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Managing the security impact of COVID-19 and the increased cyber security threat.

Few could predict how quickly the remote working revolution would take place. The fast enablement of remote working for entire organisations exposed cyber security vulnerabilities within the IT infrastructure.

SCC’s security approach begins with an effective program to understand the maturity of your organisation’s security strategy. This will lead to the implementation of the right tools and security controls for provision of continuous monitoring and incident response. Our aim is to mitigate legal and financial risk and to also remove any potential damage to your reputation.

Gartner’s recent publication, 7 Security Areas to Focus on During COVID-19‘, discusses the principal concerns for IT security teams. The report looks at how organisation’s don’t fall foul of increased cyber-attacks as a direct result of the pandemic. As we all get used to working in completely different environments, would-be cyber criminals look to capitalise on this new way of working.

Gartner: 7 Security Areas to Focus on

Ensure that the organisation’s incident response protocols reflect the altered operating conditions and are tested early.

Ensure that all remote access capabilities are tested and secure and endpoints used by workers are patched.

Reinforce the need for remote workers to remain vigilant to socially engineered attacks.

Ensure security monitoring capabilities are tuned to have visibility of the expanded operating environment.

Engage with security services vendors to evaluate impacts to the security supply chain.

Account for cyber physical systems security challenges.

Don’t forget employee information and privacy.

What our customers say

MBDA

The nature of our business demands a close attention to detail and achievement of deadlines plus a need for flexibility in the light of changing demands. SCC currently meets our expectations as a partner and provision the necessary assistance on a day to day basis. They also work with us on planning future operations and responses to the IT demands of the MBDA business.

 

Alan Wood
Information Management CS&I, IT Operations Manager
MBDA

Secure Trust Bank

We have a track record of successfully integrating businesses into STB Group, therefore it’s crucial we remain flexible so that when opportunities arise our IT strategy is an enabler rather than a blocker to growth. What helped SCC win our business was their approach to both the bid process and how they would manage the initial operation.

 

Roy Aston
Chief Technology Officer
Secure Trust Bank

Gist

SCC is a key strategic partner for Gist. We have had a long standing and trusted relationship and we consider them an incredibly safe pair of hands for the levels of service and support that Gist requires them to provide on our complex and mission-critical IT infrastructure.

 

Mike Hornby
Head of IT
Gist

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Our approach

Cyber Risk Assessment

We deliver Consultancy led Cyber Risk Assessment services to expose threats and vulnerabilities across an organisation’s infrastructure and operational processes in order to reduce any adverse impact on the business, improve environmental uptime and lower support costs. SEE MORE

Cloud Security Assessment

Our Cloud Security Assessment utilises deep insights to understand where threats originate and compare networks and cloud configurations. This service compliments our Cloud Readiness Assessment service where we review an organisation’s cloud security. SEE MORE

Compliance Services

We offer a broad range of security compliance services to customers around GDPR, ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials and others. SEE MORE

Vulnerability Assessment

Our vulnerability assessment will evaluate your network to determine the susceptibility to any known vulnerabilities, assign severity levels to those vulnerabilities and recommend remediation or mitigation, if and whenever needed. SEE MORE

Penetration Testing

The Penetration testing service from SCC will evaluate and test your organisations systems, network or web applications to find security vulnerabilities that an attacker could exploit. Our penetration testing can be automated or performed manually.

Active Phishing Simulation Service

This is a simulated phishing campaign that we run against staff in an organisation with the permission of their management. SCC delivers this service to provide a baseline metric of how susceptible an organisation is to a phishing attack. SEE MORE

Information Security Awareness Training

We offer customers a security learning management system for training, testing and tracking security knowledge and awareness within their organisations. SEE MORE

Security Solution Design

Our security solution architects have a range of experience designing and implementing security solutions for customers applications, infrastructure and networks.

Security Standards and Guidelines

We provide security standards that recognise the vectors that cyber-attacks rely upon and include guidelines for protecting your information beyond the borders of your organisation.

Technical Assurance

Our technical assurance service provides our clients with a robust and credible technical design capability, including the independent verification of complex software, platform, network and system designs.

Security Policies Formulation

Our team can develop IT security policies to identify the rules and procedures for all individuals accessing and using an organisation’s IT assets and resources.

Networking and Infrastructure

Next Generation Firewalls
While a traditional firewall typically provides stateful inspection of incoming and outgoing network traffic, a next-generation firewall supplied by SCC includes additional features like application awareness and control, integrated intrusion prevention and cloud-delivered threat intelligence.

