Security Risk Assessments Unearth Crucial Insights
A thorough and accurate risk assessment can unearth a host of crucial insights from even the deepest and darkest alleys of your IT environment to ultimately empower your decision making. Having actionable insights at your disposal can help you build strategies to reduce risk levels in practical ways instead of shooting in the dark by testing various tools.
Here are some of the most important details that become more apparent and unambiguous with every risk assessment.
01
Baseline of the System
A risk assessment helps you chart out the lifecycle of all data that is collected, stored and managed in your entire network.
02
Identification of Threats
A meticulous risk assessment identifies all the possible threats, such as intentional, unintentional, technical, non-technical and structural, that your business data is exposed to.
03
Identification of Vulnerabilities
With each assessment, you get the latest list of vulnerabilities prevalent in your network with respect to patches, policies, procedures, software, equipment and more.
04
Current Status of Existing Controls
From the assessment report, you can also understand the existing security and privacy controls protecting your business against vulnerabilities.
05
Probability of Impact
An accurate assessment report is fully capable of anticipating the probability of a threat that might exploit one of your network’s existing vulnerabilities.
06
Strength of Impact
Risk assessment also helps you gauge the possible impact of any threat hitting your business.
Imagine how easy it would be for you to build and implement a strategy to fix the security loopholes in your business while maintaining a well-documented record of your efforts.
(more information in next weeks blog)