Cybersecurity Services Cybersecurity Assessments

Our cybersecurity assessments are conducted by our professional senior technology leaders and practice engineers using an extensive, multi-method approach that, depending on the objective of the assessment, may include interviews, independent evaluations, policy and practice reviews, and testing of existing security infrastructure (e.g., penetration testing).

Following the assessment, our senior IT professionals provide a report that presents actionable insights that are based on a forward-looking analysis with quantified results. Recommendations are immediately executable and are focused on specific business outcomes relevant to the assessment type. Each report contains an estimated effort and cost breakdown associated with the recommendations.

Whether you are concerned about your company’s cybersecurity compliance, cyber resilience, or cyber defenses sufficiency, your cybersecurity assessment will include evaluations of multiple factors that have relevance to the assessment’s main objective. These areas of evaluation may include:

• Business process mapping
• Information classification policy assessment
• Data protection and retention strategy assessment
• Incident response process assessment
• Business continuity strategy assessment
• HR processes assessment
• Change management process assessment
• Training and development plan assessment

NexusTek’s cybersecurity assessments can help your business to comply with a wide variety of standards, including cyber insurance requirements, HIPAA, NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53, CMMC, CIS, PCI-DSS, CCPA, GDPR, and ITIL. Upon request, we may also offer assessments to support compliance with additional standards beyond those mentioned in this list.

Putting cybersecurity measures in place without understanding or testing their efficacy can undermine the strength of your security. To create an effective security system, it must be tested, analyzed, and altered where needed and as new risks arise. Although many businesses use cybersecurity assessments as a place to start when building their security programs, many also use cybersecurity assessments as a way of evaluating the effectiveness of newly implemented security measures.

Many customers are surprised to learn that policies and practices form a major part of any successful cybersecurity program. Although cybersecurity technologies play an invaluable role in protecting against cyber threats, the fact remains that the #1 source of cyber risk for any company is its employees. Employees may be manipulated by cybercriminals who employ social engineering campaigns, they may create vulnerabilities through poor password practices, or they may in rare cases be the malicious actor themselves. When our cybersecurity assessments reveal insufficient safeguards related to employee behavior in a company’s environment, our technology leader might recommend practices such as employee awareness training, or they might recommend policy changes such as password protocols or personal device usage requirements.

The two are closely related, but they serve different functions. Part of the focus of a Cyber Resilience Assessment is to evaluate factors that influence a company’s ability to maintain business continuity and recover quickly and effectively from disasters. However, the objective of the assessment is to evaluate any gaps in a company’s capabilities in these areas, while BC/DR solutions directly address such gaps. For example, a Cyber Resilience Assessment might reveal that a certain segment of a company’s critical business systems would not be resilient to extreme events such as natural disasters. The assessment findings would explain the nature of this gap, providing recommendations for solutions (e.g., redundant infrastructure) that would support uptime in the face of such extreme events. The business would then have the option of implementing that solution or pursuing a different course of action. On the other hand, the actual deployment of solutions such as redundant infrastructure to ensure uptime for critical business systems would be an example of BC/DR.