Boardroom Qualified Chief Information Security Officer (BQ–CISO™) Experts

Redefining CISO Expertise with Shields🛡️Up

Every CISO carries a unique tale of expertise, but only a select few are truly equipped for the corporate boardroom. At Shields🛡️Up, we’ve created an ecosystem where our BQ-CISO™ don’t just fit the bill, they set the standard – the 5-Star experience.

Why Our BQ-CISO™ Stand Out:
  • Well-rounded Professionals: With exposure to hundreds of boardroom meetings, they’re seasoned in tackling corporate cybersecurity challenges head-on.
  • Holistic Approach: Equipped with hands-on experience, formal education, executive management skill-sets, a group of experts that you could tap into for their thoughts, ideas and guidance – they’re primed to handle multifaceted digital risks.
  • GRC Training & Experience: Skilled in managing risks and staying compliant while ensuring the organization’s security stance remains robust.
  • Strategic Visionaries: Their keen understanding of the evolving digital landscape makes them invaluable assets in devising and driving security strategies.
Shields🛡️Up BQ-CISO™ Capabilities:
  1. Real-time Oversight: With our proprietary Security Assessment Workbench™, Boards gain instant insights into their security health, facilitating proactive decision-making.
  2. Business-Centric Approach: Our BQ-CISO™ forge relationships across the organizational hierarchy, ensuring security measures are seamlessly integrated from project inception, cementing best practices and reducing potential risks.
  3. Navigating Complex Challenges: As an MSAP, Shields🛡️Up offers clarity on compliance, budgeting, and risk mitigation, translating intricate challenges into actionable assured strategies.
  4. Futuristic Defense Mechanisms: Awaiting a series of software roll-outs in late 2023 and early 2024, Shields🛡️Up is poised to reinforce enterprise defenses like never before. We made our mark in August 2023 with our groundbreaking “quantum-safe” encryption software, designed to shield the core operational team and safeguard sensitive assets.
Development of Shields🛡️Up Subject Matter Experts (SME)

The SME pathway to becoming the next generation CISO at Shields🛡️Up is artful. Our SMEs are not just employees; they are the core that sets Shields🛡️Up apart in the cybersecurity domain. These experts, working seamlessly with the BQ-CISO™ and the SOC|NOC, are adept at swift analyses and timely resolutions of escalated support tickets. This collaborative approach not only minimizes the strain on our BQ-CISO™ but also provides our SMEs with unparalleled real-world, “hands-on” problem resolution experiences.

Updated Security Roles

Many organizations consider the repurposing of existing technical positions, like engineers or network administrators, to function as their CISO. While these professionals have valuable technical expertise, they often lack the extensive security training, tenure and exposure to the myriad of cybersecurity challenges (currently, 94 recognized types of cyberattacks). Balancing their original responsibilities with comprehensive security oversight can be overwhelming.

For sustainable security management, companies should transition towards a dedicated role. A 3rd Party like Shields🛡️Up can pave the way for this shift, ultimately leading to a fully-fledged BQ-CISO™ position.

The Gravity of Major Incident Management:

In today’s digital age, IT downtime doesn’t just cause operational disruptions; it translates to monumental financial losses. With potential losses ranging from $427 per minute for small businesses, up to astronomical figures like $220,000/minute for giants like Amazon, there’s no margin for error.

At Shields🛡️Up, during major incidents, our protocol ensures:

  1. Incident Clarity: Understand the incident’s nature and its symptoms.
  2. Impact Mitigation: Strategize to reduce the impact while effectively managing associated risks.
  3. Data-Driven Decisions: Rely on visible, well-researched data to inform decisions.
  4. Cause Analysis: If required, assess the potential causes of the incident.
  5. Perception & Expectation Management: Transparent communication to manage stakeholders’ perceptions and expectations.
  6. Resolution & Restoration: Efficiently work towards bringing operations back to normal.
  7. Achieving true IT stability, an integrated, major incident and problem management process is needed to secure and integrate into our response triage. Critical “cause information” and ensure that our Shields🛡️Up Escalation Center Service reduces the MTTR (mean-time-to-repair).

The path to unparalleled IT stability requires not just managing incidents but also documenting critical cause information to ensure continuous service improvement. At Shields🛡️Up, we are committed to this integrated approach, and with budding SME talents, the cybersecurity future looks promising.

Immediate Immutable “Circle of Trust” in Communications

In the landscape of enterprise security, our “quantum-safe” encryption stands unyielding. Executive Digital Protection of your Boards of Directors (BoDs) and C-Suite (CxOs) both in their meetings as well as their communications, where they physically are traveling, to their everyday conversations. We ensure the iron-clad protection of your trade secrets, intellectual property, exclusive video content, and vital communications, crafting an inviolable circle of trust – an impenetrable circle.

With Shields🛡️Up, We don’t just enhance security –

we redefine it from the moment we step in.™!