The Cyber Security Continuum

Upstart Cyber provides a holistic approach to assessment, risk management, vulnerability resolution, and long-term security management. This is how it works.

We identify the customer’s needs at the onset of our work through the assignment and agreement on packages (see our Services page). We make recommendations on what packages to focus on first based on which will have the greatest, combined security and operational improvement. This initial, high-level assessment is done with the customer based on what their concerns are and what the industry’s current threat trends are. Below, please find our process overview:

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Assess

As an integrated Managed IT and cyber security company, we’ll assess your entire IT operation. We are implementors, as such, we’ll perform your assessment and begin resolving identified vulnerabilities immediately, even as the rest of the assessment is ongoing. We’ll always keep in mind scalability for future capability, we’ll make recommendations. We’re proactive in our communication and will share with you, our customer, whatever level of collaboration you’d like as we assess and remediate.

Remediate

This is where we put our money where our mouth is. We’ll develop a working timeline to go from current to the proposed and accepted recommendations. This is where most of the technical details will be, which will depend on the package and what we find, but relatively straightforward at a high level. We’ll focus on resolving the largest vulnerabilities first, with consideration to work effort involved, so prioritizing in a “most bang for buck” order.

Maintain

This is where the magic is. Once we have completed the journey of the remediation stage, we move into maintenance mode where we are monitoring for potential problems, and reacting to vulnerabilities only as they become known, keeping things at the highest security and operational state. The shift to maintain isn’t all or nothing as each step of the plan to remediate will move to this level independently.

The traditional model of cyber security as an overlay of a fixed IT network is inefficient, dated and leaves too much room for error. In today’s complex and ever evolving cyber environment, there’s seldom a “traditional” network edge; networks can be local, cloud-based, or a mix of the two, with resources and workers located anywhere. That’s why we’ve created a team that is expert in both IT infrastructure engineering and implementation, and in world-class cyber security, including ‘risk-based access’ and ‘context-aware security.’

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