WE ARE AT AN INFLECTION POINT WHERE CYBERSECURITY WILL BE VIEWED AS A KEY FACTOR…
Mike EllerhorstApril 11, 2022
ImagineX delivers projects with modern best practices and utilizes iterative approaches to software delivery in which teams build software incrementally rather than ship it at once upon completion.
Value:
PROVIDE an iterative approach to implementing solutions following agile best practices. Working on software and demonstrations over comprehensive documentation for improved efficiency to see a vision through and to release faster to the market.
EDUCATE your team on best practices to define or refine your organization’s current approach to project implementation and delivery.
IMPROVE your organization’s speed to market and ability to have stakeholders engaged earlier within the development lifecycle of projects.
ImagineX provides top tier consultancy and program level acumen to all project delivery and execution:
Value:
PROVIDE product, program, and project management expertise for our client’s desiring to deliver on successful solutions.
EDUCATE our clients on best of breed processes and tooling in order to deliver on time, on budget, and incredible experiences to their clients.
IMPROVE our clients go to market speed in combination with high quality delivery thereby reducing delays and issues with solutions releasing into the market.
IX realizes that our customers may be well positioned and prepared to “transform” their business for the better. In this case IX can use its digital technologies and business expertise to create new — or modify existing — business processes, culture, and customer experiences to meet changing business and market requirements.
Value:
PROVIDE deep consulting, business, technology, and cybersecurity expertise to our clients in order to visualize and formalize a plan and roadmap for future transformations.
EDUCATE our clients on best of breed processes, approaches, software, and tooling to transform their business to achieve critical business outcomes.
IMPROVE our clients organization by attaching our solutions, processes and approaches to transform to stakeholder desires and outcomes.
Imagine X has been delivering on Business Process Improvements since the inception of the company. Built on the years of deep consulting experience client’s have turned to IX looking to analyze their business processes, identify areas where they can improve accuracy, effectiveness and efficiency and then make changes within the processes to realize these improvements.
Value:
PROVIDE our clients best of breed processes that last and will help transform their business where needed, meeting critical stakeholder outcomes.
EDUCATE our clients on how to drive process improvement regardless of size of company or teams. An approach that can be fit for any size and range of talent.
IMPROVE the quality and process tracking project over project, thereby seeing the quality of outcomes increasing over time.
ImagineX can assist our customers with business, technology, and/or 3rd Party Solution/Assessments. Whether it is focused on M&A, Improving an area/department of an organization or even the evaluation of the effective use of tooling/processes.
Value:
PROVIDE analysis and outcomes that assist in planning for future Strategy and Implementation related to specific product needs.
EDUCATE your team on best practices for modernizing and scaling and how to compete in its respective vertical.
IMPROVE in your understanding of how to think about and implement your future capability as it relates to your platform, software, and products.
Understand your business goals and architect elegant data solutions, keeping data security top of mind.
Value:
PROVIDE data solutions that enable business priorities.
EDUCATE and ensure success with the right strategy and a pragmatic implementation plan that delivers incremental value.
IMPROVE operational efficiencies.
Understand and eliminate data inconsistencies and issues, producing actionable recommended fixes and processes to keep data clean.
Value:
PROVIDE trustworthy information throughout your organization
EDUCATE Stakeholders on the power of clean and trustworthy data
IMPROVE confidence in your information and ability to make informed decisions
Build systems that pull disparate data from multiple source systems, synthesize and transform this data in batch or real-time to prepare data for business consumption.
Value:
PROVIDE access to data to drive insight and decision making.
EDUCATE on data engineering best practices
IMPROVE information availability.
Build custom reporting solutions or leverage best of breed business intelligence tools that will allow the business to easily interact with data and draw insights quickly with high confidence.
Value:
PROVIDE reporting solutions that leverage best of breed business intelligence tools allowing the business to easily interact with data.
EDUCATE your organization with easy to understand visuals.
IMPROVE actionable insights quickly and with high confidence.
Data-driven Cyber Defense. Having integrated, enriched data in a centralized platform enables an organization to gain the deep and actionable insights required to understand, prioritize and respond to cybersecurity risks at near real-time speed. Transform your cybersecurity processes and improve ROI on your IT spend by putting critical security data in the right hands at the right time.
