Setting the path to a secure and compliant future.

Our approach

Appian Way takes a practical, business focused approach to helping our clients build, integrate and run a modern information security program. Our advisory services factor in your business outcomes while considering the practicality and scalability of the compliance and security needs. Technical assessment activities are driven by experienced, offensive security methods supported by automated detections to reduce false positives and minimize the risk of disruption to the client environment.

Today’s Threat Landscape

Companies of all sizes stand on the skyline, silhouetted for attack by criminal actors and nation-state cyber threats daily. The technical sophistication of these attacks can range from commodity ransomware – sold like commercial software to small-time criminals looking to make a fast buck - to targeted nation-state level expertise looking to cause disruption on a global economic and social scale. Most, however fall somewhere in-between the two. Every company doing business in the modern market has valuable information, connections, customers, and partners. This interconnected world means that while an individual service itself may appear to have little value to an attacker, its role in the network of support, supply chain, and partnerships could have drastic impacts.

The Appian Way approach accounts and scales to organizations of every size. We help you define an approach that considers your real-world place in the attack and supply chain. Doing so allows you to navigate the increasingly complex landscape of cyber-security and information privacy requirements.

 

Our Value

Understanding your goals, not just the tasks ensures that Appian Way’s advisory activities are focused on results that can be used, not just academic statements of information security philosophy. Our team is comprised of seasoned information security, risk, and compliance professionals who understand the difference between checking the box and integrating a security strategy in a cost-effective and efficient manner.

Our Services

  • Cyber Security Strategy Consulting

    Strategic guidance from the best multi-disciplined experts and industry leaders in the cyber security market. We can help plan, implement, and optimize your cyber security investments at scale, while providing insights to accelerate growth and profitability. Our strategic consultants can review the security portfolio to identify opportunities for cost optimization.

  • Governance Risk and Compliance

    Appian Way is committed to help you to meet your industry compliance and government mandates. As information security regulations continue to evolve, leverage our experienced teams to design the solution specific to your business needs.

  • Information Security Program Implementation

    Design and implementation of a pragmatic security program for small and mid-sized organizations to meet customer, regulatory and management’s objectives for cyber security. From creation of the cyber security strategy, through documentation and implementation of a security program responsive to ISO 27001, NIST CSF, NIST 800-171, or other standards.

  • Virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO)

    Using a culmination of our team’s cybersecurity and industry experience, we provide a full-time or fractional vCISO to help your organization with develop and manage implementation of the organization’s information security program. At a high level, vCISOs help to architect the organization’s security strategy, with some helping to also manage its implementation. The value of an Appian Way vCISO is the additional expertise they bring from the subject matter experts in our cyber security practice.

  • Security Reviews and Assessments

    Appian Way can assess and review all of the aspects of you security programs against major frameworks like NIST, CSF, ISO 27001/2, NIST 800-171, SOC-2 Trust Services Criteria, HIPAA security rule, and others (including privacy frameworks). Our experts will perform a review and assessment to uncover gaps and provide recommendations for improving your programs, projects, and implementations.

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  • Cloud Security Architecture Review and Assessments

    Appian Way can assess the security controls for your cloud service implementation, including multi-cloud hybrid deployments, to support trust and reliability of cloud environments. Our team will review and implement security documentation including secure development policies and principles, code-specific security guidance, and security testing and integration. Assessment reviews can measure your organization’s ability to prevent, detect, respond and recover from ransomware, supply chain, or any major incidents in your organization.

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  • M&A Security Assessments

    Merger & Acquisition (M&A) security bespoke assessments provide organizations with a security review during the merger or acquisition process. Capturing a potential asset's cybersecurity capability state pre-merger to identify gaps provide business enablement plans so you can make informed post-M&A decisions.