Gillware Launches Two Cyber Risk Management Services to Help Businesses Better Identify Vulnerabilities

To help businesses address known and unknown cyber threats and vulnerabilities, Gillware, a flourishing incident response and risk management firm, debuts two cyber risk management offerings: the Red Flag Cybersecurity Assessment and the Information Security & IT Risk Assessment. These services build upon a more extensive offering, the Custom Information Security Program (CISO-as-a-Service) to serve organizations with varying resources and internal staff.

“Whether an organization has one system administrator or a large in-house cybersecurity team, they both have imminent threats to combat given the current cybercrime landscape,” Scott Holewinski, CEO, said. “Our philosophy with these services is to help organizations of all sizes understand and recognize those threats to effectively build defenses against them.”

The Red Flag Cybersecurity Assessment does just that – identifies any red flags present in how an organization’s information security program is configured and managed. This insight, when cross-referenced with the latest threats and risks, identifies changes the organization needs to make in order to reduce their risk of an incident. The Gillware Cyber Risk Management team will conduct an external exposure assessment to identify compromised accounts and services while also uncovering the organization’s threats and risks given their size, environment and industry. From there, a “model” organization will be created to show how the organization’s information security program should be configured to reduce risk.

The Information Security & IT Risk Assessment takes a deeper dive by evaluating more than 170 areas of an organization’s security. Similar to the Red Flag Cybersecurity Assessment, the Gillware Cyber Risk Management team will evaluate external exposure, as well as threats and risks. Additionally, a 12-month Remediation Roadmap outlines projects and action items for internal teams to reduce the overall risk. Gillware’s years of information security and incident response experience informs this process by mapping out tasks that, upon completion, will address multiple issues.

The Custom Information Security Program (CISO-as-a-Service) offering is meant for organizations without an internal information security team. The Gillware Cyber Risk Management team conducts both the Red Flag Cybersecurity Assessment and the Information Security & IT Risk Assessment to uncover the most pressing threats, outlines corrective action in the Remediation Roadmap, and then deploys ongoing information security services such as backup testing, penetration testing, phishing and social engineering training, incident response tests, vulnerability scans, and more.

“Too often we work with organizations spending money on tools that do not provide the results and peace of mind promised. Not to mention the fact that IT and information security teams are often understaffed or overextended,” said Christopher Gerg, CISO and Vice President of Cyber Risk Management. “We aim to change the ‘whack-a-mole’ mentality within information security and rather help businesses develop a productive, proactive cybersecurity program.”

About Gillware 
With offices in Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Gillware provides incident response, cyber risk management, digital forensics and data recovery, services to organizations of any size and location. The Gillware team routinely helps organizations recover from cyberattacks, conducts internal investigations, assists with HIPAA-related cyber incidents, provides expert testimony, and more. The cyber risk management team also helps organizations identify and remediate vulnerabilities to avoid the incidents in the first place. For more information, please visit http://www.gillware.com.