Our consultancy services cover the length and breadth of Cyber Security as it relates to OT, IT transformation, digital, application development, hosting and migration. We’ll help you identify and secure your most critical services and what business impact could arise from incidents that could lead to service outages. Our expertise covers operational resilience planning and identifying important services which if are not delivered could cause harm to customers.
Our expertise covers:
NIST 800 series and CSF (Cyber Security Framework)
ISO 27000 series
CIS CSC (The Center for Internet Security Critical Security Controls)
GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)
UK DPA (Data Protection Act)
BMA (Bermuda Monetary Authority) Code of Conduct
PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard)
NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre) 10 Steps
Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus
ISF Standard of Good Practice (SOGP)
Please contact us to help you implement any of the above standards and frameworks, or to measure your compliance against these or should you wish to gain accreditation in any of the above. we have assisted many clients in the past and we are looking forward to going on this journey with you.
vCISO (Virtual Chief Information Security Officer) Service (Done for You)
Our vCISO service provides you access to world-class thought leaders who will provide direction, advice, guidance and consultancy to your business as a whole. A vCISO works closely with the board of directors, CTO, CIO and other C suites to ensure your business is resilient and secure.
Threats facing businesses are constantly evolving; threat actors also keep adapting their strategies to find new ways of circumventing enterprise controls. Businesses need to periodically re-think their strategy for defending against new and emerging threats. Our vCISOs would help your business set the right strategy; lead on through technical review of the technology landscape; current and planned architecture as well as critical processes that support your business.
vCISOs are highly trained and skilled individuals who have enterprise experience covering security architecture design, security operations and management of security. Where your business needs support in setting the direction of travel from a security perspective or just needs someone to pick their brains; you should get in touch and speak with one of our vCISOs.
Security Strategy (Done with You)
Let us help you rethink the security of your organisation. With resources being unlimited; organisations need to prioritise where best to invest resources in order to secure your services. We bring to life security which is appropriate to your OT (Operational Technology) and IT (Information Technology) environments.
Our approach is holistic taking into consideration the threats your business faces; targeted attacks to your industry as well as the vulnerabilities that impact your technology choices. We touch on everything from organisation policy development; to application development; use of third parties; approach to vulnerability management; security of the technology platforms; controls for data leakage as well as user access.
Security Architecture and Roadmap Development
To reduce vendor lock-in as well as having a backout plan from a particular CSP (Cloud Service Provider) more enterprises are looking at multi-cloud deployment. Let us help your business securely develop multi-cloud routing and connectivity.
We develop Cloud Security Reference Architectures and roadmaps that meet your future ambitions. Our expert knowledge of traditional on-premise architecture and understanding of cloud-native technologies gives us the unique perspective to design enterprise security architecture that leverage cloud-native services to protect hybrid environments.
Cloud Security (Done with You)
Our cloud security experts provide comprehensive thought leadership on all areas of cloud security for your business needs. We help define security principles, standards and guide rails to securely consume cloud services from various Cloud Service Providers (CSP). We are experts in securing AWS, Azure, GCP and Ali Cloud. We ensure you have the appropriate access management for your specific use cases and ensure your cloud environment is configured securely. Our approach to Cloud Security Posture Monitor ensures cost optimization by gaining continuous monitoring of visibility into the security
Digital Transformation
We help clients ensure that security is appropriate for their digital transformation programmes. The last thing you want is to undergo a transformational program that exposes your business to more risks and cyber-attacks. We help ensure your change programmes have the resources with the right experience to make your digital transformation a success. With resources being limited; organisations need to prioritise where best to invest resources in order to deliver business objectives.
DevSecOps
Digital services have moved from the traditional DevOps (Development and Operations) practices to incorporating Security (the Sec in the middle of DevSecOps) within the delivery of applications and services.
Let us help you introduce effective DevSecOps within your organisation irrespective of size and provide guidance on how to incorporate security controls into your delivery without slowing down your releases. We provide guidance in developing security as code compliance checks to ensure insecure infrastructure and applications are prevented from making it to your production environments. We incorporate SAST (Static Application Security Testing), DAST (Dynamic Application Security Testing), IAST (Interactive Application Security Testing), MAST (Mobile Application Security Testing) scanning into local and cloud-based developer IDEs and your CI/CD pipelines to ensure your business can truly shift security left.
Secure SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle)
Organisations that develop software have to ensure those software and applications are secure. Priority Consult has expertise in developing and maturing software development practises for organisations of all sizes. We help organisation envision how security becomes embedded within their application and service development practise. We ensure your business does not leak credentials and API keys that allow unauthorised access to your data.
