Assurance and Resilience

Booz Allen Hamilton offers full spectrum capabilities that help clients protect and secure their information and network resources, anticipate and mitigate strategic risks, and counter threats that impact mission-critical infrastructure and shareholder value. We provide support in developing a strategic approach to maintaining operational readiness, even in the wake of catastrophic events, by integrating physical, cyber, and personnel security with contingency planning and developing security policy.  We also safeguard information and information systems by ensuring availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and access control.

 Booz Allen offers expertise in the following areas:

• Systems Security Engineering: All of the processes, methodologies, activities, and capabilities necessary to specify, design, and architect secure complex solutions.
• Cyber Security Operations: Implementation of security processes, procedures, and/or practices in the deployment, operation, and maintenance of a system or infrastructure.
• Certification and Compliance: Activities, processes, methodologies and procedures to ensure that a system and or an application is performing as it was intended and satisfying all its objective information and mission assurance requirements.  Includes security and technology implementation and applications, as well as applicable policy and governance.
• Enterprise Security Management: All core security products, software, technology, subsystems, and applications that provide the foundation of the security function.
• Enterprise and Systems Resilience: Systems and processes that enable an enterprise to withstand and recover quickly from business interruptions.
• Risk Management: Activities and processes that enable organizations to prioritize and manage risk across the enterprise in the face of information and system security threats.
• Mission Assurance: Activities and processes that ensure an organization's ability to accomplish its mission in an all-hazard environment.
• Security Program and Security Acquisition Management: Information assurance services applicable to the definition, acquisition, and program management of security technology, components, products, services, and systems.  Activities and processes include System Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) support, security technology assessments, acquisition and program plans, security acquisition policy, and security compliance activities applicable to acquisition programs.

Additional Information 

• Engineering Cybersecurity for the Future Air Transportation System — Securing the nation's future air transportation system against cyber attack.
• Fostering Federal Partnerships for Homeland Defense and Security — Responding to an urgent need for a comprehensive database of geospatial information about the US domestic infrastructure, the Department of Defense asked Booz Allen to support and facilitate the multi-agency Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-level Data (HIFLD) Working Group.
• Technical Security Evaluations— Booz Allen delivers rigorous security testing and evaluation of the Research in Motion (RIM) BlackBerry® Smart Card Reader, ensuring secure, reliable mobile communications for the Army and, ultimately, all the military services.
• Continuing Vital Mission Operations After a Disaster:  The Booz Allen Continuity Planning Tool — This tool helps agencies put in place strategies for assurance and resilience that can be exercised, tested, and continuously updated to ensure compliance with government directives and goals.
• "Meeting Security Perils of Telework and Alternative Work Arrangements" — This article authored by Booz Allen's Brian Bates and  Demi Bekele appeared in the June 2009 edition of Real Property Policysite, which is published by the GSA Office of Governmentwide Policy.