ICS Risk Assesment Services include:

Risk Assessment Planning

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Certification, Accreditation & Security Assessments

Personnel Security

Physical & Environmental Protection

Contingency Planning

Configuration Management

Maintenance

System and Information Integrity

Media Protection

Incident Response

Awareness and Training

Identification and Authentication

Access Control

Audit & Accountability

System & Communications Protection

Risk Assessment

The ICS Approach to Information Security Risk Assessment

The first step in your IT security health check should be a Risk Assessment from a qualified IT security firm. Consider it like checking the doors and windows on your network. With all of the confidential corporate and customer information in your database, you would never consider leaving those doors and windows open. But beyond the entryways that are easy to see, are there other access points that are not so obvious? Is your network at risk of experiencing a devastating breach?

RISK ASSESSMENT:
What is it and why does my organization need it?

An Information Security Risk Assessment is a means of examining your organization’s information security infrastructure. It will identify vulnerable areas in the network and provide steps to secure those weaknesses. Your organization will then be able to prioritize which areas need to be addressed immediately, which are less urgent, and which ones are not urgent at all. It is the fundamental first step in an information security health check, and is often considered to be the most important.

A Risk Assessment will provide a clear view of weak points, or unlocked doors and windows in your network. This knowledge is the crucial first step in systematically securing your network from breach.

But, I just don’t have the budget to support highly technical IT projects right now.

Today’s headlines show businesses and government agencies increasingly falling victim to costly data leaks. Given the current threat landscape, it is crucially important to independently evaluate your security posture. With the average breach now totaling around $6.75M in a typical data loss event, your organization simply cannot afford not to take action.

In the case of Risk Assessment, a proactive approach can prevent catastrophic breaches in many cases. The cost of not being proactive: roughly $6.75M.

Can I be sure that we’re going to be secure from a breach once the Risk Assessment is complete?

An Information Security Risk Assessment is just that: an assessment. It provides a detailed evaluation of your organization’s current IT security posture and recommendations to secure your information infrastructure. The assessment will show you where the potentially weak areas are, in order of priority, and what needs to be done to secure those weak areas. It is then up to your organization to determine where to allocate additional resources to begin the process of implementing needed change.

A Risk Assessment will provide your organization with an objective evaluation of the security of your information infrastructure. It is your organization’s first step in your IT Security Health Check and Get Well Plan.

CONSIDER THIS

How sure are you that your networks are secure and reliable?
Will you be able to recognize vulnerabilities before it’s too late?

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Security Fundamentals:
Risk Assessment

An ICS Success Story

Challenge:

ICS was called on to perform a Risk Assessment for a government agency in Florida to identify security vulnerabilities within their IT systems and resources.

Objectives:

Evaluate current information security policies and procedures and assess overall agency IT security.
Provide baseline for measurement of overall risk across the agency.
Identify and prioritize security mitigation strategies.
Direct activities to increase security controls in existing and future infrastructure.

Services Provided:

Comprehensive Risk Assessment

Result:

ICS returned following the assessment to conduct a post-evaluation, and found significant improvement in 16 of the 17 NIST security control areas. In 6 of the areas, the improvement increase was 40% or higher, and in 1 area the agency went from a low 41% compliance to 100% compliance by following the security mitigation strategies recommended by the ICS consultant.