needs even before potential threats can strike. Protecting our clients’ information and computer systems is our mission. Our goal is to provide clients with the cybersecurity knowledge and experience necessary to build, maintain and grow their information systems safely. Whether you run a small company or a large enterprise, our cost-effective, comprehensive security services will provide you with the protection your organization needs.

At Forensic Options, we know securing and managing information and data is critical to the future of your business. We offer end-to-end cyber security consulting, from information risk assessments that help you benchmark safety measures and shore up weaknesses, to penetration testing that checks for robust defenses. Our team delivers scalable cyber security solutions to help you protect confidential and proprietary information from data security risks such as malicious insiders, network vulnerabilities and inadequate security policies.

What resources can Forensic Options deploy in the event of a cyber-security breach?

Regardless of the level of prevention, hacking and other security breakdowns can and do occur, and data is stolen. When this occurs, digital events need to be investigated as requested—and evidence can either go undiscovered or be rendered inadmissible if the work is performed by an unqualified or unlicensed technician. Forensic Options operates its own digital forensic lab staffed by licensed, full-time computer forensic investigators and technicians. Our facilities feature equipment suited for handling today’s mobile, desktop, and cloud-based forensic recovery and research requirements.

Our Cybersecurity practice specializes in:

Our cyber risk assessments deliver actionable recommendations to improve security, using industry best practices & the best technology available.

When it comes to data breach prevention, what you don’t know can hurt you. Your company faces IT risks daily – whether you’re fending off internal threats or enhancing protection against external intrusions. How well are you balancing your need to lock down data with tighter security controls, while providing your team with practically effortless access to the information that drives your success? You can never be sure of your security stance unless you’re conducting periodic security assessments.

We apply years of data breach prevention expertise to our cyber risk assessments, helping you identify potential vulnerabilities and implement sound data breach prevention practices for effectively securing your sensitive information.

Our experts are Certified Information Systems Auditors, Certified Information Security Managers, Certified Information Systems Security Professionals, and Certified Ethical Hackers. They are experienced cyber investigators, forensic computer scientists and networking professionals – people who speak the same language as your internal IT staff, and who can perform the in-depth analysis your busy IT staff doesn’t have the time or resources to conduct.

We recognize the key to successful information risk assessments and data breach prevention is achieving and maintaining the right security level for your organization. Our data breach prevention experts offer a full range of internal and external risk assessments to evaluate your systems, applications, and processes for a variety of vulnerabilities, including:

  • Enterprise IT risk assessments and analysis
  • Network security assessments
  • Physical security assessments
  • Vulnerability assessments
  • Web application testing
  • Wireless assessments
  • Policy assessment and design

We work with your IT department and internal IT security staff to analyze your system from a top-level perspective, looking for patterns to determine what’s driving the vulnerabilities we’ve identified. Finally – and most importantly – we will translate our findings into actionable improvement initiatives for your business, with a list of prioritized recommendations.

“Malware. Ransomware. Social engineering schemes. Brute force attacks. Man-in-the-middle traps”

Your organization’s data and networks are under siege by cyber criminals. As a security-conscious organization, you continually try to protect against the many threats and vulnerabilities facing your cyber assets. How confident are you that your protective measures are effective against current and emerging cyberattacks?

The way cyber professionals recommend to gauge the effectiveness of your cyber defenses – your equipment, protocols, and people – is to test your security. We offer sophisticated penetration testing solutions that help you safely replicate the potential actions of a malicious attacker. We can look at your organization’s systems and protocols holistically, from the viewpoint of both an attacker, and a responder. Our findings can help give your organization a more accurate understanding of its cyber security weaknesses, thereby enabling you to identify and fortify vulnerable areas.

Drawing on our extensive experience investigating a myriad of types and sizes of data breaches, we are able to simulate the real-world techniques used by attackers. Our customized approach means that testing focuses on your company’s high-risk assets and the risk profile of your organization. Ultimately, our goal is to identify and prioritize your organization’s risks and work together to build a manageable plan to strengthen your security defenses.

At the conclusion of our penetration testing services, we provide substantive evidence of vulnerabilities and recommendations for effective countermeasures to reduce your risk. This allows your company to take action before a cyber-intruder can compromise your system and steal sensitive and valuable data.

We utilize vulnerability scanning software with the most up-to-date data security information that help our experts deliver actionable and prioritized recommendations to improve your IT security.

Is your company’s IT system vulnerable to attacks by malicious outsiders? Could internal enemies damage your data security? Our vulnerability scanning services can help you answer these important questions — mapping out a prioritized pathway to increased cyber security for your business.

Our team of licensed experts will run a suite of cutting-edge digital tools on your IT system, seeking out and identifying security flaws. We’re expert at performing both credentialed and un-credentialed scans, assessing your level of risk from both insider and outsider threats.

Our Vulnerability Scanning team will test your:

  • network
  • servers
  • routers
  • mobile devices
  • websites
  • web applications

We have the vulnerability scanning expertise to select and calibrate the best tools for your unique industry and IT system. We utilize professional vulnerability scanning software with the most up-to-date data security information, capable of flagging out-of-date patches and other system vulnerabilities and typically revealing thousands of security flaws. We’ll work with your internal IT department to coordinate a vulnerability scanning schedule that won’t interrupt important systems or services.

“From Vulnerability Scanning to Actionable Data”

Once vulnerability scanning is complete, our team of experts will analyze the findings, delivering a set of actionable, prioritized recommendations to improve your IT security posture. Applying our expert perspective to thousands of pages of data, we highlight the critical security issues that must be addressed today — and provide you with a plan for continuous improvement over time.

