Managed Security

Your business’s cybersecurity and compliance responsibilities are primarily managed internally. However, partnering with an experienced and reliable security provider can enhance your security posture and facilitate compliance efforts.

Managed security services are essential for businesses of all sizes, offering comprehensive protection against a wide range of cyber threats. These services specialize in detecting indicators of attack, identifying vulnerabilities, monitoring user and device activities, and responding promptly to suspicious or malicious events. By outsourcing security needs to managed service providers, businesses can ensure continuous protection without significant investments in infrastructure and personnel. This proactive approach not only safeguards sensitive data and critical systems but also enhances business continuity and builds trust among customers and partners.

The AME Group staffs and operates its own Security Operations Center (SOC) with security technicians, analysts, and engineers. Our security services are not contracted to a third party, all service is performed by our U.S. based employees.

Our GRC Practitioners are comprised of individuals with broad and extensive experience in cybersecurity and compliance regulations. The GRC Practitioners work closely with your team to provide supporting services, extensive consulting, and coaching to assist you in achieving or maintaining the standards required by governing bodies or frameworks.

All Security and GRC services are based on well-known and internationally accepted standards that are proven to be meaningful and practical methods of risk reduction. Security and GRC teams adhere to the guiding principles of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the MITRE ATT&CK Framework. 


The AME Group’s Security Operations Center (SOC) Services 

Security Operations Center
The AME Group SOC is a fast-paced, multi-tiered operations center. Tens of millions of events are reviewed, analyzed, and responded to as necessary every day. There is a substantial investment in the use of automation to identify events that should be reviewed by human intelligence to determine a verdict of threat activity. Positive findings from the triage of these events are escalated to an analyst for detailed assessment, which leads to threat containment efforts and escalation to an Incident Response if needed. Available 24/7/365 to detect and contain threats in as close to real-time as possible.

SIEM Services
Security Information and Event Monitoring (SIEM) is essential for effective threat detection. It involves collecting logs from various sources, analyzing network traffic, and aggregating system events to identify attacks and proactively hunt for threats. SIEM data is monitored and continually analyzed by the SOC for indicators of attacks, anomalies, and abnormalities. These analysts then engage Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Teams for an appropriate response.

Managed Detection and Response
Our Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service offers proactive threat detection, rapid threat containment, and continuous monitoring to protect your network, endpoints, and cloud services from advanced cyber threats. Our team of security experts utilizes cutting-edge technology to detect and respond to threats in near real-time, ensuring your business remains secure. With our MDR service, you can gain peace of mind knowing that your organization is protected 24/7.

Microsoft 365 Managed Detection and Response
Our Microsoft 365 MDR service is tailored to enhance the security of your Microsoft 365 environment. By integrating with Microsoft 365 logs and data sources, our SIEM solution provides real-time monitoring, threat detection, and incident response capabilities. With a focus on insider threat activities and unauthorized access, our service helps you identify and mitigate risks to your Microsoft 365 environment, ensuring the security and integrity of your data. This service can also support Google Workspace environments.

Incident & Vulnerability Response 
Our Incident Response services offer expert response to cyber threats, minimizing their impact and restoring normal operations swiftly. Our team of specialists is equipped to handle a wide range of security incidents, from data breaches to malware outbreaks, ensuring your organization’s resilience in the face of cyber-attacks. With our Incident Response services, you can trust that your business is prepared to mitigate all threats effectively.

Security Information Notifications
The AME Group subscribes to information sharing with numerous threat intelligence and vulnerability reporting services. Announcements that are applicable to your environment are shared with you and include guidance for the actions needed to mitigate the threat or vulnerability. The notifications provided by the Security Operations Center are tailored to your environment based on software and hardware inventory information.

Consulting
Our Cybersecurity Consulting services provide expert guidance and support to organizations seeking to enhance their cybersecurity posture. Our experienced security analysts and engineers work closely with your team to provide clear guidance and direction for improving the effectiveness of controls and practices needed to protect your critical assets and sensitive information.


The AME Group’s Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Services

The AME Group provides an extensive suite of services to support your cybersecurity compliance needs. Conducting a gap assessment of the implementation of your chosen regulation, standard, or framework and guiding you through the steps needed to fully satisfy the requirements is the goal of our GRC services.

The AME Group will support and participate as needed in your certification audits. As your GRC partner, we speak the language of auditors and help you translate or respond directly to their requests for information.

GRC services provide significant benefits to organizations:

  • Reducing cyber insurance premiums, reducing or eliminating potential monetary penalties,
  • Establishes a defensible position against frivolous lawsuits and claims,
  • Standardizes internal processes and procedures,
  • Creates a differentiator allowing your organization to stand out from your competition.
  • Achieve Assessment Requirement of CMMC.

The AME Group will provide an independent, third-party assessment that can be used to satisfy vendor and customer requests for evidence of your security practices. Recurring GRC activities are designed to meet requirements for all standards, regulations, and frameworks.

GRC Platform
Our comprehensive web-based platform integrates full management of your Governance, Risk, Compliance, and Security Programs. This streamlines your official audit or exam process by enabling easy sharing of components with auditors and examiners. Technical information, policies and procedures, and documented evidence are captured in the GRC platform.

Compliance Assessment
The AME Group offers comprehensive compliance assessment services, including guided self-assessments to establish baseline standards. Our expert team identifies and addresses deficiencies, creating a customized plan of action. Regular reviews and updates ensure ongoing compliance with desired standards, helping you achieve and maintain full regulatory adherence.

  • Recurring review and planning sessions during initial assessment and recurring full compliance
  • Assessment to identify gaps in effective controls needed to protect the environment
  • Guidance to understand the intent of the compliance requirements
  • Consulting for strategy and solutions to meet compliance requirements
  • Guidance for developing policies and procedures
  • Risk Assessment
  • Evidence of Compliance and many more reports

Risk Management

Compliance requirements exist to reduce the risk of a breach of sensitive information and the protection of business-critical assets. GRC services are designed to fully support a robust risk management strategy. All components of GRC services play a role in identifying and evaluating risks in specific low-level areas which roll up to an overall security risk assessment of your organization.

Low-level assessments include: 

  • Network and Computer Risk Assessment
  • Sensitive Data Assessment
  • Vulnerability Assessment
  • Penetration Testing
  • Cloud Assessment

These assessment services are available as stand-alone services.

Vulnerability Management
Identifying known and unknown vulnerabilities in your environment is a critical function in reducing risks related to cybersecurity. Frequent vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, evaluation of results, and mitigation planning must be conducted on a scheduled basis and ad-hoc when changes are made to the environment. Our comprehensive assessments include scanning all accessible systems to identify security vulnerabilities, inventorying network devices, installed applications, firmware versions, and assessing the local Active Directory. We use automated tools for scans, data collection, analysis, and reporting to ensure thorough and up-to-date assessments.

Penetration Testing
Our Pen Testing services offer comprehensive security assessments to identify and address vulnerabilities in your network, applications, and infrastructure. Our use of automated penetration testing tools provides effective exploit identification for a much lower cost than traditional penetration testing. With our Pen Testing services, you can proactively protect your organization against potential threats and strengthen your overall security posture.

Consulting
Our GRC Practitioners provide expert guidance and support to organizations seeking to enhance their cybersecurity posture. Our experienced consultants work closely with your leadership team to assess your current security practices, identify vulnerabilities, and develop a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy tailored to your business needs. From developing policies and procedures to implementing security technologies and conducting security awareness training, our consulting services help you build a robust security framework that protects your organization from cyber threats and ensures compliance with industry regulations.


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