Has your organization experienced technology-related incidents in the past? Is your organization properly prepared to respond to technology related incidents? If no, learn more about Cryptel's Computer Incident Analysis & Management.
Proper attention paid to developing computer incident response plans can significantly reduce the amount of financial loss, productivity loss, and loss of public confidence that your organization could suffer.
Cryptel understands that people, processes, and technology are equally critical and important to successfully accomplish your business objectives. However, when these three organizational dynamics come together, there are bound to be problems. With computer related incidents are on the rise are you prepared to respond, to protect the 'normal' operations of your organization against these problems? If not, then the ability to accomplish your business objectives remains vulnerable.
Cryptel can help your organization prepare itself respond to computer related threats to your business. With a developed understanding of what's important to your business, we build computer incident response processes into your business operations.
Whether dealing with your voting system or enterprise information system, your organization relies on technology to advance your business operations and objectives. Proper attention paid to computer incident response plans can significantly reduce the amount of financial losses, productivity losses, and loss of public confidence that you could suffer.
If you don't have them in place now, can you afford to wait?
CDS Software Functionality/Security Assessment and Testing service concentrates on testing functional operations of a targeted code set. This service provides both requirements-based testing and business process-based testing, both aimed at verifying the functionality of the targeted code set. Security assessment and testing concentrates on identifying potential functional vulnerability in targeted code sets that could enable unauthorized or unintended access to data, providing appropriate levels of the security for data and application functionality, and maintaining functionality as needed.
Properly designed and managed network architecture can enable many business management and strategic possibilities. It can facilitate communications; protect the flow of information; and support business growth and expansion. Cryptel can design and implement robust network architectures that are aligned with your organization's business mission and strategies. Through this process we will manage existing network architectures to ensure that they operate efficiently and maintain alignment with the organization's business mission and strategies.
CDS Network Architecture Design, Implementation, and Management focuses on establishing and maintaining alignment between the organization’s data transmission infrastructure and its business objectives and strategies. The objectives of this service is to ensure that the network infrastructure provides: appropriate levels of security to maintain secure data transmission; the capability to support today’s mission-critical applications; and support for unifying and collaborative technologies. This service is dynamic enough to adjust to organizational growth and shifts in business operations strategies.
Mobile technologies are infiltrating the business environment at a very rapid pace. They are enabling new ways of doing business and are positively impacting the bottom-line like never before. Cryptel understands that mobile technologies can be an extremely important part of your business and IT strategies, but we also understand that they expose your business to enormous risks.
CDS Mobile Technology Integration (MTI) solution considers your current business strategy, the needs of your organization, available mobile technologies in the marketplace and their evolutionary paths, integration and management strategies, and the necessary security to mitigate the risks and vulnerabilities associated with using mobile technologies.
An extension of NOS, Desktop/Server Management, Virtualization Strategies, & Support (D/SMVSS) extends the same focus on operational efficiencies and security to the organization's desktop and server environment by developing strategies and solutions for implementing better management processes, employing virtualization strategies to achieve more efficient operations, increasing and maximizing system availability and resources, and maintaining the highest achievable level of security in the desktop and server environment. The overall objective is to reduce the total cost of ownership while maximizing your organization's return on investment.
CDS Desktop/Server Management, Virtualization Strategies, and Support (D/SMVSS) focuses on operational efficiencies and security to the organization's desktop and server environment by developing strategies and solutions for implementing better systems management processes, employing virtualization strategies to achieve more efficient operations, increasing and maximizing system availability and resources, and maintaining the highest achievable level of security in the desktop and server environment. The overall objective of this service is to reduce the total cost of ownership while maximizing your organization's return on investment.
Computer security-related issues can emanate from poorly designed and coded software running those systems. CDS employs a Software Development Methodology Life-Cycle (SDLC) that focuses on end-to-end development from requirements development, software code development, implementation, and systems management that produces secure application functionality. These include:
We use Rapid Software Development Prototyping techniques to increase communication, decrease development time, and reduce errors early in the cycle. Software Development Staff Augmentation offers your organization our most capable software developers to supplement your current software development and systems management staff. Our software development and systems management teams are well versed in our information assurance methodology and can help assure that your projects are completed according to your objectives and with the highest level of quality and information assurance.
