What are the Benefits of a Security Risk Assessment?
17.06.2020
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Being an important part of cyber security practices, security risk assessment protects your organization from intruders, attackers and cyber criminals. In this article, we will discuss what it is and what benefits it offers.
A significant portion of our business processes heavily rely on Internet technologies. That is why cyber security is a very important practice for all organizations. Making up a crucial part of cyber security, security risk assessment is a topic that must not be overlooked. In this article, we will discuss what security risk assessment is and how it can be very beneficial for your organization.
What is security risk assessment?
Security risk assessment is an important part of cyber security practices. As its name suggests, security risk assessment involves the detection and alleviation of the security risks threatening your organization.
Security risk assessment aims to measure the security posture of the organization, check the whether the organization abides by the compliance requirements and industry frameworks.
Security risk assessment practices control and assess open ports, anti virus updates, password policies, patch management, encryption strength and so forth. This way, the cyber security professionals within an organization can clearly see the efficiency of the organization’s controls, determine risk factors, come up with detailed plans and solutions, detect vulnerabilities and offer options to alleviate them.
There are various different security assessment types. Below you can find some of them:
Pen Testing (penetration testing): Pen testing aims to simulate an attacker to see how well security measures of the organization work.
Risk Assessment: Risk assessment detects risks and potential losses that can be caused by them.
Vulnerability Assessment: Vulnerability assessment aims to identify vulnerabilities of the security measures and offers solutions to alleviate them.
Compliance Assessment: Compliance assessment confirms compliance with related standards like PCI or HIPAA.
What are the benefits of security risk assessment?
Being one of the most integral practices of cyber security, security risk assessment offers many benefits. Below you can find some of them.
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