Cynomi vCISO Platform

Our Cynomi Virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO) Platform provides the foundation for our vCISO service that delivers cybersecurity leadership, insight, and guidance across our areas of expertise.

Cynomi vCISO Platform Features:

External Scanning

Our Cynomi vCISO Platform scans Internet Protocol (IP) Addresses and and Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) to discover vulnerabilities and secured configurations. This includes scanning risky ports, checking protocols and encryption, verifying email configuration parameters, technology updates of web applications and more. Scan results are available within a few minutes and are readily accessible for client users to drill down into each scan finding to see an in-depth description and remediation options. Detected vulnerabilities are automatically added to the a task list ranked by severity.

Internal Scanning

Internal scanning discovers client assets like active directory and endpoints and assess its security hygiene and configuration.

Upload Scan Files

Clients can upload client performed scan data such as NESSUS scan data, Qualys scan data, or Microsoft Secure Score CSV files. Scan findings are aggregated in an aggregated table and linked to relevant tasks and policies.

Security Assessment

Our Cynomi vCISO Platform continuously parses our clients’ network and asset profile against industry-specific security standards, regulatory frameworks, industry-specific threat intelligence, and information from the security questionnaires and scans results. Based on our clients’ specific profile, relevant cyber domains are dynamically picked and matched with the optimized cybersecurity requirements that further maximization of the client’s cybersecurity program. Each requirement is assigned a criticality level that represents the importance of specific requirements to improve our client’s security posture. For example, cyber risks such as ransomware and data leaks are calculated based on our client’s sensitivity of risk associated with those types of attacks. The result is a single pane of glass view of our client’s overall security posture and its progress over time that includes (1) Overall security posture score, (2) Vulnerability and exploit gap analysis, (3) Risk score across specific threat vectors, (4) Remediation plan with actionable prioritized tasks, and (5) Status against various compliance frameworks requirements.

Comprehensive, Continuous Compliance Assessment

Our Cynomi vCISO Platform helps our clients meet their specific compliance requirements by presenting our client’s current compliance status against cybersecurity frameworks such as CIS v8, ISO 27001, NIST CSF 1.1, NIST CSF2.0, NIST-171, NIST-SSDF, SOC 2, CMMC L1, CMMC L2, GDPR, NIS2, PCI-DSS, HIPAA Security, Cyber Essentials, FTC Safeguard Rule, SEC compliance, ICS Cyber Security, CCPA, FFIEC. Our compliance module is updated continuously and presents the details of each security control in each framework and tracks how each task maps to each framework so our clients are continuously aware of their compliance level. Our clients can also download a dedicated compliance status report includes the following catagories: (1) Overall compliance status, (2) List of controls, (3) Maturity level, (4) Control status, (5) Control mapping to framework, (6) Implementation status, and (7) Hyperlink to the relevant tasks. With this information, our clients can easily understand where our clients stand with respect to their compliance level and what gaps must be closed to comply with applicable frameworks. Remediation plans for each framework are available and can be selected with just a few mouse clicks.

Customized Security Policies

Our Cynomi vCISO Platform automatically generates a set of security policies specific to our client’s requirements. Policies are custom-created, crafted to be easy to follow, actionable, and leverage decades of built-in CISO expertise. In the Policies view of the platform, the following information is presented: (1) Score for all generated policies, (2) Option to drill down into the details of each policy including purpose, scope and protection requirements, (3) Information on the tasks and progress to be completed to secure the policy’s domain. For example, the Policies view shows our client’s score per policy and allows our clients to drill down to see a breakdown of each policy’s specific requirements.

Actionable, Prioritized Remediation Tasks

Actionable remediation tasks are created for each policy requirement that are intuitive, easy and to understand and follow. Remediation tasks are displayed in an AI-generated prioritized list that includes its severity and status types that include the following: (1) Technical controls, (2) Administrative procedures, (3) and Security components configurations. Each task can be drilled into for step-by-step guidance to implement a control. Tasks are also customizable, allowing you to . Lists and tasks are editable and allow our clients to add best practice guidance, evidence that supports the task, and the ability to postpone or defer certain tasks without affecting policy status or severity. Our clients can apply filters, jump back to tasks that are already in progress, and focus on high severity tasks. All progress is tracked in the vCISO Platform. All tasks completed are automatically reflected in the client’s overall security posture score.

Plan and Roadmap

Our Cynomi vCISO Platform leverages AI to create suggested plans and provides our clients with tools to (1) Plan, (2) Optimize task management, (3) Track task progress, (4) Manage optimization, (5) Assign tasks to short, medium, and long-term plans, (6) Allocate tasks to plans, (7) Add task due dates, (8) Filter tasks according to framework, due date, and status, (9) Edit tasks to adjust for changing needs, (10) Add information and evidence to each task with specification, details, and recommendations, and (11) Add product and service recommendations to tasks for upselling new services.

Reports

Our Cynomi vCISO Platform allows our clients to generate reports that include our client’s security level, improvement, trends, compliance gaps and comparisons with industry benchmarks. Standard reports include the following: Full Report: The Full Report presents our client’s cybersecurity posture and our suggested remediation plan. Over time, updating the Full Report will reflect our work with our client to work together to maximize the effective ness of our clint’s cybersecurity program, achieve security improvements we will work together . Risk Findings Report: The Risk Findings Report presents Our clients’ risk exposure based on the platform scans. Compliance Report: The Compliance Report presents our clients’ compliance readiness and status. The reports above (1) present an accurate current snapshot of our client’s current cyber posture status, (2) track progress we have helped our clients achieve to maximizing the effectiveness of our client’s cybersecurity program, and (3) facilitate conversations with management and and client stakeholders by clearly presenting security risks with explanations that help stakeholders understand cybersecurity requirements.

Continuous Optimization

Our Cynomi vCISO Platform continuously updates our client’s risk score, compliance readiness policies, task status, and progress over time as we work together to maximize the effectiveness of our client’s cybersecurity program.