Services
Cybersecurity
Vanguard Global Risk Management, along with an international conglomerate of Cyber Security and Ethical Hackers providing cyber security consulting and custom made highly secured communication, countersurveillance and other cybersecurity hardware.
Cyber security today:
Cyber crime and attacks are described by politicians and CEOs as one of the biggest threats to global finances and markets. In 2023 the global market lost 7,000,000,000,000 USD that is seven trillion dollars, increasing by 20% from 2022 and expected to reach 10.5 Trillion in 2025. And these are just the reported figures, real figures are much higher.
In today’s world where almost everything we do is in a cyber world, cyber security has become even more important than locks and gates and guards. Working with a good team of cyber security and ethical hackers has become a cornerstone of a company's security and survival. Especially with the quick shifting landscapes and disruptions by AI technologies.
What we do:
There are seven layers between the electricity moving inside the physical hardware of a computer to the interface we interact with on a screen, this is almost how all digital systems work. To protect a server or business all these layers have to be closely protected. Off-the shelf security solutions like Antivirus and Firewalls are important effective tools, but they can only protect a few layers of your business, while leaving the rest exposed. Each digital infrastructure is built differently, and there is no one size fits all solution which can be bought to protect your business. Here is where we provide our services, we provide comprehensive security services covering all aspects of our clients digital infrastructure, tailor made for our client’s maximum protection at optimum cost.
Our Services
Risk Management
We evaluate the overall cyber security posture of our client’s infrastructure, we identify and assess vulnerabilities and weaknesses. We provide our client with comprehensive reports for Threat Modeling, Risk Analysis, System Vulnerabilities and possible Attack Vectors. This greatly enhances our client’s overall security and creates Risk Management and Aversion plans and best practices policies.
Digital Infrastructure
We provide consulting for creating secure infrastructure or enhancing their current infrastructure. We believe in standardization, we help our clients to evolve their infrastructure into international cyber security standards. We work with our clients to acquire gold standards certificates for cyber security, ie, ISO 27001, ISO/IEC 27032, ISA/IEC 62443, etc. By acquiring these licenses and certificates, our clients not only greatly improve their cyber security, but could also access larger new markets which require such standards.
Information Security
We provide consulting and auditing on governance and frameworks to ensure our client’s information flows smoothly and securely. This is paramount for protecting our clients digital assets like patents, proprietary tech, finances, etc. We consult on creating secure servers and communication channels including the software and hardware, this advanced governance and frameworks keeps our client’s data and assets safer and more importantly easier to recover in case of an attack.70% of cyber attacks on companies start by targeting a single employee, it's much easier for bad actors to attack an unsuspecting employee than the IT or security team. Cyber criminals use relatively basic methods, like an email with a harmless looking link or PDF file , to trick the employee into letting them into the system. Especially after Covid Lockdowns, employees working from home became the biggest vulnerability in the history of the internet. Inside a company employees are connected to a relatively secure server with IT teams and firewalls, at home they have no protection, yet still connected to their company’s servers.
The most important aspect of cyber security is employee training, informed and responsible employees are greatly more important to security than expensive services and hardware. We provide a different kind of training program for our clients than anyone else on the market. Instructors are not IT and there are not long boring presentations. Our training program is designed and taught by ethical hackers, the program is based on real life demos of cyber attacks performed by real life ethical hackers.
MRE Training ProgramWhat makes our training program special and effective, is that we understand how cyber attacks work and how hackers think. We create an interactive learning environment for employees to experience how cyber attacks work, we let them experience it in a controlled educational setting. Instead of employees forced to attend a boring presentation for hours on things they don’t understand, and probably won't learn much from.
The interactive environment and the fact they are watching and working with hackers, greatly enhances employees participation and information retention. The interactive learning environment and the information we teach makes the subject more personal as they can start to understand and practically use it to better protect themselves, not just at work, but also their families and loved ones at home. Our experience and client’s feedback for our training methods have proven great success in making employees more engaged in protecting their company’s security.
