Despite significant security investments across departments, security capabilities had evolved unevenly. Individual business units operated in silos with inconsistent processes, varying tool maturity, and limited centralized governance. The organization lacked a unified view of enterprise-wide risk, an integrated security operations capability, and a consistent baseline for identity management, data protection, cloud adoption, and endpoint controls. Leadership required a clear, evidence-based understanding of current maturity levels and a roadmap to elevate security across the entire enterprise.
1. Framework-Based Assessment
Applied the IBM 10 Essential Practices maturity framework to evaluate capabilities across governance, risk management, operations, IAM, data protection, endpoint security, network security, cloud adoption, third-party oversight, and SDLC controls.
2. Multi-Unit Interviews & Evidence Collection
Conducted structured workshops and interviews across corporate functions and multiple business units to capture practices, pain points, and operational realities.
3. Capability & Maturity Mapping
Mapped findings against the CMM maturity scale (1–5) to establish current and target maturity, highlighting inconsistencies across units.
4. Gap Analysis & Prioritization
Identified gaps across all 10 essential security practices, including governance, SOC capabilities, IAM lifecycle management, secure SDLC, vulnerability management, BYOD/endpoint security, cloud strategy, and vendor compliance.
5. Executive-Level Recommendations & Roadmap
Provided targeted initiatives for governance, risk program development, SOC uplift, identity lifecycle optimization, enterprise-wide data classification, network segmentation, and cloud security architecture.
