Moneague Group is a security consulting company focused on helping clients leverage security to achieve business goals. Our information security, privacy and compliance offerings utilize a mixture of best practices and proven approaches to help clients make smart business decisions. These decisions are backed by in-depth research and extensive real-world experience.
Located in Maryland, Moneague Group offers its portfolio of services across the US, Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
Experience matters, and we understand that success is highly dependent upon the strength of our consultants. Our consultants have an average of 15 years of diverse, practical experience across the full array of industries. Moneague Group Consultants maintain industry certifications which include CISSP, ISSAP, ISSMP, CSSLP, CCSP, CISA, CISM, CRISC, CDPSE, CCSK, CEH, CISO, CIO, eWPT, eWPTX, and eCPPT to name a few.
Corporate Responsibility and Philosophy
We operate daily from a set of core beliefs which prioritizes providing real value to clients with enduring, cost effective, and sustainable business solutions. Just as importantly, we believe we have an essential responsibility to be good corporate citizens in our community.
To be successful, it is essential that all information about a security program be communicated in terms that are meaningful to the stakeholders. This facilitates the alignment of security and business objectives while re-enforcing the business need to protect assets and invest in information security. This perspective supports the view that security is a business enabler.
Security technology is simply a component of security. A good security initiative will first look at the people and processes before any technology is implemented. Most security problems can be resolved without the introduction of new technology, focusing instead on the better management of technology already in place. Following best practices, the development of any security solution requires the execution of the following basic steps:
- Alignment of business and security goals
- implementation of an effective security strategy and enforceable policies.
- implementation of security controls (people, processes, and technology).
- deployment of processes to manage and assess the effectiveness of such controls.
One of the main reasons security often fails to provide the desired results is because it is applied in a reactive, risk-adverse manner rather than a proactive, holistic one. In fact, security must be both tactical and reactive—when dealing with immediate issues—and strategic and proactive—when applied as a business enabler.
When applied correctly, security is aligned with business goals. However, security technology is often deployed as a reaction to a security breach, a competitor being attacked or a regulatory mandate. When this happens, typically the core business objectives are ignored and temporary fixes are deployed. Such a tactical approach to security often leads to expensive and hard to manage security solutions, which are often ineffective. This approach to reactive security is the single most important reason why security fails in most organizations.
The security industry is flooded with technologists that focus their efforts and expertise on the implementation of security technology. There are very few security organizations that can differentiate between technology solutions that bring value to the business and pure technical implementations of security tools. Understanding the value of security as it relates to business is the primary focus needed by security organizations to remain successful in the future. In summary, security solutions must be implemented within the framework of a business need and with the full support of business processes. Without this security, we will fail.
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