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Top 10 Security Consulting Providers 2016

Reliable security consulting companies could be the solution to the dilemma of companies with the lack of sufficient knowledge and expertise to deal with the latest cyber attacks, threats, and vulnerabilities. The exponential growth of data along with the number of high profile cyber attacks has made implementing the right security strategy indispensable for enterprises. The advanced targeted attacks and security vulnerabilities in software applications are making matters worse. Security consulting service providers offer the expertise and proven recommendations to help businesses improve their IT security, reduce your risk of information security, facilitate compliance, and improve their operational efficiency. As organizations become more conscious than ever about their security strategies, information security spending is predicted to exceed $101 billion by 2020. Essentially, these companies need a well-thought-out security strategy that can consolidate their protection practices to achieve maximum ROI.

Data security becomes further complicated in a connected enterprise environment with the increasing adoption IoT. In this scenario, security consulting companies provide the required expertise and a plethora of security solutions to ensure robust information security. By utilizing their insightful consulting services, companies can bring down the chances of critical system failures, data corruption, and intrusion. This edition of Enterprise Security showcases the top security consulting companies that exhibit extensive business knowledge and innovative strategies to reduce the pain-points present in the industry and streamline business operations.

A distinguished panel comprising CEOs, CIOs, VCs, analysts, and the Enterprise Security editorial board has selected the top Security Consulting firms from over three hundred companies. The listing provides a look into how these solutions work in real-time, so that you can gain a comprehensive understanding of what technologies are available, which are right for you, and how they protect your enterprises from threats.

We present to you “Top 10 Security Consulting Providers 2016.”

Top 10 Security Consulting Providers 2016

Top Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Companies

Avancer

Avancer

Avancer helps clients to tackle all of the challenges and corporate needs on identity and access management. With the course of time, the security consulting company has gained an upper hand in the field of IT security, identity and access management, and big data management. The company’s services range from full-term project life cycle implementation through deployment, administration, and training to tailor made short term projects including software procurement, architectural advice, design, and development. Avancer’s approach is born from extensive experience with many of the globe’s foremost industries and continues to learn and reflect to new developments in the technology market.

www.avancercorp.com

Core Security

Core Security

Core Security is a security consulting and solutions company with expertise in advanced penetration testing and attack intelligence. Core Security provides the security insight that companies need to know—how, who, and what's vulnerable in their organization. Threat awareness solutions, identity and access, network security, and vulnerability management systems by the company provide actionable insight and context needed to manage security risks across its clients’ environments. This shared insight gives companies a comprehensive view of their security posture in order to make better decisions about security remediation. Better insight enables organizations to prioritize their efforts to protect critical assets, take earlier action to mitigate the risk of access, and react faster when a breach occurs.

www.coresecurity.com

Forcepoint

Forcepoint

Forcepoint enables enterprises to safeguard user data and networks against determined adversaries—accidental or malicious insider threat and outside attacks. The security consulting provider’s innovative technology, years of experience, and coherent vision help clear crucial security issues to protect IP, employees, and business data. Forcepoint is a customer-centric firm that understands user behavior and adapts security response and enforcement to risk. The platform of Forcepoint, Human Point, provides risk adaptive protection to ensure that the critical data and systems are used with confidence on an ongoing basis.

www.forcepoint.com

Herjavec Group

Herjavec Group

Herjavec Group delivers managed security services globally supported by a state-of-the-art PCI compliant security operations center (SOC). It is a leading security consulting company with expertise in comprehensive security services combined with leadership positions across a variety of functions including consulting, professional services, and response to incidents. The company has extensive practical experience and knowledge in managing complex security breaches. Herjavec Group responds immediately to decrease damage, cost, and recovery time. The company offers hourly rate packages as well as incident response retainers to help its clients in remediation efforts.

herjavecgroup.com

IBM Security

IBM Security

IBM security provides security intelligence for organizations to holistically protect their people, applications, data, and infrastructure. The IBM Security Intelligence Platform can help the client identify and manage the threats to a business that pose the greatest risk and require immediate attention. IBM’s smart security analytics approach helps the customer find threats faster, speed up investigation times dramatically, automate compliance, and respond to incidents. The company’s platform identifies high-risk threats with near real-time correlation and behavioral anomaly detection, identifies vulnerabilities, handle risks, and detect high-priority incidents within billions of data points. The system enables companies to gain total visibility into the network, user activity, and application.

www-03.ibm.com

Lynx

Lynx

Lynx is a full service, full lifecycle, risk-based security consulting firm for risk management, security, and compliance requirements. The company is the leading expert serving multiple industries including financial services, nuclear, energy, pharmaceutical, and healthcare. Lynx is a trusted client information security and risk management consultant which is highly regulated in industries around the world to enhance security posture, facilitate compliance, reduce risk, and enhance operational efficiency. Security professionals at Lynx have a unique mix of skills in business and understanding risks and technology. The company’s consultants are well versed in selecting, designing, and implementing multiple security technologies. Lynx serves enterprises searching to re-engineer a company’s infrastructure, deploy a vital management framework, or improve the existing systems.

lynxgrc.com

MeasuredRisk

MeasuredRisk

MeasuredRisk provides a proprietary risk analysis platform, which consolidates a bank of relevant risk information to prioritize threats that may impact an organization. The security consulting company leads the way through advanced data science to help private and public sector leaders triangulate risk. Their goal is to make sense of the world around them and build mechanisms for a more predictable, sustainable and prosperous future for everyone. MeasuredRisk connects different indicators of risk harvested from multiple resources and distills them to provide the C-suite clear visibility into enterprise risks by combining social, operational, environmental, economic, and geopolitical risks, allowing companies to make key decisions.

www.measuredrisk.com

Optiv

Optiv

Optiv has empowered clients with end to end cybersecurity solutions to achieve business objectives. The security consulting company helps clients plan, build, and run successful cybersecurity programs that achieve business goals through the company’s comprehensive cybersecurity services, extensive skills, and proven expertise in cybersecurity strategy, managed security services, training and support, incident response, risk and compliance, security consulting, integration and architecture services, and security technology. Optiv starts its technology implementation with an understanding of its clients’ core necessities, risk mitigation, and builds from there with a strategy, rationalization of infrastructure, optimization of operations, and ongoing measurement.

optiv.com

Secure ideas

Secure ideas

Secure ideas is a security consulting provider that offers penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, and security training. The company consists of well-known security professionals who are focused on testing to help the client improve the company’s safety posture. From open source projects like SamuraiWTF and Weaponized Flash to SANS Security 542 training classes, Secure ideas is involved in all aspects of a security program. Secure ideas offer Scout, a service designed to test frequently at a competitive price point, to increase penetration testing. Scout can accommodate multiple test types, including network, web, PCI, and users.

secureideas.com

SecurityMetrics

SecurityMetrics

SecurityMetrics, a profound security consulting company, provides data security validation and services to businesses. SecurityMetrics provides managed data security services and is certified to assist clients in achieving the highest standards of data security and compliance. The company helps all businesses— from local shops to some of the world’s largest brands—to achieve data security through managed services and compliance mandates (PCI, HIPAA, and GDPR). SecurityMetrics is focused on making sure the clients meet the deadlines. The company ensures that its clients meet the compliance requirements and reduces the costs involved all while providing improved security. There are no concealed charges associated with the company. To remove confusion and keep communication lines open, SecurityMetrics allots a single point of contact for different projects.

www.securitymetrics.com