IT assessments are aimed at analyzing a company’s IT assets to identify potential cyber threats, detect vulnerabilities, and evaluate the likelihood and the impact of them being exploited. The assessment findings serve to define and prioritize the remediation activities needed to secure a company’s IT environment.
Our services include:
- Defining the risk assessment scope Before we launch the assessment process, we:
- Analyze a company’s business specifics and IT infrastructure.
- Define potential IT threat sources.
- Identify applicable mandatory and voluntary standards and regulations to comply with (e.g., DORA, HIPAA, GDPR, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, etc.).
- Inventorying and prioritizing IT assets
Risk assessment targets include:
- IT policies and processes: access control, acceptable use, vulnerability management , compliance measures, etc.
- Software: operating systems, applications, development tools, etc.
- Hardware: workstations, servers, IoT devices, etc.
- Data assets.
- Employees operating within the company’s IT infrastructure
- Identifying IT security threats
We consider:
- Malicious attacks: malware, social engineering, DDoS, APT, etc.
- Harm caused by employees due to lack of security awareness or negligence enabled by insufficient policies.
- Hardware/software failures and data loss due to software bugs, power outages, etc.
- Natural disasters or improper environmental conditions causing damage to hardware assets
- Identifying vulnerabilities
Depending on the customer’s needs, we:
- Analyze the gaps in IT security policies and procedures.
- Interview the employees to check their security awareness and adherence to the established IT policies.
- Use social engineering to test the employees’ susceptibility to phishing.
- Perform security testing of software and IT infrastructure: vulnerability assessment, penetration testing.
- Analyzing the existing IT security measures
We review:
- Security management documents and processes.
- Prevention and monitoring solutions: firewalls, IPS, SIEM, etc.
- Defining the vulnerabilities’ severity and prioritizing risks
We assess:
- The likelihood of a vulnerability being exploited.
- The potential impact of the vulnerability exploitation.
- The risk priority and remediation costs.
- Risk remediation
We help minimize the detected risks by:
- Designing optimal corrective measures to fix the security gaps.
- Defining the order of remediation steps according to their criticality.
- Performing the needed remediation activities (if required): developing missing IT policies, establishing security training process, setting up the missing security tools, fixing software vulnerabilities, etc.
Depending on your need or request, we can check several or all of the security assessment areas.