What is the audit process?

The audit process in cybersecurity involves planning the audit, collecting data, evaluating systems and controls, identifying issues, documenting the findings in a report, and sending the report to stakeholders for approval.

Explain the review and audit difference

In cybersecurity, the process of an audit involves in-depth evaluations of an organisations systems, network, policies, processes and procedures to find security and compliance issues. They are conducted annually, bi-annually, or after a major change in organisation to be able to fix issues and prevent threats. An independent auditor or government authorities may conduct audits to ensure you’re using the best controls to protect business and customer data.On the other hand, reviews are not as extensive as audits. Reviews are internal control assessments that focus on evaluating target systems or controls to find flaws. They are conducted more frequently than audits, maybe every month or once quarterly. An internal auditor conducts reviews, or an external auditor does it with reduced scope.

What are cybersecurity policies and procedures?

Cybersecurity policies and procedures are guidelines and measures an organisation defines to protect systems, data, and networks from cyber threats. Some of them are: Data security policyRemote access policyPassword policyAccess controlsIncident response plansSecurity process validationRisk management auditsDisaster recoveryChange management

Cybersecurity Process & Policy Audits and Reviews

Cybersecurity Process & Policy Audits and Reviews by MCS

Verify and strengthen your security processes and policies and align them with laws and regulations using Microminder’s Cybersecurity Process & Policy Audit and Reviews Services.

What Are Process & Policy Audits and Reviews?

Your organisation’s cybersecurity processes and policies influence your security and compliance posture. It’s important to check how effective they are against modern cyber threats and if they comply with industry and regional laws and regulations. Weak controls could lead you to face cyber threats, legal proceedings, and heavy fines.

Process and policy audits and reviews are evaluations of an organisation’s cyber security policy, process and procedure along with governance frameworks. This tells how strong your security tools, access controls, and incident response plans are and how you handle data and compliance activities. This helps you fix issues in your security policies and processes to protect your assets and data from threats and non-compliance risks.

Improve Cybersecurity Posture with Microminder’s Process & Policy Audits and Reviews

Microminder uses advanced tools and techniques to perform thorough cybersecurity audits and reviews periodically on your systems, policies, and processes to verify their effectiveness. It reveals security gaps, such as cyber threats and vulnerabilities, weak access controls, authentication errors, misconfigurations, etc. and compliance errors. We compile our findings in a comprehensive report to help you address these issues.

This way, Microminder helps you tighten your security measures to ward off threats, meet compliance requirements, and avoid penalties or reputation damage. We also customise our reviews and audits to complement your attack surface, business needs, and regulatory requirements.

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Security Risk and Gap Analysis

Microminder conducts a deep analysis of your IT infrastructure, including systems, endpoints, mobile devices, applications, and other devices to find security gaps and risks. For this, our security experts perform:

Vulnerability assessments: to find vulnerabilities and threats in systems
Security posture analysis: to evaluate how strong your cybersecurity posture is
Third-party risk assessments: to find risks in your third-party tools and services
Compromise assessments: to check whether your systems are compromised and isolate them
IoT security assessments: to check security risks in your IoT devices and equipment
ICS/OT/SCADA assessments: to check risks in your SCADA, OT, or ICS systems

After assessing your systems and network, we create a report and recommend measures to reduce your attack surface, fix security and business process compliance issues, and protect your organisation from attacks.

Complete Policy Reviews

We assess all your organisational policies for meeting security and compliance needs. Our policy review framework evaluates your access controls, firewalls, data encryption, authentication, and more.

The policy review process helps us detect outdated policies, missed patches, inefficient tools, and other gaps. Our policy review team notifies you and recommends necessary changes to help you protect your business from cyber threats and compliance violations. We also help you align security policies with your business goals.

Access Controls Review

Strong access controls help you protect your customer and business data. Let Microminder validate your access controls to determine if they are strong enough to deter unauthorised access, internal threats, and other risks.

We help you identify risks in remote access and fix them to secure your remote workforce. We also help you review your user and account access permissions, so you can spot and restrict excessive or unnecessary permissions.

You can use our identity and access management (IAM) services to implement strong access controls by authenticating every user before granting them access to a system. Use our privileged access management (PAM) to limit the access permissions of privileged accounts, such as admins, senior leaders, etc. It also ensures users have only required access permissions, not more, and limit data exposure.

Cloud Security Review

Microminder conducts cloud security reviews on your cloud resources and protects them from advanced cyber threats. We thoroughly check each cloud service to find security flaws and their impacts on your business. We next provide suitable solutions to fix those issues and restore security.

We also offer features, such as cloud encryption, cloud access controls, cloud data and network security, and more. In addition, you can avail of our cloud security posture management (CSPM) services to continuously monitor, assess, manage, and safeguard your entire cloud environment.

Network Security Review

Block threats from entering your network by finding and fixing network security issues. We test your complete network, components, and devices to evaluate their defence against advanced cyber threats. Our security experts check your network security architecture to find gaps that criminals can leverage to launch attacks. They also check authentication controls, whether network devices are up-to-date and patched, and other technical and administrative controls.

Based on our findings, we improve your network security. Our network security solutions protect your network and assets in it using next-gen firewalls, zero trust network access (ZTNA), VPNs, and more controls. We test and improve your Wi-Fi security by giving you granular visibility of issues and fixing vulnerabilities before they become a threat.

Patches and Updates Review

Failed patches and updates are risky. If cybercriminals find them, they can exploit them to breach your network and gain unauthorised access. Microminder reviews your systems for updates and patches and notifies you immediately.

This way, you can update systems to keep their security and functionality up-to-date. You can also apply patches and fix security loopholes before any attacker exploits them.

Incident Response Readiness Audits

It’s important to test how effective your incident response plans are against cyber threats. We help you do that by conducting tabletop exercises, red teaming, and penetration tests.

Our incident response tabletop exercises simulate real-world cyber attacks and their TTPs on your systems to determine your attack readiness. It tells how your security team and other departments coordinate and communicate during an attack, their decisions, and how they respond to the attack. Similarly, our red teams and penetration testers attack your systems like real attackers to evaluate your security team’s performance in dealing with the attack.

Compliance Audits

Our compliance experts determine all the standards and regulatory bodies your organisation must comply with. They next benchmark your policies against those compliance requirements, such as UK GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 27001, NIST, SAMA, etc.

This helps us map compliance gaps and create corrective plans to close those gaps. We carefully understand each requirement and give you suggestions to get you compliant. For this, we perform compliance assessments and review documents before you submit them to the authorities. This way, we can spot issues and fix them to increase your chances of staying compliant. In addition, we also assist you with audit readiness and certification processes.

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BlackLine

"Thank you for the valuable work your team did on our maturity assessment of our incident response processes. The insights MCS provided were meaningful and have helped us better understand our areas for improvement. Thank you again for your partnership and support throughout the process."

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"Microminder Cyber Security were involved in the initial launch of our online platform and are well placed to move quickly as partners of Monument Re Group. The speed of delivery and communication levels give everything the company needs when working with partners.

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"Thank you for your exceptional efforts and unwavering support throughout the duration of the project. The support provided by the entire MCS team has been greatly appreciated, and I look forward to collaborating with you on upcoming projects. Thank you once again for your hard work."

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