Take Control of Cyber Risk with a Strategic NIST CSF Assessment.

Identify vulnerabilities, prioritize risks, and align your security strategy with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework through a proactive, structured assessment.

NIST CSF OVERVIEW

What a NIST CSF Assessment Brings to Your Organization.

Learn how the NIST Cybersecurity Framework helps organizations manage risks and protect critical assets.

The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) provides a structured approach to evaluating and enhancing cybersecurity practices. A NIST CSF assessment uncovers gaps, highlights areas for improvement, and helps organizations align with best practices to reduce risk. By evaluating security maturity across the CSF Core Functions, organizations gain clear insights into their current cybersecurity posture and how it compares to a more resilient, risk-informed target state. The NIST CSF Tiers offer a communications structure for assessing cybersecurity maturity and alignment with business objectives.

Identify gaps in your cybersecurity practices

A NIST CSF assessment uncovers vulnerabilities in your current security framework, providing a clear picture of gaps that could leave your organization exposed to threats. By focusing on areas that need the most attention, you can build a more robust and secure foundation.

Prioritize and allocate resources effectively

A detailed gap assessment report gives you insights into the most critical risks, ranked by severity, remediation effort, and potential impact. This allows you to strategically allocate your resources, addressing high-priority vulnerabilities first and optimizing your security investment.

Build maturity with a recognized framework

By leveraging insights from the NIST CSF Tiers, Profiles, and Core Functions, your organization can assess its cybersecurity maturity and develop a roadmap for improvement. This structured framework enhances risk management, demonstrates due diligence, and helps meet the expectations of customers, partners, and regulators alike.

Build trust with stakeholders and customers

Conducting a NIST CSF assessment demonstrates your commitment to cybersecurity and to proactive risk management. It reassures stakeholders and customers that you protect their data and prioritize maintaining a resilient security posture.

1. Compliance requirements

Understanding your business obligations

We begin by analyzing how compliance requirements apply to your organization. This step evaluates how industry regulations, operational needs, and vendor compliance requirements might influence the degree to which your processes align to the NIST CSF framework and security standards.

2. Engagement objectives

Defining goals for improvement

Our next step is concerned with setting clear objectives to guide the assessment. These objectives focus on evaluating your current cybersecurity posture, identifying risks, and working together to create an actionable roadmap tailored to your organization’s priorities.

3. Approach strategy

Building the foundation for success

Our approach begins with conducting a thorough review of your organization’s existing documentation, frameworks, and procedures. This initial phase lays the groundwork for the engagement by identifying the scope of the assessment, understanding compliance needs, and mapping out a strategy for progressing through NIST CSF tiers and aligning with the framework's principles.

4. Data gathering

Uncovering critical vulnerabilities

The data-gathering phase involves directly engaging with your team through interviews with subject matter experts and undertaking policy and security practice reviews. These activities uncover vulnerabilities within your systems and processes.

5. Executive summary

Turning findings into solutions

The assessment concludes with a comprehensive report detailing positives, discovered gaps, and recommended actions. This includes providing guidance in the form of a clear remediation roadmap that prioritizes risk remediation based on cost, effort, and potential impact.

Positives observed

Our assessment identifies the strengths in your current cybersecurity practices. These positives form the foundation for building a stronger and more secure framework, giving you confidence in areas that are working effectively.

Discovered gaps and risk ratings

We uncover gaps in your security posture and evaluate them based on risk severity, remediation effort, and potential impact. This risk-focused analysis helps prioritize the vulnerabilities that demand immediate attention while balancing effort and cost.

Proposed remediation roadmap

The final deliverable is a detailed remediation roadmap that outlines the steps needed to close gaps and improve security practices. This actionable plan considers both short-term fixes and long-term strategies, helping guide your risk remediation efforts effectively.

A NIST CSF assessment is an evaluation of your organization's cybersecurity practices against the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. It identifies gaps, highlights risks, and provides actionable steps to help you align with industry standards and to improve your security posture.

The NIST Cybersecurity Framework provides a structured approach to managing cybersecurity risks. It is adaptable for organizations of all sizes and industries, helping you prioritize threats, meet compliance requirements, and build stakeholder trust.

The assessment report details:

Positives observed in your current practices.
Discovered gaps with risk ratings based on severity and remediation efforts.
A proposed remediation roadmap with clear, actionable recommendations.

The process involves several phases: compliance evaluation, engagement objective setting, data gathering through SME interviews, and the delivery of an executive summary with a gap assessment report and a prioritized action plan.

The assessment helps you identify and prioritize risks, allocate resources effectively, and align with industry best practices. It also demonstrates your regular commitment to cybersecurity, reassuring stakeholders and customers.

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