To empower your organization and move with agility, serve your customers better and build trust, and contribute to overall growth – you must evolve with modern security approaches. With digitization and the ever-expanding threat landscape, your IT departments must be vigilant to identify the vulnerabilities, pivot rapidly during the inevitable cyber events, and enable a safe and secure work environment.
During these times of a digital-first environment, it is the time to prepare the entire team, and not just the IT department, to think strategically before connecting or serving the customers. Identifying the gaps in your security posture, securing and protecting confidential assets, meeting compliances, and strengthening the security policy – a regular security assessment is essential!
A cybersecurity risk assessment helps you assess and identify risks, establish a security posture suitable to your business needs, and implement security strategies across the organization. When you perform risk assessments, it helps you prevent your applications from defects and vulnerabilities, while enabling complete governance.
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Why is cybersecurity assessment so important?
CAUTION ALERT :
According to the statistics, there is an increase of 28% in global attacks in the third quarter of 2022 when compared to the same quarter last year. The average weekly attacks per organization rose to 1130 worldwide!
This is an alarming wake-up call to all businesses, and it’s high time now to make security assessment mandatory!
When data breaches, digital scams, massive malicious attacks, ransomware attacks, and all other cybersecurity vulnerabilities continue to grow, protecting your business, its sensitive data, and customer assets from these becomes more pivotal than anything else in the organization.
And that’s why cybersecurity risk assessment is so important for organizations.
Benefits of Cybersecurity Assessment
With Cybersecurity assessment, you can brace yourself and protect your organizations from these enmeshing affairs. Here’s what cybersecurity assessment can do for your business.
- Et helps you determine, expose, and prioritize the organization’s security posture
- You will be able to forecast the consequences of the cyber security vulnerabilities
- You attain the ability to identify and prevent your organization from malicious attacks
- Helps you avoid security breaches by identifying the gaps in the security posture
- Reduces costs by keeping the security strategy in place and helping you plan accordingly.
- Helps you avoid non-compliance and violations of the regulations
Alright. So now you know what cybersecurity assessment is and how important it is for organizations irrespective of size. But how do you think you will get this done if you do not have a team of cybersecurity specialists or experts?
We are here to resolve your cybersecurity issues, protect your business, and help you fix the gaps in your system while mitigating the potential risks. With our services, you will attain various benefits including
- Brand protection
- Detailed investigation and enforcement
- Comprehensive threat risk assessment
- 360-degree cybersecurity solutions and support
- Custom services based on your business needs
6 Steps to conduct a security assessment
Step 1: Inventory and prioritize the assets
As an organization, you will have systems that are in use and that are not in use. We will help you take an inventory of all your IT assets, including the ones that are connected but not in function. You will get a comprehensive and detailed inventory of all the IT systems. You can then prioritize the assets.
Step 2: Identify threats and vulnerabilities
Once we are done with the inventory and prioritization, we will create a list of all possible threats based on our experiences, present scenarios, and our in-depth expertise. Your system will have gaps and weaknesses. We will identify them to protect them from any potential threat or exploitation.
Step 3: Analyze the controls
We will give you a list of the existing control systems and nail down the action plan that will help you get through the identified risks. It could either be a change in the policy, procedure, content, procurement, configuration, or a change in the implementation of the hardware or an application.
Step 4: Forecast the incident
Based on your current system, gaps, and weaknesses, prioritize and we will help you categorize the risks based on their severity. To make it easier, we will create a risk matrix and identify the areas that need to be addressed immediately. We will help you determine risks that can be sorted yourself or later and risks that we will get resolved for you based on our expertise.
Step 5: Estimate its impact and triage the security risks
Once the list of all the gaps and risks is ready, we will help you chalk out the type of loss with the impact it would make and quantify them. The cost estimation will help you set priorities based on the loss.
Step 6: Recommend controls and document the results
To ensure that all your investments and digital assets are protected, we will leave no stone unturned in protecting your organization, enabling safe and secure growth, while wiping out all forms of cybercrimes. With our years of expertise, we will recommend the best practices for governance and control, document the results, and suggest an action plan.
Read more: Types of cybersecurity testing for your organization
Next Steps!
Keeping in mind the current recession and the increasing cybercrimes, it is crucial that you take the move now. Take a step to assess your organization and protect it before it’s too late. With our cybersecurity assessment specialists, we will walk you through the entire process of identifying, assessing, mitigating, and preventing and provide you with real-time insights on the most crucial vulnerabilities.
