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Cyber Risk Assessment

Quantify the financial impact of cyber risk

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Cyber Risk Assessment enables your organization to quantify the financial impact of cyber risk, enabling enterprise-wide cyber resilience planning.
 
The Cyber Risk Assessment provides:
Insights into the most pressing cyber risks with the highest potential financial impact, to help your leadership to prioritize the initiatives with the highest ROI.
An understanding of the potential risk categories and factors, delivered via 8 risk related categories plus 40 sub-factors.
Insights into potential financial loss scenarios based on a company’s cyber risk exposure.
Ability to benchmark against industry peers on combined cyber and cyber-related financial risk basis.


Watch the video below to learn how the Cyber Risk Assessment helps leaders make decisions about cyber risk with conviction. 



DOWNLOAD THE BROCHURE TO LEARN MORE >

  • Overview

    • Cyber Risk Assessment enables your organization to quantify the financial impact of cyber risk, enabling enterprise-wide cyber resilience planning.
       
      The Cyber Risk Assessment provides:
      Insights into the most pressing cyber risks with the highest potential financial impact, to help your leadership to prioritize the initiatives with the highest ROI.
      An understanding of the potential risk categories and factors, delivered via 8 risk related categories plus 40 sub-factors.
      Insights into potential financial loss scenarios based on a company’s cyber risk exposure.
      Ability to benchmark against industry peers on combined cyber and cyber-related financial risk basis.


      Watch the video below to learn how the Cyber Risk Assessment helps leaders make decisions about cyber risk with conviction. 



      DOWNLOAD THE BROCHURE TO LEARN MORE >


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  • for Financial Management
  • for Risk Management
  • for Information Security Management
  • for Executive Management

Benefits

For Financial Management:

  • Quantify cyber risk:
    Understand your Company’s inherent Cyber value at risk at various probabilities to gauge potential financial impact and determine required contingency reserves.

  • Enable collaboration with CISOs and Leadership:
    Assess required investments into cyber resilience against ROI and financial risk tolerance. 

  • Inform cyber insurance coverage:
    Display understanding of cyber risk level to drive insurance negotiations and comprehensiveness of inclusions.

Benefits

For Risk Management:

    • Risk mitigation: 
      Gain insight into your Company’s most crucial cyber risks, in addition to your performance against industry average and peers, to inform active corporate risk mitigation. 

    • Corporate risk appetite:
      Understand cyber value at risk at different probabilities of event occurrence, to align with corporate risk appetite.

    • Support oversight of company-wide risk management:
      Provide a top-down approach to help embed key cyber resilience initiatives identified across the organization.

Benefits

For Information Security Management:

  • Communicate cyber strategy with clarity and purpose:
    Empower leadership with financial quantification and peer benchmarking analytics to assess cyber risk in relative and financial terms.

  • Foster trust in cyber risk quantification:
    With the help of a cyber risk product that utilizes stochastic, behavioral and actuarial modelling with machine learning techniques.

  • Align cyber risk management with overall enterprise risk management:
    Facilitate objective discussions on budgeting and resourcing.

Benefits

For Executive Management:

      • Elevate cyber resilience planning to the Boardroom:
        Prepare for upcoming cyber regulations and relevant disclosures.

      • Outside-in perspective for strategic planning:
        Align cyber resilience strategy with overall business strategy, with an ‘outside in’ perspective of strengths and weaknesses.

      • Financial quantification: 
        Support decision making with a quantitative assessment of your cyber risks, acting decisively on remedial actions.

  • for Financial Management
    • Benefits

      For Financial Management:

      • Quantify cyber risk:
        Understand your Company’s inherent Cyber value at risk at various probabilities to gauge potential financial impact and determine required contingency reserves.

      • Enable collaboration with CISOs and Leadership:
        Assess required investments into cyber resilience against ROI and financial risk tolerance. 

      • Inform cyber insurance coverage:
        Display understanding of cyber risk level to drive insurance negotiations and comprehensiveness of inclusions.

  • for Risk Management
    • Benefits

      For Risk Management:

        • Risk mitigation: 
          Gain insight into your Company’s most crucial cyber risks, in addition to your performance against industry average and peers, to inform active corporate risk mitigation. 

        • Corporate risk appetite:
          Understand cyber value at risk at different probabilities of event occurrence, to align with corporate risk appetite.

