Security Risk Assessments

Security risk analysis, otherwise known as risk assessment, is fundamental to the security of any organisation. It is essential in ensuring that controls and expenditure are fully commensurate with the risks to which the organisation is exposed.

Security in any system should be commensurate with its risks. However, the process to determine which security controls are appropriate and cost effective is quite often a complex and sometimes a subjective matter. One of the prime functions of security risk analysis is to put this process onto a more objective basis.

Our risk assessment will identify all your security issues. An effective security policy starts with evaluation of your organisation for any weaknesses in your current security systems, or potential risks for any new sites.

Our security risk assessment can:

• Evaluate your security in your organisation
• Analyse potential risks
• Identify any weaknesses in your current security systems and procedures
• Provide a detailed set of practical recommendations

Personnel security risk assessment

Personnel security risk assessment focuses on employees, their access to the organisation's assets, the risks they could pose to the organisation and the sufficiency of countermeasures. It is the foundation of the personnel security management process.

It is also crucial in helping security and human resource managers communicate to senior managers the risks to which the organisation is exposed:
Risk assessment is the core competence of information security management.

Information security management decisions are entirely driven by specific decisions made as an outcome of a risk assessment in relation to identified risks and specific information assets. Risk assessment enables expenditure on controls to be balanced against the business harm likely to result from security failures.

Risk assessment is the core competence of information security management. Every control ('control' = 'risk countermeasure') decision you make must be proportionate to the actual risk your organisation faces.