CDS Network/System Security Penetration testing focuses on evaluating the security of networks, systems, and applications that make up the organization’s technology infrastructure. The objective of this service is to identify system and network configuration vulnerabilities, operating system and application vulnerabilities, and technology interoperability vulnerabilities that negatively impact the security profile of a technology infrastructure.
CDS Perimeter/Endpoint Security Architecture Design, Implementation, and Management solutions focus on implementing the appropriate network and endpoint security countermeasures to protect an organization’s technology infrastructure and data from unauthorized intrusions and attacks against its data and operations. This solution consists of implementing and managing web, application, and network-based firewalls, host and network-based intrusion detection and prevention, and security event information management systems as well as other security-based countermeasures such as data encryption, authentication tools such as identify/privilege management, application security, netflow data analysis tools, and endpoint security tools for both workstation, server, and mobile technology formats.
CDS Malware Management and Remediation solutions are designed to provide an organization with the constant and ongoing capabilities to guard against malware-based attacks that directly threaten an organization’s data. This solution focuses on deploying and managing malware detection and remediation tools that can detect and remediate malware instances on workstation, server, and mobile technology endpoints as well as replicating prevention across a technology infrastructure through email and server-based replication.
Cryptel can help you to protect your critical business information, customer data, and market share while helping to ensure your customer's trust in your leadership and operations by creating business continuity and disaster recovery strategies that support your goal of delivering high quality services to your customers or constituency.
Technology is an integral and important part of business and society. Our quality of life and success in business depends upon it. Continuous business operations are key to an organization's ability to accomplish its business objectives. Consider the ramifications of your organization not being able to resume operations after disaster strikes-Is the loss of business or market share, the loss of the public's confidence and trust in your management and leadership worth not having adequate business resumption and disaster recovery plans in place? Let Cryptel help you put comprehensive plans in place for organization's critical business paths.
CDS Business Continuity Planning solution holistically focuses on developing actionable and manageable business resumption plans that prioritize the restoration of critical business operations such as: physical facilities; business functions after a natural or man-made disaster has occurred and considered a major subset of this overall concern; the restoration of all pertinent IT processes, functions, and physical technology infrastructures that support those prioritized business processes; and functions based on the organization’s recovery time objectives. CDS can also assess current business continuity plans to determine alignment and misalignment with the current state of the organization and define critical paths that reestablish alignment between the organization’s business continuity plan and its business operations.
CDS Disaster Recovery Planning and Management solution focuses on developing and implementing technology and data redundancy and recovery processes. The solution is designed to restore technology and business operations after some computer-related, man-made, or natural disaster causes a loss of business and/or technology operations. CDS can also assess current disaster recovery (DR) plans to determine alignment and misalignment with the current state of the organization and define critical paths that reestablish alignment between the organization’s DR plan and its business operations.
CDS Information Security Architecture Gap Analysis and Assessment solution examines the organizations’ current information security architecture and profile and measures its viability against industry standards such as ISO and NIST, provides security best practices for enterprise information systems such as big data, mobile, tele-medicine, and web-based systems, and provides clearly defined paths to creating standards and best practices alignment and compliance.
CDS Managed Security Services focuses on providing 24/7 network, application, and endpoint security management services in the threat management, vulnerability management, and compliance management areas.
CDS PCI assessment focuses on auditing an organization for compliance against the PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) to produce a report on compliance that verifies the organization’s compliance to the PCI DSS.
CDS HIPAA assessment focuses on auditing an organization for compliance against the HIPAA Security Rule to verify the organization’s compliance with HIPAA.
CDS Information Security Risk Assessment solution focuses on assessing the organization’s information security risk against the NIST 800 or ISO 27005 risk assessment and management standards to determine the organization’s risk profile and then develop risk mitigation strategies to raise the organization’s overall information security profile.
CDS Information Security Awareness Training solution focuses on developing customized information security training and awareness management programs to help organizations minimize and mitigate the human factor that plays a role in information security issues.
CDS eDiscovery solution provides the capability to discover and acquire, in a forensically sound manner, digital artifacts in the form of email, data records, and other artifacts from an organization’s data repositories. The eDiscovery services guide an organization through the process of implementing and managing eDiscovery tools to facilitate data identification, preservation, collection, processing, review, and production.
CDS Mobile Device Forensics solution focuses on acquiring and analyzing digital artifacts (data) on mobile devices, such as smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices that store or process data, to determine the root cause of a computer-related event.
