Atredis Partners is world-class Risk and Advisory Services

We empower our clients to make informed decisions about risk.

Atredis Partners’ Risk and Advisory practice helps our clients achieve security and regulatory compliance goals by building comprehensive security programs that accurately analyze, report, and manage risk. Our collaborative engagements provide guidance on program development and regulatory compliance remediation with the goal of identifying potential program failures before they happen.

By leveraging our combined decades of experience in building security programs and managing risk in nearly all industry verticals, we will advise and mentor your organization’s key resources to effectively and efficiently manage risk.

Our Risk and Advisory practice consultants work with organizations to build security programs from the ground up, and to mature existing programs to respond to emerging threats and evolving regulatory landscapes.

Our research-driven risk services are based on identifying and managing threats and vulnerabilities, industry peer analysis and benchmarking, and understanding the impact of recent breach judgments, settlements, and the resulting corrective action plans. We also work on our clients’ behalf with third parties and external auditors to provide appropriate evidence to demonstrate the security program’s effectiveness.

Below are some of the key services the Risk and Advisory practice offers:

  • Virtual CISO and Staff Augmentation Advisory Services

  • Ransomware / Security Incident Response Readiness

  • Regulatory Compliance

  • Security Program Review

  • Risk Assessment and Management

  • Governance Risk and Compliance

  • Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery

  • Third-Party Risk Management

  • Threat and Vulnerability Management

  • Threat Modeling

Additional details on these service offerings:

Virtual CISO and Staff Augmentation Advisory Services: Flexible services designed to assist with a wide range of information security challenges facing organizations. In some situations, organizations may need assistance but do not have defined projects, Atredis can support those needs with long-term staff augmentation services.Specific services provided:

  • Virtual CISO

  • Expert level security staff augmentation

  • Risk and advisory block of consulting hours for all service offerings

Ransomware / Security Incident Response Readiness: Services designed to help organizations ensure that they are planning appropriately and testing their ability to manage a Ransomware event or other security incident. Ransomware has become one of the most likely and impactful threats to many organizations and our Risk and Advisory Consultants are experienced to assist with the evaluation and development of Incident Response, breach determinations, and associated programs. Specific services provided:

  • Incident response tabletop exercises

  • Social engineering

  • Security Operations Center review and program design

Regulatory Compliance: Services designed to help organizations manage their current alignment with regulatory compliance requirements. Our Risk and Advisory consultants have decades of experience working with many different business verticals and their associated regulatory/compliance requirements. That experience helps to ensure that our clients are evaluating and improving their Security and Privacy programs in a meaningful way to comply with necessary requirements and to prepare for internal and/or external audits. Specific services provided:

  • Assessments to help ensure alignment with regulatory compliance frameworks, including:

    • HIPAA Security and Privacy

    • FISMA

    • SOX (COBIT)

    • GDPR

    • SEC/FINRA

  • Audit preparedness and liaison services to assist with and be an advocate for the organization during internal/external audits

Security Program Review:  Services designed to evaluate an organization’s alignment with security frameworks / leading practices. Our Risk and Advisory consultants will review security control implementation of designated frameworks to ensure alignment and/or provide recommendations for improvement. Our collective experience helps to ensure that recommendations are aligned with the organization’s business mission, specific requirements, and current level of program maturity; helping to ensure actionable results to improve the overall Security Program. Specific services provided:

  • Security Program Review against a desired framework(s), including:

    • ISO 27001/2

    • NIST SP 800-53

    • NIST SP 800-171

    • FedRAMP and StateRAMP

    • NIST Cyber Security Framework

    • HITRUST CSF

    • SOC 2

    • PCI / DSS

Risk Assessment and Management: Services designed to help organizations manage overall security risk to help ensure appropriate stakeholders are making informed decisions. While conducting general IT or system specific Risk Assessments is important, our Risk and Advisory consultants help organizations consider all the elements that help make an effective Risk Management Program including risk mitigation strategies, risk acceptance, risk monitoring and reporting, and continuous improvement. Specific services provided:

  • General IT and system level Risk Assessments

  • Inherent and residual risk analysis activities

  • Risk management program review and development

Governance Risk and Compliance: Services designed to assist organizations with developing and maintaining formal GRC programs. Our Risk and Advisory consultants have experience with all of the program elements necessary to achieve the goals of effectively managing governance, risk, and compliance activities, enhancing decision-making processes, and mitigating risks to achieve business objectives while maintaining legal and regulatory compliance. Specific services provided:

  • GRC program review, design, and implementation

  • Internal control design

  • Review and develop information security policies, standards, procedures, etc.

Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery: Services designed to help organizations ensure that there are appropriate processes and procedures in place to minimize the impact of unplanned disruptions to business operations. Our Risk and Advisory consultants have experience helping organizations evaluate the how likely a disruption is to occur, evaluate the associated  impacts to   IT and security operations, develop comprehensive preparedness plans, and facilitate the testing of those plans to ensure effectiveness and make improvements. Specific services provided:

  • Evaluate BC/DR programs to help ensure alignment with leading practices

  • Conduct and document Business Impact Analysis activities

  • Business continuity tabletop exercises

  • Develop BC/DR plans and runbooks

Third-Party Risk Management: Services designed to assist organizations with managing third-party (vendor/supplier) risk across their portfolio of business partnerships. Business partnerships are often a vital part of an organization’s operations, but those partnerships can also introduce a significant amount of risk. Our  Risk and Advisory consultants have experience developing and maintaining Third-Party Risk Management programs to continuously monitor the use of and security posture of external business partnerships. Specific services provided:

  • Conduct security assessments of third parties

  • Review and develop third-party risk management programs

  • Conduct security assessments for mergers and acquisitions

Threat and Vulnerability Management: Services designed to help organizations manage threats and vulnerabilities in a proactive manner to help reduce risk. Our Risk and Advisory consultants have experience helping organizations systematically identify, assess, prioritize, and mitigate cybersecurity risks associated with threats and vulnerabilities. Threat and Vulnerability management is more than just “patch management” and our approach helps organizations consider all the critical program elements including threat intelligence, internal communications, and the management of legacy and/or end of life systems. Specific services provided:

  • Evaluation and development of Threat and Vulnerability Management Programs, including:

    • Threat intelligence

    • Asset management

    • Vulnerability and patch management

    • Metrics and reporting

    • Management of legacy/end of life systems

Threat Modeling: Services designed to assist organizations with identifying threat sources, attack outcomes, attack likelihood, and attack impacts to proactively and systematically evaluate and prioritize the mitigation of identified threats. Our Risk and Advisory consultants have experience developing, executing, and improving existing Threat Models. We focus on leveraging leading practices, while also customizing engagements to the unique products and/or services being evaluated for our clients. Although the ideal time to conduct these exercises is in the design phase, we can help regardless of where your organization is within the product lifecycle. Specific services provided:

  • Review and develop custom threat model frameworks

  • Conduct threat model exercises