Cybersecurity Assessments
Worried About Those “Unknown Unknowns” in Your Organization’s IT Security?
Tighten up your risk management process with NIST 800-171 based Cybersecurity Assessments.
Use Risk Assessments to...
identify, estimate, and prioritize your organization’s Security risks.
Risk assessments review your organizational operations, assets, individuals, other organizations, and the country, resulting from the operation and use of information systems, enabling you to develop your organization’s security posture over time in a collaborative environment.
What is NIST 800-171?
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication 800-171 is a set of standards that define how to safeguard and distribute material deemed sensitive but not classified for organizations doing business with the federal government.
The NIST 800-171 based Cybersecurity Assessment conforms to this high standard. Learn more about the NIST framework.
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Why Would Your Organization Need a NIST Cybersecurity assessment?
Get Closer to Regulatory Compliance Requirements
How?
Identify Gaps in Your Security Program
How?
Discover Unrealized Assets
Why?
Identify Vulnerabilities
Why?
Establish Your Security Baseline
Why?
Risk Assessments
Effective cybersecurity programs are established based on an organizations’ unique risk profile. A risk assessment is a critical exercise conducted to identify and mitigate:
- Technical Risk
- Adversarial Risk
- Accidental Risk
- Environmental Risk
Completing a risk assessment will allow an organization to allocate resources (time, money, and human capital) to reduce overall risk in an intelligent and strategic way.
Cybersecurity defenses and controls should never be deployed arbitrarily; they should be deployed with the intention to reduce risk.
Vulnerability Assessments
Vulnerability assessments evaluate existing technology systems such as servers, workstations, firewalls, and other network equipment for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE).
Technical vulnerabilities could be in the form of unpatched systems, misconfigured or outdated services and even unsupported software.
Conducting Vulnerability Assessments on a regular basis provides a real time view of weaknesses that could easily be exploited by malicious actors like computer hackers.
Understanding current vulnerabilities offers an opportunity to fix or remediate weaknesses before a successful cyber attack is launched.
Cybersecurity Maturity Assessments
Many organizations strive to achieve compliance with State or Federal regulations, organizational policy or industry frameworks. A Cybersecurity Maturity Assessment is an evaluation of the current state of an organizations internal control framework compared to the desired state as typically dictated by a framework or regulation. The gaps that exist between the current state and desired state become an action plan to pursue to compliance. We offer the following types of Cybersecurity Maturity Assessments:
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework Maturity Assessment
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Maturity Assessment
- DFARS NIST 800-171 Maturity Assessment
- Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Maturity Assessment
- Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Level 1 -5 Maturity Assessment