Lockton clients can access cyber risk governance app
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Lockton Cos. L.L.C. clients will have access to a cyber risk governance software application under a collaboration announced Monday with Cybernance Corp.
Clients of Kansas City, Missouri-based Lockton will have immediate access to the Cybernance Platform, Austin, Texas-based Cybernance’s cyber risk governance software application, which is based on the Gaithersburg Maryland-based National Institute of Standards and Technology’s cyber security framework.
The framework enables companies to assess, measure and report on their cyber security maturity across the entire organization, according to the companies’ statement.
The Cybernance Platform enables nontechnical board members, executives, internal auditors, general counsel and chief risk officers to maintain insight into and exert control over their organization’s level of protection against cyber crime, according to the statement.
Key features include policy, audit, access privileges, risk assessment, training and monitoring, and third-party provider and vendor security.
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