What is a risk assessment in cybersecurity?
A cybersecurity risk assessment is a structured approach to identifying, analyzing, and mitigating security risks. It’s how IT teams reckon what could go wrong and how to stop it before it does.
Preparedness is neither paranoia nor overkill. Many businesses have no clue what their security weaknesses are. Cybersecurity blind spots are more plentiful than you may think, and these vulnerabilities are low-hanging fruit that threat actors love to gobble up.
A cybersecurity risk framework provides a business’s IT team with a repeatable process for keeping their org protected, no matter how threats may evolve in the future.