Training and Education
Apex Assurance delivers knowledge transfer training courses on security certification technical requirements to development teams and tutorials on business requirements to sales and marketing teams. We help educate policy writers and procurement officials on the balance of systems assurance and product assurance. Our courses help end users understand the need for, value of, and processes of:
- SDL: Requirements, planning, and implementation including how to define requirements, perform security and privacy risk assessments, gap analysis, threat modeling, code analysis and review, and enforcing the usage of safe APIs.
- Products certifications and programs including FIPS 140, Common Criteria, ICSA, JITC, STIGs, SCAP, FISMA, and UC APL
Strategic Security Advisory
Apex Assurance is well-equipped with experienced experts to advise in the areas of budgeting, contracting, partnerships, and compliance/revalidation strategy & management, all tailored to an enterprise strategy and communications plan across sales, marketing, and development teams. Apex Assurance brings expertise to help clients meet initiatives necessary to track and meet customer requirements and add additional value horizontally across your organization.
Project Management
All Apex Assurance engagements follow a progression of consultative phases, from engagement kickoff to the formal close of the engagement, to ensure the engagement provides the highest level of satisfaction for our clients and to leverage and build upon work performed in prior phases and other engagements. The Apex Assurance project management methodology is modeled upon continuous communication with the client team throughout all phases of the engagement to ensure:
- Project progression is satisfactory
- Resources are maximizing their efforts throughout the engagement
- Documentation is meeting client’s expectations and needs
- Proper knowledge transfer to the appropriate client stakeholders
- Communication of defined goals and potential areas of review