PCG Systems evaluates your organization’s security posture at a broad level. It examines six security capabilities — prevention, detection, response, governance, security foundations and threat intelligence. This assessment provides a high-level picture of how prepared your organization is to meet the threats you face, and it gives detailed recommendations for changes to people, processes and technologies that can close any security gaps.

Time & Resources

Organizations lack the time and resources needed to conduct a thorough evaluation of their capabilities while keeping up with day-to-day security operations.

Expertise

Organizations lack the expertise and experience to conduct an objective and detailed assessment of their capabilities based off the latest threat landscape.

Theory vs. Reality

Existing internal documentation and processes may be misleading because playbooks and other documentation have not been updated to reflect changes in the threats the organization faces, and in the security tools and technologies that have been deployed.

Focus

Although leadership may recognize cyber threats as a top risk facing their organization, a deeper understanding of what this means is often missing. The types of threats and their impact can vary greatly, and even those organizations that recognize the risk can get stuck in an endless audit and compliance struggle — too involved in the details to look at the situation as a whole.

Gap Analysis

Identifies gaps in your cybersecurity program across people, processes and technology.

Maturity Assessment

Determines how mature your organization is today and provides you with guidance on what level of maturity you should strive for.

Action Plan

Identifies the areas where you can improve your organization’s security posture and how you should prioritize them.

Our penetration testing services use “ethical hacking” to simulate real-world attacks on different components of your systems, networks and applications to test the detection and response capabilities of your people, processes and technology and identify where vulnerabilities exist in your environment.

Identifying Vulnerabilities

Identifying vulnerabilities requires more than simply running a scan of your environment if you want to stop today’s sophisticated attacks.

Exploiting Vulnerabilities

It is one thing to identify that a vulnerability exists, but something completely different to be able to exploit that vulnerability and see how far you can penetrate into the network and systems.

Never-Ending & Constantly Evolving

Testing the components of your IT environment is a continuous and often daunting task. Understanding the latest attack techniques and testing and assessing your defenses against those types of attacks is critical to improving your cybersecurity posture.

Reduce Attack Surface

Identify and mitigate vulnerabilities throughout your IT environment, to reduce the attack surface for today’s advanced threats.

Gain Visibility of Security Gaps

Gain an objective perspective that exposes blind spots and gives you visibility into security gaps that could be missed by your internal IT teams due to a lack of expertise or unfamiliarity with the latest threats.

Test Effectiveness of Security Tools

Test the investments you have made in your cybersecurity tools and technology to determine if any vulnerabilities or gaps exist and whether they can stop a sophisticated attack on your organization.

Prioritize Security Budgets

Prioritize your security budgets where they are needed most, saving money over the long run by preventing wasteful expenditures over the broader security landscape.

Our comprehensive advanced threat protection services prevent, harden, detect and respond to emerging threats across network devices and cloud workloads.

Traditional Security Perimeter Has Dissolved

Digital transformation has made traditional perimeter-based network defenses obsolete and organizations struggle to keep pace with the ever-expanding threat landscape.

Remote Workforces

An increasingly mobile and remote workforce means endpoints commonly operate outside the network perimeter, exposing security and regulatory compliance gaps.

Security Complexity & Device Coverage

The sheer number and diversity of endpoints within any corporate environment presents massive challenges and makes it hard to for organizations to standardize security. Non-traditional endpoints, including IoT and user-owned devices, proliferate, creating countless new attack surfaces.

Sophisticated Threats

Fileless ransomware, stealthy “living off the land” attacks, and other emerging threats are penetrating old defenses.  

Network Controls

Comprehensive firewall that filters all incoming traffic and identifies potential risks to block hostile attacks.

Device Controls

Advanced antimalware and antivirus protection to protect, detect, and correct malware across multiple endpoint devices and operating systems.

Access Controls

Detect & manage access privileges and secure vendor endpoints.

Application Controls

Integration with application servers to monitor and limit user endpoint access.

Data Controls

Endpoint, email and disk encryption to prevent data exfiltration.

