Implementing a Unified Control Framework (UCF)
Complying with multiple industry standards and guidelines is complex and expensive.
The “audit-remediate” strategy of the past has led to half-baked or redundant control mechanisms, long remediation backlogs, and inconsistent processes. It is good enough for auditors, bad for the security posture of your organization.
A control framework aligns and maps all your RISC (Regulatory, Internal, Statutory, and Contractual) requirements with your policies, standards, processes, tools, and metrics. This significantly eliminates redundancy and provides risk-based prioritization to your IT and Security initiatives.
Unified Control Framework
We work with clients in developing a unified control framework (UCF) system to ensure that their security investments support projects that mitigates the highest risk to their organization.
Risk Management and Governance Advisory
IT and Security risks come in two ways: Compliance and Technical. Compliance risks are associated with failing to align with RISC (Regulatory, Internal Controls, Statutory, and Contractual) requirements. Technical risks are associated with failing to detect, respond, and recover from threats to data confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Effective risk management means that you understand the compliance and technical risks facing your organization and your means of mitigating them. Your governance program ensures that your risk mitigating mechanisms are in-place, effective, and constantly improving.
Risk Management and Governance Advisory
Our Unified Control Framework (UCF) system and advisory services, enable IT and Security organizations collaborate better with their Risk and Governance teams in improving operations using the same standards, metrics, and maturity models.
Risk and Maturity Assessments
Periodic assessments of risk and process maturity are key parts of our prescribed framework maturity roadmap. Assessment reports provide information necessary to prioritize the areas of highest risk and mechanism gaps that require immediate remediation.
We highly recommend performing our strategic planning and documentation of current framework profile sessions before starting a risk assessment (our framework maturity roadmap). This ensures that the assessment is performed within the context of your organization’s risk profile and your existing mechanisms.
Risk and Maturity Assessments
Assessment reports provide information necessary to prioritize the areas of highest risk and mechanism gaps that require immediate remediation.