Risk assessment
A cybersecurity risk assessment puts numbers and judgment on what can go wrong: which threats you face, with what probability and with what impact, to order your priorities by what is truly at stake. It is the basis on which you decide where to invest, which risks to accept and where to start, and the starting point for almost everything else, from the master plan to ISO 27001 or the ENS.
From assets to the risk map, with recognized methodologies, across all of Spain.
Why
There is neither the budget nor the sense in shielding everything to the same level. The risk assessment tells you what to protect first and why, instead of spreading the effort blindly.
There is no time or money to protect everything to the maximum. You have to choose, and it pays to choose with judgment.
Without knowing which risks you face, the spending goes to whatever makes the most noise, not to what leaves you most exposed.
What is critical for one company is minor for another. The assessment puts it into figures and into context.
The deliverable
We do not leave you a report that nobody opens. You take away a clear picture of what you are facing and what to do about it.
What you have to protect and what can go wrong, without taking anything for granted.
Each risk measured by its probability and its impact, to compare them by the same yardstick.
A matrix that orders your risks at a glance, from the urgent to what can wait.
What to do with each risk, reduce it, accept it, transfer it or avoid it, and in what order.
The approach
We do not start from a generic list of threats, but from what your business has at stake. We identify your assets, what threatens them and where they are vulnerable, and we value each risk by its probability and its impact. That way they can be compared with each other and ordered by what truly matters, not by what is most frightening.
And it does not end with the diagnosis. For each risk we propose what to do (reduce it, accept it, transfer it or avoid it) and we leave it ready to decide. It is the basis on which the master plan is built and from which ISO 27001 and the ENS draw.
Versus the template
A risk assessment is worth as much as it resembles your reality. This is how you see the difference.
The same list of risks for everyone, filled in quickly, that impresses in a report and is no use for deciding anything. It ends up in a drawer with nobody acting on it.
Your assets, your threats and your context, valued with judgment and with a method that holds up to an audit. A map that is truly useful for deciding.
The methodology
We do not make it up. We work with the reference methodologies and adapt them to your reality: ISO 27005 for information security risk, MAGERIT and the PILAR tool when the framework is the ENS, all aligned with ISO 31000 on risk management. And when the risk is industrial, we measure it with the lens of OT: there the impact is not only data, but production and physical safety, with IEC 62443 as the framework.
Using a recognized method is not bureaucracy: it is what makes your risks always measured by the same yardstick, makes the results hold up before an auditor and lets the assessment be repeated and compared over time.
When
You want to spend on security wisely and you need to know where it really hurts before putting money in.
A cloud migration, a new product or a merger change your risk map completely.
A client, an insurer or your board want to see your risks assessed and under control.
Method
We understand your business and identify the assets that truly matter.
We see what can go wrong and where, without relying on generic lists.
We measure each risk by its probability and its impact, with the same yardstick for all.
We propose what to do with each one and order them by what protects you most.
Fits with
The risk assessment is the basis from which almost everything hangs. It feeds the master plan that orders the priorities, supports the decisions of the CISO as a Service and shapes what the cybersecurity department executes.
And it is mandatory in your standards: it feeds the Statement of Applicability of ISO 27001 and the ENS adequacy plan of the ENS. When there is a plant involved, we also take it to the ground of OT security, where risk is measured differently.
Questions
A risk assessment, also called a risk evaluation, puts numbers and judgment on what can go wrong: it identifies your assets, the threats and the vulnerabilities, and values each risk by its probability and its impact, to order the priorities by what is truly at stake.
We work with the reference methodologies and adapt them to your reality: ISO 27005 for information security risk, MAGERIT and the PILAR tool when the framework is the ENS, all aligned with ISO 31000 on risk management.
It is not a document to file away. It is reviewed when your reality changes in a relevant way, such as a cloud migration, a new product or a merger, or when the standard that applies to you requires it.
Yes. The risk assessment is mandatory in both and it is what feeds the Statement of Applicability of ISO 27001 and the adequacy plan of the ENS.
The risk assessment says what can happen to you and how much is at stake; the master plan orders what to do about it and in what order. One feeds the other: without risks there are no priorities.
Shall we put your risks on the table?
Tell us what your company does and what worries you, and we will propose how to measure your risks and order where to start.
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