Security Risk Assessment

Know Exactly Where You Are Exposed

A comprehensive evaluation of your people, processes, and technology that identifies security risks, quantifies their business impact, and delivers a clear remediation roadmap.

Overview

What Is
Security Risk Assessment?

A Security Risk Assessment provides a structured, evidence-based view of your organisation's risk landscape. Unlike a penetration test (which finds technical vulnerabilities), a risk assessment evaluates the full spectrum of risk — including people (insider threat, awareness), processes (access control procedures, change management), and technology (asset inventory, configuration standards). The output is a risk register with each risk quantified by likelihood and impact, mapped to business assets, and accompanied by a prioritised treatment plan that makes the most of your security budget.

What's Included

Everything You Get

Asset Inventory & Classification

Comprehensive discovery of all information assets — hardware, software, data, and services — classified by criticality and sensitivity.

Threat Modelling

Identification of realistic threat actors and scenarios relevant to your industry, size, and geographic location.

Risk Quantification

Each risk scored by likelihood and impact using a consistent methodology, with optional FAIR (Factor Analysis of Information Risk) quantification in financial terms.

People & Process Review

Assessment of policies, procedures, access controls, onboarding/offboarding processes, and general security culture.

Third-Party Risk Review

Evaluation of your key supplier and vendor relationships and the security risks they introduce into your supply chain.

Prioritised Risk Register

A complete risk register with treatment recommendations (accept, mitigate, transfer, avoid) ordered by business impact.

Our Approach

How It Works

1

Scoping & Discovery

Define assessment boundaries, conduct stakeholder interviews, and build a complete picture of your asset landscape.

2

Threat & Vulnerability Identification

Identify threats relevant to each asset class, map existing controls, and surface gaps in your current defences.

3

Risk Analysis & Scoring

Score each risk by inherent likelihood and impact, apply control effectiveness, and calculate residual risk.

4

Risk Register & Roadmap

Deliver a prioritised risk register, treatment recommendations, and a 12-month security improvement roadmap.

Why It Matters

Business Benefits

Data-Driven Security Investment

Stop guessing where to spend your security budget. A risk assessment shows exactly which controls will reduce your exposure the most.

Compliance Foundation

Risk assessment is a mandatory input for ISO 27001, GDPR Article 32, NIS2, and SOC 2 — completing it satisfies multiple frameworks simultaneously.

Board-Level Visibility

Translate technical risk into business language. Boards and executives get the clear risk picture they need to make informed decisions.

Measurable Risk Reduction

Establish a risk baseline today and track how your posture improves over time as you implement the recommended controls.

FAQs

Common Questions

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