Full list of services
Full list of services
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Access Management for Privileged Users
Leveraging privileged access management, various clouds and their users can be helped in a controlled fashion. When planned properly, the strong access rights are protected in a way where the malicious users have more difficult access to the privileged accounts decreasing breaches, while the correct users see benefits of simpler access to the various cloud services.
When moving to the cloud, agility and speed is the key and as a result management of privileged users may be initially be seen as a burden. These may include root or admin accounts, privileged user accounts, service accounts, application accounts or domain admin accounts. The burden is often initially ignored resulting in privileged rights being shared throughout different organizations and companies with eg. the cloud service provider, application developers, system integrator, internal developers etc. As the amount of different clouds and privileged users grows the management of these become a very time-consuming or less secure practice. Additionally, accounts with higher access rights than regular users, or privileged accounts, are frequently misused in breaches.
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Bug Bounty Program
Most organizations have an increasing number of applications and servers to serve customers, partners, and employees, creating a complex environment to manage. A private bug bounty program will assess your security with a black-box view, like a cybercriminal looking for the weakest points. A bug bounty program does not entirely replace the need for more traditional assessments or security engineering work. However, it cost-effectively complements them and helps you improve security in an agile manner.
We will set up the bug bounty program for you. We work together with the leading bug bounty platforms, and our expert team helps define the digital boundaries where external hackers are allowed to operate. Our professional bug hunters, with proven skills and track records, will search your systems for anything that a malicious actor could use. Once a weakness is found and confirmed, we report it and help you fix the flaw.
Contact us for more information about our bug-hunting services.
Business-to-business and business-to-consumer IAM
Whether you are doing business with consumers or other companies, digital channels are a significant part of providing the service. To provide your users access to the right resources, information and support, you need to identify them first. Digital identities are an essential piece of the puzzle when you want to provide personalized, secure, and privacy-aware services with enhanced user experience for web and mobile applications, APIs, and face-to-face services.
We have years of experience building and maintaining Business-to-Consumer (CIAM) and Business-to-Business identity and access management solutions that help you develop and offer secure and privacy-aware solutions with reliable identification, authorization, auditing, and analytics.
Want to know more? Contact us. You can also read more about our customers and projects:
- Case: VASTUU GROUP - Using the MyData operator network to ensure smooth data flow between different organizations
- Case: DNA - Improving customer experience through smooth online services
- Case: POSTI – Identifying customers online and offline
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Cloud Platform Security
Our specialists support building your cloud environment according to recommendations provided by the vendor as well as our own experience derived from working with various cloud technologies and being a member of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA). With our help you can rest assured that your cloud services are built securely to ensure proper business outcomes and continuity.
With ramping up Infrastructure or Platform as a Service several services can be utilized quickly by several parties to decrease time to market. However, taking into account all security recommendations that are relevant for all parties for all services may be cumbersome. Nonetheless, in case these are not addressed properly, the end result may be a sub-optimal solution security wise. These may be costly and time consuming to address later on in the service lifecycle, possibly leading to downtime for the business and in the worst case scenario losing critical business data and reputation.
Cloud Provider Assessment
We can help assess the relevant risks for different cloud providers be it a technical assessment or administrative risk based approach to ensure that all the relevant measures and controls are in place to protect your business. Furthermore, we can help you assess that the certifications that the cloud providers have are relevant to you and cover relevant operations. When taking into use new cloud services we help ensure that the services are safe to use.
As companies have started adopting cloud at an increasing pace, several cloud providers have started providing specific services for different business units be it HR, Sales, Finance or Marketing. The benefits of these new solutions are often invaluable, however prior to moving business critical operations and data to the cloud these providers should have sufficient security measures in place.
Cloud Security Framework
We help organizations draw up a Cloud Security Framework to support their transformation based on methods we have developed over the years as well as utilizing knowledge developed with Cloud Security Alliance. The result of the Cloud Security Framework is a model, which identifies and mitigates the risks through safe processes covering e.g. vendor lock in, necessary controls, permitted data, and availability.
Generally, organizations have a cloud strategy or an idea on what cloud services to use and for what use cases. The benefits of the use case are generally well drawn out and compared to costs of implementing the cloud services. However often the risks associated with the use case may not be well defined if at all. This may result in making decisions based on an incomplete business case and in the worst case ending up in a difficult situation to remediate all the risks.
