Municipalities and local government agencies have unique requirements not all firms are capable or willing to assist. Technology and policy changes often require unique stakeholder agreement to changes. Understanding and working within these acquistion cycles can be critical to a meaningful assessment leading to implementation.
Quantifying and qualifying the unknown is the objective of a cybersecurity assessment. Once known, risks can be addressed through appropriately applied remediation actions. The reapidly evolving technology landscape has the risk of introducing vulnerabilities to an entities environment. A cybersecurity assessment is not a one size fits all endeavor.
Cybersecurity is often addressed in a layered approach. Layering improves overall resilience of a system. The seven layers we approach cybersecurity are:
(1) Mission-Cititcal Assets
(2) Data Security
(3) Endpoint Protection
(4) Application Security
(5) Network Security
(6) Perimeter Security
(7) User Layer
Applying a security model aids in minimizing misdirected efforts and leads to compounding results.