ALCATECH SECURITY SOLUTIONS

The Best Defense is a Strong Offense

 By proactively identifying and addressing weaknesses in your system, you can greatly reduce the risk of a successful attack. By being proactive and taking steps to secure your system before an attack occurs, you can limit the damage an attack can cause and make it harder for attackers to gain access.

ICT Strategy & Governance

Organisations struggle to define where they are, where they want to be and how they will get there. Building a strategy that secures your people, processes and technology but also supports your organisation’s goals is no easy task. The reality is that organisations cannot navigate the pitfalls, realities, and biases in building a strategy such as resource constraints, internal politics and shortages of expertise that are hard to find.

Strategy requires knowing where you are, where you want to go, and what needs to be achieved to bridge that gap.

At Alcatech Security we know and understand that defining the right strategy for your organisation, means finding an approach that works for you.

Define and Analyse Current State

Conduct a current state assessment against industry benchmarks, review existing controls and levels of risk against regulatory expectations, and identify critical assets that need to be protected.

Identify Desired Future State Outcomes

Work with leadership and business units to identify the objectives of the security strategy, the governance structures required, and future desired state

Build a Roadmap to Success

Define the people, processes, technology that are required to achieve the desired future state.

Implement & Integrate

Alcatech Security goes the extra mile as your trusted partner in delivering on the realisation of your strategy through our many service offerings – CISO as a Service, Advisory Services, Engineering Services.

Virtual CISO as a Service (vCISO)

In the face of a global talent shortage, it is not easy to identify a security professional with the knowledge and leadership required to prepare and execute a successful information security strategy for your business. 

Alcatech Security’s Virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO) service solves this problem by enabling your organisation to call upon a highly qualified and experienced security professional as and when required. By acting as an extension of your business, a Alcatech Security Virtual CISO will assess potential cyber-risks and develop the policies, procedures and controls needed to help elevate your security to compliance standards.

When vCISO guidance could be invaluable
  • Planning security audits, assessments and reviews.
  • Developing a threat management strategy.
  • Achieving compliance with the latest security standards.
  • Procuring new security products and services.
  • Recruiting and training IT and security personnel.
  • Responding to and remediating security incidents.

Vulnerability Assessments

Business growth, digitalisation and the evolving threat landscape create constant security challenges for your organisation. Alcatech Security’s Vulnerability Assessment service helps you to respond by identifying, classifying and addressing security risks and providing the ongoing support and guidance to best mitigate them.

Key benefits of a Vulnerability Assessment
Identifies at-risk assets

Gain help with identifying the systems, applications and data at greatest risk of being targeted.

Informs security investments

Understand which cyber security risks require the most attention and receive actionable guidance to best mitigate them.

Provides strategic advice

Receive recommendations that will help secure your organisation now and in the future.

Validates the suitability of security controls

Benefit from a review of how well your internal and external defences detect, limit and withstand the latest threats.

Alcatech Security offers a complete vulnerability management life cycle service for finding and remediating security vulnerabilities before they are exploited.
  • Focus your efforts on what matters most and let Alcatech Security take control.
  • Detect and validate security weaknesses.
  • Measure a system’s susceptibility to attack.
  • Prioritise, assign and track vulnerability remediation.
  • Optimise security investments.
  • Minimise attack surface.
  • Continuous visibility.
  • End-to-end support.

Vulnerability Management as a Service

At Alcatech Security our aim is to help organisations understand their security weaknesses by adopting a comprehensive vulnerability management program.

Minimise the window of an active vulnerability by proactively validating, assigning and fixing it.

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Network Penetration Testing

Network penetration testing, also known as Infrastructure penetration testing, can be performed from two perspectives: inside and outside your organisation’s network perimeter.

Internal network penetration testing

An internal network pen test is performed to help gauge what an attacker could achieve with initial access to a network. An internal network pen test can mirror insider threats, such as employees intentionally or unintentionally performing malicious actions.

External network penetration testing

An external network pen test is designed to test the effectiveness of perimeter security controls to prevent and detect attacks as well as identifying weaknesses in internet-facing assets such as web, mail and FTP servers.

Web Penetration Testing

Alcatech Security’s web application penetration testing service can be commissioned to assess both proprietary web applications developed in-house as well as those from third party vendors.

Testing includes assessing applications for vulnerabilities listed in the OWASP Top 10, the Open Web Application Security Project’s ten most critical application security risks.

Our web application security testing team will help to identify vulnerabilities including:
  • Injection flaws.
  • Authentication weaknesses.
  • Poor session management.
  • Broken access controls.
  • Security misconfigurations.
  • Database interaction errors.
  • Input validation problems.
  • Flaws in application logic.

ICT Security FAQ's

You may think that big businesses with more endpoints are more vulnerable than small businesses. Or, businesses with attractive data, like financial services companies or those in the healthcare industry, would be easy targets. That’s not always the case—of course. Bigger businesses or those that handle sensitive data typically have the technology, regulations, and processes to protect themselves from cyberattacks.

Staying educated when it comes to cybersecurity and being aware of evolving cyberthreats.

Most cyberattacks are initiated after hackers steal an employee’s username and password. We use “steal” lightly—hackers typically trick users into handing information over. An attacker can wait for an ideal opportunity to execute an attack once they gain access to the system.

In most cases, the simple answer is no.

The security of a company depends on consistent education, company-wide processes, and executive commitment. There needs to be a greater awareness of hackers’ ability to initiate cyberattacks, how cyberattacks evolve, and how businesses need multiple layers of cybersecurity to protect themselves—especially in modern workplaces where employees work remotely and share a lot of important data through digital communication channels.

Ransomware is one of our biggest concerns—it’s a specific type of cyberattack where hackers deploy malware, then force you to pay a ransom to regain access to your system. More on ransomware is below.

We’re also always monitoring and preventing lateral phishing takeover attacks. Through these types of cyberattacks, hackers gain access to an employee’s email account. They set up rules to extract valuable data and information. Once hackers find a piece of information they can exploit, they use it to create a genuine-looking email for everyone in the employee’s address book.

 

Security isn’t a one-size-fits-all product. Businesses need to take a layered approach to cybersecurity for defense, monitoring, and remediation. Get in touch with us on info@alcatechsec.com to get a tailor made solution for your network needs.

Your organization should have a cyberattack remediation process in place. If you’re unsure, ask Alcatech Security at info@alcatechsec.com—it could save your business money and its reputation if a cyberattack occurs.