Information Risk Management


Lack of clarity regarding the true risk companies face causes problems when addressing internal and external threats. Since information risk management is an important component of enterprise risk management, the processes, methods and metrics used to define information security risks need to be integrated within the larger context of organizational risk. ApZen is one of the few information security management consulting firms to offer end to end services in this area.

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Governance
In the Board Briefing on IT Governance, ITGI defines governance as the set of practices exercised by the board and executive management with the goal of providing strategic direction, ensuring that the objectives are met, ascertaining that the risks are managed appropriately and verifying that the enterprise's resources are used responsibly. Since information is one of the biggest assets of an organizations, senior executives and board of directors are progressively being tasked with defining governing organizational policy statements about information security. ApZen's management consultants can offer guidance in creation of these organizational policies through their depth of information security expertise as well as domain knowledge in wide array of industries. 

Information Security Strategy & Roadmap
Any information security organization must be closely tied with organizational business objectives. The objective of an information security strategy is to provide the basis of an action plan that can help achieve the security objectives necessary for the success of the business. The strategy must also provide well defined metrics to determine the level of success. ApZen's proprietary LOCKS methodology can be used to map organizational business principles to a long term security strategy and a detailed roadmap defining an action plan of how to get there.

Risk Assessment
Risk assessment is understanding the delta between organizational risk appetite and existing state of affairs. ApZen has a proprietary risk estimation model that can be used to determine the extent of risk as a a result of an existing business process and/or system and the protection that is prudent based on business requirements, objectives and priorities. We also provide a risk acceptance model which can be used to accept the risk if mitigation possibilities don't make sense because of opportunity, cost or business domain.

Standards, Procedures & Guidelines
Standards, procedures and guidelines are the tools that are used to implement the organizational information security policies. ApZen has extensive domain expertise in this area. We specialize in generating customized standards, procedures and guidelines based on your business domain as well as tactical and strategic business needs.

Data Classification
The first step in protecting data is to classify the data you have. ApZen can work with you on defining appropriate data classification mechanism for your organization and help build that data classification mechanism into your data warehouse. 

Information Security Integration in SDLC
It is well known software engineering principle that the later you fix the problems in software development lifecycle, the more expensive they are to fix. The same principle applies to information security as well. Information security should be considered from the inception of a project. Detailed information security requirements should be identified from the very beginning and should be integrated throughout SDLC. ApZen can analyze your existing SDLC and integrate information security principles therein. 

Merger & Acquisition Advice
Organizations can inherit significant liability if proper due diligence is not done to ensure appropriate information security controls in acquired organizations. As a result, information security due diligence is becoming a routine part of merger and acquisition activities. ApZen is a respected service provider in this arena. With our experienced management consultant's, we can judge the maturity of information security practices of an organization and provide an objective recommendation on this data point.