Privacy and Security

Today’s highly interconnected world provides an extraordinary conduit for information sharing and dissemination. It also provides more risks than ever to an organization’s critical information assets. Espionage, information warfare, organized crime and duplicitous scofflaws all threaten the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information. Whether it is theft of intellectual property, defacement of websites or identity theft, all compromises of information have a negative impact on an organization’s ability to deliver products and services. Such compromises can result in tangible impacts such as lost revenue, productivity or market share and civil or criminal sanctions. Continuity First’s Information Security Practice helps organizations mitigate Information Security and Privacy risks to reduce their risk profile.

Information is the lifeblood of any business. Any disruption to the flow of information, regardless of its cause, can impede the progress of your business. Moreover, the compromise of proprietary information and customer data can expose your business to legal action and damage to your business’ reputation and ability to generate revenue. Ultimately, the survival of your business is at stake.

Continuity First’s security expertise covers all facets of information protection—from helping to ingrain information protection into your corporate culture to implementing technology solutions that help you manage the risks to critical data.
Our team has the technical and regulatory expertise essential to implement industry best practices, global standards and regulatory compliance.

With extensive knowledge of the latest security technologies and products, we draw on experience working in diverse organizations to provide common-sense recommendations.
Our goal is to help protect your revenue, productivity and market share while reducing your risk profile from hackers, viruses and other malicious code, information thieves and civil or criminal sanctions.

Information Security and Privacy Services:

• Security Program Services: We can design or enhance your information security program to ensure that all aspects of information protection are addressed.
  
• Security Assessment: Will your associates unwittingly give out passwords to mission-critical information systems? Can a hacker break into your corporate website, applications and servers? We identify weaknesses in organizational awareness, policies, practices and technologies to provide you with concrete solutions to reduce the risk of compromise.
  
• Compliance Gap Analysis: Do you know whether you can pass a Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA or GLBA audit? We can help you meet the due diligence and due care standards that auditors look for.
  
• Security Architecture and Design Services: We engineer and implement technical solutions that are scaleable, manageable and support business processes so that security is an enabler, not a hindrance to achieving your business goals.
  
• Incident Response Services: If your organization does experience a security compromise because of a virus infection, hacker attack, disaster or building evacuation, Continuity First can help you mitigate the impact, properly handle evidence and recover your operations. With crisis management as part of our response methodology, we can help you properly communicate with law enforcement, regulators, the press and your associates. This is particularly important in states such as California and Texas that have laws requiring mandatory disclosure of compromises of certain types of customer data.

Business Continuity/COOP · Disaster Recovery · Crisis Management