How to conduct security risk assessment for cybersecurity risk audits and regulatory compliance

Security risk assessments are manual and tedious work to get answers for questionnaire from asset and process owners. Cybersecurity risk assessments are requited to assess the security posture and profile to find our the security gaps in an organization.

Establish Purpose

Establish purpose based on control standards (NIST, CIS Controls, ISO27001) and business objective such as security risk assessments for gaps and regulatory compliance (PCI, SOX, GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, FFIEC).

Associate Inventory

Identify applications, database, process, cloud, and third-party vendors for security assessments. List out the inventory for data and asset classification for regulatory compliance.

Assign Questionnaire

Assign questionnaire to the audience with the purpose for inventory, control standards and regulatory compliance

Conduct Assessment Campaign

Create assessment campaign to assemble the questionnaire criteria for regulatory compliance and assign it to the owner for assessments

Risk Assessment Results and Remediation with Security Profile Score

The security profile score provides an overall view of the organization based upon the evaluation of each environment.