Audit & Compliance

Today, IT security teams face increasing amounts of pressure from regulatory bodies and their clients to ensure that everyday business activity complies with known security standards such as PCI DSS, CoCo, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley and ISO.

Many of the compliance requirements within these standards relate to how a client controls and monitors access to sensitive data. This section introduces the compliance solutions, services and thought leadership that SP provides in this field to ensure that our clients achieve both compliance and effective security.

SIEM (Security Incident & Event Management)

SIEM solutions collate logs from multiple sources and build a meaningful picture from this disparate data they produce. These solutions reduce the headache of log storage and analysis whilst providing full visibility of network activity. In implementing such technologies businesses are able to demonstrate regulatory compliance, track and reduce exposure to security risks and reduce the time taken to resolve problems. SIEM can enable IT teams to provide solutions and recommendations at a far speedier rate than would be possible otherwise, enabling real-time incident management.

PCI Compliance

PCI compliance relates to the standard provided by credit card companies (such as Visa and MasterCard) to any organisation that processes or stores consumer credit card data. This standard has begun to impact the profitability of companies, particularly in finance or retail sectors as merchant banks being to impose penalties for none-compliance.

We provide the following services to assist with on-going compliance to the standard:

• Pre Gap-Analysis Vulnerability Assessment.
• Post Gap-Analysis Review.
• PCI Solution Recommendation.
• Solution Implementation and Remediation Work.
• Assistance with on-going compliance.

We also aid IT Teams by educating C-Level staff on the wider business benefits of PCI DSS compliance. This ensures that our clients can gain a competitive advantage and the IT team can use compliance as a springboard to better security.

SParcAudit

Bytes Security Partnerships offer a detailed regular audit (SParcAudit) of an organisations security setup to ensure it is being maintained in the correct way.

As part of SParc Audit our expert engineers work with the internal IT Team to provide them with the knowledge to enable them to make sound decisions in the ongoing management, policy and rule base of their solutions. Best practice is shared with the people who look after the products on a day-to-day basis via regular, consistent expert analysis. Continuous audit and assessment by our expert engineers, combined with full audit documentation, gives companies the re-assurance that their security suite is running optimally whilst ticking regulatory requirements for auditing. SParcAudit therefore helps Information Security Officers to breathe easily in the knowledge that systems and software are always in a documented, optimal state.

Encryption

Sensitive or confidential data loss and theft make ‘hot’ headlines for the press and potentially breach various legislative obligations. There are many documented cases of how such breaches and headlines lead to litigation, fines, brand/reputation damage, loss of clients and impact on the bottom line. One key tool available to companies to prevent data loss and maintain compliance is to encrypt sensitive information on the network and in transit. This ensures that data becomes unreadable outside of its intended use. Bytes Security Partnerships provide solutions that provide encryption of data, both at rest and in motion, across a variety or mediums including servers, e-mail, laptop hard disks and removable media (such as USB’s and DVD’s). This ensures that all sensitive data access is protected and monitored, regardless of location, device or use, thus providing a complete audit trail for compliance.

Intrusion Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS)

IPS/IDS actively monitor critical systems for both internal and external attacks; providing the IT team with real time security and visibility within the network. This ensures security issues can be swiftly located and dealt with. Good intrusion prevention systems bring clients the following benefits without adding complexity or draining limited IT resources such as man power and time:

• Zero-day security.
• Real-time network, user and behavioural awareness.
• Data loss prevention.
• Critical service uptime.
• Compliance to most major regulation – including PCI DSS and ISO.
• Audit trails of users and critical systems (such as payment servers).