Value:
PROVIDE a “Single Pane of Glass” for all levels of the organization to understand risk.
EDUCATE stakeholders by shifting security left and integrating security data into CI/CD Pipelines.
IMPROVE efficiency and lower enterprise risk with near real-time views of risk across the organization.
Analyt-IX by ImagineX optimizes your Qualys Cloud Platform and enhances your Vulnerability Management program through a fully customizable Cyber Risk Platform to help you gain insights, prioritize and defend against the ever evolving threat landscape, and effectively reduce risk across your organization.
Value:
PROVIDE full breadth of coverage and enrich your metadata for Vulnerability Management.
EDUCATE stakeholders with actionable insights using accelerators and pre-built data models with powerful interactive dashboards that can be easily customizable to provide visibility into key performance indicators and metrics to align business goals with operational metrics.
IMPROVE and fix what matters most by creating a custom risk score that takes your unique risk appetite into account so you can focus on your biggest risk.
Companies require a robust set of applications for both their employees and their customers in order to sustain and grow their business. BUILDING bespoke applications can give an organization a competitive advantage with all of their constituents.
Value:
PROVIDE state of the art custom applications that are tailored to your company’s specific needs incorporating Strategic Planning, Discovery, Implementation, Testing, and Release Management.
EDUCATE your team on best practices for modernizing and scaling the organization’s technical stack and enabling a more efficient and effective work flows.
IMPROVE performance, stability, and speed while reducing manual efforts and ultimately costs.
Technology moves fast and cutting edge software eventually will become legacy software that has scaling and maintainability challenges. BUILDING a plan to address legacy software challenges can give an organization a start towards company growth.
Value:
PROVIDE an evaluation of the current software, architecture, business processes, and overall software health.
EDUCATE your team on modern development and cloud architecture practices to train the team on handling modern software challenges.
IMPROVE the overall health of the application to drive scale, reliability, cost savings and maintainability.
Optimizing software applications can be tricky and requires a variety of expertise to achieve success. BUILDING great applications can give an organization significant differentiation in their industry.
Value:
PROVIDE architecture, software development life cycle (SDLC), QA, UX, code and security reviews.
EDUCATE your team on an execution plan that meets business milestones such as timeline, impact, or budgetary goals.
IMPROVE velocity and dependability in the development and release process of your suite of bespoke software.
Security does not equal Compliance, and Compliance does not equal Security. However, a thoughtful and comprehensive approach to your regulatory obligations can be a powerful indicator of your security program’s effectiveness.
Value:
PROVIDE tactical support through strategic advisory on understanding, achieving, and effectively communicating your organization’s IT compliance obligations.
EDUCATE key internal and external stakeholders on the necessary components of, or the validated outcomes of your compliance processes.
IMPROVE the effectiveness and efficiency of your IT compliance program.
An organization’s people are the most common attack target (phishing, social engineering, business email compromise). Turn the tables and empower your people to be a strong component of your cyber defenses.
Value:
PROVIDE a sustainable and repeatable approach to informing and educating your workforce on the risks they encounter and their role in protecting the organization.
EDUCATE the largest and most vulnerable part of your organization’s information security posture.
IMPROVE the role that every employee can play in keeping your organization protected.
Validate your network and application security defenses through simulated attack scenarios to find the weaknesses before the “bad guys” do.
Value:
PROVIDE insights into potential compromise points in your technology ecosystem as well as accomplish required regulatory obligations.
EDUCATE your IT and Application teams on weaknesses and potential exploitation paths before systems “go live”.
IMPROVE the security of your customer-facing technology.
Assess the efficacy of your risk and compliance efforts against NIST CSF and other cybersecurity frameworks.
Value:
PROVIDE a strategic roadmap to reduce your attack surface.
EDUCATE compliance, risk management and information security teams on prioritized risks to address.
IMPROVE risk maturity and posture for the overall organization.
Prioritize and address compliance gaps previously identified by regulators, audits and/or consultancies.
Value:
PROVIDE evidence to regulators and auditors that identified gaps are being addressed.
EDUCATE regulators and auditors how and when gaps are being remediated.
IMPROVE your attack surface and risk profile by addressing identified gaps.
Recommend and deploy cybersecurity tools that fit your situation, not our partnership portfolio.
