Security Frameworks Consulting

Raise your standard of information security governance through IT frameworks, best practices, and standards

The Situation and Challenge

In the rush to meet regulatory or customer mandates, organizations have spent millions of dollars in implementing security and compliance measures on an issue-by-issue or regulation-by-regulation basis. These approaches to compliance and information security are filled with unnecessary risks and costs. Clearly, the standards of information security governance must be raised. What is needed is an approach that is effective, efficient, and sustainable.

The Wolcott Solution

Wolcott Group security consultants can help you to reduce costs and risk by using IT and security frameworks to unify how you govern information security. Our consultants can provide training, workshops and studies on:

• ISO 27001 international standard for an information security management system (ISMS)
• ISO 17799 best practices framework for an information security management system (ISMS)
• ISO 20000 best practices framework and standard for IT Services Management (ITSM)
• ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) best practice framework for IT
• COBIT (Control Objectives for Information and related Technology) best practice framework for IT
• COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission) enterprise risk management framework
• How the frameworks align and support each other as well as how they support your compliance efforts for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), Gramm-Leach-Bliley (GLBA), HIPAA, PCI, and many other government and industry regulations
• How to use the frameworks to improve how you govern information security

The Solution’s Value

Wolcott Group consultants can help you to develop and implement a top-down and consistent approach to address all compliance, risk, and governance issues related to information security. This unified approach can yield the following benefits:

• Implement cost-effective and consistent information security practices
• Reduce the costs of your compliance efforts
• Reduce operating costs through the consolidation and optimization of systems
• Increase the security and reliability of your information systems
• Improve how you manage risk and much more...

The Proof of Our Success

Wolcott Group is a member of the IT Governance Institute, is one of only eight U.S. firms in BSi Management Systems' Associate Consultant program, and has consultants who possess CISSP, HISP, and ITIL certifications.

Wolcott Group has assisted a number of large organizations to increase the cost-efficiency of their security, compliance, risk and governance efforts. Our consultants have certifications in information security management, IT governance, and a comprehensive array of remediation solutions.

Wolcott Group consultants have helped to initiate, organize, and manage industry events like:

• The Information Security Summit
• The All-Ohio InfraGard Summit

Wolcott Group consultants have presented at industry events like:

• Computer Security Institute's annual conference
• InfoSec World
• OKIT
• The Information Security Summit
• The All-Ohio InfraGard Summit

Wolcott Group consultants are active in industry associations like:

• Information Systems Security Association (ISSA)
• InfraGard
• American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS)

When it comes to developing a more cost-efficient, IT-governed approach to regulatory compliance, Wolcott’s consultants, tools, and partners deliver the highest value to solving your technology and business challenges.