Data classification and data loss prevention to prevent data loss and exfiltration.

Browser Protection

Web filtering to limit what types of sites users are allowed to access while connected to the network.

Email Filters

Email gateway to block phishing and social engineering attempts targeting your employees.

Threat Intelligence

Machine-learning classification to detect zero-day threats in near real time.

Actionable threat forensics to allow administrators to quickly isolate infections.

Insider Threat Protection

Insider threat protection to safeguard against unintentional and malicious actions.

A zero-trust approach (“never trust, always verify”) to identity verification.

Modern attacks are rapidly growing in volume and sophistication. PCG Systems’ leading-edge cybersecurity services combine advanced analytics, threat intelligence, and human expertise in incident investigation and response deployed at the host and network levels, to quickly detect, investigate and respond to threats across all major vectors.

Network Security Monitoring

Our cyber team deploys extensive network security monitoring to detect active threats present in your environment. This service utilizes both the expertise of PCG Systems cybersecurity threat hunters and a network appliance that detects threats present in your environment.

Compromise Assessment

Our cybersecurity experts leverage years of experience in responding to intrusions by the most advanced attackers, combining powerful security tools, industry-leading cyber threat intelligence and 24/7 threat hunting to deliver the most comprehensive assessment of a compromise in your environment.

Incident Response

Our cyber security team takes an intelligence-led approach to response work by leveraging industry-leading cybersecurity tools to identify attackers quickly and precisely and remediate known security incidents.

Breach Recovery

Our breach recovery services help you rapidly recover from advanced persistent threats and attacks.

The bottom line: our team is laser-focused on getting organizations back to business faster and reducing the impact of a cyber incident.

Cybersecurity Enhancement Program

Our Cybersecurity Enhancement Program is for organizations that recently experienced a breach and require assistance in developing and implementing a strategic cybersecurity improvement plan to close security gaps and prevent further breaches.

Managing compliance obligations in a dynamic regulatory environment is complex. Our compliance management services utilize a risk-based, prioritized approach to help organizations alleviate risk and avoid fines.

Complexity

Increasingly complex regulations and restrictions dictating what companies may do with data are spreading around the globe. Nearly every data category — from health information, to credit card data, to financial data, to personal information and more — is governed by compliance requirements. Companies must understand those requirements and how to interact with the different governing entities.

Resources

Regulatory compliance requirements can strain internal teams and disproportionately impact company resources. Due to this, organizations often struggle to meet these compliance requirements efficiently and effectively.

HIPAA Compliance

Achieving compliance with the detailed requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations is challenging and time‑consuming. Our HIPAA compliance consulting services assist organizations with completing the required HIPAA security risk assessment, including review of security programs, technology environments, and facility and environmental controls.

GDPR Compliance

The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has changed the data privacy and protection landscape around the globe. Our GDPR compliance consulting services provide organizations that do business in the EU (or have customers in the EU) with the guidance needed to address their requirements.

NIST Compliance

The cybersecurity guidelines provided by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are considered a standard for best practices. However, the efforts involved in implementing the security controls and becoming NIST compliant can prove to be overwhelming. Our NIST compliance consulting services help organizations interpret NIST requirements and implement programs that effectively maintain continuous compliance.

PCI Compliance

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) was developed to address cardholder data security risks and facilitate the broad adoption of consistent practices. Meeting PCI regulatory standards is a requirement for anyone who is processing, transferring, or storing credit card information. Our PCI compliance consulting services provide the experience and practical advice necessary to help you pass the required audits, reduce the risk of breach, and improve your overall security posture.

Cyber Insurance

Unlike other types of compliance, there is no official “standard” when it comes to Cyber Insurance Policies. Each underwriter creates its own unique definition of coverage and set of exclusions. Our cyber insurance consulting services ensure our clients actually get paid in the event of a claim by automatically verifying the accuracy of information submitted on the original insurance application and then documenting on an ongoing basis, that the business has used “due care” to reasonably secure their computer network against a breach — a requirement under all cyber insurance policies.