Value:
PROVIDE recommendations concerning tools for Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC), Incident Response (IR), and/or Business Continuity BCP/DR that fit your needs.
EDUCATE about the value-add GRC, IR, or BCP/DR tools bring to your organization and the relative trade-offs of integrating into your ecosystem.
IMPROVE your attack surface and/or security profile by integrating with existing cybersecurity and compliance tools.
Describe and document the governance required (including policies & procedures) to effectively achieve business outcomes within the organization’s risk tolerance.
Value:
PROVIDE the policies and procedures to manage identified cybersecurity risks, including an update to the Incident Response Plan (IRP) or Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP).
EDUCATE the organization, auditors and regulators concerning updated existing policies and procedures.
IMPROVE control structure and risk profile by aligning governance and controls.
Better prepare yourself for an Information Security incident by stepping through a simulated event in a Tabletop Exercise.
Value:
PROVIDE a real-life simulation tailored to actual ransomware / breach scenarios to produce actionable guidance on gaps and improvement areas.
EDUCATE your C level executives on their role and how the organization would handle a ransomware or breach scenario
IMPROVE your company’s readiness for the “when” vs. “if” scenario of today’s cyber threat landscape.
Choosing the right security tools for your organization can be overwhelming. In fact, the average Enterprise has over 130 security tools in their portfolio. A strong security tool set can help organizations PROTECT and DEFEND against the costly impact of a breach.
Value:
PROVIDE an agnostic assessment of your current tool set, how effectively the tools are being utilized, and a gap analysis on what tools are needed. ImagineX also offers a hands-on approach implementing and integrating the tools needed to run a successful program.
EDUCATE your team on best practices and operational procedures for managing and maintaining vulnerability management tools.
IMPROVE efficiencies in management of the security tool set, hardening your environment and reducing risk.
Keeping up with identified vulnerabilities can be a daunting (and seemingly impossible) task.
Value:
PROVIDE hands on execution or advisory support to prioritize, fix/mitigate, and validate the remediation of your vulnerabilities.
EDUCATE your team on best practices and current trends in remediation methodology and reporting.
IMPROVE the maturity of the remediation process in order to harden your environment and reduce risk.
Organizations commonly have a significant discrepancy between their reported assets and what they actually have in the real world. Even the greatest Security Program cannot PROTECT and DEFEND what they don’t know about.
Value:
PROVIDE an approach to identifying or validating the current asset inventory and maintaining an alignment of all company assets to the organization’s vulnerability program.
EDUCATE on best practices to handle dynamic systems, virtual environments, and evolving hybrid IT infrastructures while continually monitoring for changes in assets.
IMPROVE the breadth of coverage in the vulnerability management program to maximize returns, minimize risk, and increase business value.
The most common cause of a cyber breech is an unpatched security vulnerability. Organizations can PREVENT these costly breaches with a strong and complete patch management strategy.
Value:
PROVIDE an agnostic approach and overarching strategy to ensure assets in your environment are not susceptible to attacks; this can include embedded systems, operating systems, and applications.
EDUCATE your team on best practices to define or refine your organization’s current patch management program.
IMPROVE your organization’s risk profile in a timely and cost-efficient manner through a closed loop patch and vulnerability management program.
Automation helps with the speed of fixing a vulnerability, which in turn limits a company’s liability.
Value:
Analyze and PROVIDE opportunities with the current program to automate manual process.
EDUCATE stakeholder teams on running and maintaining automation.
IMPROVE the speed of vulnerability remediation.
Companies need a pragmatic, risk-based vulnerability management program to DEFEND against the costly impact of a breach.
Value:
PROVIDE an assessment of the current state of your organization’s Vulnerability Management Program.
EDUCATE your team on best practices for identifying and evaluating vulnerabilities, remediating or accepting the associated risk, and reporting to ensure compliance.
IMPROVE your organizations risk profile in a timely and cost-efficient manner.
Product, Program and Project Management
ImagineX manages the successful delivery of all of our projects by bringing deep expertise around the product, the projects that support these projects, and the programs that support these projects:
Product Management: Defines the product vision, strategy, and roadmap. Identifies and manages market and user customer needs. Collaborates with the data science, engineering, design, marketing, sales, finance, and customer support teams. Builds business cases for new products and focuses on improvements to existing ones.