Our expertise allows us to identify and analyze the scope and intent of advanced persistent threats to launch a targeted and effective response. When sensitive information is compromised by malicious software, knowing how it works and what it’s capable of doing is crucial to an effective incident response.

No antivirus or antimalware product can identify and stop 100% of malicious code from penetrating or activating inside your IT network. If you suspect malware caused a data breach or other information security incident, it is vital to quickly understand the scope of the malware impact on your systems and identify any data loss. The only true way to do this is to look at the machine language code inside the malware. Most hackers use sophisticated software to make it hard to get to the actual code; they may even throw a layer of encryption into the equation.

Malicious software attacks that succeed in infiltrating a company’s network pose a strong threat to commercial and public sector interests. We have tools to quickly detect, analyze, and inactivate malware viruses.

Your data. Their systems. Whose standards?

No matter how secure your company’s IT system is, sometimes your risk of data breach depends on who you associate with. In today’s complex business environment, large amounts of sensitive data are often shared with partners, outside vendors and service providers — who all have their own dedicated IT systems, processes and protections.

Our Third Party Reviews can help ensure that your business partners — or companies you refer your customers to — hold the same high standards you have when it comes to data security. We can certify that these third parties are handling sensitive data in accordance with regulatory guidelines and industry standards. Third Party Reviews are especially important in highly regulated environments like healthcare, finance, or insurance — where data breaches are a costly and critical issue. Third Party reviews can also be important for companies working on critical infrastructure.

Therefore before you put your reputation in someone else’s hands, reach out to our Third Party Reviews team. Our trained and licensed Third Party Review experts bring objectivity and quantifiable results — giving you the information you need to make sound business decisions.

If you are involved in a contentious situation where proprietary or confidential information has a high financial value, you could be “bugged.” Executive offices and boardrooms are high-risk targets. Physical listening devices and software “bugs” are easily deployed and difficult to detect. Our experts will use the most advanced technology to determine if you have a physical or digital listening device or “bug” deployed and deal with it.

Our experts are able to detect and locate most planted physical bugs: microphone or video camera recorders or transmitters, phone taps, GPS trackers, and other hardware interception devices. Bug detection techniques are based on finding infrastructure irregularities using various analyzers and detectors: Time Domain Reflectometer, Non-linear Junction Detector, Spectrum Analyzer, Oscilloscope, etc.

A bug can be digital or physical i.e. these listening devices can be physical or in the form of software within the mobile device. Over the last decade and more acutely in the past few years, the focus shifted from conventional hardware bugs to cyber bugs. These are software programs that target IT equipment and use its capabilities to secretly intercept and transmit information. Cyber bugs are very effective as they can either retrieve information as classic bugs do (content and activity of a device) or simply turn the whole device into a spying tool, by using its microphone, camera, GPS, etc.

If we count the fact that mobile devices are always on the move with their owners, cyber bugs become even more frightening. In other words, cyber bugs do not have a hardware body but can do the work of a hardware bug and much more. Not being an actual device to pinpoint, cyber bugs are often difficult to identify and locate. This can be accomplished only by detecting anomalies associated with digital media, GSM, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or local networks. These mediums, along with the actual devices, can be scanned in order to identify potential pathways for cyber bugs.

We work closely with your IT Security department to eliminate electronic bugs by:

  • network mapping and monitoring to assess possible threats
  • determine anomalies in cellular and Wi-Fi signals
  • analyzing network hardware like individual networked computers, wireless access points, switches, routers, power sources, or cables

monitor traffic and information flow using specific test programs

Our Cyber Security experts understand your challenges as an organization processing payment card transactions. We offer both merchants and payment processors, from audits to incident management services, to pragmatic approaches for strengthening your cyber defenses.

First and foremost, you need to protect your customers’ payment data as prescribed by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (SSC), in particular its Data Security Standard (DSS). At the same time, you must protect the integrity of your own data networks. All the while, you are trying to deliver a positive customer experience that combines strict security protocols with payment convenience.

Our main services for both merchants and payment processors that assist in strengthening your cyber defenses include:

  • QSA Standard Services
  • QSA Annual Audits

Our Qualified Security Assessors are authorized to conduct your annual audit to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards, as well as prepare you in advance of an audit.

PCI DSS Compliance

As a QSA, we are authorized to conduct your annual PCI Audit to validate your company’s adherence to the PCI Data Security Standard. Our audit will also include the required Report of Compliance (ROC) to submit to the PCI SSC. Additionally, we offer a suite of services that facilitate the process of complying with PCI DSS requirements:

PCI Scope Discovery and Reduction Services. The scope discovery phase entails identifying all of your company’s technology assets that process, store, and transmit card data, as well as any systems which interact with that technology. During the reduction phase, we will identify improvements to your network architecture that would reduce the number of systems in scope for PCI DSS compliance.

PCI Gap Analysis. This mock audit helps to determine where your company’s systems meet or exceed data security standards, and where they fall short. A gap analysis enables your company to identify and resolve issues before an official PCI DSS compliance audit.

Penetration Testing. As an annual PCI DSS requirement, this exercise tests the security of your company’s systems and identifies vulnerable areas that might enable a bad actor to gain access to your network.

PCI Remediation Consulting. Our experts will provide pragmatic strategies to resolve issues identified during a gap analysis.

Network Monitoring Services. Our next-generation security solution integrates our industry-leading cyber security expertise with powerful, 24/7 monitoring technology that is continuously on the hunt for network intrusions. Our network monitoring solution addresses another PCI DSS requirement.

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