Audit & Assessment Service
It is known as one of the International Standard that is required to be followed by the organisation while enhancing the security of information assets, financial information, employee data, other information of customers, vendors, and another third party. To keep them secured will be possible by following the ISO 27001 standards. ISO 27001 is the most efficient standard that protects risk management and multiple other services when they deal with Information Security Management System. However, this system includes a series of organised frameworks and approaches that ensured the confidential information of the organisation is kept secured using the robust ISMS.
Why ISO 27001 is Required?
An ISO 27001 ISMS (Information Security Management System) is a systematic and pro-active approach to manage risks to the security of your company’s confidential information. The ISMS helps in efficient management of sensitive corporate information and highlights vulnerabilities to ensure it is adequately protected against potential threats. It encompasses people, process and IT systems. An ISO 27001 certification is suitable for business of any size, in any given sector, which is looking to increase and enhance the company’s security of its data.
Benefits of ISO 27001
Increased reliability and security of systems and information
Improved customer and business partner confidence
Increased business resilience
Alignment with customer requirements
Improved management processes and integration with corporate risk strategies
What We Deliver ? It’s an important practice that gives organisations visibility into real-world threats to your security. As part of a routine security check, penetration tests allow you to find the gaps in your security before a hacker does by exploiting vulnerabilities and providing steps for remediation.
Digital Report – Our experts will furnish an itemised security evaluation report with legitimate remediation steps to be taken. Distinguish Security Weaknesses inside your Digital Asset permitting you to proactively remediate any issues that emerge and improve your security act.
Vulnerability Data – Constantly updating Vulnerability Information to stay in touch with the emerging threat landscape. Receive overview and trend data of all of the current security issues you face in your organisation. All viewable on a Digital Report.
Skilled Consultants – We also assured you that your assessments are executed by qualified experts. Our group of security specialists holds industry capabilities, for example, CHECK Team Member and Team Leader, CEH, ECSA, OSCP, CISA, CISSP, and many more.
ISO27701 Compliance Audit
Benefits of ISO 27701 Compliance ?
•ISO 27701 Compliance provides conditions on how to manage and process data and safeguard privacy.
•ISO 27701 Compliance Provides the Privacy Information Management System implementation process.
•Protect the business reputation.
•Increase customer satisfaction. Acquire the necessary skills to support a business in implementing a Privacy Information Management System in compliance with the ISO/IEC 27701. Increase transparency of the business processes and procedures.
•Build clients’ trust. Support the continuous improvement process of the Privacy Information Management System within organisations.
•Provides transparency between stakeholders. Maintain the integrity of customers’ and other interested parties’ information.
SOC 2 Compliance Audit
What is SOC 2?
Developed by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA), SOC 2 defines standards for managing customer statistics based totally on five “trust carrier principles”—security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality and privacy. Unlike PCI DSS, which has very inflexible requirements, SOC 2 reviews are unique to every organisation. In line with specific commercial enterprise practices, each designs its very own controls to comply with one or greater of the have confidence principles. These internal reports furnish you (along with regulators, business partners, suppliers, etc.) with important records about how your service provider manages data. There are two sorts of SOC reports:
•Type I describes a vendor’s systems and whether their format is suitable to meet applicable trust principles.
•Type II details the operational effectiveness of these systems.
SOC 2 Certification
SOC 2 certification is issued with the aid of external auditors. They assess the extent to which a supplier complies with one or extra of the 5 trust standards based totally on the structures and processes in place.
•Security The protection principle refers to safety of system sources towards unauthorised access. Access controls help prevent potential system abuse, theft or unauthorised elimination of data, misuse of software, and improper alteration or disclosure of information. IT protection equipment such as network and internet application firewalls (WAFs), two thing authentication and intrusion detection are useful in preventing protection breaches that can lead to unauthorised get entry to of structures and data.
•Processing Integrity The processing integrity precept addresses whether or not a system achieves its cause (i.e., delivers the proper data at the right fee at the right time). Accordingly, data processing need to be complete, valid, accurate, timely and authorized. However, processing integrity does not always imply information integrity. If information contains errors prior to being input into the system, detecting them is now not typically the accountability of the processing entity. Monitoring of data processing, coupled with first-class assurance procedures, can assist make sure processing integrity.
