Torbilon is a leading provider of security assessment services, mobile wallet application provisionment and enterprise managed hosting solutions. Based in Denver, Colorado, Torbilon is privately held, stable, and growing steadily.

Torbilon Security Assessment

This service is provided to organizations ranging from tier one financial services enterprises to small to medium-sized companies. During the security assessment, examination of both technical and non-technical controls for presence, effectiveness and the degree to which applications/systems may be vulnerable are addressed. The evaluation encompasses security risks associated with business and operations IT assets, from both external and internal perspectives.

Torbilon’s methodology to perform the requested services combines industry accepted best practices from the Sandia National Laboratory and Committee of Sponsoring Organizations (COSO) guidelines developed by the Treadway Commission; Risk Assessment Methodology (RAM-W); Information Systems Audit and Control Foundation’s Control Objectives for IT (COBIT); International Standards Organization (ISO) 27xxx; the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) audit methodology and SAN’s GIAC’s Certified Penetration Tester, or GPEN, which is an advanced information security designation for individuals who conduct penetration testing. These approaches represent the dominant methods for assessing physical security and cyber security requirements.

With extended enterprises, companies cannot afford IT project failures, nor can they afford to implement a less than superior solution. As a project company, we are very aware of these dynamics. We have found that effective project management requires a balance between control and communication; therefore, we utilize a unique combination of technological and solid communications skills to establish strict management and visible processes. You’ll know what we’re doing. You’ll be confident we’ll get it done. Our proven, tested approach manages risk effectively by utilizing the following:

Best Practices

Torbilon employs control procedures to manage escalation, risk, time/budget, scope change, scheduling, and estimation. Careful management of each of these is imperative to successful project completion.

Project Management Tools

Torbilon uses a combination of off-the-shelf and proprietary tools to keep track of project progress and to keep the project on track. These tools include industry specific project management process methodology, and applications for time, cost, and issue tracking.

Project Management Office

These control procedures are enforced by our internal Project Management Office (PMO). Augmenting the efforts of the project manager(s), the PMO provides consistent and timely project status reporting (financial and otherwise), assistance with issue tracking and project plan maintenance, and support in enforcing Torbilon’s scope change process. The administration services that the PMO provides enables the Torbilon Project Manager to focus their efforts on the essential “soft” skills of communication, issue resolution, negotiation, diplomacy, and project management while ensuring the “hard” skills, such as tracking, monitoring, and reporting take place.

Communications Plan

All of this information is worth little until it has been communicated. That is why for each and every project, Torbilon develops a comprehensive communication plan. This communication plan consists of weekly reports and meetings augmented by daily communication.
Torbilon has found that our clients appreciate this balance between control and communication, especially the view they are given into the status of their project at whatever level they feel comfortable. Torbilon’s approach to project management has proven to deliver faster and higher quality IT projects while at the same time minimizing the risk to the client.