A security and infrastructure assessment will identify and document key security controls in your IT environment. When your organization performs a security assessment, it allows you to review your technology portfolio from the view of a perspective attacker.
The report will help technology managers make informed decisions on where to allocate resources, what managed security tools they need to invest in, and what additional security controls need to be acquired.
Security assessments can range from being a high-level generalized report to an in-depth analysis. Factors that impact the depth of the assessment model includes company size, expected growth rate, technology stack, and resources.
Impactful security assessments include the following steps.
Identification. Document all the critical pieces of your technology infrastructure and note how data is stored and transmitted through these resources.
Assessment. After you identify all the critical pieces of your technology infrastructure, you will need to assess how to allocate time and resources toward assessment. This stage is focused on assessing the correlation between your technology assets, threats, and necessary mitigation controls.
Mitigation. Document your mitigation control for each of your critical pieces of technology.
Prevention. Implement the necessary mitigation controls identified to protect your firm’s data and resources.
Security assessments are not a one-time project. Our security engineers recommend this to be part of your annual IT assessments. Annual reviews will allow your organization to stay up-to-date on what threats your infrastructure is currently exposed to.
Any organization that collects personally identifiable information (PII) or personal health information (PHI) should undergo an annual risk assessment. Information such as social security numbers, passport details, medical history and financial information must be properly stored.
There are a variety of laws, regulations, and standards that dictate what assessment is needed. Some governing bodies include HIPAA, PCI-DSS, the Sarbanes-Oxley Audit Standard 5, and the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA).
It takes an average of 287 days for security teams to identify and contain a data breach, according to the “Cost of a Data Breach 2021” report released by IBM and Ponemon Institute.
The internal team was energized. With the Level 1 work off its plate, the team turned its attention to the work that fueled company growth and gave them job satisfaction.
Forty-three percent of attacks are aimed at SMBs, but only 14% are prepared to defend themselves (Accenture).
The cost of cybercrime is predicted to hit $10.5 trillion by 2025, according to the latest version of the Cisco/Cybersecurity Ventures “2022 Cybersecurity Almanac.”.
The average cost of a data breach in the United States is $8.64 million, which is the highest in the world, while the most expensive sector for data breach costs is the healthcare industry, with an average of $7.13 million (IBM).
The three sectors with the biggest spending on cybersecurity are banking, manufacturing, and the central/federal government, accounting for 30% of overall spending (IDC).
More than 33 billion records will be stolen by cybercriminals by 2023, an increase of 175% from 2018.
40% of businesses will incorporate the anywhere operations model to accommodate the physical and digital experiences of both customers and employees (Techvera).
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