Program Management: Organizes programs and projects in the company. Creates and manages short-term and long-term goals. Develops methods to assess program strengths and identify areas for improvement. Formulates risk mitigation strategies to ensure projects and products are on track. Meets with stakeholders to make communication easy and transparent regarding project issues and decisions on services.
Project Management: Determines and defines project scope and objectives. Forecasts and manages resources required to reach goals and prepares budgets based on resource requirements. Develops and manages a detailed project schedule and work plan to ensure that the teams meet goals with limited resources. Utilizes industry best practices, techniques, and standards throughout the entire project execution. Measures project performance to identify areas for improvement.
Agile Delivery
ImagineX delivers projects with modern best practices and utilizes iterative approaches to software delivery in which teams build software incrementally at the beginning of a project rather than ship it at once upon completion. ImagineX delivers through scrum master, product ownership, and technical delivery management. In the frame of Cybersecurity the same mindset is followed where Cyber engineers as well as Cyber teams will find opportunities on projects to showcase value to clients early and often in order for our clients to realize the greatest impact and value from change.
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Data Strategy & Architecture
Understand your business goals and architect elegant data solutions, keeping data security top of mind.
– Data solutions that enable business priorities
– Operational efficiencies
Data Quality & Governance
Understand and eliminate data inconsistencies and issues, producing actionable recommended fixes and processes to keep data clean.
– Trustworthy insight
– Operational efficiency
Data Engineering & Orchestration
Build systems that pull disparate data from multiple source systems, synthesize and transform this data in batch or real-time to prepare data for business consumption.
– Resource Efficiency
– Data Accuracy
– Information availability
Analyt-IX
Analyt-IX by ImagineX Consulting optimizes your Qualys Cloud Platform and enhances your Vulnerability Management program through a fully customizable Cyber Risk Platform to help you gain insights, prioritize and defend against the ever evolving threat landscape, and effectively reduce risk across your organization.
– Prioritize and Fix What Matters Most: Analyt-IX correlates Asset Attributes with Threat and Vulnerability Intelligence to create a custom
risk score that takes your unique risk appetite into account so you can focus on your biggest risk.
– Asset Intelligence: Analyt-IX synchronizes Qualys data with IPAM tools and CMDB to help you maintain full breadth
of coverage and enrich your metadata for Vulnerability Management.
– Data Orchestration: Analyt-IX automates the orchestration of siloed data from multiple security tools into a Single Pane of Glass providing the visibility to drive faster decision-making and alleviating tool fatigue.
– Actionable Insights: Analyt-IX is an extensible solution with a set of accelerators and pre-built data models, with powerful interactive dashboards that can be easily customizable to provide visibility into key performance indicators and metrics to align business goals with operational metrics.
Cyber Analytics Platform
Data-driven Cyber Defense. Having integrated, enriched data in a centralized platform enables an organization to gain the deep and actionable insights required to understand, prioritize and respond to cybersecurity risks at near real-time speed. Transform your cybersecurity processes and improve ROI on your IT spend by putting critical security data in the right hands at the right time.
Data Visualization
ImagineX will build custom reporting solutions or leverage best of breed business intelligence tools that will allow the business to easily interact with data and draw insights quickly with high confidence.
Web Application Development
Accelerate your business processes with custom enterprise developed web applications.
– Tailored processes for your company’s needs.
– Focus on your company’s business with reduced risk to delivery through expert product, engineering, and release management.
Tech Modernization
Improve your technology maturity by modernizing internal systems.
– Get your teams out of spreadsheets and into web applications.
– Innovate quicker by removing legacy systems from your internal IT.
– Keep old functionality that works but remove any processes that don’t.
Software & Product Development
Verify value propositions for any software initiatives by brainstorming, defining, and creating proofs of concept.
– Determine best strategy and course of action for any software initiative.
– Define areas of highest impact and ROI for any custom software or feature development.
– Reduce risk by thinking through alternative. approaches to achieving business goals
Assessment & Analysis
ImagineX can assist our customers with business, technology, and/or 3rd Party Solution/Assessments. Whether it is focused on M&A, Improving an area/department of an organization or even the evaluation of the effective use of tooling/processes.
