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Third Party Vendor Risk
Risk Assessments
It all begins with a thorough and appropriate assessment of risk regarding your critical assets and the impact of threats and vulnerabilities on your corporate goals. what is a risk assessment.
Risk Assessment Management
DoCRA
The Duty of Care Risk Analysis Standard (“DoCRA” or “the Standard”) presents principles and practices for analyzing risks to establish reasonable security controls based on an organization’s mission, objectives, and obligations.
CIS RAM reasonable
CIS RAM
CIS Risk Assessment Method (RAM) for reasonable implementation of CIS Controls and helping define your acceptable level of risk to achieve compliance and security. CIS RAM v2.1 released.
M&A Mergers Risk
Cybersecurity Due Diligence for Mergers and Acquisitions
M&A cyber security is critical to ensure due diligence during the process. Click here to see how HALOCK can help.
Risk Assessment Analysis
Third-Party Risk Management & Vendor Risk Assessment
Ensure third-party partners are aligned with your organization’s risk appetite. Vendors and contractors serve as an extension of your business. They represent you and should operate under your business requirements.
Cybersecurity Maintenance
Risk Management / Security Maintenance Program
From risk assessment to risk mitigation, we can manage your continuous security program.
Security Analysis
Requirements & GAP Assessment
We harmonize applicable security laws, regulations and contractual requirements and conduct a gap assessment to identify your current compliance and security state.
ISMS
Information Security Management
Based on ISO 27001 principles, HALOCK helps you implement a reasonable security management framework that has the right size and scope for your needs.
ISO 27001
ISO 27001 Certification
This is the “gold standard” for managing information security. Using our proven approach and expertise, we help you achieve this globally recognized cyber security certification.
Cyber Policy Procedure
Policies & Procedures
HALOCK’s proprietary policy development methodology and Security Policy Library help you create, measure and maintain the documentation you need.
Cyber training
Security Awareness Training
Security awareness training should be an integral part of your security program; it is your company’s first line of defense in protecting its valuable corporate assets.
Ciso vCISO
CISO Advisory Services & vCISO
If you don’t need or have the resources for a full-time CISO, let HALOCK be your Virtual CISO (vCISO), leveraging our expertise for your risk and security management needs.
External Attack Surface Management (EASM)
HALOCK’s EASM Service provides continuous discovery, exploit validation, and risk-based prioritization to keep you ahead of threats. 

Security Management Services

For more than two decades, HALOCK Security Labs has helped implement and maintain information security programs to help protect our clients’ critical assets. Our Purpose Driven Security® approach utilizes risk assessments and risk management principles to prioritize and optimize your security information management investment. Through the Duty of Care Risk Assessment (DoCRA) standard, HALOCK helps to define Acceptable Risk and Reasonable Controls that considers all interested parties without overly burdening your organization. We apply the right amount of cyber security assessment and management to protect your organization’s mission, objectives, and obligations – satisfying compliance requirements and supporting social responsibility and corporate goals. You achieve reasonable and appropriate risk and security management strategies. Getting to reasonable has never been easier. Maintaining your Security Program is a priority for HALOCK.  Our Risk Management Program can provide you with on-going fractional cyber security experts, tools and frameworks to operate and maintain your program to keep risk low and align with the needs of all parties. We support your management of risks operations. HALOCK can provide you with the perspective, tools and frameworks to prioritize and control cyber security asset management initiatives so that they align with corporate objectives and are more likely to succeed in your unique environment.

 

Learn how to establish reasonable security.

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on Reasonable Security

What Is Reasonable Security?

Reasonable Security is appropriate cybersecurity protection for your organization. Based on your size, data types, and risk profile, reasonable security can be a legal standard of care and a cybersecurity best practice, both of which show that you took defensible steps to protect information.

 

Why is “Reasonable” Security Important?

“Reasonable security” language is found in most state and federal privacy laws, and regulators have ruled that you must show you took “reasonable” steps to protect sensitive information.

Reasonable security does not mean perfect security, but rather security that makes sense based on your risks and resources.

Organizations with reasonable security:

  • Have a better chance of avoiding regulatory action after a breach
  • Are better positioned during litigation and investigations
  • Have more support from cyber insurance carriers and adjusters
  • Instill more confidence with clients, partners, and stakeholders

 

What Laws Reference “Reasonable Security”?

In the United States, a variety of state and federal laws require organizations to have “reasonable security practices and procedures.” These include, but are not limited to:

  • California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA / CPRA)
  • New York SHIELD Act
  • Illinois Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA)
  • Massachusetts 201 CMR 17.00
  • Connecticut Data Privacy Act
  • Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA)
  • Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Safeguards Rule
  • General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – references “appropriate technical and organizational measures.”

The laws do not specify exactly what controls you should use, but they do typically require some defensible evidence that you assessed and mitigated risk appropriately.

 

How Do You Demonstrate Reasonable Security?

The most effective way is through a documented, risk-based assessment process that allows you to show how your organization identifies, prioritizes, and mitigates risks.

A legally defensible risk assessment provides a fact-based argument that your actions were prudent, informed, and proportionate.

Key elements include:

  1. Risk identification: What data, systems, and processes are impacted?
  2. Threat and vulnerability analysis: What risks are credible and foreseeable?
  3. Impact assessment: What could cause harm to customers, partners, or operations?
  4. Control evaluation: What safeguards are reasonable under current conditions?
  5. Documentation: Written records of your findings, decisions, and mitigations.

Security and legal frameworks such as NIST SP 800-30, ISO 27005, CIS Controls, and DoCRA (Duty of Care Risk Analysis) can help define and prove what “reasonable” looks like in practice.

 

What Is the Duty of Care Risk Analysis (DoCRA)?

The Duty of Care Risk Analysis (DoCRA) standard is an approach to establish and document reasonable security for an organization. It states that reasonable security is:

“Security that balances the interests of the organization with the interests of others who may be harmed if security fails.”

DoCRA helps organizations to review and justify risk decisions, not only from a compliance point of view but also with respect to fairness, proportionality, and legal defensibility. In essence, it considers an organization’s mission, objectives, and obligations. It effectively bridges security, business, and legal aspects in one defensible framework.

 

 

How HALOCK Helps Organizations Demonstrate Reasonable Security

HALOCK offers cybersecurity assessments that are risk-based, legally defensible, and aligned with the Duty of Care Risk Analysis (DoCRA) standard.

HALOCK assessment helps you to:

  • Identify, quantify, and prioritize cyber risks
  • Select and balance controls with business impact
  • Document a reasonable security posture for regulators, courts, and clients
  • Establish an accountability and continuous improvement process

Use Cases with DoCRA and Reasonable Security

 

How Can You Define “Reasonable Security”?

Reasonable security means implementing safeguards that are:

Appropriate: Based on your business size, industry, and data sensitivity

Proportionate: Controls balance protection with business practicality

Recognized: Align with accepted frameworks (NIST, ISO 27001, CIS, DoCRA)

Documented: You can prove decisions, policies, and risk management actions

Adaptive: Regularly reassessed as technology, threats, and operations evolve

 

Can a DoCRA Risk Assessment Help Manage our Security Program for AI?

Organizations using AI should incorporate reasonable security and appropriate safeguards into their risk strategy.

Establish reasonable security through duty of care.

With HALOCK, organizations can establish a legally defensible security and risk program through Duty of Care Risk Analysis (DoCRA). This balanced approach provides a methodology to achieve reasonable security as the regulations require.

 

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