What are Cybersecurity Assessments?

Cybersecurity assessments are systematic evaluations of your organization's information systems to identify vulnerabilities, threats, and risks. They help in understanding the current security posture and in implementing measures to protect against potential cyber threats.

Why are They Useful?

Conducting regular cybersecurity assessments helps your organization to proactively identify weaknesses, comply with industry regulations, protect sensitive data, and maintain customer trust. Assessments are essential for building a robust security framework.

Types of Cybersecurity Assessments

• Maturity Assessments: Determines the maturity of cybersecurity controls based on predefined frameworks
• Gap assessments: Compares the current state of your organization and gives clear visibility into the level of control existence
• Vulnerability Assessment: Identifies and quantifies vulnerabilities in a system.
• Threat Assessments: Evaluates the potential threats and their risk tailored to your organization
• Compliance Assessment: Ensures adherence to regulatory standards.

The Cybersecurity Assessment Journey

Embarking on a cybersecurity assessment involves multiple stages guided by Sentry and our experts :

1. Assessment Selection: Selecting the cybersecurity assessment that suits the needs of your organization and beginning the assessment process
2. Input submission: Providing Sentry with textual information or documents, structured according to the framework you have chosen for the assessment
3. Filling the gaps: Holding conversations together with a human expert to fix any gaps remaining after the initial questionnaire
4. Draft review: Reviewining the draft report together with experts to make sure that the expectations of the final deliverable are aligned
5. Final handover: Evaluating the changes conducted after the draft review and completing the assessment
6. Monitoring & Improvements: Monitoring your assessment results and track implementations in your environment, conduct re-assessments to determine improvements in maturity levels