Expert Advisory Services to Improve and Validate Your Security
The Lares Advisory Services team offers consultative services to improve your cybersecurity program through incremental, manageable, and measurable methods. Whether you require a dedicated Virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO) on retainer, an independent third-party risk assessment, or a collaborative engagement with our purple team to measure efficacy, Lares is here to help.
Virtual CISO
The Lares Virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO) service is designed for organizations needing someone to take responsibility for creating, growing, and measuring their information security program. With our vCISO service, you get a retained board-level resource who can ‘virtually sit inside your company and manage your security strategy, budget, and success of your risks and regulatory programs.
Regulatory Compliance
Does your organization have an upcoming regulatory compliance audit or assessment? Every regulatory compliance mandate requires completing an IT risk assessment, at least annually, to be provided as evidence of an effective information security management program. Let Lares help you confirm that everything you need is complete to pass your upcoming audit or assessment.
Gap Assessments
Areas of non-compliance or non-conformity can be highlighted with a detailed and prioritized plan to show the organization how they can be incrementally addressed and remediated accordingly given time, staff, and financial constraints.
Maturity Assessments
Lares can measure the maturity of your NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF), ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI DSS security program against common frameworks such as the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) to see how your security program measures up against industry peers.
Tabletop Exercises
Is your team ready to handle a security incident? The best way to confirm and share knowledge is to perform a tabletop exercise that emulates an actual incident. Lares can facilitate onsite and 100% remote tabletop exercises tailored to your environment and incident response plan.
IT Risk Assessments
Are you looking to baseline your overall IT and security risks? Lares can work with you to identify, gather, and review all required documentation and evidence to determine your organization's current risk level.
Cybersecurity Policies
Develop comprehensive and enforceable cybersecurity policies covering access control, data protection, incident response, and employee awareness. The process includes iterative reviews and stakeholder consultations to align the policies with the organization's operations and culture.
Plan of Action and Milestones (POAM)
Lares works with your organization to revise the cybersecurity roadmap to support the upcoming year's Plan of Action and Milestones (POAM). This revision prioritizes initiatives addressing identified weaknesses and incorporates emerging technologies, evolving threat landscapes, and shifts in business goals.
Third-Party Vendor Risk Management
Our Third-Party Vendor Risk Management service combines rigorous Risk Assessments and regular Vendor Security Audits to ensure your vendors consistently meet your security standards.
Lares vCISO Integration Roadmap
Lares Top 5 CISO Findings For 2022
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Some of Our Delighted Customers
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"The expertise and professionalism that Lares' Purple Team brings to the table are unmatched. We will definitely be bringing them back for future engagements."
"They wanted to see us succeed as much as we wanted to see us succeed. This is why, 10 years later, we are still having this conversation."
"The biggest benefit of having a Lares vCISO is getting guidance on how to tackle security issues and determining a realistic approach on how to address them."
CASE STUDY: Word & Brown
Using a culture of security as a baseline, Word & Brown achieved compliance because of its security journey — not in spite of it.
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Empowering Organizations to Maximize Their Security Potential.
Lares is a security consulting firm that helps companies secure electronic, physical, intellectual, and financial assets through a unique blend of assessment, testing, and coaching since 2008.
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