Documentation Development

A large part of any IT security program is the documentation: from policies and procedures to security and disaster recovery plans to network diagrams and specs. C5i consultants can help you document your IT security program so that it communicates your IT security vision and goals clearly to your users, managers, customers, and auditors.

Ensuring IT systems are secure can mean a lot of paperwork - everything from rules of behavior forms that users should sign to IT security plans that describe the controls that have been implemented for each system. In order to ensure the continuity of your business, and its IT systems, all of these important security considerations must be documented.

C5i can help with the creation and maintenance of every type of IT security and system documentation, including:

• IT Security Policies and Procedures
• Security Plans
• Risk Assessments
• Contingency, Disaster Recovery, and Business Continuity Plans
• Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) Plans and Procedures
• Security Awareness and Training Programs
• Network, System, and User Documentation

C5i documentation consultants are not only security experts, but they're documentation experts as well. They can help you document all of your IT security policies, procedures, and plans quickly and easily.

IT Security Policies and Procedures

Every business needs IT security policies - they're the rules that govern all IT activity - just as laws provides the rules that allow us to live safely and peacefully. Policies are the foundation upon which a successful IT security program is built. But actually writing them can be difficult, and getting the necessary parties to agree to them, even harder.

C5i's security and policy experts work with you to understand your business needs and IT priorities, your security goals and expectations. And then we help you craft that vision into a security policy that everyone can live with - your end users, your IT staff, and your managers.

C5i consultants are uniquely qualified to help you with your IT security policies and procedures because of the strength of our security and networking expertise. Our engineers, analysts, and documentation experts have developed the most comprehensive set of proven methodologies and intellectual capital used in industry today. C5i can ensure that your IT security policies are as clear as they are comprehensive, and that they reflect the latest IT security topics, such as HIPAA, SOX, privacy, email, wireless, and remote access. Not just for today, but for tomorrow as well.

Security Plans

The security plan is one of the most important pieces of documentation for your IT systems and network. It provides an overview of the security requirements of your system and describes the controls in place to protect it from all identifiable threats. The security plan is a reflection of the structured process of planning adequate, cost-effective security protection for a system. It's an important tool for communicating your IT security goals to your organization.

C5i consultants are experts in developing IT security plans that will enable you to document your controls, ensuring that all areas of your system are adequately protected. Not only do C5i consultants understand what information needs to be in your security plan, but they know the most effective and efficient way to document it.

Risk Assessments

Are your IT systems and data at risk? Is there a possibility that your network could be attacked, your systems hacked, your customers' data stolen or compromised? How do you even know where to look?

The best way to know where the threats lie is to perform a risk assessment using security experts who understand what the most common IT risks are for your type of business. A risk assessment is a formal, structured comparison of your IT system's controls-including people, processes, hardware, and software-against all potential threats.

C5i consultants not only perform the risk assessment, but they document it in clear, concise, easy-to-understand language. So you can see the actual status of your IT controls and any residual risk that may exist. And then make the most-informed decisions about improving your IT security.

Contingency, Disaster Recovery, and Business Continuity Plans

If a natural disaster or national emergency wiped out your servers or data center, could you continue to operate? If a computer virus shut down your business center's workstations, what effect would that have on your bottom line? Answering these questions, and making preparations for their possible occurrence, is the focus of business continuity planning.

C5i's security experts can help you devise a plan to keep your essential functions going during an emergency or any event that disrupts your normal IT operations. They can prepare a business impact analysis to identify your most vital IT assets and functions so you can prioritize your disaster response and prepare a plan of action. C5i consultants can even help you with the implementation of your business continuity plans... arranging a backup site, procuring additional equipment, and facilitating agreements. C5i can make sure your business is ready for anything.

Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) Plans and Procedures

Many security experts say it's not a matter of if your systems will be attacked, but when. Will your IT team be ready when it happens?

C5i's security experts can help you develop and document a CSIRT plan to coordinate the response to cyber attacks against your organization. We can help you identify the procedures that will be critical to identifying and stopping blatant attacks or annoying schemes, coordinating your defense, and then reporting those incidents to the proper authorities if necessary.

Security Awareness and Training Programs

Hackers and viruses make the headlines, but it's the people who have day-to-day interaction with systems and data that are really at the heart of your security system. Whether its an employee with good intentions who accidentally leaves his password written on a sticky note or his laptop unguarded in an airport, or a disgruntled worker who intentionally steals data, human beings have the greatest affect on your IT security.

Which is why security awareness programs are so important. Anyone who works with customer or company systems or data should understand what they should do to protect them. C5i's security experts are some of the best in the business and can help you develop an IT security program that is comprehensive, yet flexible, and that focuses on the issues that are most important to your business.

Network, System, and User Documentation

One of most dreaded, but necessary, components of any business continuity or IT security plan is documentation. A written record of all systems and data must be developed so that management can make cost-effective business decisions at any point in the system's life-cycle. That documentation should include network, system, and user manuals that accurately and completely document the design, implementation, installation, configuration, and use of the system. This documentation is critical to understanding the security risks to the system and its data.

C5i consultants are computer and network experts and can help you document your systems in clear, concise, easy-to-understand language. So you can have a clear view into the status of your systems in order to make the most-informed decisions about protecting them.