A risk assessment shaped by your business.
Don’t settle for risk assessments built around compliance frameworks and overgeneralised assumptions. Get one derived from how your business actually operates.
The foundation
What you should actually get from a risk assessment.
An effective risk management framework approaches risk assessment the same way, whether enterprise risk, information security, or IT governance. Not as a compliance exercise. As the foundation. The step that tells you where you are exposed, what it would cost, and what to do about it.
A generic one tells you what risks look like for businesses like yours. Not for yours. Specificity makes a risk assessment valuable. A model built around your business and environment tells you something meaningful.
The flaw is the wrong focus
Systems, not processes.
Typical
“20 of your devices are vulnerable (2 critical, 5 high, 13 medium).”
Ideal
“Payment processing is your highest-risk business process.”
A score, not a cost.
Typical
“Your overall cyber security score is 34%.”
Ideal
“A ransomware attack on your ERP system would cost an estimated €480,000.”
Technical findings, not business impact.
Typical
“8 administrators and 50 users do not have MFA enabled.”
Ideal
“Lack of MFA on your payment systems is your highest identity risk.”
Checklists, not prioritisation.
Typical
“Finding: Backup processes are inconsistent. DR plan not in place.”
Ideal
“Backing up your ERP system reduces your ransomware exposure by 40%.”
Point in time, not continuous.
Typical
“Assessment conducted 06/10/2021.”
Ideal
“Your risk posture updates as your business and controls change.”
Business-first
What a Cordaata risk assessment addresses.
Five stages, from the reality of how your business runs to a risk assessment your executives can act on.
01 Your business reality
Your processes, systems, data, and dependencies. The foundation that makes the assessment specific to you.
Business processes and workflows
What the business does day to day and how it operates.
Systems and applications in use
Every system used, not just what IT knows about.
Data assets, types, and classification
What data exists, what type it is, and how sensitive it is.
Organisational units and functions
How the business is structured and who owns what.
Services delivered externally
What the business provides to customers and how.
Providers you depend on
Third-party and supply-chain dependencies.
02 Understanding what matters most
Mapping the relationships, dependencies, and criticality that determine how the business works.
Process dependencies
Which processes depend on which other processes.
System-to-system connections
How systems connect and what fails if one goes down.
Data location and access
Where data lives and which systems hold it.
Process, system, and data importance
Criticality ranking by business impact.
Disruption impact
What a failure of each process or system would cost the business.
03 How you are protected today
Not just what controls you have in place. Whether they are actually working.
Policies and standards in place
The documented rules and requirements that govern security.
Technical settings and configurations
How tools and systems are actually configured.
Tools and platforms deployed
What security tooling is in place and where.
Processes that verify controls are working
How the organisation checks that controls are effective.
Gaps and exposures by system
Where protection falls short against specific systems.
04 Your risk, automatically identified
Risk scenarios modelled automatically from real-world cyber incident data. Specific to your environment. Not estimated. Not assumed.
Historic cyber incident data
Real-world breach data from organisations like yours.
Risk scenarios per information system
The most relevant risk scenarios modelled for each system.
Likelihood and financial impact analysis
Probability and cost of each risk scenario materialising.
Control gap assessment
How the gaps found in stage 3 affect the risk picture in stage 4.
05 Your risk assessment
Financial exposure tied to your business processes. A prioritised roadmap. Reports your executive team can understand and act on. Updated as your business changes.
Financial exposure in money, not a score
What each risk could cost the business.
Risk ranked by business process, not system
Which business processes carry the most risk.
Threat priorities ranked by business impact
Which threat types are most relevant to your environment.
Prioritised roadmap, not a findings list
What to fix first and why, tied to business impact.
Risk register updated continuously, not annually
A living view of risk that evolves as the business does.
Reports your executive team can act on
Business language, not technical findings.
The gaps described are not inevitable.
Cybersecurity risk tools were not built around the business. Cordaata was. The result is a risk assessment that is specific to you, and what proper risk analysis was always meant to be.
