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Consulting

Our consulting team of IT experts can partner with you to provide guidance on technology selection and implementation as you pursue solutions to business challenges.

What we have to offer:

IT Governance

  • Discuss business need and benefits of proposed technology
  • Build awareness of alternate tools and options that may be available
  • IT support activity and effort considerations
  • Understand Governance Committee engagement and requirements

Technical Support for RFPs

  • Help buyer to integrate Vendor Risk Assessment process with procurement
  • Prepare potential vendors to respond to VRA request
  • Help with scoring the vendor
  • Validate integration requirements for Financial Systems Integration

Vendor Risk Assessments (VRAs)

  • Help the department submit a VRA
  • Guide the department to whether the VRA can be unit led or ISO led
  • Coordinate between the vendor, department, Information Security Office (ISO) and procurement department to ensure that the VRA is moving forward
  • Help department to formulate the department response to VRA

More details on the VRA process can be found here.

Risk Review

  • Provide technical support to business partners to respond to security policy assessments and help them understand the policy in context of the department's business. (For example IS-3 policy)
  • Assist in preparing for Risks and Controls Review for business processes