Cybersecurity consulting
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Cyber incident response and digital forensics solutions
Your partner in cyber resilience
Calian specializes in developing comprehensive cyber incident response playbooks designed to tackle a variety of threat scenarios—including ransomware, cyber extortion, phishing, data breaches and more. Calian adheres to current best practices while preparing for evolving threats, ensuring scalable and forward-thinking solutions.
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Business disruption
Navigate the complexities of business disruption with a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy. Calian specializes in assessing your organization's needs, designing tailored solutions and implementing effective strategies. Our support ensures your business is resilient, secure and prepared.
Cyber resilience
Empower your organization to withstand and thrive in the face of cyber disruptions. Our focused approach helps you prepare for, respond to, and recover from incidents with resilience. Calian protects your most critical assets, leaving your organization more robust and secure after a disruptive event.
Cyber transformation
Transform your cybersecurity posture to enable a competitive advantage. Calian guides you in building future-ready cyber capabilities, instilling confidence in your security measures. Our strategic approach keeps your organizaton at the forefront of a rapidly evolving digital landscape.
How Calian cybersecurity consulting services can help
Our community of experts and strategic partners is dedicated to solving your cybersecurity challenges with intelligence-led, industry-focused solutions.
Optimize your cyber resilience framework
Transform your cybersecurity, privacy and risk management approach with Calian. Our comprehensive assessments and risk quantification methods are designed to fortify your defences.
Stay ahead of cyber threats
Calian leverage a blend of human ingenuity and cutting-edge cyber threat intelligence. Stay informed about global cyber threats in real-time and prepare for a secure future.
Transform your cybersecurity landscape
Trust in Calian for a seamless cybersecurity transformation. With our expertise in cloud security, IAM and zero trust models, we ensure robust and trustworthy security implementations.
Proactive cybersecurity management
Explore the Calian cyber-as-a-service (CaaS) solution for proactive management of cybersecurity operations. Our industry insights help you prevent issues before they escalate, ensuring cost-effective security management.
Secure your mergers and acquisitions ventures
Gain crucial insights for each stage of your mergers and acquisitions process with Calian. Our expertise helps you mitigate risks effectively, ensuring maximum returns and value preservation.
Develop robust policies and standards
Calian will assess your organization and build effective cybersecurity policies tailored for your needs. Alongside your stakeholders, we define a robust process based on the policies and standards to be developed.
Get the cybersecurity expertise you need
Calian’s virtual CISO (vCISO) services provide access to highly experienced cybersecurity experts without the HR burden and high cost of in-house CISO. Our day-to-day high-level cybersecurity program and strategy management helps you meet your company’s cybersecurity goals and manage risk.
Phases of playbook development
In the lifecycle of an incident, steps like detection, assessment, mitigation and recovery are crucial and often cyclical. The Calian Incident Response Playbook addresses each of these stages comprehensively.
Scoping and planning
- Project kickoff: key stakeholders are identified and brought together to agree on the project's deliverables, timelines, and milestones.
- Document review: existing cybersecurity materials are scrutinized, and insights from stakeholder interviews are gathered.
Information gathering
- Understanding the incident response stages and tools: A deep dive into the various stages of incident response, ensuring that each step - from initial identification to recovery - is thoroughly understood and effectively managed.
- Gathering insights from key stakeholders: Engaging with key figures within the organization to gain a comprehensive view of the cybersecurity landscape and tailor the incident response plan accordingly.
Review and analysis
- Analyzing gathered information for playbook creation: This stage is crucial in synthesizing the insights and data collected in the initial phases.
- Drafting a cybersecurity playbook considering standards and best practices: Calian's playbook combines NIST and ISO standards, custom organization-specific tailoring, best practices, and iterative stakeholder feedback.
Documentation
- Reviewing and revising the draft playbook: A rigorous review and revision of the draft cybersecurity playbook ensures it meets all stakeholders' precise needs and feedback.
- Finalizing the playbook for client presentation: Embodies a comprehensive strategy for incident response tailored to the client's operational landscape.
Tabletop incident response simulation exercise
Calian offers realistic training simulations to prepare for and respond to security breaches. The benefits include gap identification, real-world scenario training, and security awareness enhancement.
Hacked corporate websites
Protect your online presence with the Calian strategic defense plans, ensuring your corporate website remains secure and resilient against unauthorized access.
Data disclosure from stolen devices
Safeguard sensitive information with our comprehensive device management and rapid response solutions for incidents involving lost or stolen devices.
Ransomware and malware attacks
Combat ransomware and malware with Calian robust detection systems and eradication protocols, minimizing downtime and securing your network's integrity.
Insider threats/external data breaches
Fortify your organization against internal and external security breaches with our thorough monitoring and incident response strategies.
Cyber resources and learning
Mastering business continuity
A meticulous approach to business impact analysis (BIA) and criticality assessment (CA) is vital to maintaining business continuity and resilience. Calian's services ensure your essential functions are identified, financial and operational impacts are fully understood, and recovery priorities and resources are effectively allocated.
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