Security Risk Assessment

Alphawest offers a range of Security Risk Assessment services aimed at identifying and assessing security risks across a multitude of areas.

A Security Risk Assessment is a collaborative process, through which Alphawest helps organisations to understand not only the risks that exist but the likelihood of occurrence and associated impacts.

This helps organisations prioritise remediation activities and primarily focus on critical risks to tighten paths of least resistance. Early detection of critical risks helps organisations engage the risk management lifecycle via a proactive approach to reduce exposure.

Benefits:

  • Improved risk awareness and counter measures.
  • Proactive planning to protect the integrity of customers' brand and reputation.
  • Risk Assessments are far less costly than recovering from an attack in: time, money, loss of service, damage to reputation and shareholder value – plan and protect early-on.
  • Helps organisations determine the critical areas where expenditure is required to maintain security levels and institute best practice.
  • Proactive approach enables organisations to better respond to audits, and protect the environment.
  • Risk Assessments are tailored to business vertical critical drivers.
  • Helps customers achieve a balance between expenditure and risk exposure. Testing for non-compliance to policy.
  • Alphawest is on the panel of the Auditor General's Computer Network Vulnerability Assessment Program (CNVA) and can assist organisations with critical infrastructure with business case development and vulnerability assessment services.
  • Part of Alphawest’s Security Risk Management Framework.

Features:

  • Risk Identification, Criticality Analysis, and Impact results are tailored to business critical infrastructure and assets.
  • Security Risk Assessments are based on the Institute for Security and Open Methodologies (ISECOM) Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual (OSSTM).
  • Security Risk Assessments types include but are not limited to:
    • Security Vulnerability Risk Assessments - CNVA Program aligned.
    • Security Penetration Test Risk Assessments (Black Box, White Box, Application).
    • Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Telephony Security Risk Assessments (confidentiality, integrity, availability, endpoint).
  • Security Risk Assessment Results provide customers with clear direction so solutions to real risk problems can be planned and implement.
  • Compliments the Security Information Risk Management Lifecycle via a proactive approach to managing risk.