Network Access Controls
Our network access control solutions support network visibility and access management through policy enforcement on devices and users of corporate networks.

Identity and Access Management

Identity and Access Management (IAM) lets you create and manage permissions. IAM unifies access control for all services into a single system and presents a consistent set of operations.

Multi-Factor Authentication

Verify users’ identities, gain visibility into every device and enforce adaptive policies to secure access to every application. Secure your admin accounts with secure.

Privileged Access Management (PAM)

Exert secure control over the elevated (“privileged”) access and permissions for users, accounts, processes, and systems across your IT environment.

Endpoint Security

Mobile Device Management
Manage personal and corporate-owned devices across multiple operating systems. Gain robust enterprise MDM capabilities to manage and secure your endpoints.

Anti-Malware
Antimalware (anti-malware) is a type of software program designed to prevent, detect and remove malicious software (malware) on IT systems, as well as individual computing devices.

Anti-Ransomware
Our Anti-Ransomware is a security tool that can protect against existing and emerging ransomware attacks.

Anti-Virus
An antivirus service from SCC is designed to detect and remove viruses and other kinds of malicious software from your organisation’s devices.

Cloud Security

Implement Cloud security and security management best practices designed to prevent unauthorised access to keep data and applications in the cloud secure from current and emerging cybersecurity threats.

Application Security

Effectively protect your most critical data to minimize the risk of it being compromised. Ensure your applications are built and tested to identify high risk vulnerabilities.

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Managed SIEM Service

SCC’s Security Operations Centre (SOC) can introduce additional strength and depth, building on that of your internal resource. Our security specialists monitor your event logs 24/7 to provide essential context and guidance into how both internal and external users are interacting with your systems.

Firewall Management

Our firewall management services manage next-generation firewall policies and cloud security groups alongside your traditional firewalls.

Threat Intelligence

Threat intelligence services provided by our team of experts supply evidence-based knowledge, context and actionable recommendations, regarding cyber threats.

EndPoint Management

Our Endpoint management services help your organisation’s users keep track of devices in a system and ensure their software is secure and up to date.

Active Directory Management

Active Directory allows network administrators to create and manage domains, users and objects within a network allowing an admin to create a group of users and give them specific access privileges to certain directories on the server.

Secure Data Protection

Protect enterprise data across multiple environments, meet privacy regulations and simplify operational complexity with our secure data solutions.

Cloud+ Secure

Cloud+ hosted server workloads deliver secure, highly available data centre grade server hosting infrastructure. They provide for rapid deployment of services and the scaling of IT resources, shortening development times and reducing implementation costs. SEE HERE

Cloud Hosting

Our solutions match cloud services from a variety of cloud providers including SCC’s public cloud practice SCC Hyperscale, to the needs of your organisation. SEE HERE

SCC Endpoint Managed Service

Our Endpoint managed service, powered by Tanium, enables customers to close their visibility gap and consolidate their usage of multiple point products that deliver Patch, Vulnerability, Asset Management and more. We do this all with a single agent within a single service cost per month that helps guarantee the management and security of your user base. SEE HERE

Continuous Service Improvement

Our continuous service improvement ensures the delivery of IT services is constantly evaluated and meets your business goals and needs.

Security Hardening

While operating systems have become more secure over time, they’re nowhere close to being impenetrable. Our security hardening services can help lock, protect and strengthen components of your organisations systems.

Customer Success Program

Our customer success program is relationship-focused customer management, that aligns your organisations goals with those of IT service providers for mutually beneficial outcomes.

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Challenges we see

Remote working

Enablement of remote working for entire organisations

Continuity

The need to maintain business-as-usual operations whilst protecting employees, partners and customers.

Threats

Skill gaps of IT security staff with entire workforces having to work remotely, increasing vulnerability.

Focus

The biggest risk to any organisation’s IT security is its people, with human error, lack of training or not enough awareness of the latest techniques used by cyber criminals.

Priorities

An increase in outsourced IT security functions post-COVID-19 can be expected, as businesses look to experienced partners to cope with the enhanced threat.

Risks and impact

Security of your people, processes and technologies as any security breaches may now have an even bigger impact than pre-COVID-19, economically and reputationally.

Security Brochure

Managing the security impact of COVID-19

SCC Security Brochure

Download SCC’s most recent Security brochure which includes results from our pre- and post- COVID-19 Security IT Insights survey in which we surveyed 550 IT decision-makers from 11 different sectors, both public and private, about the impact of COVID-19 on IT security.

 

 

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