•Privacy The privacy principle addresses the system’s collection, use, retention, disclosure and disposal of non-public records in conformity with an organisation’s privacy notice, as properly as with standards set forth in the AICPA’s generally accepted privacy principles (GAPP). Personal identifiable information (PII) (like, Gender, name, address, Social Security number). Some private information related to health, race, sexuality and religion is additionally regarded sensitive and commonly requires a more level of protection. Controls ought to be put in place to protect all PII from unauthorised access
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•Availability The availability principle refers to the accessibility of the system, products or services as stipulated through a contract or service level agreement (SLA). As such, the minimum acceptable overall performance stage for system availability is set by using both parties. This precept does now not address system functionality and usability, however does contain security-related standards that can also affect availability. Monitoring network performance and availability, website failover and safety incident handling are essential in this context.
•Confidentiality Data is considered exclusive if its access and disclosure is confined to a specific set of persons or organisations. Examples may also encompass information meant solely for corporation personnel, as nicely as enterprise plans, mental property, inner charge lists and different types of touchy monetary information. Encryption is an necessary control for defending confidentiality all through transmission. Network and application firewalls, collectively with rigorous access controls, can be used to protect facts being processed or saved on computer systems.
The Importance of SOC 2 Compliance
While SOC 2 compliance isn’t a requirement for SaaS and cloud computing vendors, its function in securing your data cannot be overstated. Imperva undergoes regular audits to ensure the requirements of each of the five trust principles are met and that we remain SOC 2-compliant. Compliance extends to all services we provide, including web application security, DDoS protection, content delivery through our CDN, load balancing and Attack Analytics.
•What We Deliver
•What We Deliver ? It’s an important practice that gives organisations visibility into real-world threats to your security. As part of a routine security check, penetration tests allow you to find the gaps in your security before a hacker does by exploiting vulnerabilities and providing steps for remediation.
•Digital Report – Our experts will furnish an itemised security evaluation report with legitimate remediation steps to be taken. Distinguish Security Weaknesses inside your Digital Asset permitting you to proactively remediate any issues that emerge and improve your security act.
•Vulnerability Data – Constantly updating Vulnerability Information to stay in touch with the emerging threat landscape. Receive overview and trend data of all of the current security issues you face in your organisation. All viewable on a Digital Report.
•Skilled Consultants – We also assured you that your assessments are executed by qualified experts. Our group of security specialists holds industry capabilities, for example, CHECK Team Member and Team Leader, CEH, ECSA, OSCP, CISA, CISSP, and many more.
GDPR COMPLIANCE AUDIT
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a data privacy regulation that primarily safeguards EU citizens data no matter where its stored in the world and by whom.This indicates that being a company (or organisation), one must make sure that they are well aware of all the changes coming up and what do the changes mean to you.
The concept of “personal data” has been defined in GDPR to refer to any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (i.e. “Data Subject”). An identifiable natural person is one who can be identified in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person, and therefore all such information is considered as ‘personal data’ under the GDPR. For Indian companies dealing with such ‘personal data’ of EU residents, it then becomes imperative to implement the data protection requirements stipulated in GDPR within their systems. The GDPR is compulsory for organisations as it helps to put governance and measures to manage and process personal data. Non-compliance with the GDPR can result in fines of up to 4% of an organisation’s annual global turnover. Data subjects are also afforded the right to compensation.
Awareness
This indicates that being a company (or organisation), one must make sure that they are well aware of all the changes coming up and what do the changes mean to you.
•Now there should be no area to be handled solely by just one person taking on the full responsibility. So, the complete support and engagement of Board and Senior Management Team is essential.
•Keep in consideration all resources and procedural implications of setting up an effective and robust governance team (data) for any organisation.
•GDPR needs to be added into organisation’s risk register as now corporate risk management incorporates both privacy as well as data security.
Consent
This feature is regarded as important so as to make sure that individuals have better control and have proper understanding of data processing methods to be employed. This provides a means of giving individual’s stronger rights on the basis of processing.
•The consent to be obtained must be very specific, unambiguous, given freely and well informed.
•There must exist an agreement indicating positive indication with data controllers having enough evidence to know that consent is already given.
•Consent can be taken by providing a checkbox on an internet website which is not ticked by default.
Date Subject
A data subject is a living, identifiable individual to whom particular personal data relates. If you process their data, the GDPR requires you to meet certain obligations towards Under the GDPR, individuals can exercise:
•The Right to be Informed : Individuals have the right to be informed about the collection and use of their personal data.