Cloud Threat Modeling
When moving to the cloud, we help you ensure that the relevant risks are identified and can be addressed accordingly. Our specialists can utilize different threat modeling frameworks to help define which one is most relevant for your business. We have vast experience in conducting threat modeling and analysis for products and services. The main benefit of Threat Modelling is to identify relevant threats and risks to provide valuable information for rational security investments and decisions.
When taking into use cloud services or building them yourself a generic model for security investments is made across the project without clear visibility on what the real threats and risks are. Therefore, it may be challenging to see the whole picture and whether the investments are reasonable and provide the appropriate value for that specific use case.
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Collaborator security audit
The Collaborator Security Audit Service provides customers possibility to verify that security status of their partners and collaborators does not create unacceptable risks, the contractual requirements for security are followed and that the processes and security governance of collaborators is sound and according to industry best practices. Nixu auditor will identify business critical assets, which are exposed to collaborators, and either verifies that contractually agreed security controls are protecting these assets or that the assets are protected based on industry best practices.
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Dedicated support
Nixu Dedicated support provides ‘Peace of Mind’ by delivering support services to organizations running an Identity & Access Management portal and/or security-based solution. Through our services, we enable reduced costs, business continuity and an SLA that matches both technical and business requirements. Based on our knowledge, experience and expertise, we are able to adjust our services to match your expectations. We are committed to delivering dedicated, proactive and trusted continuous support services for a more agile business.
Nixu Dedicated support has global coverage and is ISO27001 certified.
Our 24/7 Service desk monitors your business’s critical Identity & Access Management solution, enabling pro-active responses, prevention and immediate corrective action.
Solution support provides a single point of contact, which acts as a link between your suppliers, vendors and system integrators to facilitate resolution of your requests.
Vendor support for software vendors that develop Identity & Access Management and security products. We operate as an extension of your organization, bringing global coverage 24/7, multiple languages and deep technical expertise.
DevSecOps
In the modern world, security plays a crucial part in overall product quality. We help you to embed cybersecurity into your DevOps by applying security controls, practices, and security testing technology. We support your journey in incorporating security to DevOps sprints and to your CI/CD pipelines. We will also enable visibility into your product security quality by creating security coverage dashboards that visualize the security state of your product. www.nixu.com/devsecops
Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR)
Efficient cyber incident response reduces the duration of the interruption and saves money. Our 24/7 service of handling cybersecurity incidents and digital forensics investigations ensures that you can react fast and get back to normal as quickly as possible.
Our highly skilled professionals will efficiently resolve any cyber incident you might encounter using various malware analysis methods, reverse engineering, memory and file forensics, and combining the data with threat intelligence information. You will get:
- Our 24/7 on-call service with a predefined price, reaction time, and costs.
- Professional lead incident handler and a team of incident handlers and forensics investigators with access to the latest specialized tools.
- A full report of the incident, including executive summaries, analyses, recommendations, and lessons learned.
- Local incident response and forensics team in Finland, Sweden, The Netherlands, and Denmark. We provide both on-site and remote assistance.
To ensure that your organization gets the most out of our service, we begin with a service ramp-up project. Our Digital Forensics and Incident Response team take the responsibility of handling incidents from the time you contact us to the moment where the security incident has been resolved, and your business is back to normal. Contact us for more information.
Digital identity business advisory
Are you looking for someone to translate and map your business needs to identity and access management (IAM) vendors' solutions? Or maybe you need someone to implement and maintain an IAM solution? We support you in all your digital identity needs.
We provide consultation services and help you to, e.g., fine-tune your IAM policies and secure your digital identity processes. We can support your work with IAM vendors and conduct pre-studies. Our experienced IAM architects can design an IAM solution that fits your business needs and deploy, operate, and maintain it for you. With our service, you'll get:
- A dedicated digital identity consultant as a contact point and the experience of the entire team. We can also provide you with our large competence pool of extensive knowledge of cybersecurity and privacy.
- Business needs interpreted into technical requirements.
- Support for design, deployment, and maintenance.
We help you solve your IAM challenges. Contact us and ask for more information.
Digital Identity Management
Our unique experience on digital identity management and user authentication helps you to achieve digital business transformation fast. Lousy user experience with passwords is killing many innovative digital services - it doesn’t have to be so. Multitude of gradual user identification and authentication choices are available from Social Media logins to one-time passwords and risk-aware authentication. Authentication linked to a customer’s Digital Identity harnesses the customer data into the use of business. With easier customer on-boarding and login you can rapidly improve your digital sales.
