Strategic Risk Intelligence1

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  • Identify the risk of losses caused by flawed or failed processes, policies, systems or events that disrupt business operations.
  • Identify economic, security and criminal risks associated with business operations
  • Align assets governance structure with business objectives
  • Provide accurate and actionable information, develop and enforce effective intelligence collection policies
  • Identify competitor strategies, regulatory or government interference, corruption, criminality, fraud and intellectual property abuse
  • Raise operational resilience, minimise operational disruptions to organisation

$ howto:

- Background check, due diligence / enhanced due diligence
- Business counter-intelligence
- Asset tracking & recovery
- IP rights investigation & enforcement
- Fraud & counterfeiting search
- Project risk analysis & remediation

Protect Cybersecurity Assets

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  • Secure mission-critical & business-critical assets e.g. information systems, intellectual property, physical assets
  • Enforce the C.I.A. triad: ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information systems and assets
  • Reduce the impact of security breaches on information resources
  • Strategically align cybersecurity efforts with business strategies to support organization objectives
  • Efficiently manage cybersecurity knowledge among staff

$ howto:

- Business Impact Analysis (BIA): identify critical systems, networks and data
- Threat modeling, identify methods of attack
- Identify systems vulnerabilities; patch systems
- Enhance security posture, (pen)test & harden the perimeter
- Adopt defensive strategies
- Design systems & procedures with data security & privacy in mind
- Stick to industry standards, train users
- Raise cybersecurity awareness and staff training

  1. Risk intelligence goes beyond risk management by leveraging information systems security and enhanced business process security to mitigate the impact of risk on governance and compliance. ↩︎