Advent7’s team has policies/procedures/protocols and experience in Incident Response, triage, prioritisation, management and escalation.   Advent7’s team deal with incidents on a daily basis in a variety of environments.

 

 Advent7 has a documented methodology and specialist team experience in Forensic Collection and Analysis.  The team has performed Forensic Collection and Analysis for Public Authorities and Private Firms in a variety of industry sectors.

 

Advent7 has experienced teams members who specialise in assessing the vulnerabilities of networks, sites, systems and applications at all levels.

 

Application and/or Infrastructure Penetration Testing 

Advent7’s team members have experience in application and infrastructure penetration testing and performed penetration test against a variety of sites and systems including banks, high security public authorities and defence sites.

 

Threat and Risk Assessment (IT) 

Advent7’s has proven procedures and protocols for conducting IT Threat and Risk Assessment against multitude of scenarios and environments both Electronic  (e.g. Denial of Service, Brute Force attacks, Spoofing and Piggybacking etc) and Physical (Illegal site access, physical tapping and disconnection)

 

Threat and Risk Assessment (Business)

Advent7 has proven procedures and protocols for conducting Business Threat and Risk Assessment against multitude of scenarios and environments.   (e.g. Value Transactions, Identity Protection and Preservation, Privacy etc)

 

Security Risk Management Plan

Advent7 team has experience in developing and implementing Security Risk Management Plans to address a variety of issues which arise from Threat and Risk assessments.  Plans are often tailored to address specific threats or adapted to match the likelihood of a range of threats.

 

Compliance Assessments

Advent7 team is experience in Compliance Testing and Assessment in a variety of areas and standards (including ISMS.  They have often been used to ensure

 

Security Strategy, Policy and Procedure Development  

Advent7’s team includes several members who have developed or have developed in consultation Security Policies and Strategies.  Clients for whom these services have been provided include Public Authorities and Utilities and Banks and other Financial Institutions.

 

Patch Management 

Advent7’s experienced System Engineers are well versed in manual and automatic implementation of Patch Management Strategy’s which ensure and enforce the correct order systems patches and the exclusion or quarantining of non-compliant systems.

 

Advent7’s team includes many system developers and designers who capable and experienced in code review in particular in the area of Threat Modeling

 

Research

Every member of Advent7 experienced team performs research on an ongoing basis for both our clients and our internal knowledge base.  The results of all research undergo internal review to ensure veracity.

 

Development of End-to-End Security Architecture, Solution and Design 

Advent7’s Enterprise Architects have designed End – to –End Infrastructure and Solutions Architecture for many clients to both replace and augment existing architectures.  Such clients include major banks and financial institutions, public authorities and utilities.

 

Development of Security System Components

Advent7’s developers have designed, developed and implement Security System Components using a variety of technologies including .NET, J2EE, CICS, assembler and microcode. 

 

Architecture Security Assessments and Provision of Advice 

Advent7’s teams of Architects is capable of performing Architecture Security Assessment and providing a statement of advice and recommendations based on their assessment.  This service is something these architects perform regulars for a variety of clients including major banks and public utilities.

 

Product Requirements Analysis

Advent7’s team members are regularly engages to perform Product Requirement Analysis for many of our clients.  They are experience in working with the business to design a statement of requirements which both defines the requirements and ranks their importance.  They are also experienced in sourcing and assessing products which meet the requirements.

 

Development of Implementation/Migration Plans  

Advent7’s team has often been engaged to manage and implement major system migrations.  They are experience the developing phased Implementation/Migration plans which focus on eliminating outages to mission critical systems and minimizing risk and disruption to the business.  Fallback and contingency planning forms a major part of these plans.   Implementation/Migration Planning and implementation has formed a major part of the Advent7’s business services.  Once again clients have included major banks, financial institutions and public authorities.

 

Development of Security Systems and Hosting Environment

Advent7’s team has many years experience in the development of Security Systems and Hosting Environments.  Clients include major banks, finance institutions and a major computer vendor.

 

Advent7’s team has many years experience in the Testing, Monitoring, Tuning and Evaluation of Security Systems.  They have implemented ‘passive security’ systems designed to monitor and log (audit)all levels of systems security from authentication attempt to the access to information by authorised users and the time taken by the security routines.  They have also designed and implemented rules engines to categorise and escalate key events and identify security bottlenecks and loopholes.  Clients include major banks, finance institutions and public authorities.