•The Right of Access : Under the GDPR, data subjects have the right of access to personal data
•The Right to Rectification: Data subjects can ask data controllers to erase or rectify inaccurate or incomplete data.
•The Right to Erasure: Under the GDPR, individuals have to right to ask you to delete their personal data under certain rules and circumstances
•The Right to Restrict Processing: Individuals can ask you to restrict processing their personal data under certain rules and circumstances
•The Right to Object to Processing: if you rely on lawful bases of public interest or legitimate interests for processing, individuals may have a right to object to such processing.
•The right to not be Evaluated Based on Automated Processing: Under the GDPR, individuals have the right not to be subject to a decision that is based solely on automated processing and which significantly affects them (eg profiling for jobs, insurance premiums etc).
What We Deliver
What We Deliver ? It’s an important practice that gives organisations visibility into real-world threats to your security. As part of a routine security check, penetration tests allow you to find the gaps in your security before a hacker does by exploiting vulnerabilities and providing steps for remediation.
•Digital Report – Our experts will furnish an itemised security evaluation report with legitimate remediation steps to be taken. Distinguish Security Weaknesses inside your Digital Asset permitting you to proactively remediate any issues that emerge and improve your security act.
•Vulnerability Data – Constantly updating Vulnerability Information to stay in touch with the emerging threat landscape. Receive overview and trend data of all of the current security issues you face in your organisation. All viewable on a Digital Report.
•Skilled Consultants – We also assured you that your assessments are executed by qualified experts. Our group of security specialists holds industry capabilities, for example, CHECK Team Member and Team Leader, CEH, ECSA, OSCP, CISA, CISSP, and many more.
PCI DSS Compliance Audit
Any employer that performs a function in processing credit and debit card payments must comply with the strict PCI DSS compliance requirements for the processing, storage and transmission of account data. Xiarch can assist corporations working with cardholder facts comply with a number of elements of PCI DSS compliance and auditing, including: Protecting saved cardholder data. Encryption of information in transmission. Restricting access to cardholder data. Identifying and authenticating access to network components. Tracking and monitoring all get right of entry to data.
A PCI DSS Report on Compliance (ROC) is required with the aid of firms with massive transaction volumes and ought to be carried out through a QSA who will present a formal document to the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) to attest that your corporation is in full compliance. A PCI DSS audit is a specified review of an organisation’s cardholder data environment (CDE) the usage of a widespread methodology and reporting layout that outcomes in an RoC. PCI DSS compliance as established through a RoC offers corporations a competitive gain with the aid of supporting them invulnerable infrastructure and expand their overall trading credibility. Maintaining PCI DSS compliance helps guard credit card data and helps patron confidence. Our Qualified Security Assessors are equipped to assist identify the exceptional and most value effective approach to assessing your payment strategies and systems, and affirm they meet the standards set by way of the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC).
Our Engagement Process
The service generally includes a number of days on-site for our QSAs to meet with the managers who oversee the PCI DSS programme; key group of workers involved in network administration and cardholder systems; and the people accountable for organisation methods and policies.
•Scoping: An engagement initiates with a pre-assessment of your scope and compliance requirements.
•Pre-Assessment Information Gathering: During this step, our PCI DSS QSA will start a pre-assessment, which consists of an evaluation of the network design, safety coverage evaluation and on-site visit preparation.
•QSA PCI DSS Audit: We will perform a entire overview of your cardholder facts environment against the 12 PCI DSS requirements, and accumulate proof that your controls are in vicinity and working effectively Completed PCI DSS AoC: With completion of all the remediation items, we will then put up the executed RoC to our inner QA process, before getting ready the AoC prepared for formal submission, certifying your organisation as compliant.
Our Approach
Benefits of a PCI DSS Audit By conducting a PCI DSS threat assessment, you can assist your business enterprise to:
•Identify the presence of cardholder information that is no longer required for your commercial enterprise to operate optimally.
•Determine how to phase environments to isolate confidential networks (CDE) from non-sensitive networks.
•Provide your enterprise with the perception into altering environments and ongoing discovery of rising threats and vulnerabilities.
•Assist it to become aware of where mitigation controls required to tighten. Do you Need to Conduct a PCI Audit?
•You would possibly need a formal evaluation if any of the following apply:
•You are a Level 1 service provider processing massive volumes of transactions yearly (more than six million) with Mastercard or Visa. You are a service provider processing giant volumes of transactions yearly (more than one million) with Mastercard and you do not have a PCI DSS-trained internal assessor on staff.
