Information security is a fundamental business requirement in the modern, connected world.

Touching on related issues such as business continuity, compliance and service management; Information security effectiveness means an organisation is able to place appropriate trust in its networks, systems, applications, processes and people to maintain the fundamental properties of:

• Confidentiality
• Integrity
• Availability

Further, doing this in an auditable and measurable way means organisations can demonstrate this assurance to customers, trading partners and regulators.

Adviza provides an extensive range of services covering the full range of information security disciplines:

• Business, IT and Information risk and impact analysis
• Analysis and development of Information and IT security policies and management systems
• Compliance and auditing against ISO27001 - Health-checks, policies, procedures and implementation
• Consultancy regarding the implementation of external standards (e.g. CESG Government security standards)
• Implementation of security controls, processes and independent solution advice

Adviza recognise that organisations often have pockets of expertise and various functions with expertise and responsibility in this area. Our capabilities are diverse and hence we can assist where required and work with in-house teams to achieve your strategic and tactical security objectives. This might include:

• Management and Technical Consultancy, analysis, requirements capture, design, audit and review on a project, time-and-materials or managed service basis
• Training and education
• Definition of policy, process and standards, legal compliance and technical design
• Consulting around technical solutions, networks, applications and security technologies

Adviza has one of the strongest CLAS consultancy teams in the UK and can provide consultancy and advice on the Manual of Protective Security and the Security Policy Framework (SPF) and related recent standards and policies; as well as all the CESG standards, memoranda and good practice guides. We can support all stages of the accreditation process (in line with IAS2 and the risk management standard IAS1).

Adviza also consults on defence and intelligence community requirements such as JSP440 for its defence sector clients and related service providers.