Cyber Security Risk and Gap Assessment

Understanding and implementing a data security program can be daunting. There are a growing number of security laws, regulations and standards that may apply to you.

So where to start?

A cyber security risk assessment is the cornerstone of every effective security management program.

• It helps you understand what events can affect your organization in a negative way and security gaps act as threat to you. Knowing this helps you create a better security strategy and be proactive.
• It helps find the vulnerabilities in your IT environment, assess the likelihood that a risk will happen and ranks those risks according to level of impact it could have on your business if it happens.
• It is the first step to complying to the many and growing compliance regulations. It helps identify the gaps between your current state of security and where you need to be in order in compliance.

Through its security risk and gap assessments CS360 helps you:

• Understand your current security posture as compared to leading practices and compliance requirements.
• Reconcile current controls with where you want to be.
• Document existing controls and security efforts.
• Identify and quantify risks to your information assets.
• Understand the strengths and weaknesses of your current defenses.
• Examine weaknesses from the perspective of the attacker.
• Align your IT risk management programs with your security and business goals.
• Identify areas of operation where the risk to your organization may be too high.