Independent Verification and Validation

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Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) is the process of independently verifying the results of security initiatives to ensure that all requirements are satisfied, and validating whether the deliverables meet their security objectives. IV&V can help identify deficiencies in your security initiatives and help correct weaknesses early by evaluating your company's security architecture, policies, procedures, and implementation.

IV&V also improves work performance since workers are more likely to do a better job when they know their work will be checked. Having a second set of eyes to review work helps protect from systematic error, overlooked details, and biased group activities. By providing you with prioritized recommendations for improvement and by fostering an ethic of honesty, integrity, and accuracy, IV&V ensures that tasks are on track and are executed properly.

By providing a truly independent verification and validation of your security initiatives, Procinct Security can help you feel assured that the most effective and efficient security techniques are being employed. IV&V equals great cost savings for your company because it almost always pays for itself very quickly.

Our comprehensive IV&V service helps your company accomplish the following:

• Provide independent reassurance that your security initiatives are designed and executed with maximum effectiveness, efficiency, and accuracy.
• Reduce the unnecessary costs associated with weak efficiency measures such as lack of automation.
• Protect against fraudulent work and activity.
• Provide detailed and accurate information that can be used to qualify for information protection insurance, meet customer contractual obligations, and help you meet your customers' expectations.
• Ensure policies and procedures conform to industry standards and best practices.

At Procinct Security, we perform IV&V for the following security initiatives using industry best practices as a benchmark. We independently verify that requirements are met for each initiative and validate the deliverables meet your security objectives, to improve security initiative performance and cost-effectiveness.

IV&V of Your Security Policies
We will assess your information security policies against industry standard best practices to ensure that the policies are comprehensive, appropriate to your business and meet their stated goals. We will also develop security policies or update existing policies based on your needs and inform you of necessary changes to your security infrastructure to ensure compliance with your policies and procedures.

IV&V of Your Security Architecture and Design
We will evaluate the security components related to your company's business, IT infrastructure, and security architecture and design to ensure it is properly configured to defend against known security vulnerabilities and attacks.

IV&V of Your Security Implementation
We will assess the configuration and implementation of your firewalls, proxy servers, routers, virtual private networks (VPN), intrusion detection systems (IDS), wireless networks, and public key infrastructure (PKI), against industry best practices.

IV&V of Your Security Operational Procedures
We will evaluate all processes and procedures associated with your security operations such as network vulnerability testing (NVT), incident response, intrusion detection, and system security administration.

IV&V of Your Previous Security Audit
We will independently verify and validate your previous security audit to ensure the accuracy of the results and effectiveness of the recommendations.