CIO Bulletin

FirmGuardian – Helping Resource-Constrained Organizations Build an Affordable Enterprise-Class Security Program

Today, cyber attacks are no longer stopped by antivirus software or firewalls. The risk of cyber attacks is constantly increasing and for companies and institutions it is no longer a question of “if” it will happen but rather “when”. This is why cyber security is of such great importance. Cyber security is the protection of electronic data and information. It’s the defense of electronic systems on devices, like computers, cell phones, servers, and networks, from malicious attacks. Regardless of who you are, it’s important to keep your data safe from unauthorized access. Cyber security is important because it encompasses everything that relates to protecting our data from cyber attackers who want to steal this information and use it to cause harm.

Therefore, having advanced cyber defence programs and mechanisms in place to protect this data is crucial and in everyone’s interest. Everyone in society relies on critical infrastructure such as hospitals and other healthcare institutions, financial service programs, and power plants. We need these to keep our society running. Cybersecurity is important because it protects you or your company from potential cyber threats. The advancement of technology has left many people vulnerable to cybercriminal activities, such as hacking, data theft and damage, and industrial espionage. Cybercrime rate is increasing; hence, without cyber security, you could lose sensitive information, money, or reputation. Cyber security is as important as the need for technology.

FirmGuardian is one such high growth cyber-defense company with vast experience in the Medical, Legal, and Financial fields, focusing on incident response, vulnerability analysis, penetration testing, endpoint management, and cybersecurity training services for businesses of all sizes. The company features military and government-grade skill and tests that have been implemented against the strongest threats. Its team knows that the threats to your legal practice, medical center, and business are all too real and immediate; they are prepared to help you defend against attacks of all kinds.

Leveraging Robust Cyber-Defense Solutions and Services for Organizations

Managed Detection and Response: FirmGuardian provides subscription-based Managed Detection and Response services for monitoring and protecting your business’s cloud, computers, and infrastructure. Its team takes a hands-on approach in protecting your company by leveraging the technology you’ve already invested in. the company uses a comprehensive suite of threat detection and incident response technologies, Security Operation Center technologies, and real-time threat monitoring to protect your organization and expand your security program maturity beyond a traditional IT department’s reach.

Microsoft Cloud Monitoring: Its cloud monitoring provides 24/7 Protection of your Office 365 and Azure AD environments, creating an effective mix of monitoring, auditing analysis, and data visualization, orchestrated by its experienced Cloud Security Engineers. Through the use of their proprietary alert and event filtering, they can analyze your cloud security landscape without adding unnecessary complexity. They tailor focus to strengthen your cloud infrastructure based on your organizational maturity, risk, and compliance requirements. It provides a cloud-based remediation platform to add visibility into the risk landscape of your network devices, servers, and laptops and tailors the dashboard to your organization’s risk and compliance priorities to help you prioritize patching efforts, understand compliance gaps, and reduce material risk to the organization.

Endpoint Detection and Response: Its Managed Detection and Response service provides next-gen protection of your laptops, servers, and workstations. This service provides incident response investigation to swiftly determine the scope of incident, contain a potential breach, and significantly reduce impacts of militant. Their staff directs and empowers your IT team to make effective decisions to reduce the material risk to your organization. They focus on triaging alerts, and escalating actionable information to your IT and leadership teams.

Infrastructure Monitoring: The company’s infrastructure monitoring provides a strong supplement to the other areas of focused protection. It provides elements of a Security Operations Center, focusing on network firewall, VPN, and syslog monitoring. This solution is provided to those industries needing strong security through the use of a FirmGuardian managed Security Incident and Event Monitoring platform (SIEM). A security consulting team will be assisting your organization, as a contributing member of your company to improve fundamental security infrastructure and bolster your security posture. It will help you regulate both inbound and outbound network traffic. Including encryption software will scramble the important data and will protect it even if it gets into the wrong hands until and unless the hacker knows the encryption key.

Vulnerability Assessments and Risk Management Programs: It is essential for every company to evaluate risk – organizational, business processes, and information technology systems. Although many companies have automated patching practices in place, a vulnerability assessment from an outside organization provides visibility into areas that conventional IT tooling misses. FirmGuardian assists organizations to complete Vulnerability Assessments, and also to create or expand Risk Management Programs. It leverages industry-leading technology from Tenable to identify, evaluate, and prioritize risk, and more importantly, leave your organization with a plan of action and accountability structure to reduce material risk. Encryption software scrambles the data so that even if the information falls in the wrong hands, it’s useless unless the crooks also have access to the encryption key.

Incident Response: Its preparation exercises and guidance bolster your cyber resiliency by using governmental standards and frameworks, as well as industry regulations, such as HIPAA, to create incident response policies and plans keep your business running with minimal disruption. Discover how implementing advanced defense and incident response software can quickly detect and eradicate threats to your environment. Recovery can only begin when they have an understanding of the compromised systems, and the details of the attack methodology. Recovery from an advanced cyber attack relies on sophisticated tooling, expertise, and often leads into root cause analysis and forensic investigation. Its response team acts quickly to get your business operations running, and mitigating further damage to your business.

If your organization is in that all too common situation of being victim of a cyber attack, fear not, they would be glad to assist with an initial call to understand your situation, recommend next steps, and to provide immediate value, comfort, and clarity in assisting you through the process. Proactive solutions are also available to better prepare you with an actionable strategy for handling security incidents, mitigating disruption to the business, by addressing both technical and financial risk. The firm helps you achieve the sense of an out-of-the-box product that is all too uncommon in today’s cybersecurity world. Through a mix of product and service offerings, they can achieve a solution to fit your specific requirements, without adding complexity.

The Formidable Leader

Sean Hall serves as the Chief Executive Officer of FirmGuardian. He is an experienced executive with a demonstrated history of leading companies, divisions, and teams in the cybersecurity and legal/medical marketing and advertising industries. He is skilled in Cybersecurity Solutions, Network Security, Professional Content Creation, and Operations Management. Sean is also an experienced business development professional with a Bachelor of Arts in English from The University of Texas at Austin.