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Security Certification Program

 
Earn a Comprehensive Security Certification
The Purpose Reduce the time and money spent on security-related audits. Perform a single rigorous assessment. Capture, store, and present key security audit findings. Satisfy the reporting demands of government, industry, partners, and customers. Communicate your compliance to them.
Value to YouSave time and money with a single assessment. Get quarterly check-ups to make sure you're up to date. Have confidence in open standards.
How We WorkConduct a comprehensive compliance assessment. Identify the problems you need to fix. Verify the fixes with a complete audit.
The ResultsA single, comprehensive analysis. A custom report for each audit request. Access to the Security Compliance Repository. A strategy to remain in compliance. Quarterly reviews. The Alawy Security Certification Seal.
Why AlawyThe only company to offer certification based on open standards. Our focus is on secure connections and transactions over worldwide communications networks.
Next StepsTo talk with us about security and your business, call (860) 859-3564 (U.S.) or visit the Middle East. You can also submit your inquiry online.
Or, see the Security Consulting Services Overview.


Save time and money with a single security assessment based on open standards. You receive a single, comprehensive analysis with a strategy to remain in compliance and a custom report for each audit request. Get quarterly check-ups to make sure you stay up to date.

 

The Purpose

Our Security Certification Program can help reduce the number of separate security audits you have to go through each year. 

The Security Certification Program is the cornerstone of Alawy’s compliance management solutions, which encompass:

  • Assessment services
  • Monitoring services
  • Vulnerability management services

The goal of the compliance management solutions is to help you better manage your ongoing compliance management practices.

 

A Single Assessment 
Government regulations and industry standards share many common elements. We’ve consolidated the most common requirements into a single program. We conduct a single enterprise compliance assessment covering many of the regulations and standards that apply to you. For an overview of the regulations and standards we can include, see Compliance and Your Business.

 

A Comprehensive Report 
We provide you with a comprehensive analysis report. The analysis is designed to satisfying the audit demands of any governmental regulatory agency, standards certification organization, business partner, or customer that wants to verify how you comply with each requirement.

 

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Value to You

A Single Assessment to Satisfy Scores of Audits 
If you face many audits each year. You don’t need to start from scratch for each one. We conduct a single, rigorous, and complete assessment. The Security Certification Program focuses on collecting and centralizing key audit results—so that they can be examined again and again whenever an audit is necessary.

 

Save Time and Money 
Centralizing key audit data means that you can provide reports of with the appropriate detail and in the appropriate format to auditors, regulators, industry groups, business partners—and any other organization that requires them. With centralized data, you save time and money without sacrificing compliance.

 

Quarterly Check-Ups 
We also perform quarterly check-ups to make sure you keep up to date as regulations and standards evolve.

 

Open Standards 
The Security Certification Program is based on open standards generally recognized throughout the industry. Certification means something not because we say so, but because you follow standards that are open and transparent.

 

Standard and Customized Reports 
We develop standard and customized reports that can satisfy government, industries, and partners.

 

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How We Work

  1. We conduct a thorough compliance assessment. For details, see Enterprise Compliance Assessments.
  2. We identify what you need to fix. Our recommendations identify the requirements you need to satisfy in order to comply. We also rank them by how effectively they advance your business goals. We rate each recommendation by its cost-effectiveness and by how easy it is to implement.
  3. We conduct a complete audit. After you’ve corrected the problems we’ve identified, we help asses whether you’re in compliance.

 

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The Results

A Comprehensive Analysis Report 
After you pass the comprehensive audit, we provide you with a comprehensive analysis report certifying compliance.

 

A Strategy 
You get a strategy for achieving compliance—not just a pass-or-fail audit. We help identify what you need to do immediately to comply—and we help you set goals for six months out so you remain compliant. We map out a complete plan for one and two years out to help you evolve as regulations change. We also help you track changes in your plan and assess its long-term effectiveness.

 

Quarterly Reviews 
We review your policies, procedures, and technical infrastructure once each quarter to make sure you remain compliant.

 

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Why Alawy

Alawy offers security certification based on open standards according to regulations and industry practice. Alawy has worked to secure the networks of Fortune 500 companies in the financial, energy, insurance, media and consumer goods sector in the United States. A significant amount of this experience has been within the financial services and banking sectors—assessing infrastructure security and architecting and deploying secure solutions. We participate in the FBI's InfraGard as advisers in threat and security matters.

 

Our Security Consultants are Software Engineers trained in Information Security. They understand systems architecture. They see the whole picture. We’re not a software company limited to our own line of products. We provide our clients with the solution that best fits their business and budget needs. We do not cater to a "one size fits all" approach. Our focus is on protecting the sensitive information you are trusted to safeguard -- information belonging to your business and your clients -- from malicious theft or careless mishandling.

 

Our clients in the Middle East and North Africa benefit from the services and products offered by our Cairo, Egypt office.
From Cairo, we serve the particular IT Security needs of corporations and institutions in the Arabian Gulf, North Africa and the Levant.


Read about our IT Security Consulting services for the Middle East.

Security isn't just about security; it's about your business. We focus on providing solutions tailored to your corporate goals and the real threats you face. Read about Our Approach - the foundation for all our work.

Focus on your business:

  • We help you stay competitive. We use our knowledge and experience to benchmark your risk against your industry.
  • We value actions by their consequences. Our focus is consequences, not just risk.
  • We focus on our relationship with our customers. Our goal is to be your trusted security advisor.
  • We provide recommendations that are vendor independent to give you the freedom to implement the solution that suits you best.
  • We help you stay competitive. Our business is security, not just consulting.
Focus on our experience:
  • We have a wide variety of clients in a broad range of industries. That exposes us to the need for many different architectures, designs, and solutions.
  • /clients/index.jsp are IT security professionals who’ve worked with Fortune 500 companies or in the financial, energy, insurance, media and consumer goods industries.
  • Our team of consultants is made up of Certified Information System Security Professionals (CISSPs).

 

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