Guardz vs Kroll

About Kroll

Kroll is a global financial and risk advisory firm. Kroll provides reactive, advisory, transformation and managed security services to support clients at every stage of their path toward cyber and data resilience maturity. Kroll combines security and data risk expertise with intelligence from thousands of incident response, regulatory compliance, financial crime and due diligence engagements. Kroll says organizations across the globe face recurring and fluctuating risks to their cybersecurity posture and critical data, such as persistent cyberattacks, evolving compliance requirements, complex supply chains and emerging technology vulnerabilities. Kroll experts draw on their own experiences as consultants, CISOs, regulators, federal intelligence agents, SANS instructors and ethical hackers.^{[3][5][6][16]}

Kroll is CREST-accredited for Penetration Testing, SOC and IR Services. Kroll is certified as a Global PCI Forensic Investigator (PCI) Company. Kroll's Cyber Insurance Services Team serves as a central coordination point for carriers, brokers, breach counsel and policyholders. Kroll is included on more than 50 cyber insurance panels globally. Kroll offers a Cyber Risk Retainer with credits that can be used across its professional services portfolio. Kroll states that up to 20% of unused services credit may be applied to the following year upon renewal. Kroll's retainer includes access to a global team of 700+ incident response, litigation and breach notification experts.^{[1][4][5][14]}

Kroll Responder MDR delivers 24/7 security monitoring and response that includes understanding the root cause, hunting for further evidence of compromise and eradication. Kroll Responder MDR for Microsoft provides enriched MDR for Microsoft Security. Kroll offers a complimentary $1 million incident protection service warranty with no vendor-specific hardware requirement. Kroll and CrowdStrike deliver end-to-end implementation and ongoing security operations powered by CrowdStrike Falcon technologies. Kroll identifies previously undiscovered exposures across a digital footprint to reduce an attack surface. Kroll ethical hackers and incident responders apply the latest adversary techniques to craft tests, simulations and assessments unique to a client's environment. Kroll's Artifact Parser and Extractor (KAPE) collects and processes forensically useful artifacts. Kroll implements, configures and operates solutions and programs from Identity and Access Management and Threat Detection to Artificial Intelligence (AI) Governance and OT Security.^[1][5][14]

Kroll provides bespoke services for complex incident response, regulatory investigations, litigation support, board-level engagements and national security matters. Kroll's Complex Digital Events services use a combination of non-practising attorneys and technical experts to guide and deliver complex investigations. Kroll supports thousands of law firms and corporate cyber clients. Kroll's work includes targeted, nation-state sponsored cyberattack investigations and risk mitigation. Kroll provides forensic investigations and expert testimony supporting data breach litigation, trade secret/intellectual property theft and employment disputes. Kroll's cyber threat intelligence services draw on incident response intelligence and analysts to hunt and respond to threats.^[15]

Kroll's Cybersecurity Risk Assessments include a detailed review of the information security program, from policies and procedures to technical controls, including people, processes and technologies. Kroll's assessments use the NIST Cybersecurity framework as guidance and include interviews with internal stakeholders across technical and business teams. At the conclusion of an assessment, Kroll clients receive a summary report designed to communicate security posture to senior management, including an assessment of maturity level and an outline of critical risks identified. Kroll offers a baseline review aimed at small and medium businesses. Kroll offers an assessment of a cybersecurity incident response plan, processes and defensive controls. Kroll reviews the current security status of Active Directory deployments to mitigate possible attack paths. Kroll reviews AWS security groups, identity and access management (IAM), access control lists, relational databases and EC2 instance lifecycles. Kroll offers a virtual CISO service for security and technology teams. Kroll evaluates and hardens software supply chain security risks using DevSecOps, offensive security and incident response expertise. Kroll experts are Certified Information Systems Auditors, Certified Information Security Managers, Certified Information Systems Security Professionals and Certified Ethical Hackers.^[16]

Kroll's global Enterprise Security Risk Management team works on proactive threat and risk mitigation and reacts to crises, offering personnel, expertise, advisory and bandwidth. Kroll's Threat Life Cycle Management uses end-to-end cyber and physical risk solutions to uncover exposures, validate the effectiveness of defenses, implement new or updated controls, fine-tune detections and respond to any threat. Kroll describes itself as senior advisers to clients on all security and threat-related issues. Kroll's services include developing and testing emergency response plans. Kroll provides expertise to address complex risks and challenges involving data, technology and corporate legal solutions, with services to support clients across the entire litigation lifecycle. Kroll helps corporate legal departments transform their operations and technology estate with operational consulting, digital transformation and managed services. Kroll's AI Report Validation practice centers investigators who deconstruct AI-generated narratives, test their claims against professional-grade sources and determine what was fabricated, distorted or omitted. Kroll's Investigations, Diligence and Compliance team supports clients with independent expert analysis, testimony, advice and intelligence in complex investigations, litigation and projects globally.^{[4][5][6][7][14][15][17][18][21]}