What is a Minnesota cybersecurity advisor?
A partner to come along aside you and your organization to help formulate the most right plan to lower risk and save money for your business.
The threats are overwhelming.
From access privilege escalation to cross-site scripting (XSS).
We can help prioritize these threats and blueprint a strategy that is unique to your business risk.
The business initiatives keep being presented as ‘innovative‘ and ‘cost saving‘. We can help sift through what needs attention and assign security checklists and prioritize a review process to help understand, reduce, or accept the risk of these initiatives.
Our goal, as your cybersecurity advisor. to enable ‘yes’. To change the identity of security within your organization from a ‘no‘ to a ‘yes‘, and build the process and controls to get there.
As your trusted advisor we will enable speed to market, prioritize cybersecurity efforts, identify top risks, plan how to reduce the biggest vulnerabilities, and make you be the hero.
From the computer to the cloud, we will build a process to streamline implementation and lower risk all while saving the organization money.
Case Study – Distribution Company
We engaged with a local distribution company after they reached out to use to help with a recent ransomware attack they had suffered from. This attack had disabled their payment processing for online orders, encrypted their inventory system.
As a result, all online orders had to be manually called in, processed by a person over the phone, and then manually checked for availability in the warehouse. After that, the customer was then called back and confirmed that their order was available. If the customer still wanted the order and had not found it somewhere else (or even picked up the phone!), then the customer was asked for payment method and then again, the payment method was manually processed over the POS system. The receipt was then included in the mailed package.
This cybersecurity incident cost the company a lot of money from lost orders, increased labor processing, and it cost them the value of lifetime customers.
Initially, the client wanted us to help with the incident handling.
The client asked us to help with vendor selection on a new endpoint protection solution.
We told the client that we were happy to help them by providing our opinion at no cost on their selection.
We then asked the client if they were open to hearing some other options we felt were diligent for them to consider. We proposed a security strategy that we believed would lower their risk far more than the endpoint vendor replacement. In addition, it would cost them less money.
Our proposal was approved and we worked with the client immediately to implement the changes.
Case Study B: Software provider
We recently worked with a software developing company on their information security strategy. Their main risk was their intellectual property (IP) and their client data.
The company had plenty of technologies, and many brilliant people when it came to technology. Their leadership was built on technology.
This company also understood the risks to their business were real, and they believed it was diligent, efficient, and effective to bring us in as advisors.
As part of this relationship, via retainer, we are always available to these clients and participate regularity in their strategy planning, and technology reviews.
As a result, the company has retained its intellectual property and remains a trusted entity protecting the data of its clients.
In addition, the client has saved a significant amount on staffing and has reinvested this into its core business purpose.
FAQs
Why should we choose Asher Security as our security advisor?
Over twenty years of experience across all cybersecurity and information security disciplines. Experience with a handful of industries including defense, government, retail, financial, and medical. Qualified and certified security leaders. Accomplished writers, speakers, and industry contributors. A vast network of trusted and close cybersecurity friends and professionals engaging in all levels and disciplines of security work. Local to Minnesota, with engagement experience including many of Minnesota’s leading companies.
What are your deliverables?
100% satisfaction.
Unlike security ‘projects’ that have specific deliverables, we partner with you on whatever and whenever you want.
We help you reduce the risk to your organization by maturing your security program. This is at your pace and your budget, but we will not limit what we can achieve together.
When is ‘enough’ security ‘enough’?
When the measured risk to your organization meets your risk appetite.
You know your business better than anyone. We know security. We advise, and you decide. We will enable you with evidence and assessments you can use monetize and determine when enough is. Our goal is to provide business clarity where that is, design a blueprint on how, and jumpstart the process of getting there.
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