Pandemic Cybersecurity Assessment
& Readiness Enablement Services

The times we live in are unprecedented. While we have had epidemics in the past couple of decades, they have had a very regional impact, but COVID-19 has eclipsed them to become a global catastrophe. From a business perspective, it has laid bare the intricate web of supply chains and how they are dependent on each other globally.

The exponential growth of the virus has forced organizations and nations to mandate the option of work from home. The sudden demand for remote work has forced IT teams scramble for resources to enable their staff to work from home, inadvertently exposing business infrastructure to cyber threats. Employees got their laptops configured for VPN and VDI, installed apps, and enabled their administrators to access critical infrastructure and applications from home.

Cybercriminals have exploited the pressures and distractions caused by the pandemic to their benefit. Cybersecurity teams are struggling to secure the organization from phishing, ransomware attacks, and hacks into end-user machines, which are on the rise. In some cases, they have had to take tough decisions of prioritizing enablement over preventive and detective controls such as audit trails, testing controls, and verifying compliance to policies.

Aujas can help you overcome the security challenges by mitigating the risks caused by the pandemic. We offer our services in two ways.

Initially, we conduct a quick high-touch assessment to understand your response to the pandemic and the existing security strategy to help you identify some quick wins and propose other long-term initiatives that can improve your security posture.

After the assessment, a follow-on service is designed to take the findings from the assessment and help build detailed implementation plans and potentially manage long term rollouts.

Pandemic Cybersecurity Posture Assessment

Our team of management consultants and security SMEs will establish meetings with the CISO organization’s key representatives. The team focus is to understand the organizational context (services, compliance, technology, data), evaluate your initial response to the pandemic, review current security processes, identify the key challenges faced, and the objectives going forward. We analyze this information and identify recommendations; these could be strategic, operational, and technological and may range from short term to long term. The assessment is expected to be completed in a few days in most cases and will be executed remotely.

Pandemic Cybersecurity Readiness Enablement

Our enablement service picks up from where the assessment left off and is for the customers that need additional help to design, plan, manage, and potentially implement the recommendations. The service is customized and is estimated jointly with each customer after the assessment.

Aujas security services are designed to help you gain visibility and control and to maximize the security capabilities of your cybersecurity investments.

Advantages of engaging with Aujas:

• Improved cybersecurity focus.
• Defense-in-depth strategy.
• Global presence and hybrid delivery models.
• Multi-industry experience and clientele.
• Experience in managing security for critical infrastructure organizations.
• Design and engineering of security controls.
• Operational enablement, strategy, and security roadmap definition.
• Implementation of security controls.
• Continuous transformation of operations.