Problems we solve:
- Regulations are increasingly complicated and require deep technical expertise that is rarely available in-house; even organizations with secure footholds in markets risk serious penalties or loss of market share
- Organizations’ security policies are often isolated and piecemeal, and security considerations are seldom included in business decisions and software acquisitions
- Organizations need fast, inexpensive, and lasting changes to their technologies and business operations in order to maintain and grow their businesses
What we do:
- Review policies and requirements to formulate coherent overarching security strategies
- Advise on maturing governance processes to ensure that roles, responsibilities, and operating procedures are clearly defined
- Ensure that customers are never locked into a single ecosystem (vendor-neutral approach)
- Analyze systems, tools, and architecture – and document all technical security details – to ensure that systems are compliant and authorized to operate (including what to change about configurations)
- Perform system-wide reviews of business processes and strategic decision-making (rather than producing narrowly focused remediation plans to achieve compliance)
Impacts:
- Higher compliance rates
- More business opportunities based on increased maturity of governance processes
- Greater efficiency and reduced redundancy of effort
Our expertise:
- Regulations (e.g., CMS and ONC rules, HIPAA, ITAR, HEDIS)
- Plans of Action and Milestones (POA&M) to remediate vulnerabilities and address threats
- Security Incident and Event Managers (SIEMs)
- Risk Management Frameworks (e.g., NIST)
- Authority to Operate (ATO) processes
Technologies we use:
- SIEMs: Alien Vault, Splunk, Elastic
- Threat and vulnerability detection: Crowdstrike, Nessus, Symantec, McAfee, Fortify
- Penetration testing tools: NMAP, Metasploit
- Patch managers: Automox, IBM BigFix
- Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) tools: RSA Archer GRC, eMASS, XACTA
What we build or enhance:
- Policies and procedures that integrate security reviews into contracting and acquisition workflows
- Templates for policy development and conformance
- Total-cost-of-ownership analyses
- Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
- Security Control Validations
- Tailored education and training programs
- Evaluation of Third-Party Assessment Organization (3PAO) documentation
Our Approach
Amida offers comprehensive risk management services to evaluate potential impact, mitigate residual system risks, and prevent security incidents.
