Cyber Security Audit Drives Compliance

Challenges:

An online advertiser needed to ensure it complied with cyber security best practice in order to protect its business and its customers and meet important compliance regulations.

Poor cyber security practices expose businesses to the risks of data breaches, resulting in the loss, theft, or unauthorised access to sensitive information. This leads to financial losses due to incident response, investigation, legal actions, regulatory fines, and potential lawsuits. Additionally, it damages the company’s reputation and erodes customer trust, impacting long-term business viability.

Our solution:

Our audit began with a review of the company’s cybersecurity policies, procedures, and documentation, to ensure compliance with industry best practices and legal requirements. We then assessed the effectiveness of technical controls, such as firewalls, encryption, and access controls, through vulnerability scans and penetration testing. We also looked at incident response capabilities, and the overall resilience of the organisation’s cyber security posture.

Employee error or plain naivety is responsible for a huge proportion of cyber-attacks. As a result, an important part of our assessment included an evaluation of employee awareness and training programmes.

Our client received a detailed and user-friendly report highlighting areas of non-compliance, vulnerabilities, and recommendations for improvement to enhance the organisation’s security and compliance practices.