•You are a service provider that has been breached in the past or otherwise deemed to characterize notable risk. You are a service provider to merchants that can have an effect on the security of their payment transactions and you have access to giant volumes of transactions annually.
We at Cyber Hawks,
provide end to end support and guidance on getting compliant with these laid guidelines, primarily in below mentioned seven areas: –
•Information Security: Well defined framework to focus exclusively on Information and cyber security and Risk management.
•Information Security Audit: Audit on the IS process adopted by the firm and ensure that they provide unbiased and objective view of the extent to which the risk are managed. This focuses on Role and responsibilities of IS audit stakeholders and planning and execution.
•Business Continuity Planning: Policy and procedures to ensure continuity, resumption and recovery of critical business processes. Assistance in performing Disaster recovery drills to ensure readiness in an event of disaster.
•Cyber Fraud: Fraud management, suspicious transaction management, reporting to regulatory body and implementation of various fraud detection techniques. IT Governance: RBI guidelines mandates to have
•IT governance framework in place. Focus on creating organisational framework and process to make sure IT security sustains and objectives are met.
•Customer Grievance: Policy and procedure to ensure all the customer grievances are met and steps are taken to resolve the issues in stipulated period of time. Complete assistance on areas of Authentication, Authorisation, Logging and monitoring of transaction and activities, Implementation of Maker checker concept in key operational Areas, Customised and service-oriented architecture, secure operational environment, KYC and customer consent management.
What We Deliver
What We Deliver ? It’s an important practice that gives organisations visibility into real-world threats to your security. As part of a routine security check, penetration tests allow you to find the gaps in your security before a hacker does by exploiting vulnerabilities and providing steps for remediation.
•Digital Report – Our experts will furnish an itemised security evaluation report with legitimate remediation steps to be taken. Distinguish Security Weaknesses inside your Digital Asset permitting you to proactively remediate any issues that emerge and improve your security act.
•Vulnerability Data – Constantly updating Vulnerability Information to stay in touch with the emerging threat landscape. Receive overview and trend data of all of the current security issues you face in your organisation. All viewable on a Digital Report.
•Skilled Consultants – We also assured you that your assessments are executed by qualified experts. Our group of security specialists holds industry capabilities, for example, CHECK Team Member and Team Leader, CEH, ECSA, OSCP, CISA, CISSP, and many more.•
RBI Information Security Audit
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a data privacy regulation that primarily safeguards EU citizens data no matter where its stored in the world and by whom.This indicates that being a company (or organisation), one must make sure that they are well aware of all the changes coming up and what do the changes mean to you.
The concept of “personal data” has been defined in GDPR to refer to any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (i.e. “Data Subject”). An identifiable natural person is one who can be identified in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person, and therefore all such information is considered as ‘personal data’ under the GDPR. For Indian companies dealing with such ‘personal data’ of EU residents, it then becomes imperative to implement the data protection requirements stipulated in GDPR within their systems. The GDPR is compulsory for organisations as it helps to put governance and measures to manage and process personal data. Non-compliance with the GDPR can result in fines of up to 4% of an organisation’s annual global turnover. Data subjects are also afforded the right to compensation.
Awareness
This indicates that being a company (or organisation), one must make sure that they are well aware of all the changes coming up and what do the changes mean to you.
•Now there should be no area to be handled solely by just one person taking on the full responsibility. So, the complete support and engagement of Board and Senior Management Team is essential.
•Keep in consideration all resources and procedural implications of setting up an effective and robust governance team (data) for any organisation.
•GDPR needs to be added into organisation’s risk register as now corporate risk management incorporates both privacy as well as data security.
Consent
This feature is regarded as important so as to make sure that individuals have better control and have proper understanding of data processing methods to be employed. This provides a means of giving individual’s stronger rights on the basis of processing.
•The consent to be obtained must be very specific, unambiguous, given freely and well informed.
•There must exist an agreement indicating positive indication with data controllers having enough evidence to know that consent is already given.
•Consent can be taken by providing a checkbox on an internet website which is not ticked by default.
Date Subject
A data subject is a living, identifiable individual to whom particular personal data relates. If you process their data, the GDPR requires you to meet certain obligations towards Under the GDPR, individuals can exercise:
•The Right to be Informed : Individuals have the right to be informed about the collection and use of their personal data.
