Swifter, More Effective Audits With Security Architecture

Medical organization gains a security overview, conducts audits, and manages risk with security architecture

Established comprehensive internal security audits while experiencing M&A growth
Clear overview to manage risks while identifying and prioritizing mitigation strategies
Documented compliance with National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) policies

Security Risk Application Portfolio Management Healthcare Usa North America Ensure Business & It Transparency Manage Cyber & Technology Risk Ensure Governance & Compliance

co-workers prepare security architecture results

800

Employees

$26M

Revenue

The team was very dedicated, it only took them three months to document their architecture, enabling them to fully understand their risk and to comply with NIST policies.

Hana Wright

Customer Services Manager, Ardoq

Challenge

Have a Security Architecture Overview

Increased technical debt due to significant M&A growth and struggling with legacy systems
Needed to manage their security risk and mature their cybersecurity practice
Wanted to confidently perform internal audits, identify risk areas, and prioritize remediation
As part of NIST compliance, they needed to implement cybersecurity framework architecture

Approach

Prepare for the Security Audit

Leveraged Ardoq's Application Portfolio Management (APM) best practice to quickly document servers and applications, create a data dictionary, map processes, and built a single source of truth to document company architectures
Implemented the policies and controls for the Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) relying heavily on Ardoq's Analytics to help them understand security gaps and risks

Benefits

Implement Effective Security Management

Documented and matched their architecture with their NIST policies within three months
Can now perform thorough internal security audits which was not possible before
Able to successfully identify and prioritize mitigation strategies because they can now manage their risks more effectively

Next Steps

Looking Forward

With the first steps of security architecture complete, they are prepared to start planning their disaster recovery response project.

Connected Resources

Swifter, More Effective Audits With Security Architecture

Have a Security Architecture Overview

Prepare for the Security Audit

Implement Effective Security Management

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