Build a security program that aligns with your risks, resources, and business priorities.

S3 Security helps organizations evaluate, develop, and improve cybersecurity programs at every stage of maturity. Our experts provide strategic direction as well as hands-on support to help your team translate security objectives into sustainable processes.

Our capabilities include:

• Cybersecurity strategies and roadmaps
• Virtual CISO services
• Comprehensive information security reviews
• Security maturity and gap assessments
• Policy and procedure development
• Enterprise risk management
• Security awareness program development
• GRC tool selection and implementation
• Executive and board-level advisory
• Embedded Security, Compliance Support & Staff Augmentation

Move from identifying compliance gaps to implementing lasting improvements.

Whether you are preparing for an assessment, responding to findings, or managing multiple frameworks, S3 Security helps you understand the requirements and right path forward. Our team can support control implementation, documentation, remediation, and ongoing compliance management.

Our capabilities include:

• Compliance readiness and gap assessments
• Remediation roadmaps and implementation support
• Control design and operationalization
• Evidence and documentation preparation
• Multi-framework compliance alignment
• CMMC and NIST SP 800-171 readiness insights
• PCI DSS scoping, data flow, and remediation
• SOX and IT general controls
• SOC, ISO, HIPAA, GLBA and other framework readiness
• Sustainable compliance program development

Design and implement security solutions that support your organization today and as it grows.

Our advisors evaluate how technologies, identities, systems, and controls work together across your environment. We help organizations identify architecture gaps, define security requirements, and implement solutions that are practical, scalable, and aligned with business operations.

Our capabilities include:

• Network and cloud security architecture reviews
• Security technology assessments
• Security tool selection and implementation
• Identity and Access Management
• Access governance and privileged access management
• Role and entitlement design
• Authentication and authorization strategy
• Network segmentation
• Security requirements development
• GRC platform implementation and workflow configuration

Turn vulnerability data into a manageable, risk-based remediation program.

Finding vulnerabilities is only the beginning. S3 Security helps organizations establish the governance, processes and accountability needed to prioritize findings, coordinate remediation, and demonstrate measurable improvement over time.

Our capabilities include:

• Vulnerability management program design
• Risk-based vulnerability prioritization
• Remediation workflow development
• Vulnerability lifecycle governance
• Roles, responsibilities, and escalation procedures
• Metrics, dashboards, and executive reporting
• Tool and platform optimization
• Vulnerability backlog reduction
• Program maturity assessments
• Continuous improvement planning 

Prepare your organization to respond effectively and maintain critical operations during disruptive events.

S3 Security helps organizations develop coordinated plans for cybersecurity incidents, operational disruptions, and recovery. We work with technical teams, business leaders, and other stakeholders to establish clear responsibilities, test response procedures, and strengthen organizational preparedness.

Our capabilities include:

• Incident response program development
• Incident response plan reviews
• Ransomware and breach preparedness
• Incident response tabletop exercises
• Business impact analyses
• Business continuity planning
• Disaster recovery planning
• Crisis management and communications planning
• Recovery strategy development
• Role-based preparedness and training

Understand cybersecurity risk across vendors, acquisitions, and other critical business relationships.

Security risk often extends beyond your internal environment. S3 Security helps organizations evaluate third parties, conduct cybersecurity due diligence and address security considerations throughout mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and integration initiatives.

Our capabilities include:

• Third-party risk management program development.
• Vendor security assessments and due diligence
• Vendor onboarding and security requirements
• Ongoing vendor monitoring
• Mergers and acquisitions cybersecurity due diligence
• Pre-transaction technology and control reviews
• Regulatory and data privacy exposure analysis
• Post-acquisition security integration planning
• Security program harmonization
• Divestiture and separation planning

Strengthen payment security while supporting performance, compliance, and customer experience.

S3 Security helps merchants, service providers and payment organizations evaluate how payment technologies, data flows and security controls affect risk and operations. Our advisors can help identify opportunities to reduce PCI DSS scope, modernize payment environments and address issues that may contribute to decline rates.

Our capabilities include:

• Payment architecture and data flow reviews
• Secure payment solution evaluations
• Payment acceptance and authorization strategy
• Decline-rate analysis and optimization
• PCI DSS scope reduction
• Tokenization and encryption strategy
• Point-to-Point Encryption and end-to-end encryption
• Payment technology and vendor evaluations
• Card-not-present and digital payment security
• Secure payment modernization and migration support