Encryption Strategy

We develop a tailored encryption strategy based on your identified risks. This strategy helps you prioritize your efforts and budget to reduce risks and enhance your security architecture.

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Encryption Strategy
Overview Of Our Service

Overview Of Our Service

An effective encryption strategy considers what data is considered sensitive, where it is located, how it moves in and out of the organization, the risks of the data being stolen or compromised, how the data is utilized (operationalized) within the organization, and the organization's short and long-term data security goals. The strategy will define your challenges and roadmap to address these challenges to reduce risk and achieve a confident data security posture. We will evaluate your current encryption strategy and identify the highest-risk areas. This enables you to prioritize your efforts and budget to reduce this risk.

The Need for An Encryption Strategy Service

We have decades of consultation experience in the cybersecurity domain, and 100+ Fortune 500 companies trust us to protect their most sensitive data. We leverage our extensive experience to focus on the additional layers that incorporate broad encryption strategies for data-at-rest and data-in-transit, right from the point of origin through its movement in and out of the environment.

The Need for An Encryption Strategy Service

Scope Of Our Service

Our encryption strategy focuses on an approach that develops, implements, and expands encryption capabilities across your organization. To achieve this, we have designed the following approach, that covers three steps:

  • Tactical Remediation
  • Enterprise Encryption Capabilities
  • Expand Encryption Capabilities
  • To fulfill your immediate regulatory requirements, we implement encryption solutions for unique use cases such as enabling encryption for databases, disk storage, etc.
  • To enable encryption in your organization, we develop necessary governance policies, standards, and program structure.
  • We identify applications and platforms for encryption and the type of solution to be used by the organization by developing a decision tree and defining requirements for data encryption.
  • To support the implementation of encryption solutions across the enterprise, we develop capabilities for encryption key and certificate management.
  • We conduct deep dive analysis of the prioritized applications, use cases, etc. of the organization.
  • To meet your requirements, including disk level, file level and application level, and digital rights management, we explore and select the appropriate encryption solutions.
  • For the organization's highest priority file repository within a business unit or a subset of that business unit, we implement robust file encryption.
  • We focus on the prioritized data-in-transit requirements and implement transport layer encryption like TLS for application components as requirements are identified.
  • To refine and update the approach and strategy to encryption, we collaborate with other programs such as Identity and Access Management, Segmentation, and Data Governance, when additional inputs are received.
  • Based on identified threats and risk mitigation, we expand the implementation of application encryption to more applications and add data elements to the scope.
  • We expand the implementation of file encryption to other business units and onboard other file repositories.
  • We enhance existing email encryption capabilities with digital rights management and expand the solution to critical applications that handle file documents.
  • We discover SSH and encryption keys across the enterprise and begin efforts for remediation.
  • We incorporate encryption requirements, implementation considerations, validation, and testing procedures into the ongoing processes of the organization such as SDLC, controls testing, and third-party assessment.

Our Approach

Evaluate the current state and strategy

  • Our evaluation process of the current state of your encryption strategy will involve key activities including workshops and stakeholder interviews, analysis of supporting documentation and materials, and reports on current state observations.
  • Our deliverables of this process will include observations of the initial current state assessment and recommendations.

Determine recommendations

  • This process will involve key activities including providing recommendations and generating enhancement opportunities across people, processes, and technology areas.
  • Our deliverables of this process will be a report on assessment results and a summary of maturity rating and the relative posture of security.

Developing initiative plans

  • We will develop initiative plans to address the recommendations made and foundational data protection program components.
  • Our key deliverable will be initiative plans for data protection.

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