How well is your company handling personal data? Take the Nixu IAM maturity test: nixu.com/nl/DI
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DPIA - Data Protection Impact Assessment
Conducting a DPIA supported by Nixu ensures a reliable, verified process with input from multi-skilled team of technical and legal privacy experts. The process goes beyond the mere identification of risks and includes suitable mitigation measures for your organization. Nixu's method is comprised of use case and process workshops with technical and legal points covered. We draft data flow maps to bring clarity to the processing activities, conduct a full assessment of risk with all expertise areas covered and produce a comprehensive DPIA report. The DPIA results will be methodically reported including a specific description of processing with additional data flow maps, an expert assessment of the necessity and proportionality of processing, a full and compliant assessment of risk to individuals and legal, technical and organizational measures to address the risk. DPIA report will deliver you the proof of compliance required for authorities and organizational partners.
DPO as a Service
Nixu’s Data Protection Officer (DPO) as a Service ensures your organization’s designated DPO has extensive legal, technical and managerial privacy expertise. Your tailored DPO will be accessed through one main contact backed up by a multi-skilled team, guaranteeing availability also during holiday seasons and yearly flu epidemics. The DPO will handle and coordinate expert non-operative GDPR tasks such as contact with authorities, privacy training, DPIA specialist advice, reviews of accountability documentation and managing of data breaches. This specialist service stays up to date with privacy legislation and ensures you have the right items on your organization's privacy steering group.
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- Blog: GDPR and access control
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Fintech Security and PSD2
With us you can be innovative. And secure. New Payment Service Directive, PSD2, is forcing banks to evolve rapidly into open banking. It enables a whole new marketplace for new innovative financial service providers. PSD2 as well as GDPR bring challenges in meeting requirements for risk based security management, continuous security monitoring and incident reporting. With our help, you can focus on innovative services and leave the security requirements to us. We help you in building secure digital platforms as well as making sure you are compliant with both PSD2 and GDPR.
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Governance and Compliance
Navigating the complex cybersecurity regulatory landscape can be daunting, but you're not alone. Our Governance and Compliance services are designed to guide you through EU product security legislations such as NIS2, RED DA CS, and CRA. By adhering to globally recognized standards like IEC 62443, ETSI EN 303 645, and FIPS 140-3, we ensure your products are not only compliant but also resilient against evolving cyber threats.
We strengthen your knowledge and capabilities with the following services:
- Gap Analysis
- Compliance Roadmap
- Process and Documentation Development
- Compliance Implementation Support
- Internal Audit
- Training and Knowledge Transfer
- Compliance Monitoring
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IAM Roadmap
IAM roadmap is your company’s plan on how to take control of some or all identity and access management processes and activities. The roadmap expresses your desired state of the IAM and the concrete steps you need to take to get there. It also serves as a communication tool for you inside the company.
Whether your digital identity challenges are in the consumer business, B2B services, or your organization's internal identity and access management, we've got you covered. In workshops with all your relevant stakeholders, we'll analyze your identity and access management (IAM) processes and related architecture, and propose solutions that will help you achieve your business goals.
With our IAM roadmap, you will get:
- An objective current state analysis by our digital identity professionals.
- Recommendations on business objectives, process improvements, and possible technology vendors that would fit your needs.
- A roadmap with actionable and prioritized items.
Get your digital identities to the next level. Contact us to ask for more information.
ICS Security Assessments
Want to know how resilient your ICS is? Our ICS Security Assessment takes an in-depth look into your security-related processes, system architecture, and network security compared to industry cybersecurity standards, such as IEC 61511, IEC 62443, and relevant sector-specific (electrical, chemical, maritime) standards. Our ICS security experts combine architecture and process reviews with threat modeling and technical security testing. You'll get:
- An overview of the weak points in your security controls and processes. All of our security reports are delivered and explained to you by real people – not robots.
- Analysis of potential internal and external threat actors endangering your systems.
- Detailed and actionable recommendations on how to improve your security.
We help you test your defensive capabilities. Contact us for more information.
