Digetech

Experienced CISOs are indispensable in today’s age of cyber threats. Organizations need them to develop and manage security strategies and inhibit vulnerabilities.

However, when it comes to SMBs, budget often becomes a restraining factor preventing them from hiring competent CISOs.

Enters Digetech.

Digetech brings a pool of top-notch cybersecurity professionals who function as a client’s in-house counterparts in managing information security, popularly known as virtual CISOs or vCISOs. Its vCISOs come at a fraction of the cost of a traditional CISO and have a deep understanding of strategic design, planning, industry, resources, and technologies, which are mandatory for modern information security and data privacy. The vCISOs complement a client’s existing teams and proffer support and guidance to key stakeholders, enabling organizations to meet compliance obligations from regulatory bodies like the Office for Civil Rights (OCR).

Digetech provides vCISO advisory on all forms of cyber risk and offers plans to address them, which include coaching for staff, vendor evaluation and selection, budget planning and review, and finding the right cyber insurance policy. It also delivers ransomware readiness and risk management assessment, penetration testing, and policy or procedure review and creation, along with developing security incident response plan (SIRP), computer security incident response team (CSIRT), and cybersecurity awareness programs.

“We offer bespoke vCISOs to suffice our firm’s goal of raising and promoting security awareness and implementing effective solutions before any mishap or loss of confidential information,” says Dr Aury M. Curbelo, CEO of Digetech.

What sets Digetech apart from competitors is the capabilities of its vCISOs. They are certified, passionate, and seasoned information security specialists, forensic examiners, compliance specialists, cyber and penetration testers, technical security executives, and security engineers with varied expertise and security framework specialties. The firm also vets them with theoretical and practical tests prior to hiring. This ensures they can correct the information security posture of clients and detect any knowledge gap within their in-house employees. Consequently, clients can tackle shortcomings like lack of cybersecurity knowledge within their employee base and prevent insider threats.
Digetech also provides extensive resources for its vCISOs’ continuous education, enabling them to address various threats in the ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape.

Digetech keeps its vCISOs well-informed about country-specific cyber security frameworks and the latest developments in regulatory requirements for cyber security. They can readily analyse the applicability of provisions to clients and design processes to comply with each regulation and avoid hefty fines.

“Our vCISOs act as a bridge between a client’s technical team and executives, helping SMEs with a budget crunch plan their finances around cybersecurity,” says Dr Curbelo. Digetech develops key risk indicators (KRIs) to estimate forthcoming risks and create balanced scorecards to help a client’s management timely communicate the information to their employees.

Digitech’s client onboarding process is a significant factor in helping clients become risk-proof. It begins every engagement by understanding their existing cyber security posture and assessing 14 major areas of their network. This involves inspecting their remote access, email and web, application whitelisting, endpoint protection, employer awareness, incident response plan, third-party vendor management, backups, vulnerability and patch management procedures, access and privilege control management, email and web filtering, network and endpoint monitoring, user activity management, and firewall. Following this assessment, it designs the cyber security defense roadmap based on a client’s multiple compliance requirements.

Digetech builds the cybersecurity defense program, divided into four years, and focuses on offering awareness training bi-monthly. It simultaneously examines employees to check their progress and assesses the developments in a client’s security posture.

Besides safeguarding clients from security breaches and training their employees, Digetech believes in giving back to the community. Dr Curbelo, one of the Top Women in Cybersecurity (WOMCY) for LATAM in 2021, is a guest speaker at many cybersecurity events. She is also the founder of Hippocampus Academy, a platform that provides free interactive cybersecurity solutions to educate kids and parents. It also offers video animations, micro-lessons, and gamification to enhance learning.

In a world vulnerable to constant cybersecurity threats, Digetech’s goal to safeguard businesses from ongoing attacks and immunize them from future threats makes it a trusted name in the cybersecurity space.