IT Risk Management encompasses the comprehensive policies, standards, procedures, and technologies organizations deploy to mitigate cybersecurity threats and prevent data loss.

The Modern Challenge

Managing IT risk has evolved into a complex, real-time challenge. With remote work becoming the norm and traditional office boundaries dissolving, organizations struggle to address daily security concerns while staying ahead of an ever-evolving threat landscape.

Our Approach

Effective IT Risk Management requires expertise across multiple IT disciplines, including governance, compliance, and technical security operations. Our consultants bring comprehensive experience in all facets of IT Risk Management, understanding precisely what auditors and regulators require. We begin every engagement with a thorough gap assessment, providing clarity on your current security posture and highlighting areas requiring immediate attention.

Comprehensive Program Development

Red Spider Security delivers end-to-end programs across critical security domains:

• IT Risk Management (ITRM)

• Information Security

• Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery (BC/DR)

• Vendor Management

• Data Governance

We don't just build programs—we help you maintain them. Our team handles time-intensive compliance processes, keeping you on track to meet strategic business objectives while ensuring regulatory alignment.

Foundation & Frameworks

Every robust program begins with solid foundational policies and procedures. We offer two pathways:

Build: We develop comprehensive, customized programs tailored to your organization's unique requirements.

Assess: We evaluate your existing programs and deliver actionable recommendations for improvement to align with industry standards including NIST, COBIT, ISO 27001, CIS Controls, and PCI-DSS.

Every successful organization requires a strategic plan. Regulators specifically look for comprehensive organizational plans that include detailed IT strategic components. These plans must incorporate tactical implementation roadmaps demonstrating how you'll achieve your outlined strategies—an area where most organizations fall short.

The Cost of Inadequate Planning

Without proper strategic planning, understanding your current environment and projecting future states based on business growth becomes nearly impossible. A well-crafted strategic plan captures both IT and operational objectives, clearly defining how IT and Information Security will enable organizational goals in a secure, methodical manner.

Our Expertise

Red Spider Security has the experience to develop strategic plans that align seamlessly with your organizational objectives, bridging the gap between business goals and technical execution.

Every effective program starts with solid policies and standards. Policies serve as your organization's operational roadmap, ensuring alignment with applicable laws, regulations, and compliance frameworks. Misaligned policies lead to audit findings and compliance failures.

Our Offering

We deliver complete, customized policy sets tailored to your organization's specific needs. Our solutions include:

• Comprehensive policy development from scratch

• Assessment and enhancement of existing policies

• Tools and frameworks to maintain policy currency as your organization evolves

Cyber-attacks dominate organizational concerns across all industries. Information security represents one of the most challenging compliance and regulatory domains, with auditors and examiners placing unprecedented scrutiny on IT and security controls throughout the enterprise.

Our Solutions

Whether you're building a security program from the ground up or revamping existing controls, we help you meet—and exceed—regulatory requirements.

The Reality of Data Breaches

Headlines confirm what security professionals know: data breaches are escalating in frequency and severity. Despite increasing awareness, many organizations still fail to implement adequate protective measures. Red Spider Security conducts comprehensive assessments of your current security posture and delivers actionable roadmaps to strengthen, stabilize, and secure your environment.

Data governance is the systematic management of data availability, usability, integrity, and security across enterprise systems. It's based on internal standards and policies that control data usage while ensuring compliance.

The Value Proposition

Effective data governance enables organizations to identify both structured and unstructured data without disrupting operations. This allows IT and security teams to apply appropriate security controls based on data classification and criticality.

Our Approach

We ensure data remains consistent, trustworthy, and protected from misuse. Our team helps you develop comprehensive data classification policies and implement governance frameworks with minimal organizational disruption.

Vulnerability scanning systematically inspects potential exploitation points across computers and networks to identify security weaknesses—from missing patches to configuration errors.

How It Works

Our scans detect and classify system vulnerabilities from both internal and external perspectives, using both credentialed and uncredentialed methodologies. This represents the critical first step in understanding exploitable weaknesses within your environment.

Our Service

We provide the tools and expertise to perform comprehensive vulnerability assessments and deliver targeted remediation strategies, enabling rapid and effective resolution of identified security gaps.

The most effective way to determine if your network security measures are truly effective.

What is Penetration Testing?

Also known as pen testing or ethical hacking, penetration testing involves authorized, simulated cyberattacks on your systems to evaluate security effectiveness. This goes beyond vulnerability assessment to actively test exploitation potential.

Our Capabilities

Our consultants conduct comprehensive penetration tests across multiple scenarios:

• Black box and white box testing

• Internal and external perspectives

• Network, application, and social engineering vectors

We identify vulnerabilities, demonstrate exploitability, and provide actionable remediation plans to close security gaps rapidly.

Third-party vendors represent your organization's largest security risk. Even the strongest internal controls become ineffective when third parties have network access. You're relying entirely on their security posture and practices.

What is Vendor Management?

Vendor management is specialized risk management focused on identifying and mitigating risks associated with third parties, suppliers, partners, contractors, and service providers.

Our Solution

We implement comprehensive vendor management programs that enable you to:

• Assess vendor criticality and risk levels

• Conduct initial and ongoing due diligence

• Monitor critical vendors through annual assessments

• Maintain oversight of third-party security controls

Modern business operations are so dependent on internet connectivity, software, and technology that disruptions can be catastrophic. Is your organization prepared for when these resources become unavailable?

What is Business Continuity?

Business continuity planning ensures your organization can function with minimal disruption during difficult situations—whether you're a business, public sector entity, or nonprofit organization.

Our Commitment

We ensure you have the necessary tools, resources, and procedures to resume operations quickly with minimal business disruption, protecting both revenue and reputation.

A PCI Readiness or Gap Assessment prepares your organization for formal PCI-DSS certification, identifying and resolving potential issues before the official assessment.

Who Needs PCI Compliance?

PCI-DSS applies to any merchant or service provider that stores, transmits, or processes credit card data. Whether this is your first assessment or you're maintaining ongoing compliance, we ensure successful outcomes.

Our Expertise

Our consultants bring extensive PCI experience, including current and former QSA (Qualified Security Assessor) certification. We guide you through the entire compliance journey, from initial gap assessment to successful certification.