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In today’s digital economy, businesses are under increasing scrutiny from consumers, regulators and others about their ability to protect data.  The myriad of risks to data being faced by businesses as they collect, use and store data can be daunting as well as costly especially if they suffer a data breach.  Moreover, businesses are facing a mountain of compliance requirements that can be difficult to understand and implement.

Security Validation LLC is a leading data security and privacy consulting firm offering a suite of products and services that enable businesses to navigate the complex data protection landscape.  We are a Qualified Security Assessor (“QSA”) recognized by the PCI Security Standards Council.  Our clients engage with data security and privacy professionals who have broad knowledge and expertise in areas such as PCI-DSS, GDPR, Hipaa/Hitech, Coppa, ISO27000 and the UK’s Cyberessentials and more.

Security Validation proudly serves hoteliers and others as the “go to” for all of their PCI-DSS compliance initiatives.  We understand the hospitality industry having served this sector for over twenty-five years.  Security Validation know how to implement data security and privacy best practices without adversely impacting the guest experience.  Our firm is a QSA authorized to evaluate and certify compliance with PCI-DSS, as well as compliance with other industry security frameworks such as ISO27000 and National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”).

While Security Validation can conduct compliance evaluations of your technical, physical and administration data protection controls, our sister company, SecValMSP, can operate and manage PCI-DSS related controls on your behalf.  By doing so, you shift your risk to SecValMSP enabling your business to become PCI-DSS compliant almost immediately.

Whether you are required to adhere to PCI-DSS, Hipaa/HiTech, ISO27000, NIST frameworks, GDPR (the “General Data Protection Regulation”), the UK’s CyberEssentials, or any other privacy and security law or framework, Security Validation can walk alongside you as a trusted advisor.  Our team of experts will evaluate your current compliance posture and provide gap analyses documenting the strength of your controls, where you have weaknesses and we’ll provide practical remediation guidance. 

Innovation has transformed how personal information is consumed.  If your business collects, uses, stores or shares personal information from customers or employees, then you are likely subject to any number of legal requirements.  The privacy landscape has a myriad of local and international requirements that businesses must understand and abide by.  Those requirements mandate that businesses implement strong privacy and security controls for the protection of that information.  You must also know what information you collect, under what circumstances, the required disclosures that you must provide, your limitations to use that information, and more.  Failure to adhere to these requirements exposes your business to innumerable risks potentially resulting in regulatory sanctions, class action lawsuits, or worse – a data breach.

Security Validation sets itself apart from other advisory firms by also offering a suite of managed cyber-security services.  Services such as firewall management, intrusion detection, data leak prevention, penetration testing, 24×7 monitoring and many more.  By availing your business of our managed services, you shift the responsibility of securing your infrastructure to us.  We work diligently to defend your perimeter with proprietary tools and resources so you can free up valuable staff for other important tasks.

We are all too familiar with well known businesses who find themselves the focus of media, regulators, congress and consumers resulting from highly publicized data breaches.  These companies suffer major repercussions ranging from regulatory sanctions, class actions, loss of revenue, declining stock price and brand damage.  What’s not well known is that regulators, partners, and plaintiff’s lawyers will all seek to evaluate your efforts and the controls you had in place to prevent the breach in the first place.  Any gaps will be used against you. Moreover, there are a plethora of breach notification statutory obligations that are time sensitive and can subject your business to heightened penalties for any delays.  Security Validation’s experts can help you to implement a breach response program that will position your company to effectively respond to a reported data breach.

IT Audits 

• Gap Analysis
• Network Vulnerability Scans
• Asset Inventory

Risk Assessments

• Compliance Gap Analysis
• Security Program Health Check
• GDPR Readiness Assesments

Prioritized Risk Treatment Plan

• Information Security Program Documents
• Incident Response Management
• Vendor Management Program
• Project Management
• On-demand Security Expertise

• Security Awareness Training
• GDPR Training
• Phishing Awareness & Interactive Phishing Campaigns
• Security Intelligence Reports
• Security News RSS Feeds
• Ready Access to Security Reports and White Papers