Don’t slow your development work or release cadence because of security but instead empower your developers to become your security champions and shift security left. Priority consult will work with you to ensure you have secure CI/CD pipelines to ensure your services, applications and features are built and deployed securely.
Application and API Security
With in-depth knowledge in the OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities and practical experience in preventing exploitation of these vulnerabilities, we are well placed to support the secure delivery of your applications. Our expertise cover API (Application Programming Interface) eco systems.
We develop secure APIs which securely handle sensitive data; incorporate appropriate authentication and authorisation; properly logs the security events which are essential in understanding your application behaviour under normal load.
Container Security
Get holistic security for your container workloads to reduce risks posed by using containers for running applications. We cover security of container images through hardening, find vulnerabilities and then shrink the attack surface within your containers. We help you appropriately segment your container workloads, and secure the container platform and ensure your applications can securely access credentials and secrets required to ensure access is granted to only the resources that you authorise.
Security Assessment and Threat Modelling
Our security experts develop threat models for various platforms and applications to decompose complex systems while analysing the threats against the most critical systems. We have exceptional ability to identify potential data loss channels and design a prioritized plan of controls to address security concerns.
We utilise threat modelling technique to help identify threats and vulnerabilities that affect your application. We then use our results to communicate the security requirements and controls which are designed and implemented as part of the application's design and hosting to meet your organisation's security objectives and reduce risk.
Let us help you identify and shrink your attack surface by leveraging our systematic, structured and comprehensive approach to threat modelling.
Supply Chain Third Party Security Assessment
Do you understand the risks posed by the supply chain to your products and services? Whether you are using a FOSS (Free and Open Source Software), a SaaS (Software as a Service) offering or other bespoke applications; you need to be aware of how vulnerabilities in capabilities you rely on could be used to compromise your business and potentially lead to reputational damage.
We can help you assess and uncover where security issues line in your dependencies, and supply chain so you are able to put controls in place to mitigate impact of any risks that crystalises. Our clients rely on us to help them complete technical security assessments when selecting vendors, products and services. Let one of our IT-focused leads support your RFP (Request for Proposal), RFI (Request for Information), Cloud service assessment or software assessment.
ISMS and Policy Development
Our clients rely on us to help them craft organisational policies which are high-level management statements of intent. We use our experience of applicable regulatory requirement, industry standards and relevant contractual obligation to formulate policies that shapes the organisation’s security.
Do you want to achieve an industry accreditation such as ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials, PCI DSS and the likes, we can help get your organisation on the front foot by supporting the creation and documentation of required policies, standards and guidance.
Vulnerability Management
We provide remote vulnerability scanning capability and provide guidance to organisations on how to remediate vulnerabilities found. Businesses that offload the remote scanning of their externally facing services have to invest less in tools and highly specialised resources but get the benefit of understanding the vulnerabilities which attackers are likely to exploit. Let us take on board your vulnerability management programme and provide you the expert knowledge and ensure you understand which of your systems are vulnerable and pose the highest risk to your business objectives.
Data Security
Your company’s intellectual property increases your capacity to be commercially profitable and data is at the heart of what provides business the cutting-edge capability to provide better insight, generate new channels of revenues, provide new products, detect fraud, etc. The possibilities are endless and attackers also know this. So how do you keep your data secure?
GDPR and UK Data Protection Act (DPA) as well a whole load of other regulatory requirements that are geared towards keeping data safe; but how do you meet all these requirements? Our data security specialists will handle all these for you. We have been helping clients secure their data since inception and we fully understand the applicable regulations and will help you meet those requirements irrespective of the technology choices.
Let us help you ensure the integrity of your data; apply appropriate access control and validate the sovereignty of your data in line with applicable regulatory requirements.
Risk Management
Digital disruption is one of the key business risks faced by traditional market players. These businesses typically respond by changing their business and technology platforms to deliver digital experiences for their customers that capitalises on existing brand identity. However; as new digital technologies are embraced; additional vulnerabilities are introduced to the business which changes the threat landscape of the businesses. This new cyber exposure increases risk to the business. We can help your business leverage the capabilities of digital technologies whilst leveraging controls to mitigate the risks involved.
Project Management
With increased project cost and schedule overrun being a feature on many projects, we can help you plan and provide project oversight to ensure your project is delivered on schedule, within budget and to the required quality.
We provide operations planning and scheduling expertise to allow you to focus on production efficiency. We provide risk management services as part of a holistic project management function. We can help you develop your business case and provide support to execute your project.
Change Management
We provide tools to help you minimise the risk of service disruption due to changes applied to production systems. We help you set up the procedures and workflows to ensure you can monitor changes and have required audit trails to look back at what changes have been made when the changes are made and who authorised those changes.