Risky Business:
As information communication and IT infrastructure increase in complexity, so do the opportunities for outsiders to exploit the hard-won trust and confidence of your customers, employees, strategic partners, and other stakeholders. The proliferation of new applications, devices, and channels has not only increased your ability to compete, but has also amplified the likelihood you will suffer a security breach. Hackers now have numerous vulnerabilities to exploit when attacking your enterprise. While current security solutions don't offer a comprehensive means of protecting your data and infrastructure, the value of effective digital protection is unquestionable. It is essential to have strategies that proactively balance risk protection and risk tolerance and allow your organization to maximize its security investment.

Peace of Mind:
ALTERthought understands the security dilemma and responds by offering a suite of digital security services that strike the balance you require to thrive in an increasingly risky marketplace. We use Stalwart^SM, our enterprise security-planning framework, to help us jointly identify your security concerns as well as the tools, technologies, and approaches we offer to help you do business more securely. Our security offering is focused on providing consulting, mentoring, and implementation services for hardening your technology architecture.

Vulnerability Assessment … We'll use best practices and custom assessment tools to determine your current risk profile.

Gap Analysis/Triage … We jointly examine the results of the vulnerability assessment and recommend steps necessary to reduce those risks.

Blueprinting … Using best practices, we'll help your organization architect secure software platforms.

Enterprise Guidelines Development … We'll put together a handbook to guide your teams - specific to your risk profile and business realities.

Hardening … Using the Enterprise Guidelines and the Secure Blueprint, we implement the secure solution.

Monitoring … We'll inspect and refine the hardened architectures to ensure agreed upon benchmarks for reliability, up-time, performance, and security functions are met.

Mentoring … We'll work with your team to help educate them in defending your current architectures as well as the best practices, tools, and methodologies necessary to stay on top of emerging security trends.