CIO Bulletin

Heed Consulting Group — your trusted risk and cyber security management partner

Investing in cybersecurity is the need of the hour as the cyberthreat landscape evolves. But as cyberthreats continue to become more multifaceted, simply increasing your budget is insufficient. You require services that can keep up with the speed of change in cybersecurity. Simply put, you need a cybersecurity strategy to protect your data and save you millions in losses. You have two options: an in-house security operations center (SOC) or a Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP).

But building an in-house SOC from scratch is time-consuming. You will lose valuable time as a business trying to hire resources. After all, an immense skill gap in global cybersecurity makes it difficult to find an expert for your company. When it comes to cost, building the entire infrastructure to tackle the cyber threat and fortify your systems is a colossal undertaking. To avoid these challenges, you should consider an MSSP.

Therefore, it is no surprise that the demand for MSS is growing, and research suggests that the market will grow to almost $50 billion by 2027.

Heed Consulting Group is one of the organizations leading the charge. Heed Consulting offers a suite of innovative solutions that help businesses reduce risk by aligning cyber and IT security measures with business goals.

Heed's advanced solutions can help organizations identify gaps, improve readiness, evaluate risk, meet compliance, and respond to incidents quickly.

The story of Heed Consulting Group

Michael Bowers and Kelly Bethea founded Heed Consulting Group in 2019 to specialize in Cyber, Business Resilience, and Risk Management solutions. Heed Consulting Group assists clients in adhering to risk and compliance management standards.

Heed has the expertise and resources needed to design, develop, and manage the highly available and highly secure technology platform that businesses require, giving them the time and confidence to focus on running their business.

Here are four reasons why businesses should choose Heed to build their infrastructure, support their people and systems, and advise them on projects that will reduce risk, increase productivity, and give them a real competitive edge.

People

Heed Consulting Group understands that its people have an impact on the company's success, so the firm hires smart people who are committed to Heed's goals for its clients.

Customer Service

Heed strives to provide excellent customer service and ensure that each client is completely satisfied with its work.

Support

Heed's engineers are background checked through HireRight, are trustworthy, dedicated, and experienced, and will see all issues and projects through to completion.

Quality

Heed is committed to providing outstanding, cutting-edge solutions that add real value above and beyond what is expected.

Heed's Guiding Values

These are the founding principles of Heed Consulting Group, as well as the principles by which the company conducts business on a daily basis.

Values form Heed's worldview and define his future. They decide how they will treat each other. The values of Heed Consulting Group are to:

Always deliver value
Leave it better than we find it
Fail forward
There’s always a solution
Let’s get it done
Teamwork makes the dream work
Arrive early and be ready

Heed’s wide-ranging cyber security services

In today's world, businesses must take a holistic approach to cyber security. A strong approach is the only way to avoid any disruptions, defend your precious corporate reputation, and avoid the loss of confidential assets. The best method to ensure that cyber security risks have the least impact on your firm is to have a plan in place for both preventative and reactive needs.

Heed Consulting Group provides comprehensive cybersecurity solutions for businesses to protect them from every cybersecurity threat waiting to infiltrate unsuspecting organizations and disrupt their operations.

Here are the various cyber Security solutions provided by Heed Consulting Group:

Cyber Health Check

The three-day Cyber Health Check combines on-site consulting and auditing, remote vulnerability assessments, and an online staff poll to analyze your cyber risk exposure and suggest a viable path to risk reduction. Receive a prioritized action plan for managing your cyber threats in accordance with your risk tolerance.

Cyber Security Consultancy

A team of experienced in-house consultants provides cyber-security consulting services, allowing you to implement the best possible security solutions for your budget and requirements.

Cyber Risk Analysis

The only way to verify that the cyber security measures you adopt are appropriate to the risks your organization confronts is to identify, analyze, and evaluate risk. You could squander time, effort, and dollars if you don't conduct a risk analysis to determine your cyber security requirements.

ISO 27001 Consulting

The ISO 27001-tailored consultancy service assists enterprises in obtaining ISO 27001 certification as quickly and affordably as possible. Whatever service combination is best for your firm, Heed 100% ensures certification achievement.

Incident Response

The speed with which such occurrences are identified and mitigated makes a substantial difference in controlling your risks, costs, and exposure. Effective CIR management from Heed can help you lower the risk of future events, detect incidents earlier, and establish a solid defense against attacks, potentially saving your firm millions.

Managed Cyber Security

Heed provides fully managed cyber security management as a solution service that adheres to the NIST Cyber Framework and ISO 27001 standards.

Application Security Advisory Services

Data security and privacy, API security, enterprise application security, and secure application development will all be used to protect and monitor applications by Heed.

Advanced attack and readiness operations

Heed protects your company from the most sophisticated cyber adversaries and reduces your exposure to threats targeting applications, hardware (OT/IOT), and enterprise assets.