Services and Tools

Strategic advisory

  • Chief Executive Officers, Chief Financial Officers and senior leadership teams need to know how cyber risks affect their business forecasts.

    They need to make informed investment decisions to maximise profitability and delivery, as well as reassuring stakeholders that they are responding properly to increasing cyber threats and evolving regulations.

    Bee-Net works with senior leadership teams to help them, not with the technical delivery of cyber security, but with its management: its people, direction and prioritisation. Senior leaders often assume that cyber security is a purely technical matter; we help to ensure that roles and responsibilities are properly understood and acted upon so that specialist staff are given the right support and enablement.

  • Portfolio managers, shareholders and private equity need to know that cyber risks, are being properly addressed so that returns are maximised and resilience is maintained. They will often need to see that leadership teams are making the right investment decisions and maximising their ROI.

    Portfolio owners and managers will also need simple, digestible dashboards that track progress across multiple companies in a comparable way, hold managers to account against agreed performance metrics and reassure stakeholders that the portfolio is being well-managed.

    Bee-net works with stakeholders to move beyond technical checklists, which often provide false comfort, and instead to ask better questions of senior leadership teams to evoke the behaviours that improve alignment with owners’ aspirations.

  • Specialism owners in cyber security, compliance or procurement often need a simple digestible roadmap that helps them to guide their companies towards better cyber risk management. This helps them to get support to purchase the right specialist advice and tools.

    Bee-net works with subject matter experts to develop and map their journey in a way that aligns with business objectives and gets wholehearted support from managers with the necessary budget.

Tools & frameworks

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  • Bee-net provides unique, practical tools for senior leaders, board members and portfolio owners to identify areas for improvement and to track progress in both management maturity and quantified business risks.

  • Bee-net takes the same approach to third parties of all types too, from suppliers, to partners and customers. Our tools enable managers to move beyond technical checklists, which are often viewed as burdensome but at the same time missing key risks, and instead focus on what is really important to collaborate on.

  • Whatever technical cyber security framework you have chosen or that you need to satisfy regulators or customers, we help specialists to track implementation and performance of technical controls, making it easy to demonstrate compliance even across multiple frameworks, jurisdictions and markets.

    Some of the frameworks or control sets we have helped our clients with:

    • NIST Cyber Security Framework 2.0 (NIST CSF) – common in the USA, the Far East and Defence

    • ISO 27001 Cyber Risk Management – an international standard but most widely adopted in Europe

    • ISO 31000 Risk Management – a business risk standard

    • NIST 800-53 – Cyber Security Controls

    • National Cyber Security Centre Cyber Assessment Framework (NSCS CAF) - a requirement for UK critical national infrastructure

    • European Union Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) – regulations for EU financial services

    • Network and Information Security Directive (NIS2) – cyber security risk and incident management regulations

    • Cyber Essentials Plus (CE) and CE+ – commonly required for UK government contracts

    • Defence Cyber Certification (DCC or DefStan 05-138v4) – a new requirement for UK Defence suppliers

    • Cyber Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) – mandatory for US Department of Defense (DoD) contracts

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Knowledge transfer

Bee-net provides support programmes at all levels in an organisation, from board level coaching to technical training, giving staff the skills they need to operate cyber securely in the modern environment.

We work alongside our clients as they learn new skills and new ways of working, gradually reducing the amount of consultancy needed as each new outcome is embedded and becomes business as usual.

We also do online training and coaching. Have a look at the link below for the fee procurement manager training we’re running right now.

Supply chain cyber security training

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