Why Virtual CISO?

Many organisations lack strategic cyber security leadership. As a result they overlook the fundamentals required to create a solid security baseline to build upon.

This is often caused by a lack of time, resource or budget. But typically, it’s due to the simple fact there’s no one in the organisation with the necessary experience to take responsibility for implementing and managing an effective cyber security strategy.

What does a vCISO provide?

Appointing a Virtual CISO (vCISO) adds tremendous value to any organisation by providing access to a highly experienced, CISSP-certified individual, who is able to work directly with senior stakeholders and IT teams, to dramatically improve security and reduce risk within your business.

vCISO can help you

Depending on the overall level of your organisation’s maturity in relation to cyber security

Identify the gaps
Run an IT Risk Assessment workshop
Implement foundational elements
Remediate issues
Deliver ongoing cyber security strategy, leadership & guidance
Ensure reliable Incident Response Management

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Cyber Security Maturity Assessment

We recommend undertaking a Cyber Security Maturity assessment at the beginning of an engagement to understand and benchmark where your organisation sits against the globally-recognised CIS Controls Framework.

Using our vCISO service and the CIS Framework you can ensure a relevant and effective security strategy can be implemented.

The purpose of this assessment is to mitigate risks to prevent security incidents and compliance failures, focussing resource on the most pressing issues within the business. The workshop demonstrates to your internal IT team how a risk matrix works and shows you how to prioritise assets and identify risks.

If there is no risk treatment plan in place, we can provide template risk registers and guidance on how to quantify, record and discuss any existing or future risk.

Organisations often overlook the fundamental elements of IT security, none more so than creating, implementing and communicating both IT and company-user security policies and procedures such as IT Security Policy, Acceptable Use Policy, Business Continuity Plan and Incident Response Plan.

We help you create relevant security policies and procedures, providing templates to document them and guidance to implement and communicate to existing and future employees.

Remediate Issues

Once you fully understand your security gaps and which risks to address first, you can progress to remediation. With Autodata’s vCISO service you can start to address issues in a number of key areas such as:

Inventory/Control and Secure Configuration of Enterprise and Software Assets
Data Protection and Recovery
Access Control/Continuous Vulnerability/Audit Log Management
Email and Web-Browser Protections
Malware Defences
Application Software Security
Network Infrastructure Management, Monitoring and Defence
Security Awareness Skills and Training
Penetration Testing

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Managed Service

"We needed a reliable cloud backup and storage service that didn’t take too much time to manage. Autodata's Managed Service solution is straightforward, secure, and sensibly priced. It’s helped us get on top of our data protection goals and tick off a few compliance boxes too. It’s also been easier to work with Autodata than some of the bigger names."

Gavin Bidgood Infrastructure and Security Manager, Hotel Chocolat

Cyber Security Maturity Assessment

"We were able to make our perimeter even more secure by addressing the areas of weakness exposed by Autodata. A previous assessment performed two months earlier by another supplier for our CE+ renewal had failed to highlight all the critical and high risks. I was also impressed that Autodata's report arrived swiftly seeing as I'd waited over two weeks for anything from the other supplier."

Simon Parsons Director of IT, CitySprint

Microsoft 365 Backup

"We needed S3 object storage offsite to bolster our backup environment, initially for M365 then for our server infrastructure as well. Autodata’s M365 Backup solution has allowed us to leverage immutable cloud repositories giving us reassurance that our data will be safe. It’s easy to setup, easy to manage, and backs up with no problems whatsoever."

Neil Fleetwood IT Helpdesk Support Manager, Kimal

Penetration Testing

"We engaged Autodata for our penetration testing based on their credentials and overall approach. The whole process was very smooth and I felt fully engaged throughout. Their project team was impressively self-sufficient, providing us with daily progress updates and issuing the final report within a matter of days. I was very satisfied with the service and would definitely recommend them."

Dan Young IT Service & Support Director, Killik & Co

Managed Service

"We were already an existing Veeam user, however we were overprovisioned and looking to increase our protection against ransomware by introducing immutability. Autodata took our requirements and provided an easier to manage, more affordable service backed by prompt support. The service has improved our level of confidence in our backups whilst reducing costs."

Luke Cox IT Support Engineer, HQW Aerospace

Cyber Essentials Plus

"We engaged Autodata to support the renewal of our CE+ certification. They were able to kick-off the project at short notice and scheduled penetration testing in alignment with our internal IT resource availability. Their team are professional, knowledgeable, and supportive. I would not hesitate in recommending them to any organisation looking to overcome its cyber security challenges."

Sean Forrest IT Manager EMEA, Tetra Tech

Managed Service

"Autodata's Managed Service solution is really easy to use and is cost effective against other types of backup and cloud storage available yet offers advanced functionality. It has given us extra layers of security and helps us to assure stakeholders that we have the right technology in place for data protection and restoration. The solution just works!"

Ian Robertson Director of ICT, The Regenda Group

Microsoft 365 Backup

"When it came to implementing an offsite immutable storage repository to protect our entire M365 environment and provide ransomware protection, Autodata's unique offering represented a significant cost saving. They were able to offer us a fully managed Veeam M365 Backup solution with immutable storage for only a marginal increase in what we had been paying for Veeam licences alone."

Stephen Clark Solutions Architect, Greencore

Cyber Awareness as a Service

"Autodata offers an effective managed cyber awareness testing and training programme. I was very pleased with how straightforward it was to set up and that everything runs on my behalf with minimal interaction. We continue to benefit from such a well thought-out programme, helping to keep cyber security at the forefront of our employee’s minds all year round."

Chris Russell CTO, Abacus Financial Services

Immutable Cloud Storage

"We wanted a cloud storage service that worked well with Veeam and provided immutability to enable us to lockdown our data and recover backups in the event of a ransomware attack. Autodata's Immutable Cloud Storage solution powered by Wasabi provides cloud storage at an affordable price with added cyber security protection - which is precisely what we were looking for."

Alan Pereira CIO, Gibraltar Financial Services Commission