Cyber Security Risk Assessment

Cyber Security Risk Assessment

Our cybersecurity consulting services help organizations of all sizes improve their cyber security. Whether your need is strategic, tactical or operational, our experts will offer solutions tailored to the reality and issues specific to your organization. We provide tailored consultation with precision focus in our core competencies, specializing in intelligence, defense and supporting global governments, financial services, and critical information infrastructure sector owners & operators.

Risk assessment – the process of identifying, analyzing, and evaluating risk – is the only way to ensure that the cybersecurity controls you choose are appropriate to the risks your organization faces. Without a risk assessment to inform your cybersecurity choices, you could waste time, effort and resources – there is, after all, little point implementing measures to defend against events that are unlikely to occur or won't have much material impact on your organization. Likewise, it is possible that you will underestimate or overlook risks that could cause significant damage to your organization.

A cybersecurity risk assessment identifies the various information assets that could be affected by a cyber-attack (such as hardware, systems, laptops, customer data, and intellectual property), and then identifies the various risks that could affect those assets.

A risk estimation and evaluation are usually performed, followed by the selection of controls to treat the identified risks. It is important to continually monitor and review the risk environment to detect any changes in the context of the organization, and to maintain an overview of the complete risk management process.

Our services can help identify the threats and vulnerabilities facing an organization and assist them to make informed cost-effective decisions regarding investment in information security and technology. This can be done at an organization wide level, or the service can be delivered focusing on individual projects or initiatives. Our risk assessment services includes:

The advantage of the VST's risk assessment tool is that it ensures that risk assessments are carried out in a repeatable consistent manner and it provides organizations with a dash board highlighting the main areas of risk to the organization. The tooling has the added benefit in that it can demonstrate to organizations the evolution and reduction of risks, which can demonstrate successful returns on investment and provide tangible evidence of the effectiveness of risk management.