Ultimately, there were two key drivers that led the bank to BlueFort Security:
- It wanted to align its cybersecurity strategy with Gartner’s Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) approach. This is a framework that CISOs and SecOps teams can adopt to move from a reactive to a proactive mindset, actively prioritising risks most relevant to their organisation.
- The bank operates within the CBEST framework, now the primary method for UK financial services organisations to voluntarily test their defences using advanced threat intelligence and realistic attack simulations. It needed to ensure that its cybersecurity approach met the requirements of the CBEST framework.
Given the complexity of the bank’s current cybersecurity status, the consultants at BlueFort needed to understand, from a technical perspective, what they were working with. As in all walks of life, knowledge is power.
BlueFort’s proven methodology is built around three pillars: continuous cyber discovery, validation and control. It closely follows the five key functions of the NIST framework (identify, protect, detect, respond and recover). It also supports Gartner’s CTEM approach, which advocates for all organisations to adopt a continuous threat exposure management program to stay ahead of threats.
Rather than following standardised single vendor solution playbooks, by following this continuous methodology of visibility and validation, identity assurance, remediation and partnership, BlueFort’s consultants were able to navigate and distil the bank’s complex cybersecurity problems into a harmonised security environment that maximises both its IT security team and its investment in tooling.