Summary
Proactively defend your sensitive data
Features
Effectively manage and mitigate risk
Your organization’s sensitive data is one of your most precious assets. SecurityMetrics follows the NIST 800-30 framework for risk assessments. Completing a Risk Assessment is a useful way to fulfill aspects of several regulatory compliance standards such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, EI3PA, GLBA, FISMA, and SOC 1 and 2.
The results of your Risk Assessment will guide your remediation efforts and risk management efforts moving forward, so you can proactively defend your sensitive data.
Simplify compliance requirements
Compliance can be a difficult journey to take alone. Yet, achieving and maintaining compliance protects your business from fines and penalties and ultimately keeps your clients, partners, and management happy.
SecurityMetrics assessors understand the stressful nature of compliance and audits and have simplified the process, so you can have a stress-free experience.
Maintain a secure environment
SecurityMetrics gives you the facts on every aspect of your assessment through an easy-to-understand online reporting console.
Once you understand your threats and your risk, you can move forward with your day-to-day business with confidence because you will be aware of what to monitor.
With careful monitoring, you’re able to take faster action to remediate vulnerabilities before they cause lasting effects on your business.
Risk assessment timeline
01
Prepare for assessment
Your assessors will identify the purpose and scope of the assessment by determining how and where sensitive data is created, transmitted, and stored.
02
Threat sources and events
They will then identify the type of threat sources your organization faces (e.g. adversarial, accidental, structural, environmental) and the events the sources could trigger (e.g. phishing, power outage).
03
Vulnerabilities and predisposing conditions
Through identifying threats, you can then spot vulnerabilities that are associated with information systems or environments where those systems operate. This will also pinpoint the location of predisposed conditions to consider (e.g. architectures and technologies employed, personnel).
04
Determine likelihood of occurrence
Using different tiers, you will be able to determine the likelihood of threat events occurring at your organization.
05
Determine magnitude of impact
Once the likelihood of a threat is determined, you can use each tier to determine the impact of each threat event.
06
Risk determination
Combining the likelihood and the magnitude of the impact of a threat will determine the risk to the organization.
07
Informing risk response (communicate results)
Ensure that the appropriate people inside the organization understand the appropriate risk-related information to inform and guide decision-making. Oftentimes risk assessment reports are used to communicate within the organization.
Effectively manage risk
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