After a company creates its digital infrastructure or website/webapp, how would they know it’s secure? Surely, expensive firewalls and security softwares are purchased and installed, but still how would you know they actually work? To test a system security, specially before deployment, it has to go through a series of Penetration tests (pentests), harmless simulated cyber attacks which tests the system’s integrity and provides comprehensive reports on the system vulnerabilities for patching.
Software, hardware and systems are created by a team of engineers, programers, and developers. They make sure that the system functions, and is efficient and sustainable. Unfortunately they don't know where the security vulnerabilities in work are, because they are not security professionals. Once again, only hackers can think like hackers. We provide pentesting services by ethical hackers to find the vulnerabilities and communicate with our client’s team to patch these vulnerabilities, before they are found and exploited by unethical ethical hackers.
This constant game of harmless simulated attacks is crucial for companies' security, it keeps companies one step ahead of cyber criminals, teaches our client’s team how to protect their company through experience, and most importantly it's an economical way to avoid severe financial losses from successful cyber criminal attacks which can be devastating to SMEs.
A company’s website is its online store visited by hundreds to maybe millions of visitors every day. Imagine a store with millions of dollars in merchandise and thousands of customers per day, how many security guards and cameras and systems would it need? Yet, somehow most companies just create their online store and open it for thousands of people without implementing and testing the security systems for it.We perform a series of pentests for our client’s website, we make sure their users' data are secure, we find the weak points and vulnerabilities and quickly patch it before it is used to damage our clients, we create traps and intrusion detection security measures to catch and block cyber attacks before they happen.
Our clients often have hundreds, sometimes thousands of employees connected to the same servers and networks. Literally everything which happens inside the company, from emails, to assets and secured data goes through its servers and network. Millions of packets of information running through the digital infrastructure, protecting the digital infrastructure is paramount in protecting a company's survival. We perform pentests on the network and find vulnerabilities and weak points, we test the systems security against the latest hacking and exploitation methods used in cyber attacks. The purpose of these simulations is performed to improve our client’s security posture, we work with our client’s to patch their vulnerabilities, train their IT department in the latest cyber defense methods, and advise and test client’s security softwares and protocols to keep them one step ahead from cyber attackers.
Unlike popular belief, hackers are not socially shy people who only understand computers. Although the stereotype does exist, it's not the case, and most cyber attacks are not performed by a shy individual hiding behind a screen. Hackers are individuals with the mindset and skill sets to find their way through limitations and security, then to manipulate the system to do whatthey want. Hackers can be master lockpicks opening vaults or doors, they can be socialengineers experts at finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in human beings, or create their owntools like a few kilobytes of code which can infect millions of devices in days.In real life, cyber attackers often not only use digital attacks, but a mixture of different hackingmethods.For example, trying to attack a network is a very complex technical task, what is easier is sneaking inside a company by hacking its defenses and deploying a malicious tool which can disrupt the entire facility within minutes. This is not a hypothetical, this was one of Amazon Web Services main security concerns in 2022 for their data centers.
Red Teaming is a comprehensive strategy for testing the entire company's digital and physical security against real life targeted attacks. This is our favorite part of the game, we play a cat and mouse chase with our client’s entire security, both physical and digital. We create strategies based on real life attacks and latest methods, and we test it against our client’s security team.
We test locks, key cards, and all physical infrastructure against the latest hacking tools. We simulated social engineering attacks to test how easy it is to trick employees into giving us unauthorized access. We find loopholes between the physical security and digital security departments protocols, etc.
This game of cat and mouse with our client’s security, is the only real life test of a targeted cyber attack. By testing complex offensive strategies against our client’s defenses, our clients can have a clear view of their security structure and posture. This gives our client a great advantage over real life cyber criminals because it ensures that they truly understand their system, the IT and security are trained against attacks and know how to communicate and work together, and most importantly eliminate most of the attack vectors before being exploited by attackers.