Security Auditors | Strategic Security Risk

The Need for 360° Cyber Legal Risk Assessment

Today organisations of all sizes across every sector increasingly struggle to maintain an optimised cybersecurity posture. The role of expert security auditors and advisors to help organisations evaluate their strategic risk becomes increasingly vital in today’s environment. Businesses often learn too late that the measures they have in place are not fit for purpose. This is due not just to a growing complexity of threats, but crucially also to an expansion in the types of technologies and systems through which attackers can target individuals and organizations, the growing range of ‘attack surfaces’ reachable by attackers in the digital age.

At the same time, even well resourced large enterprises and national competence centres today can struggle to maintain effective threat detection and response capability over time as teams are habitually overcome by ‘alert fatigue’ from systems which too often provide little more than an endless stream of non-actionable threat alerts while analysts try to juggle 40+ different security tools on average today. Small businesses meanwhile can struggle to navigate the solution environment to begin with finding themselves presented with a bewildering array of offerings, acronyms, and competing claims. For large and small organizations alike, it is critical to know that resources are efficiently allocated to measures bringing real cyber resilience. The consequences of illusory assurance can be catastrophic.

Simply put, conventional IT security falls short today when it comes to providing resilience against the full spectrum of Cyber Extortion and Cyber Espionage risks as cybercrime groups and state threat actors increasingly exploit wider technologies and vectors outside conventionally-framed ‘cyberspace’, purposely extending their operations throughout the global telecommunications ecosystem and cyber-physical environment in order to reach their targets.

The resultant gaps in cyber security approaches, which extend today even into national cybersecurity strategies, programs and security incident reporting frameworks, persist as cybersecurity providers tend to lack wider telecoms expertise, and consultancies tend to lack cybersecurity capability. Recognising this growing systemic gap in global cybersecurity, our expert security auditors and advisors offer an industry-unique extended cross-spectrum approach to strategic cyber risk management for true 360° assurance.

Our Approach

Cyber resilience today calls for a holistic yet balanced approach which comprehensively evaluates security posture over a full spectrum of strategic risk. Crucial here is for security auditors and advisors to go beyond the technical and regulatory scope tied to specific solutions and their operation, and to encompass wider legal risks and business risks attached to different threats.

Our strategic risk auditing enables ongoing security posture optimisation for resilience beyond the limitations of conventional IT security approaches. This is offered as a managed service comprising:

• Full spectrum threat discovery.
• Tailored strategy and solution design.
• Discreet remediation measures.
• Ongoing risk monitoring.
• Dedicated support.

This combination of a holistic yet highly focused approach is vital today since even where conventional measures aim at comprehensive coverage ‘across’ IT environments, they tend to remain confined to a narrow range of protocols, environments, and solution-specific technical considerations. As a result, conventional approaches tend to reinforce the historically ‘siloed’ areas of coverage which they are supposed to overcome, leaving organizations blind to security gaps that can be exploited by attackers until it is too late.

Based on our 360° strategic risk evaluation, we identify the right mix of cybersecurity technologies and tools for you based on your individual and organizational risk profiles. Additional strategic risk advisory and support ensures the best fit of technical and non-technical measures with the overall risk profile, as well as strategic alignment with business needs.

Specialised Services

We specialise in the design and delivery of strategic risk management for at-risk executives, VIPs, and high net worth individuals. Based on a holistic appraisal and threat discovery, we provide bespoke Communications Security (COMSEC) training as well as ongoing support for at-risk individuals in which our experts work with the client to develop and implement a tailored program of measures to manage external as well as internal risks. Our comprehensive COMSEC program incorporates behavioural as well as technical measures and covers all relevant device types across a wide range of professional and personal scenarios from a global perspective for persons at risk of targeting both at home and abroad. This includes the provision of on-call support from specialist security teams.

Our Expertise

At Teichmann International (IT Solutions) AG, we combine the technical and legal expertise increasingly required today to manage cyber-related risks to strategic assets, activities, and individuals. As threats such as Ransomware and Spyware continue to rise, and Compliance risks grow in complexity, we specialise in the mitigation of Cyber Extortion and Data Breach risks through tailored security auditing and transformation programs.

Our expert security auditors and advisors unparalleled expertise in cyber-criminology, our knowledge of the cyber-physical threat environment which transcends conventional approaches to cybersecurity, and our trusted partnerships with leading cybersecurity vendors whose capabilities we have selected to enable us to deliver risk advisory, management, and mitigation tailored to clients’ specific risk profile across a wide range of scenarios over time.

We go beyond the IT-exclusive scope of conventional approaches to Information System auditing by encompassing a broader spectrum of real-world risks, and covering a wider range of attack surfaces exposed to exploitation in today’s evolving threat landscape. We specialise in evaluating exposure to Cyber Extortion and Cyber Espionage risks specifically, the most significant threat faced by individuals and organisations today.

This demands an approach which extends beyond IT-exclusive considerations to include wider telecoms and dark web contexts so that our clients’ digital eco-system as well as information systems exploitable by attackers are covered in our auditing and are crucially captured in our recommendations.

Dark Web Security Audit

A core component of our ecosystem approach to cyber risk assessment and management, we provide dark web investigation in the form of threat hunting by expert security auditors and analysts to evaluate the client’s risk profiles in terms of exposure to exploitation, discovery and confirmation of security breaches, and tailored recommendations to mitigate identified threats as far as possible and manage risk on an ongoing basis. This work involves the use of specialised tools to search for specific identifying information as specified by the client. Such information can include personal or corporate email addresses, corporate domains, project names, credit card numbers and many other types. (Click here to find out more about our Dark Web Investigation services - links to page for Dark Web Monitoring)

Digital Forensics Audit

At a time of rising Cyber Extortion and Cyber Espionage threats worldwide, digital forensics investigation also offers an increasingly important proactive protective measure today for at-risk individuals, such as Ultra High Net Worth (UNHW) individuals, VIPs, and others at risk of targeting by cybercriminals or state-sponsored threat actors. Our digital forensics auditing services by expert security auditors provide a key component of strategic cyber risk management and mitigation, including malware discovery and removal from infected devices of targeted at-risk individuals. (Click here to find out more about our Digital Forensics investigation services - links to page for Digital Forensics investigation)

Pentesting

Penetration testing or "pentesting," is a method used to evaluate the security of IT or telecoms infrastructure by safely seeking to identify real, exploitable vulnerabilities. Such vulnerabilities can exist in operating systems, services, applications, and configurations. The primary goal of penetration testing is to identify security weaknesses and provide actionable insights to improve the overall resilience of the infrastructure and systems to intrusion. We offer pentesting services that can be tailored to your organisation’s profile and needs. (Click here to find out more about Pentesting as a service - links to page for Cyber Pentest)