HelloRisk
Pro-active Risk Solutions
HelloRisk helps solve your business security challenges
Use HelloRisk to solve your business challenges
Challenge: Companies create strategies for how they will compete in the market. They embrace their uniqueness and differentiate themselves. Yet, regarding security, they follow what others are doing and willfully ignore their differences. Differences mean that something that appears to be working for someone else may not work and may, in fact, cause damage. There is a marked bias in what and how information about incidents is shared, so the adopted security program might not actually work elsewhere. There may have been incidents another organisation was able to endure that could irrevocably damage yours.
Solution: HelloRisk enables any business to understand its unique context and goals and use them as the foundation for a demonstrably business-aligned security programme. Justify the costs and show the value of a bespoke security programme compared to an ill-fitting off-the-peg combination that ultimately disappoints.
Proactively prevent, constantly learn
Challenge: It’s normal to find security teams that are predominantly focused on reactive security. Security events deluge them; they declare incidents based on technical criteria rather than real business impact. There is a fatalistic view that breaches are inevitable, that resilience is the only answer, and that prevention approaches are futile. This even extends to an effective analysis of the causes of incidents. So, they keep happening.
Solution: HelloRisk provides a business value and risk map across the organisation. Visualising connections between stakeholders and their goals to risks and consequences enables security teams to get up-to-date information that informs their decisions on criticality and priority. Stakeholders can see the risks they face and understand their security posture in terms that are meaningful to them.
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What does HelloRisk do for you?
Comprehensive Stakeholder Insight: Understands and aligns with stakeholders’ goals and challenges.
Goal-Oriented Security Performance: Sets and tracks specific security targets to measure success.
Strength and Weakness Analysis: Identifies business vulnerabilities and opportunities for improvement.
Enhanced Decision-Making: Facilitates informed planning and optimisation for business events.
Integrated Security and Business Objectives: Seamlessly aligns security goals with overall business strategy.
Simplified Process Management: Breaks down complex processes for easier understanding and improvement.
Collaborative Expertise Utilisation: Leverages specialised skills across different business areas for effective problem-solving.
By using HelloRisk, you’re not just patching up security holes with fixes; you’re building a comprehensive, well-thought-out security architecture that supports your entire business into the future.
Identify and Equip True Risk Owners
Challenge: Who owns information security risks? You’ve hired a security team to manage them, and the buck stops with the CISO. However, the CISO will rarely be accountable for the liabilities and often will not understand, in detail, the significance to the business. Is the CISO the scapegoat for all information risks across the business, or is there someone else, in each case, who owns the data, owns the customer relationship, knows the value of the data, and knows what conceptual protection it needs?
Solution: Who owns information security risks? It shouldn’t be the security team. They may be the experts responsible for managing these risks, but owners? The domain model in HelloRisk simplifies the identification of risk owners and empowers them to be effective by ensuring that risks are understood and articulated in a language they understand. With HelloRisk, you can eliminate the gap between the owners of the business impacts and the owners of the risks that cause them.
Use Security as a Business Accelerator
Challenge: The security team is the team that stops the business from moving forward in the chosen direction, slows the pace of change, prevents individuals, teams, and the organisation from doing what needs to be done, and says ‘no’ when it shouldn’t.
Solution: How can the security team know when there is enough security, when the measures they are taking to mitigate one risk have far-reaching effects that disproportionately affect the success of the business? HelloRisk enables side-by-side consideration of threats and opportunities with traceability from risks to business goals so you can easily see what risk realisation would mean to the business. Explicit risk targets encompass how much security is needed locally and drive assurance activities.
Universal comprehension
Challenge: “What does this mean, and why do I care?” the C-suite executive asks. The communications void doesn’t just affect security, but it is a common challenge. Technical teams report highly technical metrics that matter to them but are meaningless to their audience. They report what is easy to collect, or what they have, rather than what will inform a stakeholder and all with a veritable smorgasbord of biases. Projecting fear, creating uncertainty and doubt, in support of budget requests, rather than demonstrating value and supporting decision-making.
Solution: The concept of domains is central to the HelloRisk model. Goals and their normalised and measurable articulation in the form of Attributes are defined to be meaningful to the domain owner. Delegations provide subdomains with their own goals; decomposition provides more specific goals translated into appropriate language for the subdomain owner. Risks relate to Attributes in the same domain, so they are understood by design. The domain model enables communication with the immediate super domain, and iteratively to any domain.
Security as a connector
Challenge: The security team hides from the business, believing security is a technology problem. They understand the technology and can implement appropriate security without help from the rest of the business. They impose security policies and technology measures on the organisation without understanding the business requirements.
Solution: HelloRisk provides models and methods to connect security to the business. Using an enterprise security architecture approach supported and elevated by HelloRisk, a security strategy can be formulated for the business and aligned with the strategy. Security supports people in the business doing what they need to do for the business to succeed. Security is repositioned as the team with vision across the whole business, protecting and enabling what matters to achieving business goals.
Demonstrate the value of security
Challenge: Security teams are pure cost. Budgets are constantly increasing, yet incidents keep occurring. Something has to give—often, the leadership exits the revolving door only to be followed by their successors less than two years later. Rinse and repeat, often using the same approaches with the same results.
Solution: HelloRisk considers risk with negative and positive consequences. Now you can supplement “what could go wrong” questions with “what could go right” and have the ability to record the answers in the same tool. Now you can demonstrate and refine how the security programme supports revenue generation.
Security at the speed of business decisions
Challenge: Your security strategy is outdated by the time you publish it. The ground has shifted, but you try implementing the plan between handling incidents. By the end of the cycle, the strategy has failed, and it is time for a new strategy. The company and regulators continue to expect plans to be regularly updated, but they are dusted off, refreshed, and returned to the shelf to be ignored.
Solution: HelloRisk gives you access to your security architecture from anywhere at any time. No longer do you need to maintain elements in poorly suited generic tools and struggle to keep them and their all-important connections consistent. You can now have visualisation as a first-class feature and not something that requires stopping the world so you can draw a picture you already know will be virtually impossible to maintain.
