Cyber Security Assessment Services
We all know that cyber security is big with modern technologies in this app-driven world, but it’s hard to know if you’re doing everything right. It’s easy for important information to slip through the cracks. That’s where cyber security assessment services will help provide you with an independent opinion.
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Cyber security assessment and testing aim to identify technical and operational weaknesses and address these identified risks to maintain the cyber readiness of an organization. Security testing aims to identify security holes, and contextual threats, and measure the risks affecting the business assets. It is an input to the risk management program.
A proactive cyber security risk assessment and management approach demands regular testing to input cyber security risks based on likelihood and impact into the internal vulnerability management process.
It ensures that business is analysing, classifying and mitigating cyber risks to develop and maintain cyber resilience. This ensures data breach prevention measures are in place, incident response and management measures are in check, regular cyber security assessments to measure and monitor risks. Our team also provides cyber risk assessments aimed at the entire organisation.
How do you perform information security testing and assessment?
Designing and implementing strong security controls is one side of the coin. One of the primary objectives of a cyber threat assessment is to attempt to gain access by bypassing security controls and verify their effectiveness.
The following metrics collectively help a business to assess, analyse and improve its cybersecurity program continuously:
Define specific objectives to measure information security performance in the organisation. This is usually a mix of operational security and performance-related facts and figures unless compliance goals are part of the plan to test against industry best practices.
Regular vulnerability assessments and penetration tests on the target assets to assess the level of risk and effectiveness of information security management through checks against secure configuration baselines, patch management, logging, monitoring and several other data security areas covering extensive security vulnerabilities.
Internal team review of where security weaknesses lie, policies, procedures and implementation of risk remediation measures from cyber assessments findings and cyber security evaluation. This is delivered in the form of comprehensive cyber security assessment reports.
Benefits of cyber risk assessment services
- Successfully protect your business against evolving cyber attacks through web security assessment
- Physical security assessments, technical risk and mitigation before hackers exploit the weaknesses
- PCI DSS, ISO 27001, GDPR Compliance support along with information security testing and assessment services
- We speak the same language as your internal IT staff, developers, managers and directors
- Help shape IT strategy based on results
- Service quality underpins everything we do
- Our 10+ years exposure performing security assessments to provide you with consulting expertise and industry best practices
- Minimising costs with maximum efficiency utilising our cost-effective managed cyber security assessments and services.
What are the different types of security testing?
The following represent the most popular services in addition to our red team operations, PCI DSS testing, social engineering, and tailored services.
Penetration testing engagements to identify weaknesses in people, processes and technological controls. These assessments vary in scope based on target assets such as wireless assessments policy assessment, external risk assessments, physical security assessments and related domains such as web, API or mobile applications. Pen Testing
Penetration Testing
Our team of penetration testers will test and perform penetration tests on your web applications and web services/APIs. Web app pentesting includes source code reviews, API security testing, threat intelligence modelling and database security. Web Application Pen Testing
Whether you are an end user of cloud hosted solution or a SaaS provider, it is your responsibility to ensure that the security operations on any operating systems and applications hosted in the cloud are continuously maintained and tested. Cloud Pen Testing
Cyber vulnerability assessments provide insight into vulnerabilities affecting your internal and external networks. It helps to identify and quantify the potential risks threatening your environment while minimising internal costs. Cyber risk profile contains this input as an important factor. vulnerability Assessments
Pen Testing
Ensuring the safety and security of user data is paramount to running any mobile applications. Our tailored services are designed to identify potential threats and vulnerabilities in your mobile applications and devices. Mobile App Pen Testing
Security
Our done for you security services providing you with a continuous snapshot of security threats affecting your networks and websites. Minimising costs with maximum efficiency utilising our cost-effective managed cybersecurity services. Managed Security Service
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Frequently Asked Questions
Cyber security assessment is the process of identifying, quantifying and prioritising risks to organisational assets posed by cyber risks. The primary purpose of cyber assessments exercise is to reduce risk by identifying gaps using tested techniques to help security staff.
Security assessment services help organizations identify, quantify and prioritize risks to their assets posed by cyber threats. The benefits of cyber security assessment services include improved protection against evolving future attacks, and demonstration of commitment to data security.
We are vendor agnostic and technology agnostic in this complex world of cloud, mobile and security technologies. Buying products alone won’t cut it.
The cost of risk assessments can vary depending on the size and scope of your organisation, as well as the level of detail required. For a mid-size organisation, risk assessment can cost approximately £8000 ($10,000) – £20000 ($22,500).
Our security assessment methodology encompasses OWASP Top 10, SANS Top 20 Critical Controls and CIS, NIST 800-115. Any other standards needed for specific projects can be included as per customer request. See our pen test blog post for a detailed article and how practicality around cyber attacks is taken into consideration.
In order to maintain quality and add value to customer investment, we do not utilise automated scanners that run and report tests. A mixed approach involves a range of open source and commercial pentest tools in addition to multiple scripts/utilities are utilised to uncover hidden and information related vulnerabilities.
Our team consists of career security professionals and networking professionals who are seasoned criminal investigators, security professionals, cyber investigators, digital forensics and forensic computer scientists who have delivered work across government agencies, public sector and private sectors.
How do you identify cyber threats?
Cyber security assessment companies’ proactive approach helps identify potential vulnerabilities and mitigation measures with actionable improvement initiatives, effectively securing your business and its interests (your organisation and supply chain). Cyber security assessment and management add to your proactive security regime, providing invaluable input into the cyber risk assessment services.
Cyphere’s penetration testers help customers identify and assess the weaknesses in the context of their business. It includes technical findings and process failures such as lack of incident response and management process, lack of awareness, determining methods of bypassing policies, etc.
Following the risk assessment, our debrief program offers risk remediation support to address hidden gaps. We further provide risk remediation services (as part of consultancy services) to address security risks, including all the findings with our expertise. This alone is a budget justification enough to get your security level up and improve security across the organisation.
In terms of the toolset, this includes commercial and proprietary technologies, including a large number of open-source utilities. It is a common myth that sophisticated tools that might not be available to your internal IT department are utilised by security assessors or exaggerated statements around the use of cutting-edge technology such as AI or ML for identifying threats. While such technologies are making breakthroughs, these are yet to be made available at scale in the cyber security domain.
Cyber security Assessment Methodology
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