CDS Computer/Network Forensics solution focuses on acquiring and analyzing digital artifacts (data) on computer, server, and network and other devices that store or process data to determine the root cause of a computer-related event.
Computer forensics refers to the practice of acquiring digital information (from computers and digital storage media) used to determine the root cause of a computer-related event. A computer-related event means that something occurred that caused routine system operations to be negatively impacted that produced unexpected results. To determine root cause of a computer-related event, you must basically determine what happened to the system and how it happened. Along with the goal of determining root cause, maintaining the verifiable integrity of digital information acquired and analysis processes are also important parts of the computer forensics process.
The computer forensics method also can be used to validate pre-use software by using the data acquisition method to acquire and hash the software before it is deployed to a system. For post-use validation, the computer forensics method can easily be used to validate all static files in the system.
The computer forensics process can be used on any electronic device: from a computer, cell phone, or personal digital assistant (PDA) to the global positioning system (GPS) in a car, an automated teller machine (ATM), a digital camera, and storage media. If the electronic device stores data, that data can be retrieved and examined using computer forensics.
As a result of the growth of the integration of technology in our lives (the Internet of things) and the increased opportunity for its misuse, computer forensics has become an extremely important process in law enforcement, corporate information technology (IT) management, government IT management, and litigation activities.
CDS Computer Incident Response solution focuses on providing rapid root cause analysis of a computer-related event and developing recovery strategies to return control of the technology infrastructure to the affected organization. CDS can also assess current computer incident response plans to determine alignment and misalignment with the current state of the organization and define critical paths that reestablish alignment between the organization’s computer incident response plan and its business operations.
CDS Tendered Device Acquisition (TDA) solution focuses on providing an historical account of employee assigned device (laptop, workstation, tablet, smartphone, etc) usage. The process acquires and analyzes a forensic image of the tendered device and provides 3 basic reports:
TDA includes collection of the device image, analysis of the device image, and preservation of the image for 12 months.
What's the reason for this? Small businesses maintain the most insecure technology infrastructures. There are a number of contributing factors such as system, network, and software configuration issues that lead to insecure infrastructures. However, the biggest contributing factor is the lack of affordable expertise and scalable solutions that can be used to effectively mitigate these issues. This fact being known by malicious actors, coupled with new trends in financially-based cybercrimes, makes small businesses prime targets and has led to a significant increase in cybercrime related attacks directed at small businesses. You may be using endpoint security countermeasures such as McAfee or Norton firewall and virus detection software to protect your business but these countermeasures are limited in their capability to adequately protect your entire infrastructure. It's about time that affordable, robust, and comprehensive data security solutions were made available to you to help you better manage, grow, and protect your business.
DataShield, part of MySafe 24/7 managed technology suite of solutions, is designed to offer robust security management to constantly protect your organization's technology infrastructure.
DataShield – Desktop provides secure, user configured, continuous access to all your important data.
DataShield – Server provides secure, user configured, continuous access to all server data at the file, disk, and image level.
DataShield – Network provides continuous event monitoring of network transactions and continuous assessment of network and security devices to maintain optimum security levels.
Vulnerability management focuses on identifying and remediating vulnerabilities on an ongoing basis. Constant vulnerability management increases the probability of discovering system vulnerabilities before they can be exploited by someone with malicious intentions.
Vulnerability management service can be used in both online and on-site format. Either way, DataShield will constantly scan your technology infrastructure, based on the frequency you define, for the following types of system level vulnerabilities:
Once vulnerabilities are discovered, our Centralized Help-Desk engineers will quickly remediate them ensuring continuous protection for your business.
CDS Event management service focuses on monitoring, analyzing, and qualifying all system events that occur on your systems being actively monitored. Event management allows our Centralized Help-Desk engineers to identify and respond to system events that are malicious in nature to prevent these events form having a negative impact on your business.
Event Aggregators collect, categorize, organize, and correlate events that occur on each system and between systems and network devices. The goal is to identify chains of events that may lead to malicious incidents negatively impacting your business. These aggregators are monitored in real-time by our Centralized Help-Desk engineers that can act to coordinate response activities to mitigate potential system damage.
