How to conduct security risk assessment for cybersecurity risk audits and regulatory compliance

November 5, 2021
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How to conduct security risk assessment for cybersecurity risk audits and regulatory compliance
Security risk assessments are manual and tedious work to get answers for questionnaire from asset and process owners. Cybersecurity risk assessments are requited to assess the security posture and profile to find our the security gaps in an organization.
Establish purpose based on control standards (NIST, CIS Controls, ISO27001) and business objective such as security risk assessments for gaps and regulatory compliance (PCI, SOX, GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, FFIEC).
Identify applications, database, process, cloud, and third-party vendors for security assessments. List out the inventory for data and asset classification for regulatory compliance.
Assign questionnaire to the audience with the purpose for inventory, control standards and regulatory compliance
Create assessment campaign to assemble the questionnaire criteria for regulatory compliance and assign it to the owner for assessments
The security profile score provides an overall view of the organization based upon the evaluation of each environment.
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