NIST CSF Assessment Experience
Our comprehensive NIST Cybersecurity Framework assessment approach helps you take back control of your security posture and protect what matters most to your organization.
NIST CSF Assessment Process
The NIST Cybersecurity Framework provides a structured approach to managing cybersecurity risk, ensuring comprehensive protection for your organization's critical assets. Our assessment methodology follows the five core functions of the framework to help you take back control of your security posture.
Identify
Developing an organizational understanding to manage cybersecurity risk to systems, assets, data, and capabilities. This phase establishes the business context, resources, and risk tolerance that support critical security decisions.
Protect
Developing and implementing appropriate safeguards to ensure delivery of critical infrastructure services. This function focuses on limiting or containing the impact of potential cybersecurity events.
Detect
Developing and implementing appropriate activities to identify the occurrence of a cybersecurity event. This function enables timely discovery of cybersecurity events.
Respond
Developing and implementing appropriate activities to take action regarding a detected cybersecurity event. This function supports the ability to contain the impact of a potential incident.
Recover
Developing and implementing appropriate activities to maintain plans for resilience and to restore any capabilities or services that were impaired due to a cybersecurity event.
Identify
Our experts examine your organization's risk environment, including cybersecurity governance, asset management, and vulnerabilities, to create a comprehensive understanding of your security landscape.
Asset Management
We identify and document all physical devices, systems, and software within your environment to establish a complete asset inventory. This critical first step ensures that every component of your organization's digital footprint is accounted for.
Business Environment
We analyze your organization's mission, objectives, stakeholders, and activities to understand critical functions and align cybersecurity activities with business requirements and risk management strategy.
Governance
We evaluate your policies, procedures, and processes for managing and monitoring regulatory, legal, risk, environmental, and operational requirements to inform cybersecurity risk management.
Risk Assessment
We assess the cybersecurity risks to your organization's operations, assets, and individuals to provide actionable information that supports risk responses and helps prioritize security efforts.
Risk Management Strategy
We help establish your risk management processes, risk tolerance, and create strategies to manage risk to an acceptable level aligned with your business objectives.
Supply Chain Risk Management
We identify risks associated with your supply chain and third-party providers to help establish effective controls for supplier relationships and ensure resilience across your entire digital ecosystem.
Protect
We evaluate your existing protective measures—access controls, data protection protocols, and security policies—to ensure that critical assets are safeguarded from emerging threats.
Identity Management & Access Control
We assess how physical and digital access to assets and facilities is managed, authorized, and monitored to ensure that only legitimate users can access resources according to security and business requirements.
Awareness and Training
We evaluate your security awareness programs to ensure personnel are adequately trained to perform their cybersecurity-related duties and responsibilities consistent with related policies and procedures.
Data Security
We examine how your organization manages information and data consistent with your risk strategy to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information.
Information Protection Processes
We review your security policies, processes, and procedures to ensure they adequately protect information systems and assets, including implementation of secure system development practices.
Protective Technology
We assess technical security solutions to ensure information systems and assets are protected, commensurate with the risk to critical infrastructure and organizational needs.
Maintenance
We evaluate maintenance and repairs of industrial control and information system components to ensure they are performed consistent with policies and procedures.
Detect
We perform in-depth assessments of your monitoring systems, helping you identify gaps in threat detection and response capabilities to ensure rapid identification of cybersecurity events.
Anomalies and Events
We evaluate your capability to detect anomalous activity and understand the potential impact of events to ensure that unusual patterns and incidents are properly identified, analyzed, and understood.
Security Continuous Monitoring
We assess your systems and assets to identify cybersecurity events and verify the effectiveness of protective measures, ensuring that monitoring activities are performed to detect anomalies and unauthorized actions.
Detection Processes
We review your detection processes and procedures to ensure they are maintained and tested to provide timely and adequate awareness of anomalous events and potential cybersecurity incidents.
Threat Intelligence
We examine how your organization collects, analyzes, and leverages threat intelligence data to improve security awareness and enhance detection capabilities against emerging threats and vulnerabilities.
Vulnerability Management
We assess your vulnerability scanning and management processes to ensure systematic identification, categorization, and remediation of security weaknesses across your infrastructure.
Behavioral Monitoring
We evaluate user behavior analytics and monitoring capabilities to detect unusual patterns that may indicate compromise or insider threats within your environment.
Respond
We analyze your incident response plans and capabilities, ensuring you have the right processes in place to effectively respond to cybersecurity incidents and minimize impact.
Response Planning
We evaluate your response processes and procedures to ensure they are executed and maintained during and after an incident, providing effective and coordinated response actions.
Communications
We assess response activities and coordination with internal and external stakeholders to ensure effective communication channels exist during and after cybersecurity events.
Analysis
We review your capabilities for conducting analysis to ensure effective response and support recovery activities, including incident investigation, evidence collection, and impact assessment.
Mitigation
We evaluate how your organization performs activities to prevent expansion of an event, mitigate its effects, and resolve the incident to ensure rapid containment and remediation of security breaches.
Improvements
We assess your response activities to ensure organizational response activities are improved by incorporating lessons learned from current and previous detection/response activities.
Containment Strategies
We evaluate your incident containment strategies and procedures to ensure they effectively isolate compromised systems and prevent further spread of security incidents within your environment.
Recover
We review your recovery strategies and disaster recovery plans, providing you with recommendations to ensure business continuity and rapid recovery in the event of a security incident.
Recovery Planning
We evaluate your recovery processes and procedures to ensure they are executed and maintained to restore systems or assets affected by cybersecurity incidents, minimizing business disruption.
Improvements
We assess how recovery planning and processes are improved by incorporating lessons learned into future activities, ensuring continuous enhancement of recovery capabilities.
Communications
We review restoration activities to ensure they are coordinated with internal and external parties, including backup communication channels and coordination centers.
Business Continuity
We examine your business continuity plans to ensure they include cybersecurity considerations and provide effective strategies for maintaining critical functions during and after incidents.
Resilience
We assess your resilience planning to ensure systems are designed and implemented with appropriate redundancies and fail-safe mechanisms to maintain operations during adverse conditions.
Technology Recovery
We evaluate your technical recovery capabilities, including backup systems, data restoration procedures, and failover mechanisms to ensure rapid restoration of critical services.
Assessment Deliverables
Our comprehensive NIST CSF assessment provides you with actionable insights and detailed documentation to help you take back control of your security posture and protect what matters most to your organization.
Executive Summary
A high-level overview of assessment findings, key risk areas, and strategic recommendations designed for executive leadership to understand the organization's security posture and priorities.
Gap Analysis
A detailed comparison between your current security practices and NIST CSF requirements, identifying areas of non-compliance and opportunities for improvement across all framework functions.
Maturity Assessment
Evaluation of your organization's cybersecurity capabilities against industry benchmarks and maturity models, providing a clear indication of your current security maturity and target state.
Risk Register
Comprehensive inventory of identified risks, their potential impact, likelihood, and recommended mitigation strategies, prioritized to help you address the most critical vulnerabilities first.
Remediation Roadmap
Phased implementation plan with clear timelines, resource requirements, and success metrics to guide your organization in addressing gaps and strengthening security posture.
Technical Assessment Report
Detailed technical findings from infrastructure evaluations, configuration analysis, and vulnerability assessments, providing security practitioners with specific remediation guidance.
Take Back Control of Your Cybersecurity Posture
Ready to strengthen your organization's security posture with a comprehensive NIST CSF assessment? Our expert team is here to help you protect what matters most.
