Strike Force

Areas of Practice

Cybersecurity Approach

Strike Force Technologies, Inc offers a comprehensive range of cybersecurity services aimed at creating sustainable solutions that address all aspects of the ever-evolving cyber landscape.

  1. Governance, Risk, and Compliance: In the modern business landscape, adherence to U.S. federal, state, and international security compliance directives and frameworks like FISMA, NIST800-53, NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF), and ISO is crucial. We conduct in-depth assessments of your short, medium, and long-term business needs to determine cybersecurity requirements that impact your organization presently and in the future. Our experts design sustainable, audit-defensible programs that ensure compliance with every security regime you face. Additionally, we are well-versed in conducting U.S. federal-specific Security Assessment & Authorization (SA&A) efforts and serving as formal Information System Security Officers (ISSOs).
  2. Security Engineering and Operations: Our turnkey security engineering services deliver technical solutions tailored to your specific threat landscape, IT infrastructure, and budgetary constraints. We train your operators to effectively utilize these capabilities in support of various initiatives, such as secure IT transformation, cloud migration, IT compliance, and SecDevOps support. At Strike Force Technologies, Inc, we design security operations programs to efficiently address modern security challenges and enhance organizational performance.
  3. Threat Intelligence: Proactively approaching cybersecurity requires collecting and analyzing threat intelligence. To comply with emerging U.S. federal security regulations, we integrate intelligence into security and compliance programs. Drawing from diverse open and proprietary sources, we identify emerging threats and track cybersecurity trends. Our team filters and tailors this intelligence to suit your unique context, ensuring you receive actionable, operationally relevant guidance.
  4. Vulnerability Management: Our comprehensive and consistent approach to finding and closing vulnerabilities drives continuous improvement in your security and compliance posture. We work with major scanning platforms and collaborate with engineering and operations teams to understand, track, remediate, and validate closures throughout your enterprise.
  5. Penetration Testing: Employing cautious and disciplined black hat techniques, our pentesting approach safely exposes your organization to modern cyber-attacks. We then collaborate with you to fortify your networks and applications, addressing immediate weaknesses while charting a path towards a stronger, more secure future. Our penetration testing services support major compliance frameworks such as CMMC, FedRAMP, PCI DSS, NIST/FISMA, and FFIEC.
  6. Training and Awareness: Our cybersecurity training aligns with the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Framework, offering both general and role-based training options. Strike Force Technologies, Inc’s off-the-shelf training can quickly fulfill security compliance requirements or address technical skill gaps. Alternatively, we can design custom training programs tailored to your specific needs and future workforce development objectives. Furthermore, we provide outsourced management of large enterprise training programs to achieve completion goals, track and report progress for compliance, and develop cybersecurity career paths for IT and security professionals.

Privacy Program Approach

A contemporary privacy program faces the challenge of navigating numerous federal, state, and international mandates, which can sometimes be contradictory.

At Strike Force Technologies, Inc., we leverage our profound understanding of privacy to establish, support, and mature a comprehensive privacy program for both federal and commercial operations. Our range of privacy services includes:

  1. Privacy Risk Assessment: Our privacy risk assessments blend technical rigor from traditional security assessments with a review of potential data actions that may arise from processing personally identifiable information (PII). We tailor our approach to meet specific regulatory requirements, such as OMB Circular A-130, NIST SP 800-122, NISTIR 8062 for the Federal Government, as well as HIPAA, state-specific requirements, and GDPR for private and commercial sectors. During the assessment, we analyze PII storage and processing within the context of your business and legal landscape. Working with you, we develop strategies to limit the collection, maintenance, and use of PII while meeting operational requirements. Additionally, we assist in understanding and mitigating technical and legal risks related to PII processing.
  2. Breach Response: We prepare, test, and execute breach response plans and procedures to handle incidents involving the loss of PII. Our services include drafting risk of harm templates, planning legal notifications, and developing comprehensive public relations and communications strategies. We also provide online training for key privacy personnel and conduct tabletop exercises to enhance response effectiveness.
  3. Privacy Compliance: With an ever-expanding array of privacy regulations from federal, state, international, and private-sector entities, we evaluate your privacy protection policies, processes, and procedures (the “3 P’s”) to assess your overall privacy posture. We identify compliance with relevant privacy regulations impacting your organization, pinpoint risks, and vulnerable practices. Our team offers prioritized recommendations to mitigate these risks while ensuring minimal impact on business operations.
  4. Training: Strike Force Technologies, Inc. provides off-the-shelf privacy training for both technical and non-technical staff to quickly acquaint them with national and international privacy regulations. Alternatively, we can develop customized online or in-class training tailored to your organization’s unique privacy landscape.
  5. Privacy Posture Assessment and Baselining: Our privacy advisors review your processes, policies, and procedures to understand your current privacy state. We assess your privacy posture and identify risks based on insight into your business needs. We then offer prioritized recommendations for risk mitigation without affecting your business operations.
  6. Baselining and Continuous Improvement: Utilizing a formal framework like the NIST Privacy Framework or other recognized standards, we conduct baseline assessments to define your current privacy posture. We compare actual practices to stated commitments and address any policy-practice disconnects to avoid regulatory actions. Furthermore, we assist in developing short, medium, and long-term maturity-level plans aligned with national and international privacy standards relevant to your business.
  7. Data Inventory and Minimization: Compliance with major privacy laws like GDPR and CCPA requires careful data inventory management. We assist in not only inventorying data holdings but also redesigning business processes to minimize data inventory and reduce your privacy risk surface. By minimizing the use of PII, PHI, and other sensitive data types, we lower your overall privacy risk profile.
  8. Privacy Transparency: Our team helps develop a privacy, data protection, and transparency program that demonstrates your commitment to privacy and sets your privacy offerings above industry competitors. This ensures a return on your investment in protecting private data.