Process Improvement
ImagineX can bring forth the talent and approach to improving a customer’s business processes. Business Process Improvement has been found to be a desired need of customers looking to analyze their business processes to identify areas where they can improve accuracy, effectiveness and efficiency and then make changes within the processes to realize these improvements. Overall process improvement will evaluate which organizational procedures and regulations add value to the company and help to steer it in the right direction. Improving business processes helps to support the current strategy, mission, vision, and goals, and eliminate those that don’t support company culture.
Digital Transformation
IX realizes that our customers may be well positioned and prepared to “transform” their business for the better. In this case IX can use its digital technologies and business expertise to create new — or modify existing — business processes, culture, and customer experiences to meet changing business and market requirements. This reimagining of business in the digital age is digital transformation and ImagineX’s deep background in business consulting, technology and cybersecurity allow for a program for customers that will achieve these needs.
Penetration Testing/Red Team Exercise
Validate your network’s and application’s security defenses through simulated (ethical) hacking situations.
– Test your network perimeter.
– Test a specific application (WebApp, Mobile, etc.).
– Meet your PCI or other compliance obligations.
– Test your technical and process/procedural controls through an expanded “Red Team” or “Purple Team” exercise involving your Security Operations Analysts in the threat scenario.
Cyber Training and Awareness
An organization’s people are the most common attack target (phishing, social engineering, business email compromise). Turn the tables and empower your people to be a strong component of your cyber defenses.
Typical components of Training and Awareness:
– Socialization of policies, procedures, and standards.
– In-person, virtual, or computer-based training sessions on IT and Information Security.
– Simulated phishing campaigns.
– Communications relating to cyber awareness (emails, newsletters, posters, etc.).
Compliance (PCI, SOX, HITRUST, FRB/OCC)
Achieving compliance regulatory obligations is a necessity to operate and thrive as a business.
Key components of a compliance program include:
– Design and implement controls.
– Test and validate execution of controls (collection of evidence).
– Completing assessments or audits for external validation or certification.
– Evaluating and remediating findings (or gaps) in controls.
Identity and Access Management
Understanding, managing, and controlling identities is becoming an imperative in today’s modern threat landscape.
Potential areas of support or focus include:
– Zero Trust
– Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
– Identity Governance
– Single Sign On (SSO) and Universal Identity Mgmt
– Multi-factor Authentication (MFA)
– Privileged Access Management (PAM)
– Customer/Consumer Identity Management (CIAM)
– Service Accounts and non-human identities.
Tabletop Exercise (TTX)
Better prepare yourself for an incident by tailoring a Tabletop Exercise in order to:
– Provide a real-life simulation tailored to actual ransomware / breach scenarios.
– Educate your C level executives in how to handle a ransomware or breach scenario.
– Provide actionable guidance on gaps and improvement areas.
– Improve your company internal policies and procedures.
Policy, Procedure, Governance (incl. Incident Response Plan and Controls)
– Describe and document the governance required (including policies & procedures) to fill identified remediation gaps.Write the policies and procedures to manage cybersecurity risk profile and mitigate identified risks.
– Update existing policies and procedures, including documented controls.
– Review embedded controls from third-party tools and recommend changes as needed.
– Write or update the Incident Response Plan (IRP). We have experience with managing enterprise stakeholders outside of the InfoSec team.
Cyber Resilience Tool Implementation/Integration
Recommend and deploy cybersecurity tools that fit your situation, not our partnership portfolio.
– Identify and recommend tools for Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) and Incident Response (IR), and/or Business Continuity BCP/DR.
– Roll-out GRC or IR tools, integrating into the ecosystem.
– Partner tools include Qualys-Policy Compliance (GRC) and CrowdStrike (Endpoint Detection & Response).
– Integrate with existing cybersecurity and compliance tools either pre-existing in the environment, or in flight. Example: Roll-out Qualys-PC with OneTrust within client ecosystem.
Compliance/Assessment Findings Remediation
Prioritize and address compliance gaps previously identified by regulators, audits and/or consultancies.
– Address what has been identified to improve your attack surface.
– Evidentiary value to regulators and auditors that identified gaps are being addressed (i.e. ‘there is a plan’).
Risk Maturity Assessment
Assess the efficacy of your risk and compliance efforts against NIST CSF and other preferred cyber frameworks.
– Lay the foundation for a strategic roadmap to reduce your attack surface.
– Identify and prioritize areas of risk to address.
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