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ICS Security Development as a Service
Your safety and business continuity is our top priority. As a result, we are ready to take the lead in developing and maintaining the security of your ICS environment. In addition to implementing relevant security policies, guidelines, and technical controls, we will benchmark your environments against industry standards and work with you to ensure that your security is optimized to the relevant threat landscape and your risk appetite. Our highly experienced professionals have vast security backgrounds in ICS environments, especially in the oil & gas and nuclear industries.
ICS Security Monitoring & Incident Response
It's essential to monitor industrial environments for malicious activity and malfunctions and respond to incidents effectively to ensure vital services’ availability. Our ICS/OT monitoring solution involves the monitoring of the industrial control systems and detection of assets and both operational, network, and security events within an operational environment of an organization. With our service, you'll get:
- Insight into incidents and threats with a combination of human expertise and technology.
- 5x8 or 24x7x365 security monitoring of the ICS/OT environment.
- Direct alerting in case of security incidents.
- Onsite or remote support with analysis of operational errors.
- Onsite or remote support for incident response and forensics.
We help you to react fast to ICS cybersecurity incidents and get back to normal as quickly as possible. Contact us for more information.
Identity and Access Management in the Cloud
We have a long history of providing the right types of identity and access solutions for organizations helping leverage made investments and expanding these solutions and processes as well as helping figure out new ways of working when taking into use new cloud services or helping with a hybrid cloud environment. In an optimal situation this is done with minimal visibility to the end user. Our goal is to ensure that the right people get the right access to the right resources at the right times for the right reasons, enabling the right business outcomes. This is especially valuable with cloud transformations where the pace of change is constantly accelerating.
People in general have become accustomed to quick usability of services from their consumer-driven cloud experiences, which has driven business cloud services to offer quick and easy adoption. Therefore, cloud services are adopted across organizations at an increasing pace.
However, this may lead to a situation where the cloud ecosystem is scattered across multiple organizations with difficulty in controlling access to the services. Due to the agile nature of cloud the identity of users’ needs to be addressed properly to facilitate service lifecycle. Additionally, there generally are challenges when migrating from one cloud to another or getting multiple clouds working seamlessly together be it within the organization or with external partners or customers.
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Incident Response
Nixu Incident Response Service takes the responsibility of handling incidents from the point when Customer contacts Nixu to the point where the incident has been resolved and business is back to normal. The objective of the service is to help Nixu’s customers efficiently react and handle security incidents.
Successful incident response starts from the preparation and training of people to identify potential security incidents. A lot of the preparation involves Customer’s personnel and they are also the ones who will see the first signs of security incidents. This is why successful incident handling cannot be completely outsourced. To ensure that Customer and Nixu are prepared to incidents, know how to work together and that Customer’s key persons know how and when to use the service, Nixu’s Incident Response service includes service start-up project.
After the service has been initiated by the customer, Nixu’s Lead Incident Handler takes over leading the incident handling and ensures that Customer’s business is restored back to normal.
Information Security Team as a Service
We provide you with an information security team as a service. We will coach your team and secure your information. We will lead your information security and make sure that everything works. We do not simply write security guidelines based on identified risks, we push matters forward by giving instant feedback. We also employ proven models to guarantee that processes and people perform as expected. Once we have secured your operations, we will attack you aggressively to see how your defenses will hold. In addition to testing your systems, we will test your personnel using social hacking.
IoT and Product Security
Security should be at the core of every product. Our IoT and Product Security services help you build the required secure product and software development lifecycle (SSDL) capabilities and processes, including:
- Threat Modelling and Risk Assessment
- Secure Component Selection and Review
- DevSecOps Pipelines
- Secure Design and Architecture
- Vulnerability Management
- Supply Chain Management
- Secure Software Development and Training
- We also provide technical testing and assessments through our device lab, verifying your product's security level and ensuring your source code is fortified against known and potential threats.
IoT Cybersecurity Roadmap
Internet-facing devices and IoT ecosystems are easy targets for automated attacks. Still, IoT devices are something that end-users don't remember to patch - they expect them to be secure and privacy-friendly, and are willing to pay more for those features. In addition to the increased end-user awareness, there's pressure to conform to cybersecurity standards. In healthcare, industrial automation, and other regulated fields, verified security and certification are the only way into the market.
Our IoT Cybersecurity Roadmap gets you on the right track of building IoT products and services with security and privacy beyond compare. Our professionals in IoT and embedded security, software development security, and cloud security examine your product architecture, development lifecycle, and cloud architecture to provide actionable recommendations. Our roadmap allows you to:
- Learn your IoT ecosystem's security strengths and weaknesses compared with the market expectations and threats associated with the digital world.
