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Cybersecurity Governance Reinforcement

Context

In response to increasing cyber threats and the need to strengthen its security posture, an international player in the infrastructure and energy sector launched several initiatives to enhance cybersecurity governance and vulnerability management across its critical IT environments. To support this transformation, Avaliance worked alongside the CISO in a transversal role, covering vulnerability tracking, security audit coordination, incident management, and performance monitoring of cybersecurity KPIs.

Challenges

The client needed to improve its ability to detect and remediate cyber threats while embedding security more effectively into IT projects.

Key challenges included reducing critical vulnerabilities, improving responsiveness to security incidents, strengthening the reliability of cybersecurity KPIs, and establishing a robust governance framework around CISO activities.

Avaliance Intervention

Achievements

Avaliance contributed to strengthening cybersecurity governance and operational processes through several key initiatives:
  • management and monitoring of vulnerabilities across critical systems and applications

  • integration of cybersecurity requirements into IT projects and patch management supervision

  • coordination and execution of technical security audits, risk analysis, and recommendations

  • enhancement and tracking of cybersecurity KPIs and performance metrics

  • management and coordination of security incidents and associated remediation actions

Core Focus Areas

GRC (Governance, Risk, Compliance)
Vulnerability Management
Cybersecurity KPIs
Security Audits
Incident Response Coordination
Patch Management

Results

Thanks to Avaliance’s intervention, the client achieved concrete and measurable outcomes:
1
reduction of critical vulnerabilities across IT and infrastructure environments
2
improved responsiveness to security incidents and associated remediation efforts
3
enhanced visibility of global cybersecurity posture through reliable and actionable KPIs
4
strengthened security governance and formalized remediation processes
5
more systematic and effective integration of cybersecurity requirements into IT projects
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