Organizational Assessments of Your Security Enterprise

Lawrence Solutions LLC offers services to conduct organizational assessments of security teams to evaluate their performance. Such an assessment will identify areas of concern using methodologies necessary for data gathering to determine how well the current security team functions. The results of the assessment analyses will include a framework of recommendations for addressing any deficiencies and opportunities for improvements. The goal is to develop a comprehensive security plan that enhances the company’s security operations.

The benefits of such an assessment include improved communication of security matters, effective achievement of the security mission, successful customer service delivery leading to transparency and collaboration on security issues, and increased external customer satisfaction. The aim is to enhance the performance of the company’s security mission to the benefit of the company. Here are just a few areas of detail covered:

Organizational Review
• Conduct a detailed examination of company’s security organizational structure and functions especially related to cleared efforts and customers
• Define the stakeholders and their involvement with or in the security mission
• Evaluate the company’s security team’s initiatives, goals, and objectives
• Assess inter-departmental collaboration with other company support and mission organizations, such as HR, contracts, program management, recruiting, facilities, general counsel, etc.
• Identify areas requiring additional and staffing

Operational Review
• Establish the cleared security team’s core competencies
• Review all cleared team’s operational functions and workflow processes for each area of security, i.e., personnel vetting, compliance matters/briefings, insider threat program, reporting, inspections, etc.
• Establish how the cleared security operations align with the cleared business strategy and roadmap
• Identify security team’s current performance measures based on industry standards
• Review descriptions of each job and recommend a classification system based on job content analysis

Recommendations
• Identify best practices and performance measures that should be adopted by the company cleared security team
• Review the cleared and uncleared security operations to consider any opportunities to simplify and consolidate security roles and responsibilities
• Offer cost-benefit analysis for ways to improve security acceptable to company leadership
• Identify time and cost-saving technologies to current and future programs and operations
• Develop metrics from measurable processes to demonstrate a return on investment in security for the company

Risk Assessments

Conduct Risk Assessments for SCIF and SAPF construction planning per ICD 705 accreditation and CNSS TEMPEST review approval requirements.

SCIF/SAPF Upgrade Assessments

Perform SCIF/SAPF upgrade assessments to assist in estimating the costs required to comply with the current US Government mandates, ensuring all of your SCIFs/SAPFs meet the latest ICD 705 and CNSS TEMPEST countermeasure standards.