Sokn Engineering

Enhancing Cybersecurity for a FinTech Startup

In a mountain region home to a surprising number of tech startups, Sokn Engineering aimed to protect its intellectual property and business interests while ensuring its applications and infrastructure were secure. Additionally, compliance with SEC, FTC, and CFTC cybersecurity regulations was crucial.

Straightforward Solutions

After an initial consultation to align goals and outcomes, Adversis and Sokn Engineering discussed the business environment using a realistic threat model, considering critical business aspects, key technical solutions, likely threats, and impacts. This comprehensive assessment went beyond regulatory requirements, examining business, technical, and procedural risks.

Leveraging experience in ethical hacking, advanced audit techniques, and pragmatic risk assessment methods, Adversis ensured the organization had no hidden exposures, fully understood its current state, and met its regulatory obligations.

Through multiple conversations and translating technical jargon into everyday language, Sokn Engineering understood its tailored cyber policy guidance provided by Adversis. This enabled the team to understand their safe usage of technology and robust processes, and know where to refer to regarding risk questions. Business processes were reviewed to ensure appropriate online controls were in place and to evaluate offline processes for potential disruptions.

Adversis conducted secure technical audits on workstations, network, and WiFi configurations to ensure secure settings were implemented. Publicly accessible services and website technology were reviewed for vulnerabilities. Employee emails and information were checked to ensure no weak passwords or data were exposed in dark web breaches. Cloud infrastructure was audited, analyzed, and reviewed for configuration errors and public data disclosures.

Confidence. That winning feeling.

Sokn Engineering staff and leadership now know the chance of a breach is much lower and have clear plans to respond if a breach does occur.

They're rightfully confident about their business resilience and cybersecurity stance. The team worries less about cybersecurity and compliance risks through substantially lower liability and increased peace of mind.

Adversis took the time to get to know our needs and went above and beyond when they assisted us with a complex problem. The reports that were provided to us are very easy to understand and thorough.

- Cassie Monaco, CEO