Cyber Security

Security against new digital threats and risks

The digital environment presents new opportunities for businesses and organizations, but it also exposes them to new threats and risks. By proactively mitigating risks, you are investing in your organization's future and security.

Why is cyber security important?

In our increasingly digital world, cyber security is a subject that concerns the entire business. You must identify and manage threats and risks proactively to protect your most valuable assets. By actively working with cyber security and integrating it as a natural part of your organization, you are investing its future.

How does KPMG work with cyber security?

When we assess your organization's needs and priorities, we can help you understand how cyber security can enable and strengthen your business. Our expertise in strategy and governance, combined with our global insights and capabilities, allows us to establish the security you need so that you can focus on your core business.

We collaborate with a global network of over 6,300 cyber security experts with technical and strategic capabilities to help our customers in all areas of IT and information security.

For us, security is about enabling and strengthening your capabilities, not enforcing prohibitions and limitations.

How we can help

Digital resilience and operational reliability are essential to ensuring that your organization can withstand disruptions and maintain critical operations. With increasing ransomware attacks, regulatory demands, and potential operational disruptions, it is crucial to proactively assess and strengthen your continuity management capabilities.

Effective business continuity planning ensures that your organization can quickly recover from disruptions, protects financial stability, maintains customer trust, and upholds your reputation. Our expertise across all sectors equips us to develop and implement robust business continuity, crisis, and disaster recovery plans tailored to your needs.

The Cyber Maturity Assessment (CMA) is designed by KPMG to give you a comprehensive view of your organization's current level of information security. Through a comprehensive risk assessment, you gain insights into your organization's readiness to prevent, detect, and manage cyber security threats.

Our CMA is divided into nine domains, helping you understand which areas of the business are most vulnerable, and clarifying what to prioritize and further develop. You will receive a detailed assessment of your current information security maturity level, along with a detailed roadmap to raise your organization's overall security capabilities.

Identity and Access Management (IAM) ensures the systematic management, protection, and regulation of digital identities and their permissions. IT is a fundamental component of building a strong cyber security foundation.

We help you review existing identity management capabilities, establish IAM strategy, and implement and operate IAM systems. These services are designed to provide a governance framework for digital identities and enable organizations to make informed, risk-based decisions about access control, user permissions, and sensitive data handling.

Our CISO-as-a-Service offering provides you with experts who leverage their collective knowledge and experience to support your organization with security guidance and drive information security work forward.

We offer interim CISOs to maintain strong leadership in information security during your search for a permanent hire. Our seamless support in onboarding your new CISO ensures that they quickly integrate into your organization and effectively lead your security initiatives from day one.

Regardless of where you are in your cloud transformation journey, we approach cloud security by combining architecture, engineering, operations, and IT expertise to deliver secure cloud transformations. We have a highly skilled team of cloud specialists with experience in implementing and working with most cloud solutions. Our global team consists of over 6,000 cyber security specialists with 1,500 cloud certifications, and our local team leverages this expertise as needed.

Many cyber-attacks and intrusions that cause extensive damage to businesses can be traced back to human factors. A lack of engagement and responsibility within the organization can hinder the effectiveness of cyber security programs.

Our security culture services integrate security into your corporate culture and the daily tasks of your employees. We assess your existing security culture, develop strategies to strengthen it, and implement changes to promote a healthy security culture.

The constantly changing threat and regulatory landscape places increasing demands on each organization's ability to measure and report on how well they manage their cyber security risks. We help you to review, establish, and implement systems and processes that regularly measure and assess your cyber risk management. We identify the requirements that the systems and processes should meet and the key performance indicators (KPIs) they should measure. The results are communicated in a way that management and boards can understand and act upon.

Our Cyber Incident Response service helps you manage and minimize the damage caused by intrusions. We build and evaluate incident response processes and technology to meet your customer 's requirements. With offices around the world, we offer our incident response capabilities both locally and internationally.

Following a cyberattack, we also analyze the underlying causes, provide recommendations, and support you with large-scale implementation of security transformation programs. Organizations must conduct a forensic investigation after a cyber security incident. We collect the artifacts and logs for investigation, perform threat hunting and root cause analysis to ensure that the necessary evidence is collected and preserved.

Data and privacy management is not only a legal requirement but crucial for creating and maintaining customer trust. Our experienced team guides you through the process of understanding, implementing, and maintaining the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance to ensure your customers' and employees' personal data remains protected in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

Within data protection and privacy, we work with:

Maturity Assessments & Action plans: We assess your current data protection practices, identifying gaps and areas for improvement. Based on these insights, we provide detailed recommendations and help you implement necessary actions.

Frameworks & Documentation: We assist in establishing privacy frameworks and processes, ensuring you have the necessary documentation in place to comply with regulations like GDPR and support data protection governance.

Automated Solutions: Our team helps to implement automatic privacy solutions that streamline data protection processes, making compliance easier to manage and maintain.

Risk and Impact Assessments: We support your organization in conducting risk assessments for data transfers to third countries. We also perform Data protection Impact Assessments (DPIA)s, helping you evaluate and manage the risks associated with processing of personal data.

We specialize in helping organizations implement and maintain robust Information Security Management Systems (ISMS) in alignment with the ISO/IEC 27001 standard. This international standard provides a comprehensive framework for managing information security, allowing businesses of any size and sector to protect critical assets and reduce risks.

We apply ISO/IEC 27001 to create a tailored, systematic method for managing information security risks specific to your organization’s needs. Together with you, we ensure that every step, from risk identification to control implementation, aligns with best practice guidelines based on the standard and our extensive experience.

Within ISMS, we work with:

Gap analysis & Action plans: We conduct detailed assessments to identify any gaps between your current security posture and ISO/IEC 27001 requirements. Based on our analysis, we develop an actionable roadmap to bring your organization into full compliance.

ISMS Implementation & Support: We guide you through the entire process of establishing or upgrading your ISMS, ensuring that it is fully customized to your business context.

Training & Awareness: To ensure your team is prepared to maintain the ISMS effectively, we offer specialized information security training aligned with ISO/IEC 27001. This gives you and your employees the necessary knowledge needed to uphold the security practices required by the standard.