For many small to mid-size corporations, it is not always possible to develop certain functions within the organization to the level of comprehensiveness needed and/or with a competent person to fulfill the role. This is because it is not cost efficient for the organizations and efforts are spent focusing on core business issues. Even for larger corporations, there are times when short-term needs cannot be filled internally and there is a need to bring in external expertise to assist the organization.
Our Outsourcing services can range from assisting your organization with various needs which is more of a co-sourcing relationship or to a full outsourcing of the function. In addition, we can assist your organization in searching for the “right” person to fill the role along with working closely with this individual to transition the function back to your organization.
Transcendent Group offers the following core outsourcing services to meet your needs:
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Internal IT Audit
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
When organizations think about a Chief Information Security Officer, they think about an individual fulfilling the position. Although it is important to have a person designated with this title, Transcendent Group approaches this position as a comprehensive function.
Our CISO outsourcing services is not comprised of just providing you with one person to fill this position. Instead, we bring a team of individuals into your organization and our framework to meet all of your security needs. We have the capability of providing you with a security solution!
Specifically, we will help you develop an information security framework, policies and procedures, and the implementation of a technical infrastructure to adequately secure your critical data / information from both internal and external threats. In addition, we can perform specific security tasks such as firewall maintenance, security awareness and intrusion detection or we can help the organization to regularly assess compliance to defined security baseline or identify new vulnerabilities.
Internal IT Audit
Finding qualified IT auditors can be a difficult, time consuming and expensive process. In addition, most IT auditors do not have technical skills in all of the technologies possessed by your organization. Therefore, it makes good business sense to hire an organization that has access to a vast pool of consultants with audit expertise in a wide range of technologies.
We will work closely with your management team (audit director, CFO, audit committee) to develop an IT audit function that best meets the needs of your organization. We will perform a risk assessment of your technology risks and provide you with a proposed IT audit plan for one year, 3 years, and 5 years. We will then perform the agreed upon audits throughout the year and provide you with a comprehensive report along with meaningful recommendations.
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Developing a business continuity and disaster recovery plan, and the staffing of this function is a necessary insurance policy that organizations are reluctant to invest in developing due to the costs. However, with events such as: Hurricane Charley in Florida, the Oklahoma city bombing, the tragic events of “911” in the Northeast, power outages in California and more recently in 2003 across the US and Canada and in South Sweden, forest fires and earthquakes in the West has proven the need to organizations that business continuity and disaster recovery plans are necessary and are used.
Our business continuity and disaster recovery outsourcing services range from performing the initial risk assessment of the plan needs, developing the plan, scheduling and planning testing efforts, and the on-going maintenance of the plan based on the continuous changes made to the organization.