Free Cyber Security Controls Assessment
Chris Merchant
Director of Sales & Marketing @ Remora | Developing Innovative Cyber Security Strategies for Clients and Partners
For all but the largest companies, the probability and severity of the many cyber risks that could impact your organisation can be difficult to ascertain. There has for so long been a distinct issue in knowing how best to assess the known weak points within technical security configurations and IT processes.
To combat this Stega have produced a free cyber security controls assessment to identify risks, designed to identify, address, quantify, and highlight straightforward mitigations of common security gaps within your IT systems and their secure setup. This empowers smaller organisations to understand and develop larger frameworks without being overburdened by expensive and exhaustive appraisals.
The 2020 ICAEW report on cyber risks shows the top 5 threats facing UK organisations in number of attacks are Malware/Ransomware, Phishing, Data Leakage, External Hacking, and Internal Threat. The same report shows 65% of companies who suffered a malware or ransomware attack also had malware protection installed and 78% of companies to suffer an external hack also had network firewalls installed.
It is not that these tools and controls do not work, but often that they are not installed correctly, not configured securely, not patched, not monitored, or the intel that these tools report back with is not understood or acted upon. The free cyber security controls assessment enables your organisation to understand the capabilities of the tools you have in place and if any other actions are needed to ensure that these tools can protect you from the threats they are designed to defend against.
The free cyber security controls assessment is based on self-attestation, Stega offer a verification service to verify the results and to establish an annual risk management framework for your organisation.
Once a risk-management framework is established, cyber monitoring will become critical success factors in identifying risks that may damage an organisation to tackle issues in a structured way, cataloguing and addressing known risks while improving the organisation’s resilience for the inevitable unknown risk that becomes a problem in the future.
For more information and to get your free cyber security controls assessment please contact me on [email protected]