Operational Resilience Approach

In the past, predicting and preparing for realistic disaster scenarios used to be straightforward. However, modern organizations now face a complex array of potential crises, such as global pandemics, ransomware attacks, state-directed espionage, and domestic unrest. Surviving these modern disasters unscathed requires a unique approach to organizational preparation that prioritizes resilience against the unexpected.

Operational Resilience Approach: Strike Force Technologies, Inc adopts a comprehensive strategy that incorporates meticulous planning, effective procedures, and live simulations to fortify your team against disruptions and disasters. Our execution of this approach ensures compliance with regulatory standards like the U.S. Federal Continuity Directive (FCD), FISMA, DFARS, and NIST requirements. Simultaneously, we leverage the continuity planning process to gain insights into critical assets and their costs, maximizing your return on investment in operational resilience.

  1. Business Continuity: Our primary objective is to bolster your team’s resilience in the face of disruptions or disasters. We analyze the people, processes, and technology that underpin your business operations, and then identify and plan for the most realistic disruptions, ranging from cyber-attacks to natural disasters and personnel issues. With focused and disciplined plans in place, we conduct scenario-based training to test and enhance these plans, strengthening your team’s ability to weather any future challenges.
  2. Continuity of Operations: We meticulously prepare and test continuity of operations (COOP) plans that align with U.S. federal and state compliance requirements, addressing the most likely threats to your ongoing operations. Beginning with a business impact analysis (BIA), we quantify the value of critical business assets and understand the impact on operations if these assets are compromised. Subsequently, we develop and test actionable COOP plans aimed at swiftly bringing core assets back online to meet service-level agreements (SLAs) and recovery objectives.
  3. Disaster Recovery: Complementing COOP planning, our disaster recovery (DR) approach involves creating focused and technical plans for the rapid recovery of capabilities. We conduct a comprehensive review of potential natural and human disasters that could affect any element of your infrastructure. Based on this analysis, we develop granular plans and procedures, aligned with COOP plans, to restore the infrastructure to operational status.
  4. Physical Security: Despite the modern focus on cyber defense, physical security remains crucial. Strike Force Technologies, Inc assists organizations of all sizes in implementing both active and passive techniques to secure the physical perimeter effectively. Moreover, we help your staff prepare for challenging situations, including terrorism and active shooter scenarios. To assess physical security, we conduct black-bag assessments, employing modern tools to evaluate the physical security posture.
  5. Test, Training, and Exercises: Live, scenario-based testing is the most effective method to ensure the efficacy of COOP, DR, and physical security plans. From active shooter simulations to full failover or tabletop COOP and DR testing, we design and execute realistic assessments. Leveraging lessons learned, we enhance plans and provide tailored training to improve your team’s readiness.

Technology Transformation

 Strike Force Technologies, Inc specializes in designing and deploying agile, resilient IT infrastructures to enable thriving in an ever-changing world. From strategy and road mapping to hands-on implementation, we cater to projects of all sizes, ensuring your IT capabilities securely meet today’s needs and scale to achieve tomorrow’s goals.

Technology Transformation Approach: Technology transformation presents both technical and cultural challenges. While implementing the latest technologies can accelerate business functions and create efficiencies and cost-savings, realizing these benefits depends on your team’s structure and skills to harness emerging capabilities effectively.

Our approach aligns technology transformation strategies with your existing goals, budgets, and workforce realities. We carefully chart a secure course along this roadmap, enhancing operations and maturing your workforce in tandem.

