Security Services

Understanding the Threat Landscape

Today's modern security threats not only endanger businesses and critical data, but can permanently damage a company's reputation.

Businesses must protect themselves against phishing, ransomware, viruses, malware, social engineering, and a myriad of threats designed to destroy data and defraud companies.

To combat those threats, businesses must employ a broad spectrum of technology solutions to protect their businesses, but often times a security assessment is necessary to identify what vulnerabilities exist and how to address them.

In addition, nearly every business is required to conduct a network security assessment, either to meet regulatory compliance or simply to fulfill the requirements of their cyber-security insurance policy.

Network Compliance

We’ll help you comply with all government mandates regarding network security including:

NIST 800-171 | National Institute of Standard and Technology
DFARS | Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement
FISMA | The Federal Information Security Management Act
GDPR | General Data Protection Regulation
SOX | Sarbanes–Oxley Act
PCI | Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
CMMC | Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification

Hoop5 Security Services

Hoop5’s security services carefully identify vulnerabilities and gaps in your organization's security, including firewalls, servers, desktops, and mobile devices. We'll coordinate with your technical and compliance teams to share our findings, create a remediation plan, and work towards achieving the security policies and regulatory compliance required by your business.

Compliance

Our thorough Compliance Gap Assessments measure your company’s existing procedures and policies against best practices as well as applicable local, state and federal regulations. Our executive summary will, in easy to understand language, indicate gaps or deficiencies in your company’s compliance program, such as potential regulatory violations and incomplete data security requirements, allowing you to take corrective action and mitigate risks to the business.

Currently, all DoD contractors must meet the minimum requirements and show proof to the Department of Defense of DFARS compliance for all contracts moving forward. In addition, all government contractors will have to achieve one of the 5 levels of CMMC Compliance by 2026 in order to do business with the U.S. Government.

Business Continuity

Hoop5 can help you design comprehensive recovery plans that address outages on your business operations. With our business continuity solutions, your business can minimize compliance costs while improving your recovery efforts. We focus on key business processes, helping you make the most of your technology assets.

Mobile Device Management

If employees lose their work-related mobile devices, your confidential data can fall into the hands of rogue cybercriminals. Such incidents result in legal liability and call for enhanced security solutions that minimize your risk exposure.

Hoop5 Networks delivers comprehensive mobile device management that secures business-critical information. Our solutions help employees collaborate on projects securely and exchange emails safely.

Firewall & Network Security

Your firewall helps to keep disruptive and destructive forces out while allowing you to control incoming data traffic based on the security parameters you define and control. Hoop5 Networks provides growing businesses like yours with business-class firewalls & network security solutions that also let you control outgoing traffic sent from computers within your network. With our solution, you prevent your employees from accessing harmful online content and sending out sensitive or confidential company information.

Incident Response & Protection Planning

At Hoop5 Networks, we offer comprehensive incident and protection services that incorporate industry best practices. We can help you design customized policies or assess and review your existing response strategy. Our team will make recommendations to to bolster your security status and prepare you for future incidents.

We offer enterprise-grade crisis communication, resource coordination, and procedural expertise to support your current cybersecurity capability.

Penetration Testing

Cyber-criminals look for holes in your system – so we want to find them before they do. In the madness of the daily grind, it’s often easy to presume that your current IT security technologies are doing their job, all the while unaware of the hidden gaps & back doors that are leaving you and your company exposed.

Our detailed assessment identifies vulnerabilities that an attacker might use to compromise the integrity of your systems. “Pen Tests” help you understand and mitigate your organization’s security risk.

Policies & Procedures

At Hoop5 Networks, we provide comprehensive IT security policy documents configured to meet diverse business requirements. We’ll furnish you with information security policies, access control policies, and information handling policies that guide your daily operations. Our team ensures that you can set in motion steps that help you respond to cyber threats and minimize downtime. Once we examine and understand your business needs, we’ll help you develop and implement comprehensive information security policies & ensure you meet neccesary training requirements.

Employee Training

Even good employees make mistakes – deleting files, clicking on phishing emails, or innocently logging into a compromised social media account. Employees often use free and unsecured file-sharing applications to share confidential information, simply because they don’t know any better. With more than 70% of cyber-crimes being committed against SMB’s, teaching your employees how to identify suspicious online activity and training them to protect your sensitive data is critical.

The Hoop5 Employee Training Program will help you get your employees trained and educated on how to protect your data.

Penetration Testing vs. Vulnerability Assessments

Choosing the proper security testing methodology is key to crafting a security strategy that includes the necessary elements to protect your business.

Business are often confused about the difference between "Penetration Testing" and "Vulnerability Testing," in hopes of simply understanding the risks they face.

Penetration Testing is commonly pursued when a company has public-facing web applications and need to determine if their website, application, or marketplace can be exploited by attackers.

The focus of Penetration Testing is on improving the underlying code of these applications to keep transactions safe and secure.

For most small and mid-sized businesses, a Vulnerability Assessment is the desired engagement.

Vulnerability Assessments identify gaps in a firm's security framework, such as missing updates and patches, improperly configured technology solutions, and missing security policies that may threaten the business, while providing a path towards remediating those vulnerabilities and improving the overall security equation.

This is the most common type of security assessment, and is typically requested when trying to meet cyber security insurance requirements and compliance guidelines.