Assessment & Assurance

Thales Assessment & Assurance services utilises Thales’ cyber experts to evaluate cyber threats and ensure the effectiveness of your security controls. We help you stay on top of your cybersecurity risks.

The situation

Senior leaders often find themselves wrestling with one simple question: “Am I secure enough?” Rapid technological advancements have enabled many organisations to address unprecedented opportunities with greater convenience, but the process of digital transformation has also brought unseen challenges and risks. As a result, both Information Technology and Operational Technology environments are exposed to a constantly-changing threat landscape, threatening the resiliency and profitability of their parent businesses. 

Ensuring a business’s operations are secure enough requires striking a balance between cyber security and operational efficiency and continuity. So, businesses must measure the effectiveness of implemented or proposed security controls against existing and potential threats. In many cases this is easier said than done, especially as assessing the impact of human, technical or operational vulnerabilities, whether malicious or inadvertent,  is outside the capabilities of most businesses. Couple this with a constantly-evolving regulatory landscape, and ensuring compliance to requirements and mitigation of likely threats is a costly endeavour.

Unfortunately, even if a business is able to ascertain that they are secure enough today, that is not enough; businesses also need to be assured they will be secure tomorrow, and the day after. This requires a combination of talents with the right know-how, the implementation of effective tools, and the awareness of embedding cybersecurity in every aspect of the business.

Our Approach

Thales’s Assessment & Assurance services provide a differentiated capability to address the socio-technical risks to your environment. We employ a diverse team of technical, human factors, and information assurance experts with a long history of experience in critical operational environments.

We offer the ability to thoroughly identify and assess all of your assets, network communications and vulnerabilities within both IT and OT environments, and their specific security requirements and operational needs.  Then, through our long practical experience in industry, we design a customised strategy that assesses and strengthens your cyber resilience across different aspects, including the traditional CIA triad (confidentiality, integrity, availability), operational continuity, resilience, and safety, and emerging concerns over privacy, environment and technology.

Assessment 

By adopting a threat-centric approach, we evaluate how vulnerable your business operations are to being attacked. We understand and pose as threat actors to test the effectiveness of the existing controls and identify your strengths and weaknesses. To cope with the evolving cyber-attacks, we tap into our global knowledge base, leverage real-world adversary tactics and techniques, and deploy active defence and adversary engagement concepts. Thales can provide a comprehensive assessment of your business’s security across its people, process and technology.

Assurance 

Thales doesn’t just offer point-in-time assessment services because this cannot ensure your continued security posture over time. Your business can never be totally immune to attacks and threats, which is why our continuous monitoring services can give you the assurance that you are ready and prepared to face them. By designing a sustainable security program that aligns with your business and security strategy, we closely monitor the relevant security controls and their effectiveness, especially when any change is made to the IT and OT environments. You will see measurable improvement as cybersecurity risk is regularly identified, assessed and treated. 

Outcome

We think like a hacker but act like an engineer. With our mature certified modular Assessment & Assurance methodologies, we can provide an in-depth assessment of the socio-technical risks to your IT and OT environments and their dependencies; identifying the gap between expectations and reality. This enables you to treat those identified risks with prioritised solutions that align to your short and long-term goals. 

Thales’s Assessment & Assurance  goal is to mature and improve every organisation’s security posture. Demonstrating the value of their security investment, and enabling our customers to make the best-informed risk-based decisions when confronting future cyber challenges. 

Why Thales?

Trusted by the military and governments around the world, Thales has the people, processes and technology to reduce risk, improve security and protect your organisation. As you would expect from Thales, the precise service that we provide to each of our clients is tailored to their specific needs and is always held in the strictest confidence. 

Thales have a global operating capability and can cater for specific regional and local requirements. We are an NCSC Certified Cyber Security Consultancy with multiple professional qualifications including CREST, PCI QSAC, SANS, and IEC 62443 experts. Your business will be secured and supported by an extended team of specialists with expertise in almost every critical field, well versed in the intricacies of IT and OT environments.