Why Pratum's Information Security Risk Assessment Service?
We Bring a Business Mindset
We get to know your specific business model and risk appetite before we deliver a single assessment or make any recommendations.
We Ask The Right Questions
As an objective third party, we'll dive deep to cut through internal politics and produce insights for improving your information security policies.
We Provide Clear Next Steps
We identify what you should tackle first as you build a foundation for a best-in-class security program.
Pratum is our expert helping us with what we don’t know we don’t know. It’s not what is required now, but what is going to be required in the future that Pratum helps us understand.
Evan Doss Chief Operating Officer - Summit Imaging
Security Risk Management For Your Specific Business Environment
Risk management is the ongoing process of identifying, assessing and responding to risk. A risk assessment provides the first step in the security cycle of risk management. You'll gain insight into the effectiveness of your security program and get a baseline for subsequent policy and control decisions. With a clear picture of your specific risks, you'll eliminate guesswork and needless spending. At every step, we use a process built to help IT departments identify and evaluate risk while aligning with business objectives. A Pratum risk assessment will:
- Identify asset vulnerabilities
- Gather threat and vulnerability information
- Identify internal and external threats
- Identify potential business impacts and likelihoods
- Determine risk
- Identify and prioritize risk responses
Beyond baselining an organization’s security posture, information security risk assessments are also the first requirement outlined in federal regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), Gramm-Leach Bliley Act (GLBA) and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The Payment Card Industry – Data Security Standards also require merchants of all sizes to perform due diligence in assessing risk in their technology operations.
The Risk Assessment Process
Step 1: Prepare for the Information Security Risk Assessment
We start by understanding what information you want the assessment to produce and what decisions you plan to guide with the results.
Step 2: Conduct the Information Security Risk Assessment
While conducting the assessment, we produce a list of information security risks prioritized by risk level so you can make informed response decisions. We'll analyze threats, vulnerabilities, impacts and likelihood. Pratum's assessment process includes the following key steps outlined by NIST:
Identify Threat Sources
Identify and characterize threat sources of concern, including capability, intent and targeting characteristics for adversarial threats and range of effects for non-adversarial threats.
Identify Threat Events
Identify potential threat events, relevance of events and threat sources that could initiate the events.
Identify Vulnerabilities and Predisposing Conditions
Identify vulnerabilities and predisposing conditions that affect the likelihood that the threat events of concern result in adverse impacts.
Determine Likelihood
Determine the likelihood that threat events of concern result in adverse impacts, considering: (i) the characteristics of the threat sources that could initiate the events; (ii) the vulnerabilities/predisposing conditions identified; and (iii) the organizational susceptibility reflecting the safeguards/countermeasures planned or implemented to impede such events.
Determine Impact
Determine the adverse impacts from threat events of concern considering: (i) the characteristics of the threat sources that could initiate the events; (ii) the vulnerabilities/predisposing conditions identified; and (iii) the susceptibility reflecting the safeguards/countermeasures planned or implemented to impede such events.
Determine Risk
Determine the risk to the organization from threat events of concern considering: (i) the impact that would result from the events; and (ii) the likelihood of the events occurring.
Step 3: Communicate and Share Security Risk Assessment Information
We communicate the assessment results via a risk register that identifies, describes and ranks the risk level of each risk. With this detailed summary, we ensure that leaders across the organization have the appropriate information to guide decisions.
Step 4: Maintain the Assessment
Finally, we help you leverage what you've learned by developing specific next steps to remediate high risks and other concerns identified in the assessment.
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