Some of our technology transformation services include:

  • Secure Cloud Migration 
  • Optimizing and Streamlining Customer Experience 
  • Legacy Infrastructure Modernization • Baselining Metrics and Iterating Improvements
  • As-Is and To-Be Planning
  • Technology Modernization and Cost Reduction 
  • Agile, DevOps, and SecDevOps Transitions
  • IT Service Management and Service Delivery Improvement 
  • Developing, Deploying, Operating, Maintaining, and Improving Enterprise Architectures
  • Digital Strategy Development to Keep Pace with a Changing World

With our comprehensive technology transformation services, your organization can effectively embrace the advancements of the digital age, fostering growth and success in the dynamic landscape.

Our SecDevOps Approach

SecDevOps is a methodology that seamlessly integrates security into the system and software development process, ensuring security considerations at every stage of the lifecycle, often through automated means. When executed effectively, this approach expedites the delivery of robust and secure capabilities to end users.

Our SecDevOps Approach: At Strike Force Technologies, Inc, we prioritize building SecDevOps cultures that instill a security-first mindset across the entire development team. We help organizations establish a strong foundation where security is integrated from the outset, and compliance becomes a natural outcome of solid development practices. Through our guidance, development teams embrace security as an ally in reducing risks and minimizing the time required to identify and rectify issues. This results in the ability to ship higher-quality code faster, improve processes, enhance tooling, and foster collaborative teamwork.

For organizations already employing DevOps processes, we take you to the next, more secure level. We integrate automated security tools and processes to lay the groundwork for a SecDevOps approach. Subsequently, we train your team to leverage these tools efficiently, enhancing system and software development.

For those yet to adopt DevOps practices, we assist in selecting and implementing SecDevOps techniques that align with your existing processes and skillsets. As we progress, we help mature these techniques, enabling you to deliver secure products swiftly.

Strike Force Technologies, Inc’s SecDevOps Services Include: Capability Baseline: We conduct baselining exercises to evaluate your current foundation of tools, processes, and skills that support SecDevOps. Leveraging existing software development and integration tools with security features, we help your team master these resources to accomplish SecDevOps objectives. In cases where capability gaps exist, we identify and integrate the necessary capabilities that suit your team, business, and end-users.

Training: Our training programs follow a workforce maturity-level approach, guiding the application and continuous improvement of your SecDevOps program. Our training ranges from basic DevOps introductions for beginners to hands-on technical instruction for expert security practitioners, fostering a seamless cultural change and strengthening your workforce.

Software Assurance: A critical aspect of SecDevOps is code review, which we integrate into your existing software testing approach. We conduct static and dynamic software assurance reviews or empower your team to execute them independently.

Security Benchmarking: Effective SecDevOps programs analyze code quality and security over time, tracking trends, identifying recurring issues, and addressing root causes. We work collaboratively with your team to continuously review test results, track bug and vulnerability trends, and improve overall quality and performance. This proactive approach enhances your team’s ability to deliver high-quality code within scheduled timelines.

Cloud Application Engineering: Enhancing the security of cloud services utilized in modern development is often overlooked. We integrate secure cloud practices into our SecDevOps approach, covering modifications to cloud configurations, custom cloud coding, and third-party application integration. This comprehensive approach strengthens security across the entire stack of your development process.

Risk Management and Compliance

Organizations of all sizes face the challenge of managing and securing hybrid infrastructures, as they navigate between the traditional fixed, hierarchical networks of the past and the modern remote, wireless, cloud-centric, and/or intent-based networks.

Network and Systems Engineering Approach: At Strike Force Technologies, Inc, we take charge of optimizing and securing your networks. We ensure that your existing networks seamlessly support your teams, regardless of their locations. Furthermore, we fortify your networks against cyberattacks, establishing defenses tailored to your specific threat landscape and compliance requirements.

Our expertise extends to helping you transition to a modern and scalable networking model, capable of supporting your current business needs and future growth.

For specialized customers in the intelligence, defense, and federal civilian communities, we provide assistance in building secure networks and systems designed for classified processing.

Strike Force Technologies, Inc’s network and systems engineering services include:

  • Designing and deploying specialized networks and technologies, such as cloud services, hospital, medical device, and Internet of Things (IoT) environments. 
  • Optimizing networks to take full advantage of multiple cloud services. • Redesigning networks to securely support a remote-first approach. 
  • Developing custom analytics and metric tracking for cloud-centric environments. 
  • Securing networks and fortifying equipment against modern cyber threats.

With our comprehensive network and systems engineering services, you can confidently manage complex hybrid infrastructures and create a robust foundation for your organization’s success, now and in the future.

Our Certifications

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