What is Novacoast Advisory Services?

With our decades of experience, we are advisors who will earn your trust. Our proven leadership and technical abilities will help you navigate and solve challenges with confidence.

Through people, process, and technology, businesses can achieve organizational efficiency by achieving a balance of the three and optimizing the relationships within that framework. Our goal is to leverage our methodologies to help you achieve that operational efficiency through our various services:

Continuous Monitoring Program

A Continuous Monitoring program is essential in detecting malicious behavior and containing it before serious damage is done to the organization. Whether using a SIEM, MDR, or XDR, we extensive experience in a variety of toolsets, as well as frameworks like MITRE and NIST.We can perform a variety of assessments to identify gaps from three perspectives: Visibility, Data Quality, and Detection. Our programs can help remediate those identified gaps.

Cyber Security Program

While our exhaustive, comprehensive cybersecurity and risk assessments reveal vulnerabilities in your security posture, we can go farther. Novacoast will provide risk register, prioritization, and recommendations. Our goal is to provide visibility and confidence in your cybersecurity posture while helping your organization identify areas to improve security—all while saving time and money.

Microsoft O365

Securing your Microsoft environment and data is a critical part of moving workloads to the cloud. Default security provided by cloud vendors may seem effective, but each of the settings must be defined and evaluated regularly.In a tailored Microsoft Security Assessment, our team of Office 365 experts will identify key elements to secure your environment and protect critical data by covering these areas of concern:

• Tenant Configuration
• License Review
• Identity
• Endpoints
• Applications
• Analytics analysis

SOC2 Readiness

Is your organization ready for a SOC 2 audit? Learn how to prepare by conducting a SOC 2 readiness assessment.A SOC 2 readiness assessment is essentially a dress rehearsal for your formal SOC 2 audit, and preparation is critical to identify potential issues. The assessment will focus on Scope, Assessment, and Remediation, with the goal of providing visibility and confidence that your cybersecurity posture is ready for a formal audit.

GRC – Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) is a structured way to align IT with business goals while managing risks and meeting all industry and government regulations.GRC includes tools and processes to unify an organization’s governance and risk management with its technological innovation and adoption. Companies use GRC to achieve organizational goals reliably, remove uncertainty, and meet compliance requirements. We have experienced staff that can help augment your team or help you get your GRC program off the ground.