- Compare your conformance to security best practices and applicable standards and regulations.
- Get a development program with actionable steps to secure your entire ecosystem, aligned with your business objectives.
- Achieve a sustainable security level with optimized investments.
- Build trust among your customers and users.
Let your IoT products differentiate with cybersecurity. Contact us for more information.
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Managed Detection & Response
Traditional antivirus solutions and monitoring tools cannot detect sophisticated attacks. At their best, they force you to work in a reactive mode, responding to incidents in a hurry and trying to minimize the damage. Instead of a hectic hassle, our Managed Detection & Response (MDR) service will secure your business from cyberattacks with a proactive approach, combining:
- Semi-automated threat detection and response service.
- Active defense: dynamic containment and blocking based on detected threats.
- Managed technologies like SIEM, EDR, and NDR to support your defense capabilities.
- Skilled analytics and expertise of our cybersecurity professionals
- Threat hunting, threat intelligence, and incident response
With our Managed Detection and Response solution that augments machine-learning and advanced detection technologies with the analytical skills of our cybersecurity professionals, you will get exceptional visibility into the endpoint and network layers to detect, contain, and prevent cyberattacks. With our help, you will be able to:
- Protect your workstations, mobile devices, servers, IoT, and OT devices in the cloud and on-premise.
- Defend against data theft, ransomware, malware, and other known and unknown threats.
- Identify data loss, such as employee credentials or sensitive documents.
- Get access to your real-time data, status, alerts, and investigation details with easy-to-use dashboards that will give you insight into your cybersecurity posture.
Contact us for more information and to get a Proof of Value trial period.
Managed Identity and Access Management (MIAM)
The sudden explosive growth in demand and the changing capacity needs in digital services can be challenging. If your organization does not keep up with maintaining secure digital services and improving customer experience, the end-users might switch service providers easily due to poor user experience. The lack of transparency in data processing and data security is another no-go for many users, so your identity handling processes must inspire confidence.
Nixu Managed Identity Service (Nixu MIAM) is a turnkey solution providing you with an all-inclusive digital identity journey that meets your digital business requirements – privacy-by-design and security built-in. We will take care of running, hosting, and continuously improving the service.
Nixu MIAM focuses on consumer and business-to-business identity and access management, but the technologies behind the service are also able to provide identity governance (IGA), IoT device management, and workforce IAM capabilities.
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Managed Privileged Access Management (PAM)
Managing administrator accounts and other privileged credentials can be time-consuming for you IT. Privileged permissions typically accumulate because nobody remembers to remove them. Giving excessive permissions violates the principle of least privilege, and sharing admin credentials prevents you from having a proper audit trail. All this paves the way for cybercriminals who can use compromised credentials to lateral movement within the organization, resulting in serious data leaks.
Our Managed Privileged Access Management (PAM) service helps you with all kinds of privileged accounts: Windows domain admins, Linux root accounts, SSH keys, database accounts, and even social media accounts. We help you identify your essential accounts, the use cases for privileged access management, and security policies. We will implement the PAM solution using best-of-breed tools and maintain and monitor it for you.
With our PAM solution, you will achieve peace of mind, knowing that access to important data and administrative operations are protected. Your CISO, the legal team, end-users, and the IT department will all benefit because you will have:
- Auditability and compliance. With a full audit trail, you can track what happened and who used the credentials.
- Data protection. Credentials can be given to only one user at a time and are changed after every login.
- Reduced IT costs and less manual work to handle permissions.
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Managed Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Logs are the foundation that enables incident response, forensics, preserving a full audit trail, and ensuring compliance. To be able to translate individual log messages into technical situational awareness of your cybersecurity posture, you need to combine and correlate the log data with a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system.
Our managed SIEM solution combines data from multiple log sources and puts the data in context. By using machine-learning and User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA), we enable you to detect actions before a data breach happens and track incident information. Our managed SIEM gives you the following capabilities:
- Log collection and correlation, preserving the audit trail.
- Alerts based on events and event-chains, with correlation to threat intelligence feeds.
- Visualized information in dashboards and reports.
With our managed SIEM service, you will gain visibility into what happens in your networks and hosts. Our service includes hosting, licenses, maintenance, and an integration interface for all your logging needs. Contact us for more information.
