Cyber security consulting

Digital innovation has transformed the opportunity for businesses to interconnect with their customers and suppliers, but it does come with risk. Cyber threats grow in sophistication and complexity every day, and it is no longer acceptable to simply manage cyber risk; you must take a proactive approach towards cyber security.

Technological resilience beyond compliance

Cyber security compliance should be viewed as a minimum standard. Addressing cyber risks are not just a compliance measure, but also forms part of the social responsibility a business has for people and planet. Security challenges are constantly arising, it requires a proactive and adaptive approach to protect your systems and data from theft, damage and misuse.  

Cyber security breaches are costly challenges that few companies can afford to suffer – not just financial; there can be significant reputational and legal consequences too. 

Our approach in cyber security consulting

Cyber security and preventing a cyber attack has now become one of the largest concerns for a wide range of stakeholders including boards, investors and customers. Having a robust approach to cyber security is now a requirement to do business. Organisations want to know that their suppliers and partners actively manage their cybersecurity and data protection. With technology evolving at a fast pace, you need trusted expertise to identify where risk and vulnerabilities exist within your organisation and develop the right strategic approach for both now and in the future.  

We believe that a resilient organisation can be achieved with minimal business disruption. At Forvis Mazars, our cyber security consulting experts will help you build technological resilience throughout your business so you can operate with confidence. Our cyber security consulting services help clients to not only meet their regulatory and compliance needs but to use innovative solutions that balance day-to-day convenience and continuous data security.   

Wherever you are in your compliance journey, our team of cyber security consulting experts will help you assess your internal and external cyber risks. We have a framework that we tailor to you that enables you to adequately and continuously monitor key activities. We use tools such as ethical hacking to improve cyber security, putting you in a position to quickly react to cyber attacks as they emerge.  

We can offer:

• GDPR compliance certifications
• Cyber risk assessments and programme reviews
• Cyber breach readiness assessments
• Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus readiness and certification
• Cyber security maturity assessment
• Cyber security compliance and audit
• Cyber security open source intelligence (OSINT)
• Cloud adoption assessment and support
• Cyber resiliency and business continuity
• Vulnerability assessments and penetration testing
• Red teaming assessments, including physical social engineering, scenario based testing, phishing services & purple teaming
• Hardware and OT/IoT security testing
• Code reviews
• Incident response, including incident response retainers, incident readiness & post incident review
• Privacy and data protection audits, reviews, compliance and maturity assessments
• Privacy and data protection advisory and technical services
• Compliance with General Data Protection Regulation, UK Data Protection Act 2018 and various global privacy laws
• Compliance with electronic communication laws
• Data privacy and protection, advisory, compliance and audit
• Data protection officer services 
• Cyber security awareness training for boards and audit committees
• Security audits against recognisable frameworks
• ISO 27001 and PCI-DSS readiness assessments and support
• Third-party assessments and audit and reporting (including ISAE3000, ISAE3402, SOC2, SOC3)
• Security architecture reviews
• Identity and access management (IdAM)