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Solutions for Tackling Cyber Risks in the Cloud

For organizations using data and cloud services across multi-tenant environments, Guidehouse helps reduce cyber risks and prepare effective incident responses

These solutions, when not properly managed in the delivery environment, can compromise the overall cybersecurity of the enterprise. That could affect patient safety
in a healthcare provider organization or the integrity of validated systems in a life science company. Fortunately, there are proven strategies to mitigate the increased risks of cloud service-based systems.

 

Guidehouse Helps Mitigate Cloud Cybersecurity Risks

While cloud technologies have provided organizations with powerful tools and decreased IT costs, they have also increased the potential risks and threats to an enterprise’s IT infrastructure. Cloud services have dynamically changed the cyberattack surface by increasing the organization’s reliance on third parties with differential cybersecurity capabilities and processes.

An organization’s existing cyber technology generally struggles to integrate these services into the company’s existing infrastructure, security processes, and technology. But Guidehouse’s cybersecurity experts have the necessary experience working across multiple types of platforms and service capacities to successfully evaluate and integrate an enterprise’s cybersecurity practices within their cloud platforms

 

Guidehouse's Cyber Risk Management Process

In the evolving Web 3.0 environment, organizations face the crucial task of securing their systems and data across multiple cloud environments. Guidehouse helps companies respond to business and cyber needs throughout this process by addressing these key areas:

  • Strategy, governance, and management
  •  Security architecture and services
  • Threat and vulnerability management
  • Identity and access management
  • Information and data privacy protection
  • Incident and crisis management
  • Risk and compliance management
  • Delivery and operations

 

How Guidehouse Can Help

At Guidehouse, we have delivered cybersecurity solutions to commercial and federal agencies including the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, National Institutes of Health, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Our cyber advisors partner with providers, life sciences companies, payers, and other healthcare organizations to protect their critical assets and data. We offer cybersecurity solutions to help our clients establish and optimize information security, privacy procedures, and systems so they can be prepared to address current—and future—technology risks.in the event of a cyber incident. This encompasses an effective mitigation plan to enact when those services aren’t available—which should be readied during the acquisition phase and operationalized over the course of service adoption and integration.

Marianne Bailey, Partner


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