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Nixu Academy
Nixu Academy offers cybersecurity and privacy learning solutions and education to all organizations from management to technical specialists in order to ensure organizations have the needed skills and knowledge to protect their critical data and systems and implement new digital services securely. Nixu Academy fosters motivation and individual ability to detect cyber risks and act securely. Our training programs offered to management and specialists are designed to improve the capabilities and skills of building organizational cyber resilience through mature governance and technical expertise.
Nixu Cyber Defense Center
At the core of our Cyber defense service is Nixu Cyber Defense Center where our cybersecurity specialists and systems monitor, contain and remediate security threats on your behalf 24/7. We protect your core processes and people and provide you with ability to detect early and react quickly. Nixu Cyber Defense Center offers return-on-investment tools for non-technical business owners who want to secure the continuity of their trade. It creates value by offering security that your customers trust. Unlike basic security tools such as virus software, we can monitor your whole information ecosystem. Our team hunts for threats, monitors data and alerts from customer environments, and flags anomalies. Our response team leads the investigation whenever there is a recognized threat.
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PCI DSS Onsite Assessment
PCI DSS Onsite Assessment is the assessment service for all parties that store, process or transmit cardholder data. We have experience in assessing different organization types such as large retail chains, small cafés, global service providers, payment gateways, airlines and banks. We don’t only assess, but help the customer in achieving and maintaining compliance as well.
The service is designed to be effective and cause minimal disruptions to the organization’s day-to-day operations. The assessment is divided into phases: Scoping, Documentation Review, Technical Tests and Site Visits, Interview and Observation sessions, Reporting and Closeout meeting. Each phase is carefully designed to guarantee a successful assessment with minimal disruptions.
PCI Preparation
PCI Preparation service is the initial step to PCI compliance. We train customer’s key personnel to understand PCI and its requirements. We focus on minimizing the customer’s PCI environment so that compliance can be achieved more cost effectively. The most important outcome of the service is a roadmap that contains clear tasks to be performed in order to become compliant. For each task, a cost estimate is provided and responsibilities defined. The roadmap can be further refined to become a project plan.
The next step after the PCI Preparation phase is usually remediation phase. We support this phase, and help ensure that compliance can be maintained also after the assessment.
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PCI Software Security Framework Services (PCI SSF)
The PCI Software Security Framework (PCI SSF) is intended for vendors who develop payment applications, or applications related to payment functions. The framework consists of the Secure Software Standard and Secure Software Lifecycle Standard. We can help with training, preparations for the validation, remediation of non-conformities and perform the validation. A successful validation results in the application being on the PCI Security Standards Council as Validated Payment Software. Note: The PCI Software Security Framework replaces the PCI PA-DSS Standard. PA-DSS will be retired in October 2022.
Penetration testing
Before launching your product onto the market, it is crucial to test the product for vulnerabilities. Our penetration testing service helps you to verify the security quality of the product, thus minimizing the possibility of a security breach that may affect many of your customers. Nixu’s penetration testing service varies based on your needs, from security assessments based on industry standards all the way to a hacker attack simulation – digital and physical. Our professionals will help you to define the right level of penetration testing assignment, based on the relevant threat landscape. Be it a web application or a trusted execution environment, our penetration testers are ready to attack your systems.
Penetration testing
Have you ever wondered how easy it would be to compromise your systems? Our skilled penetration testers will examine your products or IT infrastructure like a cybercriminal would – looking for a weak spot through your defenses. In penetration tests, we focus on exploitability: can the vulnerabilities be used for leaking information, lateral movement, or remote code execution? Our penetration testing approach combines state-of-the-art testing tools, examining source code, and our professionals' white-hat hacking experience. You will get:
- Expert analysis of the discovered and verified vulnerabilities, together with exploitability information and a criticality estimate. All our security reports are delivered and explained to you by real people — not robots.
- Mitigation instructions.
- Improvement recommendations to prevent similar vulnerabilities in the future.
We scale the penetration testing assignment based on your needs and the risk level of the system. We can help you verify the quality of your product before release, target all your company IT, or simulate an attack against a power plant. Contact us for more information.
