Case Study
COUNTY GOVERNMENT DEVELOPS CYBERSECURITY GOVERNANCE PROGRAM WITH COALFIRE LEADERSHIP
CLIENT CHALLENGE A County Government in the Midwest experienced a significant security breach that prompted the termination of the County’s CIO and a high-level security risk assessment by outside cybersecurity experts. Results from this assessment indicated major strategic and tactical level weaknesses in the overall security posture of the County. The County subsequently engaged Coalfire to establish an information security governance model and supervise the implementation of a number of tactical security remediation initiatives. APPROACH Coalfire assigned an experienced security leader to act as the County’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for six months. The first priority was to define a security governance model and communicate the security expectations of the