Information Security Management

We secure your informational assets against threats and vulnerabilities.

Information Security Management is “the practice of preventing unauthorised access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, inspection, recording or destruction” of sensitive records. We implement a well-structured set of policies and procedural controls that your organisation can adopt to secure your informational assets against threats and vulnerabilities, both internal and external.

Information security at the organisational level is centered around the CIA triad of Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability.

Objectives of Information Security

Confidentiality.

When it comes to Information Security, confidentiality and privacy are essentially the same thing. Preserving the confidentiality of information means ensuring that only authorised persons can access or modify the data. Information security management teams may classify or categorise data, based on the perceived risk and anticipated impact that would result should the data be compromised. Additional privacy controls can be implemented for higher-risk data.

Integrity.

Information security management deals with data integrity by implementing controls that ensure the consistency and accuracy of stored data throughout its entire life cycle. For data to be considered secure, the IT organisation must ensure that it is securely stored and cannot be modified or deleted without the appropriate permissions. Measures such as version control, user access controls and checksums can be implemented to help maintain data integrity.

Availability.

Information security management deals with data availability, by implementing processes and procedures that ensure important information is available to authorised users when needed. Typical activities include hardware maintenance and repairs, installing patches and upgrades, and implementing incident response and disaster recovery processes to prevent data loss in the event of a cyber-attack.

Different Types of Informational Assets

Strategic documentation.

Businesses and IT organisations develop and document long-term strategic and short-term tactical objectives that establish their goals and vision for the future. These valuable internal documents contain secrets and insight that competitors may want to access.

Critical products/service information.

Critical information about products and services, including those offered by the business and by IT, should be protected through information security management. This includes the source code for in-house developed application, as well as any data or informational products that are sold to customers. If your business sells a digital product, you will need information security to ensure that hackers cannot steal your product and distribute it without your consent or knowledge.

Intellectual property/patents.

If your company generates intellectual property, including developing software, you will require information security controls to protect it. Your competitors may want to steal your source code and use it to reverse engineer a product to compete with yours. Some countries do not enforce copyright or intellectual property laws, so you may have no recourse if this is allowed to happen.

Proprietary knowledge/trade secrets.

Every organisation generates proprietary knowledge throughout the course of doing business. For IT organisations, that knowledge may be stored in an internal knowledge base that is accessible to IT operators and support staff. Trade secrets are the unique insights and understanding that give your business a competitive advantage. You would not share them openly with your competition, so you should secure trade secrets and proprietary knowledge using information security management controls.

Ongoing project documentation.

Ongoing project documentation consists of the documented details of products or services that are in the process of being launched. If your competitors find out what you are up to, they may attempt to release a competing product or feature more quickly than anticipated and could even benchmark it against your new product to lock you out of the marketplace.

Employee data

Human resource departments collect and retain data about your employees, including performance reviews, employment history, salaries and other information. These records could contain confidential information that a cyber attacker might use to blackmail your employees. A competitor organisation could use this data to identify targets before attempting to poach your employees.

We manage your risks, build your business resilience and accelerate your growth.

Why Information Security?

Sensitive data is one of an organisation’s most important assets, so it makes sense that you prioritise its security. In an increasingly interconnected environment, information is exposed to a growing number and wider variety of risks. Threats such as malicious code, computer hacking and denial-of-service attacks have become more common, ambitious and sophisticated, making implementing, maintaining and updating information security in an organisation more of a challenge.

The Value Propositions

Secure your information in all its forms.

Information Security Management helps protect all forms of information, whether digital, paper-based or in the Cloud.

Increase your attack resilience.

Implementing and maintaining Information Security Management will significantly increase your organisation’s resilience to cyber-attacks.

Manage all your information in one place.

Information Security Management provides a central framework for keeping your organisation’s information safe and managing it all in one place.

Respond to evolving security threats.

Constantly adapting to changes both in the environment and inside the organisation, Information Security Management reduces the threat of continually evolving risks.

Reduce costs associated with information security.

Thanks to the risk assessment and analysis approach of Information Security Management, organisations can reduce costs spent on indiscriminately adding layers of defensive technology that may indeed not perform as intended.

Protect the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of your data.

Information Security Management offers a set of policies, procedures, technical and physical controls to protect the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of your information.

Improve company culture.

Information Security Management holistic approach covers the whole organisation, not just IT. This enables employees to readily understand risks and embrace security controls as part of their everyday working practices.

Structure and framework.

Information Security Management helps to provide the structure and framework to optimise allocations of limited security resources, thereby ensuring effective management of information security resources.

Policy compliance.

It further provides assurance of policy compliance, and aids in increasing predictability and reducing uncertainty of business operations, by lowering risk to definable and acceptable levels

Civil or legal liabilities.

Information Security Management helps address the increasing potential for civil or legal liability inuring to the organisation and senior management, because of information inaccuracy or the absence of due care in its protection, or inadequate regulatory compliance.

Effective risk management.

Information Security Management provides a firm foundation for efficient and effective risk management, process improvement, rapid incident response and continuity management.

Greater organisational confidence.

Information Security Management helps in providing greater confidence in interactions with trading partners, thereby improving trust in customer relationships and protecting the organisation’s reputation

Accountability for safeguarding information.

Information Security Management provides accountability for safeguarding information during critical business activities, such as mergers and acquisitions, business process recovery, and regulatory response.

Both senior management and IT are responsible for the organisation’s information security strategy.

How We Do It

We support the implementation of an Information Security Management System (ISMS) to achieve compliance with ISO 27001 and to ensure the security of your informational assets. We focus on the training and communication of the practices, so your organisation derives the complete benefits of Information Security Management.

Our Services

We are a specialised risk management consultancy implementing the latest technologies and best practices for businesses to manage their risks, build their business resilience and accelerate their growth.

Our Process

The Vision of Eagle Edge is to be the catalyst for risk transformation, resilience creation and growth acceleration of our client's enterprise value. We turn risks into opportunities.

Client Benefits

Secures your information in all forms.

Information Security Management helps protect all forms of information, including digital, paper-based, intellectual property, company secrets, data on devices and in the Cloud, hard copies and personal information.

Increase your attack resilience.

Implementing and maintaining Information Security Management will significantly increase your organisation’s resilience to cyber-attacks.

Reduce information security costs.

Organisations can reduce costs spent on indiscriminately adding layers of defensive technology that might not work.

Respond to evolving security threats.

Constantly adapting to changes both in the environment and inside the organisation, Information Security Management reduces the threat of continually evolving risks.

Improve company culture.

The Standard’s holistic approach covers the whole organisation, not just IT, and encompasses people, processes and technology. This enables employees to readily understand risks and embrace security controls as part of their everyday working practices.

Offers organisation-wide protection.

Information Security Management protects your entire organisation from technology-based risks and other, more common threats, such as poorly informed staff or ineffective procedures.

Provides a central framework.

Information Security Management provides a framework for keeping your organisation’s information safe and managing it all in one place.

Protects confidentiality of data.

Information Security Management offers a set of policies, procedures, technical and physical controls to protect the confidentiality, availability and integrity of information.