The reason for this is that most small businesses don't have adequate data back-up and restoration capabilities to ensure that their data is protected and available after a computer related incident. Some small businesses rely on portable, and inexpensive flash drives and hard drives for data backup and protection not realizing that the failure rate of flash drives or hard drive is extremely high and the cost of recovering data from a failed flash drive or hard drive averages about $2,000.
CDS DataVault is a Cloud Data Storage solution designed to provide our customers continuous data protection 24/7, 365 days a year. CDS DataVault incorporates both local and cloud storage strategies that eliminates the impact of data loss by ensuring that your business will have continual access to its data. CDS DataVault integrates easily into any technology infrastructure and provides seamless and transparent data backup and recovery according to the customer's needs.
Desktop CDS DataVault provides secure, user configured, continuous access to all your important data.
Server CDS DataVault provides secure, user configured, continuous access to all server data at the file, disk, and image level.
CDS DataVault provides the following Data Backup and Restoration features:
DataVault will help to ensure that your business does not become one of the Gartner Group statistics!
Working computer systems and applications can positively impact the business' bottom-line propelling the business forward to new heights and into new markets. However, when your computer systems and applications stop working, your business functions and bottom-line are negatively impacted and those impacts can be painful. From lost worker productivity, to lost revenue, to the loss of business growth opportunities, computer system and application downtime will negatively reverberate throughout the entire business.
Your current choice of solutions to address system downtime issues may include in-house IT staff, external IT consultants, or even may consist of you, the small business owner, taking your computer system(s) in to a Big-Box store for repair. These solutions, while helping you to restore system operations, may not be the most efficient use of your time, money, and resources and may not minimize to negative business impact of the downtime you experience. Cryptel understands this fact and offers a solution to help you better manage your technology infrastructure.
MyDfense24/7 is a comprehensive managed technology solution that combines our system management and security expertise with the latest system management technologies to offer an efficient, cost-effective, and time-saving approach to managing system and applications that run your business.
Prior to Cryptel assuming management responsibilities, your systems are remediated to restore them to their optimum performance levels. Our Centralized Help Desk and Field Support components can then efficiently manage your technology infrastructure.
I A & R restores your systems to their optimum performance levels!
Centralized Help Desk provides an affordable way of managing your technology infrastructure by using the latest remote access technology to enable our support engineers to quickly resolve your desktop, server, and network issues remotely. Approximately 70% of all technology operational issues can be resolved using remote technology.
Field Support provides on-site assistance in the event that your technology operational issues cannot be successfully resolved through our Centralized Help Desk.
MyDfense24/7 – Desktop provides Desktop management and support to address operational issues and maintain optimum performance levels.
MyDfense24/7 – Server provides Server management and support to address operational issues and maintain optimum performance levels.
MyDfense24/7 – Network provides Network management and support to address operational issues and maintain optimum performance levels.CDS Desktop/Server Management, Virtualization Strategies, and Support (D/SMVSS) focuses on operational efficiencies and security to the organization's desktop and server environment by developing strategies and solutions for implementing better systems management processes, employing virtualization strategies to achieve more efficient operations, increasing and maximizing system availability and resources, and maintaining the highest achievable level of security in the desktop and server environment. The overall objective of this service is to reduce the total cost of ownership while maximizing your organization's return on investment.
Our Cybersecurity paradigm merges the information security and computer forensics fields to create unique processes that are designed to enable organizations to attain and maintain the highest levels of security and operational integrity in their information systems.
Cybersecurity is critical to the operations of any organization. An effective IA program prevents the manifestation of threats that could disrupt the organization's ability to accomplish its business objectives. The foundation of an effective IA program starts by identifying the risks to your business and information technology infrastructure. The Cryptel applied philosophy of understanding your business needs is the critical foundation in developing a successful IA program and leads to the most effective Cyber Security solution possible.
An effective Cybersecurity program starts by defining the program through policies that support business objectives, but specifically support risk mitigation. The Cybersecurity program definition is then followed by implementation of an active internal and perimeter security architecture designed to mitigate risks to your normal business and information technology operations. Comprehensive education and awareness training is the final component to ensure that your employees can actively participate in the process of maintaining a strong Cyber Security program for your organization.
