Advisory / Audit

CTO Advisory

Bring Your Own Team

Your Tech Sentinel Advisors

The CiaB team, with its wealth of expertise, strategically guides businesses in navigating emerging technologies, making informed decisions, and aligning technological investments with overall business objectives, playing a crucial role in nurturing innovation, optimizing IT infrastructure, and ensuring alignment with long-term organizational goals.

CiaB services, as part of CTO Advisory, include the following:

  • Recommend Technology stack
  • Defining IT roadmap
  • Build Architecture
  • Recommend Tool & Technology selection
  • Team building
  • Guide Design and MVP development

Empowering Progress with CiaB's CTO Advisory

Optimize your technology strategy with our CTO Advisory services—Strengthening your leadership to make informed decisions, navigate emerging technologies, and enhance your organization's cybersecurity resilience. Choose us for tailored expertise that ensures strategic alignment and safeguards against evolving threats.

CISO Advisory

Bring Your Own Team

CISO Advisory

Enhance your organization's cybersecurity stance with our CISO Advisory Services. Whether you lack a dedicated Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) or seek to augment existing resources, we offer tailored support, from strategic guidance and tactical project assistance to budgeting insights and board-level security strategy presentations, ensuring comprehensive protection aligned with industry best practices and regulatory requirements.

Including a comprehensive spectrum of security advisory services, we address critical facets including security architecture, policy and procedures development, compliance assessments, SOC reporting, PCI, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, NYDFS, and ISO compliance.

Tech Audit & Review Services

Know Your Code

Tech Excellence Unveiled: Our Audit, Your Advantage

Empowering organizations to navigate technology risks seamlessly, our expert team, well-versed in frameworks like COBIT, NIST, and ISO, applies best practices during our review process. With a focus on business objectives, our technology auditors assess and advise on every facet of technology usage, ensuring robust risk mitigation and enhanced enterprise value.

Guided by a commitment to excellence, we offer unparalleled insights into your technology landscape. From comprehensive risk assessments to strategic guidance, we tailor solutions that strengthen your technology infrastructure, enabling you to not only meet but exceed industry standards and safeguard your organization's future

Ranking Metrics

Evaluating your current maturity level and knowledge on a scale from A to D (ranging from Basic to Leading) and execution of defined policies on a scale from 1 to 4 (reflecting Poor to Consistent performance), we provide a detailed assessment. Our review not only reviews and ranks your stance but also includes tailored recommendations to enhance your processes and achieve higher levels of efficiency and effectiveness.

Business Process Review

TOur review services span the below critical areas, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and enhancing overall efficiency.

  • Business Architecture
  • Product Roadmap and Prioritization
  • Business Requirements & System Requirements
  • Project & Delivery Management
  • Release Management Process

Technical Architecture & Design Review

Architecture Review Services

Our review services cover the listed key areas, offering insights and recommendations to optimize your technology landscape and ensure alignment with your business goals.

  • Technology Choices and Relevance
  • Technology Architecture
  • Data Architecture
  • Network Architecture
  • Cloud Architecture
  • Non-Functional Requirements (NFR)

Design Review Services

Our design review services encompass a thorough evaluation of the elements listed below, ensuring a robust and scalable design for your systems.

  • Three-tier / n-tier Architecture
  • Loose Coupling
  • Single Responsibility
  • Extensibility
  • Auditability
  • Data Design and Entity-Relationship (ER) Modeling
  • Messaging & Communication Patterns

Code, QA and DevSecOps Review

Code Review Services

Our comprehensive code review services go beyond identifying code smells, enforcing coding standards, and conducting static code analysis. We also prioritize code efficiency, optimization, and security best practices to deliver a robust and high-performance software solution.

QA Review Services

In our comprehensive QA review services, we meticulously evaluate key aspects including unit tests, integration, and acceptance test cases, automated test suite, and performance testing. By scrutinizing these critical components, we aim to enhance the effectiveness and reliability of your testing processes.

DevSecOps Review Services

In our comprehensive DevOps review services, we conduct a thorough evaluation of essential components such as code version management, CI/CD pipelines, code deployment gates and approvals, and security testing through SAST and DAST. Our goal is to optimize and enhance the efficiency of your DevOps practices, ensuring a seamless and secure development lifecycle.

Security & Compliance Review

Security Review Services

Our security review services comprehensively evaluates the below components, aiming to strengthen and optimize the security landscape of your systems and data.

  • Antivirus Solutions
  • Firewall Configurations
  • Backup Procedures
  • Security Policies and Procedures
  • Multifactor Authentication (MFA) Implementation
  • Encryption Measures (at-rest/in-motion)
  • Identity & Access Management (IAM) Practices
  • Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) Implementation
  • Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Evaluation
  • Vulnerability Scanning Assessment
  • Penetration Testing Analysis

Compliance Review Services

Our compliance review services encompass a thorough assessment of the items listed below, ensuring adherence to industry-specific regulations and standards tailored to the specific needs and requirements of our customers.

  • Security Awareness Training
  • Licensing Compliance
  • SOC Reporting
  • PCI DSS
  • HIPAA Compliance
  • GDPR Compliance
  • CCPA Compliance
  • NYDFS Compliance
  • ISO Compliance

Choose between Full Evaluation or Ă  la carte Evaluation

Secure a complete assessment with our Full Evaluation package. Alternatively, you can also opt for flexibility with our a-la-carte option, allowing you to choose individual items at a nominal cost per item. Whether you prefer a comprehensive overview or targeted assessments, we've tailored our offerings to meet your unique needs.