•The Right of Access : Under the GDPR, data subjects have the right of access to personal data
•The Right to Rectification: Data subjects can ask data controllers to erase or rectify inaccurate or incomplete data.
•The Right to Erasure: Under the GDPR, individuals have to right to ask you to delete their personal data under certain rules and circumstances
•The Right to Restrict Processing: Individuals can ask you to restrict processing their personal data under certain rules and circumstances
•The Right to Object to Processing: if you rely on lawful bases of public interest or legitimate interests for processing, individuals may have a right to object to such processing.
•The right to not be Evaluated Based on Automated Processing: Under the GDPR, individuals have the right not to be subject to a decision that is based solely on automated processing and which significantly affects them (eg profiling for jobs, insurance premiums etc).
What We Deliver
What We Deliver ? It’s an important practice that gives organisations visibility into real-world threats to your security. As part of a routine security check, penetration tests allow you to find the gaps in your security before a hacker does by exploiting vulnerabilities and providing steps for remediation.
•Digital Report – Our experts will furnish an itemised security evaluation report with legitimate remediation steps to be taken. Distinguish Security Weaknesses inside your Digital Asset permitting you to proactively remediate any issues that emerge and improve your security act.
•Vulnerability Data – Constantly updating Vulnerability Information to stay in touch with the emerging threat landscape. Receive overview and trend data of all of the current security issues you face in your organisation. All viewable on a Digital Report.
•Skilled Consultants – We also assured you that your assessments are executed by qualified experts. Our group of security specialists holds industry capabilities, for example, CHECK Team Member and Team Leader, CEH, ECSA, OSCP, CISA, CISSP, and many more.
RBI Co-Operative Bank IS Audit
Get an in-depth analysis of the RBI Cyber Security Framework for Cooperative Banks and learn more about how Cyber Hawks can help you meet the RBI Cyber Security Guidelines. RBI Cyber Security Framework here includes security of networks, databases, servers, applications and end-user systems among others.
The Three Most Common Insider Threats are as Follows::
•Modifying or stealing confidential or sensitive information for personal gain.
•Theft of trade secrets or customer identification to be used for business advantage
•Sabotage of an organisation’s data, systems or network.
Basic IT Security Assessments Checks
•Inventory Management of Business IT Assets – Maintaining an updated business and IT Asset Inventory register is a must for every Co-Operative Bank . It should have information about the details of every IT asset, its criticality and systems which contain customer information, and classify it according to the sensitivity.
•Preventing Access of Unauthorised Software Every Co-Operative Bank should maintain an updated and if possible a centralized inventory of the authorized soft-ware. They should also have a mechanism in place to monitor and block the installation of unauthorized software. Even the web browser settings should be up-to-date, and internet usage should be restricted.
•Network Management & Security Perform a regular configuration check on all the network devices and change their passwords periodically with some complexity. Wireless networks, access points, wireless client access systems should also be secured.
•Anti- Virus & Patch Management There should be systems in place to monitor the status of the patches of servers, OS and software which the
Co-Operative Bank officials are using. Even the anti-virus management is a must and should be centralized.
•Secure Mail & Messaging Systems It is important to secure email and messaging systems. Co-Operative Bank’s vendors’& partners email and the messaging system should also be secured. Even the email server specific controls should be implemented and well documented.
•Removable Data The use of removable devices should be prohibited in the banking domain unless authorized specifically. Even when authorized it should be scanned for malware, viruses and ensure erasure of data post use.hat We Deliver
What We Deliver ?
It’s an important practice that gives organisations visibility into real-world threats to your security. As part of a routine security check, penetration tests allow you to find the gaps in your security before a hacker does by exploiting vulnerabilities and providing steps for remediation.
•Digital Report – Our experts will furnish an itemised security evaluation report with legitimate remediation steps to be taken. Distinguish Security Weaknesses inside your Digital Asset permitting you to proactively remediate any issues that emerge and improve your security act.
•Vulnerability Data – Constantly updating Vulnerability Information to stay in touch with the emerging threat landscape. Receive overview and trend data of all of the current security issues you face in your organisation. All viewable on a Digital Report.
•Skilled Consultants – We also assured you that your assessments are executed by qualified experts. Our group of security specialists holds industry capabilities, for example, CHECK Team Member and Team Leader, CEH, ECSA, OSCP, CISA, CISSP, and many more.