We use Rapid Software Development Prototyping techniques to increase communication, decrease development time, and reduce errors early in the cycle. Software Development Staff Augmentation offers your organization our most capable software developers to supplement your current software development and systems management staff. Our software development and systems management teams are well versed in our information assurance methodology and can help assure that your projects are completed according to your objectives and with the highest level of quality and information assurance.
Does your organization maintain sensitive and critical information? Do you understand your organization's risk profile? Does your organization know its critical business path?
The most important component to an effective Cyber Security (IA) program is the identification of risks to the business's critical infrastructure. Without this developed intelligence, no IA program can properly mitigate the risks of disruption to the organization's business operations.
To achieve effective risk mitigation, the organization must identify its critical business path and the potential risks of its disruption.
Are your information system's technical controls in-line with industry and government regulations? Is your information security architecture adequate to deal with today technology threats?
The Cryptel e-Security Management methodology ensures that an organization has the appropriate management strategy in place to maintain the operational integrity and security of the organization's information systems. Typically security programs are focused on securing technology for technology's sake and do not take into account other aspects of the organizational environment.
While ensuring the security of technology is important, other aspects of the business operations and culture are critical to an effective Cyber Security program.
The process methodology considers every aspect of your business' operations such as the relationship between management and the security organization, the relationship between your employees and the security organization, and the risks to your critical business infrastructure and how that translates into risks to your IT infrastructure.
Methodology considers:
Ongoing management of your security architecture is necessary to ensure that risks to the normal operations of your business continue to be appropriately mitigated. Cryptel eSecurity Management methodology ensures that an organization has the appropriate management strategy in place to address the operational integrity and security of the organization's information systems.
Election jurisdictions work diligently to ensure that the integrity of the voting process remains uncompromised. The objective is to ensure that a vote cast is a vote counted. It is understood that such integrity is paramount in order to uphold the trust and confidence of the voting public. As election operations incorporate new technologies, election jurisdictions are ever employing new methods and tools to make certain that ballot integrity and voter trust are maintained.
The Election System Auditing (ESA) process methodology, Cryptel's proprietary Applied Computer Forensics approach, is designed to mitigate the insider and outsider threat dynamic to voting systems.
This process is designed to aid election officials in maintaining and verifying the operational integrity of their voting systems.
In order to ensure the integrity of the voting process through a continuous effort of auditing, mitigation, and documentation, the ESA solution is designed to quickly yield results that will enable the election jurisdiction to mitigate the presence of threats to the integrity of its voting system.
Furthermore, the ESA strategy can be used to secure the voting process while maintaining the public's trust.
The traditional method for delivering computer forensics services is cumbersome, very long, and can be cost prohibitive for election jurisdictions. Cryptel has taken the general computer forensics process commonly and effectively used in other markets and industries such as Federal, State, and Local Law Enforcement and Corporate sectors and developed a specific application called Applied Computer Forensics. Our Applied Computer Forensics methodology significantly reduces the cost of service delivery by applying automation to the forensics analysis process, reducing the amount of time required to analyze large amounts of data.
Election System Auditing or ESA is Crytel's unique process of analyzing the operational performance, integrity, and reliability of electronic voting systems. Cryptel has taken the general process of computer forensics and created a specific application designed to serve as a detection and deterrent function for election jurisdictions seeking to establish and maintain the integrity of their electronic voting systems.
The ESA process focuses on analyzing data at various levels of the electronic voting system all the way down to the bit level (smallest level possible). As a result, Cryptel is able to perform a full forensic audit to detect any anomalies and irregularities in the electronic voting system.
The ESA process consists of three (3) functional components that are designed to yield insight into the state of each election system component.
High-level data analysis examines data in relation to its native environment and its specific aspects, such as file parameters which include hash values.
Medium-level data analysis goes a step further by examining common file behavior across like voting system components.
Low-level data analysis examines individual file behavior in relation to operational performance characteristics.
The ESA process offers election jurisdictions an innovative approach to proactively manage and mitigate any threat to its voting system. Additionally, this approach to threat identification and mitigation provides election jurisdictions with the necessary insight into their activities that can be translated into operational integrity assurances. These assurances can be used to foster continued public confidence in the accuracy and integrity of the election results.
There is no question that The Vote is one of the most sacred of democratic expressions. With Cryptel at your side, rest assured you will be arming your operation with the most up-to-date Methodologies to ensure that both the integrity of the vote and the trust and confidence of the voter will be preserved and stay strong.
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