CIO Bulletin

Breadcrumb Cybersecurity – Helping organizations protect their infrastructure, critical data, and reputation from today’s advanced cyber threats

Breadcrumb Cybersecurity takes a great pride in its mission to provide the clients with the highest level of cybersecurity consultation. Although it may be a niche cybersecurity firm based in Fresno, California, the company has quickly become a recognized national brand in the cybersecurity industry.

Breadcrumb's journey began in 2015 when the founder recognized the need for a more focused approach to cybersecurity. It saw too many organizations and Managed Service Providers struggling to keep up with rapidly evolving cyber threats and regulatory demands. Its early success in Central California was due to the commitment to working closely with each client, understanding their unique cybersecurity needs, and developing actionable plans to mitigate their risks. This approach was the foundation of the company’s growth and allowed to expand the reach to clients nationwide.

What makes Breadcrumb different than its competitors is it not a generalist IT firm – it is solely focused on cybersecurity. Its recommendations are neutral, and the reporting is objective. When you choose to partner with Breadcrumb, you know you’re getting unbiased expert advice.

Comprehensive Cybersecurity Services Leveraged

Active Directory Security Assessment: Active Directory is a critical target that malicious threats attack once they gain initial access into an organization. Threats will leverage Active Directory to perform reconnaissance, escalate privileges, access data, and otherwise “persist” in the environment. Simply put, Active Directory contains the “keys to the kingdom,” and if not well protected, it will rapidly compromise the security of any organization. Breadcrumb offers an exhaustive review of your Active Directory environment, assessing common security configuration deficiencies that attackers leverage during a breach. Breadcrumb’s assessment involves the analysis of critical indicators, privilege escalation, crypto analysis of user password strengths, group policies, and real-time anomalies. Once complete, you’ll have a road map to establishing a secure foundation for your Active Directory environment.

Cyber Security Penetration Testing: A Cyber Security Penetration Test provides your organization with a unique birds-eye view of the effectiveness of your security posture. Newer companies may not yet have a handle on their network security. Conversely, more mature companies often have large, multi-faceted networks with easily overlooked elements – particularly as more organizations move to cloud-based systems. Both scenarios leave the potential for catastrophic breaches. During Penetration Testing, Breadcrumb engineers will carefully and systematically play the role of a determined hacker. Simulating sophisticated real-world attack strategies – actual hacking tools and industry-leading frameworks are leveraged to identify and exploit configuration deficiencies. The Breadcrumb Policy Compliance platform performs in-depth security configuration assessments of your IT systems – whether on-premises, remote, or in the cloud. Coupled with Breadcrumb Vulnerability Assessments, you have the assurance your organization is complying with internal policies and external regulations.

Cybersecurity Posture Assessment: A Cybersecurity Posture Assessment is a valuable first step for any organization wanting to identify where they’re at, what they’re missing, and what they need to do to increase their cybersecurity maturity level. Unlike a penetration test or a standard information security audit, a Cybersecurity Posture Assessment provides C-Level Executives with clarity and direction in terms of their organization’s cybersecurity posture, maximizing the ROI of their security-related expenses.

The posture assessment integrates all facets of cybersecurity into one comprehensive assessment approach, providing an overall view of your organization’s internal and external security posture. When complete, Breadcrumb will provide your organization with an actionable and pragmatic cybersecurity roadmap, detailing quick-win recommendations and long-term strategic goals.

Key Deliverables:

Identifying and categorizing the value of organizational data
Defining the cyber risks and threat exposure of sensitive data
Evaluating whether appropriate, reliable and efficient security measures are in place
Recommending a concrete action plan (i.e., a ‘cybersecurity roadmap’) to better mitigate exposures and strengthen cybersecurity defenses

Data Breach Response: When you discover a critical cyber incident, you need a partner with proven experience investigating sophisticated cyber-attacks, ties to law enforcement, and industry-leading processes and tools to minimize impact and speed recovery. Breadcrumb consultants combine their expertise with industry-leading threat intelligence and endpoint technology to help you with a wide range of activities. Whether you have 50 or 100,000 computers, their consultants can be up and running Employee misconduct, ranging from wasting time online to intellectual property theft, and unauthorized file access or behavior related to pornography addiction, is a well-documented problem. When stakeholders in Human Resources and Legal need to determine whether misconduct has occurred, digital forensics plays a critical role in a standard, policy-driven investigative process. Breadcrumb has the expertise and resources necessary to investigate a range of activities. Employing a full range of analytical strategies, they help bring clarity to the most complex of situations. in a matter of hours, analyzing your network and systems for malicious activity.

Managed Assessment: The Breadcrumb managed assessment platform offers a 100% managed and end-to-end vulnerability management solution for all of your on-premise and cloud assets. Utilizing award-winning data analytic strategies, Breadcrumb helps your organization isolate critical system vulnerabilities – before malicious threats can exploit them. Once your IT assets are on-boarded, Breadcrumb provides your team with regular reporting, detailing exposures for every IT asset within your organization. Report formats include PDF, CSV, PDF, XML and custom API integration. Breadcrumb helps you break through the cost and complexity of protecting your data, reputation, and critical systems from todays advanced cyber threats. Delivered as a 100% managed service, Breadcrumb provides 24x7x365 real-time cyber threat detection across your cloud, on-premises, and hybrid IT environments.

When leveraging the Breadcrumb cloud deployment model, there’s no hardware to install in your data center – saving you significant time, resources, and money for an overall low total cost of ownership. Breadcrumb’s subscription-based pricing makes it easy and affordable to get started.

The Mastermind behind Breadcrumb Cybersecurity's Success

Brian W. Horton is the Founder and CEO of Breadcrumb Cybersecurity. A central California native, Brian has spent his career advancing the technology initiatives of private sector and government organization throughout the globe. As CEO of Breadcrumb Cybersecurity, Brian provides strategic oversight for emergency incident response, global cyber-assessment services, penetration testing, and digital forensics. In addition, Brian frequently presents to educational institutions, working groups, research and policy centers, and local/federal law enforcement task-force groups on matters of cybersecurity and IR forensic best practices. Prior to owning Breadcrumb Cybersecurity, Brian owned a technology consulting firm for fourteen years, overseeing its acquisition in 2014. Brian currently holds certifications for the CISSP, GCED, GPEN, GNFA, GCFA, and GLEG.