Port443 (Pty) Ltd

Port443: Enhancing Accuracy & Scalability Automating Cyber Security Transforming operational processes from ad hoc cyber security audits to continual hardening of the controls requires skills and time which could and should be automated. With the use of automation, there is an associated benefit of both Accuracy and Scalability. Manual processes are prone to human error. Automation ensures that attestation is??consistent and precise, reducing the risk of oversight in assessing compliance against best practices. As the business grows, so does the complexity of the IT infrastructure. Automated tooling scale with the needs, handling vast amounts of data and complex environments without the need for proportional increases in skills. Port443 specializes in automated attestation “as a service” to overcome the burden of manual processes, increasing accuracy and ensuring scalability. Contact us at?[email protected]

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Automated validation of the best practice implementation of your Cyber Security Controls. Port443 has developed multiple platforms to help clients increase the overall Cyber Security posture for their business. We don't subscribe to a "set and forget" approach to security. Chat to us so we can help you become more secure. [email protected]

We have built automations for the attestation of various cyber security controls including (but not limited to) perimeter security, email security, business productivity tools and more, all "as a service". Further to this, our SaaS platform, enabling visibility across all Network, Cyber Security and Applications, has helped to increase the overall cyber security posture across many clients, multiple verticals and a multitude of different vendors. Port443 can help with Automating your Cyber Security.

Port443 - Automating Cyber Security Adopting a “set and forget” approach to cyber security can and in many instances will result in baseline and best practice drift. This drift contributes negatively to the overall efficacy of the cyber security posture.? With the use of automation and comprehensive visibility, retaining a posture that aligns with the organization’s risk is increasingly essential. From the day we founded Port443, we have maintained a very specific focus on helping organizations increase their overall cyber security efficacy.? We have achieved this through developing automations that provide insight into the degree to which the controls that our clients have invested in are configured according to best practice, all provided “as a service”. Further to this, another key aspect of keeping an eye on, and thereby being able to remediate drift, is having visibility of the critical metrics and alerts across all the technologies clients have within their estate. The Port443 OneView offering provides this visibility across whichever technologies our clients have invested in, all “as a service”.? Port443 - Automating Cyber Security.

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Visibility is the best place to start. The application of directives for cybersecurity – avoiding duplication by adding too many overlapping layers. The?Directive in respect of cybersecurity and cyber-resilience within the national payment system. The SARB plays a role in ensuring the safety, efficiency and resiliency of the national payment system (NPS). The directive (17th?May 2024) outlines the purpose, application, supervision and compliance monitoring for ensuring the increase in the overall cybersecurity efficacy of payment institutions, operators and payment systems. A common tendency when conforming to directives is to place layer upon layer of controls, often at a great expense with operational overhead that can impede the agility of businesses. The guidelines cover a plethora of controls. These include Cyber-governance, the identification of critical operations & information assets, Cybersecurity measures, Detection, Response & Recovery and Cyber-incident reporting requirements. Ideally one should start with the identification of the critical assets, and then work from there in terms of the optimal controls required to mitigate threats. But this to some extent assumes a “green fields” environment. How best should one approach this when investments have already been made in layers of controls. A good place to start would be with visibility.? Having a single view across all the critical alerts and metrics of the controls already invested in can help identify the overlap - as well as the gaps. The consolidation of all the telemetry, understanding the correlation of events and gaining meaningful insight is core to decision making when it comes to the next layer of cyber security investments. At Port443 we specialize in providing a single view “as a service”.? The Port443 OneView integrates into a multitude of technologies to provide oversight of third parties delivery, independent governance and areas of improvement so as to increase the overall cybersecurity efficacy of the ICT estate.

Quantifying the business value of cybersecurity investments. The CISO’s adoption of various metrics and key performance indicators have traditionally focused on the cyber security efficacy of the organization. As the focus on efficacy increases in importance, so too is there an evolving requirement to focus on the business value of cybersecurity investments, and the associated impact to the bottom line. When considering one of the key business imperatives, go-to-market, multiple cybersecurity controls could hinder the pace as opposed to accelerate the pace. Balancing between the multitude of security layers, with the operational impact of the business is not easy to achieve. The natural tension between a frictionless operating model and governance requirements can result in a zero-sum position. To this extent, pressure is often brought to bear on the CISO, since the perception is that the business cannot move quickly enough with the sheer volume of controls implemented. Articulating the enterprise value of cybersecurity is imperative. Recovery time objective (RTO), the maximum acceptable period a system can be down as a result of a breach is an example of an enterprise value metric when it comes to mature and well documented disaster recovery processes.? Qualitative and quantitative risk registers can provide meaningful metrics that are more aligned to business outcomes. Metrics such as potential loss of revenue, reputational damage, possible breaches of client-SLA’s and legal repercussions are further examples of organizationally aligned metrics. Having immediate access, correlating and visualizing these metrics is often one of the difficulties with adopting this approach.? This is where platforms that provide visibility, observability and insights are necessary. With the multitude of disparate systems, across security, network and applications, having this information in a single view is often seen as an elusive goal. Port443 specializes in providing these services for organizations who wish to assess their overall state of risk.? And in so doing, helping to quantify the business value of cybersecurity investments.