Privacy Support
Our privacy support service offers privacy specialists to run your privacy program development. It will be tailored according to your organization’s needs. Privacy support covers scheduled tasks, ad-hoc questions and crisis management. Continuous privacy support offers expertise at hand for everyday privacy issue, robust support at a crisis situation and expertly managed annual privacy program. A nominated privacy specialist will head the service, backed up by a multi-skilled team of cybersecurity, technology, IAM and legal experts. The service typically includes specialist ad-hoc advice for your DPOs, a team ready to assist in data breach cases and development of your privacy management capabilities.
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- Blog: GDPR and access control
Product Life Cycle Partnership
Product Life Cycle Partnership
Our Product Life Cycle Partnership service is your comprehensive solution for all cyber security needs throughout your product's life cycle. This value-based, security-driven partnership encompasses a wide range of services, from essential compliance to advanced security capabilities. Whether you're starting from scratch or enhancing existing processes, we can build, operate, and transfer the necessary teams and capabilities to your organization. Product Life Cycle Partnership will be tailored to fit your needs and environment. It consists of modular services, which are introduced below.
Product Security Tooling
Automation is key to staying ahead in cyber security. Our Product Security Tooling service offers both automated tooling and professional services designed to enhance product security. From Code Security Reviews such as SAST, DAST, and SCA to meticulous manual assessments, we cover all aspects of securing your product's software and hardware. We can also provide tools to fulfil the EU requirements for the software bill of materials (SBOM) and offer a solution where you can centralize monitoring and management of all your software’s vulnerabilities.
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Red Teaming
Organizations invest in defensive security measures to protect their business. But are those effective? And how well can an organization protect its most valuable assets?
Nixu's red team tests how well the combination of people, tools, and processes work together in practice when facing a targeted attack. Think of it as a fire drill for your organization's security team to measure detection capabilities and response times.
Nixu's red team utilizes the MITRE ATT&CK and TIBER-EU frameworks when conducting red teaming exercises. The frameworks characterize and describe adversary behavior, tools, techniques, and tactics used during targeted attacks. It also provides transparency during the red team exercise, revealing the utilized attack techniques and identifying gaps in the organization's security defenses.
As an outcome of a red teaming exercise, your organization gets:
- Invaluable insight into your detection and response capabilities when facing a targeted attack.
- An overview of the weak points in your security controls and processes.
- Detailed recommendations on how to improve your security.
- A full insight into the performed attacks to maximize your learning opportunity.
Nixu tailors the red teaming exercise to your organization's specific needs and the threats you are facing. Please contact us to further discuss how we can help improve your security.
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Secure R&D Support
Applying security as part of your design and product development enables your products to avoid and withstand security breaches. Our goal is to tailor a security framework within your existing product development process that meets your industry’s standards. We utilize known methodologies such as BSIMM, SAMM, or Microsoft SDL, which include a variety of security controls and activities such as threat modeling, business impact assessments, code reviews, and more.
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Secure Software Development
We improve software development methods by introducing new security-enhancing elements in existing development methods, such as Scrum. These elements can be tailored to customer needs. Some of the elements we have introduced in the past include threat workshops, exploratory reviews and developer coaching in secure practices. We provide internal support and guidance for the development team, sparring with the team to ensure a secure software delivery.
Provided as a continuous service, secure software development not only steers the developers in a single project’s information security issues, but also helps improve their architectural solutions and software development processes. Individual projects can be supported by assessing the maturity of the developer team’s security solutions and practices. These assessments provide observations that are relevant also to the organisation's other development projects.
Secure Software Development
We improve software development methods by introducing new security-enhancing elements in existing development methods, such as Scrum. These elements can be tailored to customer needs. Some of the elements we have introduced in the past include threat workshops, exploratory reviews and developer coaching in secure practices. We provide internal support and guidance for the development team, sparring with the team to ensure a secure software delivery.
Provided as a continuous service, secure software development not only steers the developers in a single project’s information security issues, but also helps improve their architectural solutions and software development processes. Individual projects can be supported by assessing the maturity of the developer team’s security solutions and practices. These assessments provide observations that are relevant also to the organisation's other development projects.
Security Assessments
To support your various application and product development models, we offer security verification from traditional web applications assessments to automated vulnerability scanning services and bug bounty programs. Our Security Engineering experts can also help you to assess the required level security and support your developers improving application and product security. This enables you to ensure that security improvement costs are directed where they are most needed. We also conduct audits in accordance with a multitude of information security standards, recommendations and requirements.
