Risk Assessment – Crucial for you!
Secureplex domain experts offer risk assessments that are conducted systematically to identify vulnerabilities and potential risks that may pose a threat to a company’s network security. These assessments also focus on determining the most effective safeguards to mitigate these risks. Our approach adheres to the guidelines outlined in NIST Special Publications 800-37, 800-30, 800-53, and 800-171, ensuring a robust and standardized evaluation.
For Secureplex, the focus of a risk assessment exercise is to provide executives with a comprehensive understanding of information security vulnerabilities. This allows them to make informed decisions efficiently and with due diligence, enabling prompt and effective actions to address any identified security concerns.
Secureplex-initiated risk assessments play a crucial role in upholding the three fundamental pillars of information security in a customer environment:
Confidentiality, Integrity, & Availability.
✓ Ensuring confidentiality is vital as unauthorized disclosure of proprietary information can lead to severe repercussions, ranging from compromising company security to exposing data protected by the Privacy Act.
✓ Maintaining integrity is equally important to prevent potential risks like inaccuracy, theft, or other harmful consequences that can arise from continued use of infected devices or compromised data. Timely action to restore system and data integrity is essential.
✓ Guaranteeing availability is essential for the organization’s mission success. If a mission-critical IT device becomes inaccessible to end users, it can jeopardize the organization’s overall mission. Hence, risk assessments play a pivotal role in safeguarding and enhancing the security of the organization’s information assets.
Secureplex Approach
Regardless of their level of protection sophistication, companies of all sizes can benefit from a risk assessment, making it a valuable tool for organizations at any scale. For smaller organizations, a risk assessment can serve as a roadmap to develop more effective security programs.
As a company progresses and expands, the level of risk it faces also increases. Therefore, conducting regular risk assessments becomes essential to prevent the organization from being caught off guard and maintain a balanced approach to risk management.
Furthermore, various laws and compliance requirements, such as GDPR, PCI, and HIPAA, mandate the conduction of risk assessments. Complying with these regulations reinforces the importance of assessing and mitigating potential risks to protect sensitive data and ensure the overall security of the organization.
Secureplex Services:
✓ Penetration Testing
✓ Ransomware
✓ Risk Advisory
✓ Full-Scope Risk Assessment
✓ Cyber Defense Advisory Services
Vulnerability Assessment – Why it matters!
Secureplex team of experts performs a comprehensive vulnerability assessment for its customers. This exercise delves into a wide array of potential issues spanning across multiple networks, systems, and various components of our customer’s IT ecosystem, whether they reside on-premises or in the cloud. The Secureplex team constantly aims to zero-in on the weaknesses that require attention, such as misconfigurations and policy non-compliance vulnerabilities that may not be adequately addressed through regular patching and maintenance.
We are serious!
In the context of vulnerability assessments, Secureplex experts assign a level of risk (priority, urgency, impact-wise) to each identified threat in a customer network. This risk prioritization allows our customer’s IT security team to focus their efforts on addressing the threats that could pose the greatest challenges to their organization. Given the finite nature of time and resources, concentrating on these critical areas becomes a crucial aspect of effective vulnerability management, safeguarding your business from potential harm.
Secureplex understands that regular vulnerability assessments and scans are imperative because IT environments are in a constant state of flux. Changes such as software updates or system configuration modifications can introduce new vulnerabilities. Additionally, with the continuous emergence of new threats, swift identification and remediation of vulnerabilities become essential to mitigate cybersecurity risk effectively.
Tools & Beyond!
Secureplex has its own recommendations on Vulnerability Scanning tools, but we are open to use the customer-preferred tools too. Irrespective of the tool we use, when selecting a vulnerability scanning tool, we aim to prioritize the following aspects:
- How does the tool score on the compatibility and integration capabilities with other vulnerability management and IT security tools, such as patch management and SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) systems?
- Does this tool offer comprehensive coverage of vulnerabilities, with a focus on reducing false positives and false negatives.
- Are there well-defined actionable results from the scans?
- What is the update frequency for the tool?