CYBER SECURITY ASSESSMENTS Security assessments identify vulnerabilities and gaps in a business’s cyber defences. Early detection introduces the opportunity to address security flaws before they can be exploited by attackers. Secure networks cost money but not as much as the cost of addressing a successful attack. Following a breach that leads to a loss of personal data there are the physical costs, potential GDPR fines (up to 4% of turnover), the possibility of class action lawsuits as well as the cost of commercial and reputational damage. Cyber Security Associates (CSA) understands that assessing cyber health is important for every Business and has developed an assessment methodology based of a number of technical testing methods and recognised cyber security frameworks. Maintaining cyber health against the cyber threat should be a core objective of a business that uses information and data in support of its commercial operations. Understanding cyber health maturity and how it can be improved through accurate and objective assessments provides clear evidence for a business to invest and focus on its future cyber security programme.
OUR ASSESSMENTS The CSA Cyber Assessments are split into two main areas: Technical and Framework. Our technical assessments focus on all aspects of the information processing environment, ranging from websites to PCs. Each technical assessment will discover vulnerabilities that could be exploited by the cyber attacker and will recommend ways to close these gaps. Our framework assessments can be tailored to suit a specific Business need by using a recognised benchmarked standard (ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials Plus, NIST and the NCSC CAF). Alternatively, the CSA ‘best practice’ framework assessment aims to focus on specific cyber areas at the strategic and higher levels of management and combines elements of the recognised standards. Every assessment will present a detailed analysis of the current cyber gaps and vulnerabilities and will present a suggested roadmap of improvements and recommendations for a Business to take forward.