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Governance, Risk & Compliance

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Governance, Risk & Compliance

Fractional vCISO Leadership

Ida Hill Solutions supplies seasoned leadership on a flexible schedule. We embed with your executive team, craft a security vision tied to business objectives, and report progress in language the board and leadership understands.

Benefits:

  • Measurable outcomes by aligning frameworks to roadmaps with periodic scorecards.
  • Budget control by leveraging subscription or hourly models that scale to your needs.
  • Credibility on Day One with 30+ years of experience at your side.

Cybersecurity Architecture Review & Design

We map your current security stack, expose blind spots, and highlight redundant spend. Then we design a defense-in-depth architecture that wrings every ounce of value from the tools you already own.

Benefits:

  • Optimal resource allocation redirecting dollars from overlap to true gaps.
  • Hidden-feature unlocks activate capabilities you’re already licensed for.
  • Future-proof blueprint for scalable and adaptable designs that evolve with your business.

Technology Advisor and Representative

Cut through vendor hype with a partner who has negotiated on both sides of the table. We sit in on sales calls, challenge proposals, and secure terms that favour you.

Benefits:

  • Hard questions asked to ensure promises match real-world performance.
  • Maximum ROI by align renewals and purchases to strategic priorities.
  • Time saved letting your team focus on operations while we advise on procurement chess.

Business-Process Review & Strategic Protections

Security must follow the data. We diagram your critical workflows, pinpoint choke points, and layer controls where disruption would hurt most.

Benefits:

  • Risk-based focus targeting revenue-critical processes first.
  • Reduced downtime with continuity safeguards built into day-to-day operations.
  • Executive clarity using visual maps to make risk obvious to non-technical leaders.

Information-Security Policy Creation & Tuning

Clear, enforceable policies are the backbone of every mature program. We write (or refine) documents in plain English, map each clause to industry standards, and provide rollout guidance.

Benefits:

  • Audit-ready by aligning to NIST, HIPAA, NYS DFS 500, and more.
  • Cultural fit with the tone and scope matched to your workforce reality.
  • Living documents keeping policies relevant as you grow.

Risk Management & Resolution

Our analysts catalog threats, likelihood, and business impact using proven methodologies (NIST RMF, CIS, etc.). We hand you a prioritized risk register and mitigation schedule you can actually execute.

Benefits:

  • No surprises with full visibility into your threat landscape.
  • Quick wins first with high-impact, low-effort fixes bubble to the top.
  • Stakeholder buy-in from measuring risk simplifies budget approvals.

Incident Response & Continuity Planning

Decisions made in a crisis should feel like muscle memory. We build and rehearse playbooks, define roles, and integrate with your legal, PR, and insurance teams.

Benefits:

  • Faster recovery that contain breaches in hours, not days.
  • Staff confidence using table-top exercises turn chaos into choreography.
  • Lessons learned for continuous improvement from real scenario enactment.

Compliance Alignment (NYS Law 2-d, DFS 500, HIPAA & More)

Regulations shift; our specialists track every change. We map your controls to each citation, close gaps, and prepare evidence packages for auditors.

Benefits:

  • Fine avoidance for staying ahead of state and federal requirements.
  • Competitive edge by demonstrable compliance wins and improved customer trust.
  • Single source of truth leveraging a unified control matrix that eliminates audit scramble.

Tabletop Exercises

Scenario-based workshops that rehearse your incident response and business continuity plan with cross-functional stakeholders. We simulate realistic events; ransomware, business email compromise (BEC)/wire fraud, critical SaaS or vendor outages, and data exfiltration; to walk the team end-to-end through the process.

Benefits:

  • Proves readiness without disruption in a safe, realistic practice that surfaces gaps in roles, communications, and tooling.
  • Actionable outcomes that lead to a prioritized, ownership-based backlog with timelines and success metrics (e.g., targeted MTTR/MTTD improvements).
  • Clarify roles and escalation paths to expose gaps in tooling and communication, and conclude with a prioritized improvement plan your team can execute.

Cybersecurity Insurance Advisory

We partner with your risk/finance leaders and broker to optimize coverage, terms, and cost. From completing underwriting questionnaires to tightening controls insurers care about (MFA, EDR, backups, logging, incident response), we help you secure the right limits, avoid surprise exclusions, and present a security posture that underwriters reward.

Benefits:

  • Premium optimization and higher limits — strengthen required controls to unlock potential premium reductions and higher limits
  • Underwriting support — hands-on help completing cyber insurance forms, evidence packs, and control attestations to reduce friction.
  • Claim defensibility — policies and playbooks aligned to carrier expectations (breach coach, IR panel, notification timelines) to speed claims handling.

Cyber Hygiene Check-Up

A focused, fixed-fee snapshot of your cyber health delivered fast.
No upsell. No jargon. Clear recommendations mapped to industry recognized standards.

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