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IANS Services for the Public Sector

Decision Support

IANS’ Decision Support service connects your team with highly vetted, real‑world cybersecurity experts from around the globe. Our Faculty, made up of seasoned practitioners with deep technical and program‑level experience, provides practical guidance, clarity, and informed perspectives whenever you need it.

From specialized expertise to strategic direction or even a decisive point of view, IANS serves as a trusted partner to help your security team make confident, well‑supported decisions. Rely on IANS for objective, experience‑driven advice from professionals who have truly been there.

Decision Support Services Include:

  • Ask-An-Expert: Strengthen your decision‑making with direct access to seasoned information security experts you can rely on.
  • Executive Communications: Access daily content that keeps you and the business response ready.
  • Tech Briefings: Live guidance from seasoned practitioners on breaking cybersecurity events, incidents and breaches.
  • CISO Inquiry: Share questions to a confidential peer network to receive unique insights from across the community.
  • Vendor Assessment Community: Access unbiased practitioner-based perspectives on vendors.
  • Tools & Templates: Streamline your workflow with a comprehensive library of toolkits, role-based templates, and ready‑to‑use checklists.
  • Content Aggregator: Use professionally curated security presentations and visuals to strengthen communication with stakeholders.
  • Privacy Operations: Support for the assessment, policy creation and implementation of privacy initiatives.

Consulting

IANS Consulting works with your team to identify gaps in your security program and deliver practical, real‑world fixes to strengthen your overall posture. Each engagement is scoped and coordinated by the IANS team and executed by experienced IANS Faculty, allowing your internal staff to stay focused on their core responsibilities.

Consulting Services Include:

  • Penetration Testing – We operate as an adversary to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in your security controls.
  • Red and Purple Teaming – We showcase real-world attacker tactics and deliver guidance to help improve your infrastructure.
  • Tabletop Exercises – We assess your incident response process to uncover gaps and validate your plan with customized tabletop exercises.
  • Cloud Security Assessments – Evaluate organizational maturity across cloud initiatives.
  • Security Program Assessments – Benchmark your program against industry frameworks and develop a roadmap for the future.
  • Tailored Technical Training – Provide hands-on lab training to improve network and operational resilience.
  • Keynote Speeches – Delivered by IANS Faculty experts, rather than vendors.
  • Consulting Retainer – Scope and initiate consulting projects more quickly by putting a retainer in place.

Professional Development

The IANS Professional Development suite delivers full lifecycle support across functional, business, and leadership competencies. By combining technical expertise with leadership development, organizations build a well-rounded team that works more efficiently and effectively.

Professional Development Services include:

  • Security Academy- Expert-led instruction paired with hands-on interactive labs, offered in multiple formats to provide our team with greater flexibility.
  • Security Leadership Development- A tailored leadership program designed to help aspiring security leaders strengthen their executive capabilities.
  • CISO Executive Coaching – A customized experience that pairs cybersecurity leaders with top executive coaches from our faculty team.