Secure Professional services / Case study

Security assessment and remediation.

A professional services firm asked us to identify its security gaps. The review found 12 risks, several critical. We remediated the findings and moved the firm onto managed services.

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12risks identified
RemediatedThen managed services
The sequence of this engagement. Individual vulnerabilities are omitted.
Starting point
Unclear security exposure
Work
Assessment and remediation
Ongoing service
Managed IT

Client details anonymised. How we describe the work

The starting point

The challenge

The firm’s systems had grown through a series of individual decisions. Its leadership suspected there were security gaps, but did not have a clear account of the exposure or which work should come first.

The brief was to review the environment and explain the findings in terms the business could use to make decisions.

What we did

The work

  1. Assess the environment

    We reviewed the environment and confirmed twelve distinct risks. Several were critical. Each finding was explained in terms of its business impact.

  2. Prioritise and remediate

    We ranked the findings so the most serious work happened first, then remediated each one and checked that the fix held.

  3. Move into ongoing management

    After remediation, the firm moved onto managed services so its environment would continue to be monitored and maintained.

What changed

The outcome

The engagement continued beyond the security report. The firm addressed the identified exposures and put ongoing management in place for its systems.

Findings addressed

All twelve identified risks were remediated.

A documented record

The firm received an account of what had been found and what had been done.

Ongoing oversight

Managed services followed the assessment and remediation work.

The client in this record is described by sector rather than named. Why we describe our work that way.

Your project

Discuss a security review.

Tell us about the environment you need assessed and the decisions the findings need to support.

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