Cybersecurity Consulting

BARR Advisory offers ongoing support as a virtual CISO, providing transparency on your cybersecurity program to your board, executive team, and other stakeholders. We are your strategic asset to weave security and compliance into the DNA of your organization and differentiate among your competition.

Any successful security program will include a set of policies and procedures. We’ll provide consultation resulting in a customized set of policies and procedures that are both understood and followed by all members of your organization.

When your customers send security questionnaires, you want to be ready with responses that will put them at ease knowing their data is safe with you. BARR formulates those responses and offers direct communication with your customers to help resolve any concerns they may have, leaving them feeling confident in choosing your product or service.

BARR offers a comprehensive risk assessment service that is designed to identify, quantify, and manage security risk. A thorough risk assessment can help you identify where you need to shore up your security controls to mitigate internal and external risk factors.

With BARR’s extensive experience in audit services, we’ll help your company achieve Microsoft DPR compliance quickly and seamlessly.

How can you hire third-party vendors and minimize the worry that they may not live up to your own security standards? We help you pinpoint the vendors that present the highest level of risk using a standardized, risk-based approach. Once identified, we offer simple steps to protect you from potential risks associated with using third party services.

Our team of experienced consultants work with your unique business needs to develop or enhance your internal audit function; identifying shortcomings in your internal controls, testing those controls, and providing actionable next steps. We perform audits against frameworks including SOC 2, NIST CSF, ISO 27001, CIS Top 18, and more.

Our consultants will guide your organization through security awareness training so all your associates know their specific responsibilites and can do their job correctly while achieving compliance.

BARR delivers customized penetration testing and vulnerability assessment solutions based on each client’s specific needs using best practices from the OWASP testing guide, SANS top 25, CREST, WASC, PTES, and more. We use creativity and critical thinking to come up with various scenarios that could lead to data compromise—using both automated and manual techniques to provide the most accurate results. If your system has vulnerabilities, we’ll identify them and provide recommendations on how to fix them.

As consultants, we aim to grow with your organization. While continuously maintaining objectivity and independence, we work with you and your internal auditors to offer recommendations on how you can improve overall security posture.

Our team of experts can provide technical remediation, implementation, and management of security tools and controls, including cloud native security centers, compliance automation, mobile device management, endpoint detection and response, security awareness training, cloud security posture management, vulnerability scanning, incident response, responsible disclosure, and more. We can also advise on security architecture, including patch management, network segmentation, and remote access.

Stay ahead of cyber threats with our comprehensive endpoint detection and response (EDR) and managed detection and response (MDR) services. Our experts monitor, detect, and respond to security incidents in real-time, ensuring your endpoints and accounts remain secure and your business protected. With our team’s monitoring, advanced threat detection, and rapid response, you can focus on what matters most—growing your business.

The benefits of cybersecurity consulting services include cost efficiency, access to high-level expertise, and flexibility. BARR’s cybersecurity consultants provide top-tier security strategies and risk management. Additionally, the flexible nature of our cybersecurity consulting services allows businesses to scale services up or down based on their current needs, ensuring they have the right level of security guidance without overextending their resources.

A vCISO is an outsourced security professional who provides the expertise and functions of a traditional Chief Information Security Officer on a flexible, part-time, or as-needed basis. When you use vCISO services, the vCISO is responsible for developing and implementing your organization’s information security strategy, managing risks, ensuring compliance with regulations, and responding to security incidents.

Startups and small- to medium-sized businesses that may not be ready for a formal, full-time CISO position would greatly benefit from utilizing BARR’s virtual CISO services. Whether it’s a temporary solution until your business grows or it’s a more permanent addition to your current security management team, a vCISO’s expertise can help plan, implement, and sustain a reliable security strategy to keep your business and its customers safe. Even enterprise-level organizations with a well-oiled security team can gain insight from a vCISO’s perspective.

With our subscription model, the timeline for cybersecurity advisory services can vary. We customize our cybersecurity advisory services to fit your business needs.

Ultimately, the role of the vCISO in today’s business world is to help cloud service organizations define actionable strategies for safeguarding sensitive data and achieving their long-term compliance goals. Check out this blog post for more information.

Cybersecurity consultants identify problems, evaluate security issues, assess risk, and implement solutions to defend against threats to companies’ networks and computer systems.

Compliance means to adhere to standards and regulatory requirements set forth by an agency, law, or authoritative group. Cybersecurity is the practice of protecting systems, networks, and programs from digital attacks. Compliance doesn’t equal security. Check out this blog post to learn why.