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Threat Assessment
How do you know which risks and threats you should look at when developing digital applications and platforms? Using threat modelling best-practices, our experts can help you to understand where you should focus your efforts in order to protect customer data and prevent security breaches. Threat assessment done early on, in the architecture design and planning phase, helps to ensure that necessary privacy and security requirements are met cost-efficiently.
Threat Hunting
Do you know how effective your current cybersecurity defenses are? Are you concerned about your capabilities to detect an attacker who is using stolen credentials? Or maybe you are suspecting a malicious insider that is evading your detection tools? Or you could be looking to verify the signs of a data breach by an advanced persistent threat group, indicated by threat intelligence.
Our threat hunting service enables you to detect and react to cybersecurity threats that could evade existing security solutions. Our skilled threat hunters will search and analyze existing data from your Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), endpoint detection, and network detection solutions based on the MITRE ATT&CK framework and Nixu's threat hunting methodology. With years of digital forensics and incident response, hands-on expertise threat hunters will detect malicious code and the presence of threat actors, notice rarely used attack techniques, and spot anomalies that tools will miss.
With our threat hunting service, you will:
- Know how well your current prevention and detection capabilities are performing.
- Know if advanced threat actors have been able to bypass your defenses and what has happened.
- Get recommendations to improve your cybersecurity defenses and security posture.
Threat Intelligence
There are vast amounts of information related to cybersecurity out there. New threats, new attack types, new cybercrime groups – and sometimes misinterpreted results and false news. It can be hard to keep up with which cyber threats are relevant to your business, so you can be sure that you are optimally spending on cybersecurity.
Our threat intelligence service provides you with in-depth intelligence related to your company, such as your line of business, brand, and critical assets. Our threat landscape report, customized for your organization's threat landscape, will give you insight on strategic, tactical, and operative levels. You will get up-to-date information about the latest attack trends and activities in the North European market and the latest technical vulnerabilities and exploits relevant to your IT environment and assets.
With our threat intelligence service, you will:
- Keep track of new vulnerabilities, attacks, and attack techniques.
- Get a tailor-made threat landscape report that helps you recognize relevant threats to your organization and business.
- Be able to take proper mitigative actions and optimize your spending.
- Improve your organization's cyber resilience.
Get on top of cyber threats and ahead of cybercrime. Contact us for more information.
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Vulnerability Management
When applications are developed fast, sometimes speed is the enemy of quality and security. What about the server software you just purchased? Is it free from plaguing security vulnerabilities that can cause you expensive downtime? And does your IT service provider install security fixes swiftly after they have been released?
We measure your environments' threat exposure from an information security point of view. We translate technical vulnerability data to executive decisions on information security.
Our vulnerability scans are continuous and automated. You will get:
- Expert analysis of current vulnerabilities and mitigation recommendations.
- Information on how resilient your information systems and networks are against common threats.
- Information on the effectiveness of the vulnerability management process as a whole: How quickly are your vulnerabilities getting fixed?
By applying continuous scans for applications and computing platforms accessible via the internet (or internal network), your organization can rest assured that most obvious software vulnerabilities are discovered and reported. Continuous scanning significantly reduces the probability of production failures and other disturbances. Timely reporting ensures that responsible parties can execute prioritized remedial actions over your most critical computing assets.
Our service covers the scanning technology and its maintenance, including required licenses, regular vulnerability scans of the selected applications’ IT infrastructure platforms, reports on the results, and 24/7 support and a support center contact point. Contact us for more information.
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Workforce IAM (IGA)
Internal and external workforce usually needs access to numerous IT systems. Granting access quickly to newcomers and removing or changing access rights in all these systems when people leave or change job roles puts pressure on the organization. Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) solutions tackle this complex topic of managing the entire workforce's identities and access rights.
We provide workforce IAM-related advisory and complete IGA solutions to help organizations improve information security, meet compliance requirements, and improve operational efficiency. We partner with the leading IGA cloud service providers and technology vendors and recommend an IGA solution that fits your individual needs and configure the solution to match your specific requirements.
With our IGA solution, you will be able to:
- Control access granularly and efficiently.
- Make sure new joiners and movers will get access on time, and that access is revoked when the workforce leaves the company.
- Enforce risk-based controls and segregation of duties (SoD) when granting new access rights.
- Run regular access re-certification campaigns to ensure access rights are up-to-date.
- Ensure your organization meets compliance requirements related to workforce identity and access management.
Contact us for more information.