INNOVATIVE COMPANIES | PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
As a cybersecurity watchdog for its clients, Citrin Cooperman has earned its success.
The firm’s technology and risk- advisory consulting practice, partner Michael Camacho said, separates the company from its competitors in the innovative way it assesses and addresses the vulnerability of a client’s computer data to hacking or tampering.
Its Security, Compliance and Operations Risk Evaluation Report, Director Kevin Ricci explained, is a high-level assessment of a client’s computer data system that is “an intuitive, cost-effective product which not only identifies real cyber risks, but also provides actionable solutions.”
The company’s virtual chief information security officer aids small to midsize companies that can’t afford their own information technology officer. Instead, a Citrin Cooperman employee uses the same tools and techniques an outside hacker would utilize, Ricci said, “identifying vulnerabilities and addressing them before they are exposed by hackers.”
The firm’s compliance management helps clients understand the growing list of cyber regulations that companies must abide by, find where the gaps are and then remediate those gaps. The compliance-management program’s successes have included identifying companies not in compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act or Payment Card Industry Qualified Security Assessor regulations. In one case, Ricci said, a compliance-management project led a client from unfamiliarity with the regulations to being fully compliant in just six weeks.
Though the SCORE Report is only 2 years old, Camacho said, the company has completed more than 50 of them. Many have identified issues that could lead to a breach.
Citrin Cooperman’s cybersecurity services, Ricci said, are a perfect balance of educating a company and identifying its computer data system’s exposure to the risk “in a way that brings exceptional value and is easy to digest, even for someone not in the technology realm.”