        • Support oversight of company-wide risk management:
          Provide a top-down approach to help embed key cyber resilience initiatives identified across the organization.

  • for Information Security Management
    • Benefits

      For Information Security Management:

      • Communicate cyber strategy with clarity and purpose:
        Empower leadership with financial quantification and peer benchmarking analytics to assess cyber risk in relative and financial terms.

      • Foster trust in cyber risk quantification:
        With the help of a cyber risk product that utilizes stochastic, behavioral and actuarial modelling with machine learning techniques.

      • Align cyber risk management with overall enterprise risk management:
        Facilitate objective discussions on budgeting and resourcing.

  • for Executive Management
    • Benefits

      For Executive Management:

          • Elevate cyber resilience planning to the Boardroom:
            Prepare for upcoming cyber regulations and relevant disclosures.

          • Outside-in perspective for strategic planning:
            Align cyber resilience strategy with overall business strategy, with an ‘outside in’ perspective of strengths and weaknesses.

          • Financial quantification: 
            Support decision making with a quantitative assessment of your cyber risks, acting decisively on remedial actions.


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  • Quantify
  • Manage

Quantitative Actionable Insights

Designed for strategic cyber resilience planning 

Identify, quantify, manage evolving cyber risks across your organization with trusted, robust data driven analytics to inform your corporation's cyber resilience strategy. 

Identify

  • potential risk categories and factors, delivered via 8 risk categories plus 40 sub-factors. 
  • risk categories including susceptibility factors - technical factors of your Entity's cyber resilience plus motivation factors - highlight non-technical factors that may encourage bad actors to target your Entity. 
  • quantitative risk signals developed using stochastic, actuarial, and behavioral models. 
Quantitative Actionable Insights

Designed for strategic cyber resilience planning 

Identify, quantify, manage evolving cyber risks across your organization with trusted, robust data driven analytics to inform your corporation's cyber resilience strategy. 

Quantify

  • the probability, severity, and estimated losses from a cyber event, presented by type of loss (e.g. from data breach, direct / indirect business interruptions, cyber ransoming).
  • estimated losses that are further provided dat various probabilities to understand potential financial impact. 
  • your Cyber posture versus industry peers, enhancing your Entity's cyber resilience strengths and weaknesses compared to peer standards. 
Quantitative Actionable Insights

Designed for strategic cyber resilience planning 

Identify, quantify, manage evolving cyber risks across your organization with trusted, robust data driven analytics to inform your corporation's cyber resilience strategy. 

Manage

  • strategic communication on cyber resilience with the Board and Leadership.
  • cyber investments more effectively, information planning and funding to most needed initiatives. 
  • insurance coverage proactively, as insurers increasingly monitor and question the cyber resilience of Entities to underwrite cyber coverage. 
  • cyber risk posture by utilizing an outside in perspective, to augment existing cyber resilience programs. 
  • Identify
    • Quantitative Actionable Insights

      Designed for strategic cyber resilience planning 

      Identify, quantify, manage evolving cyber risks across your organization with trusted, robust data driven analytics to inform your corporation's cyber resilience strategy. 

      Identify

      • potential risk categories and factors, delivered via 8 risk categories plus 40 sub-factors. 
      • risk categories including susceptibility factors - technical factors of your Entity's cyber resilience plus motivation factors - highlight non-technical factors that may encourage bad actors to target your Entity. 
      • quantitative risk signals developed using stochastic, actuarial, and behavioral models. 
  • Quantify
    • Quantitative Actionable Insights

      Designed for strategic cyber resilience planning 

      Identify, quantify, manage evolving cyber risks across your organization with trusted, robust data driven analytics to inform your corporation's cyber resilience strategy. 

      Quantify

      • the probability, severity, and estimated losses from a cyber event, presented by type of loss (e.g. from data breach, direct / indirect business interruptions, cyber ransoming).
      • estimated losses that are further provided dat various probabilities to understand potential financial impact. 
      • your Cyber posture versus industry peers, enhancing your Entity's cyber resilience strengths and weaknesses compared to peer standards. 
  • Manage
    • Quantitative Actionable Insights

      Designed for strategic cyber resilience planning 

      Identify, quantify, manage evolving cyber risks across your organization with trusted, robust data driven analytics to inform your corporation's cyber resilience strategy. 

      Manage

      • strategic communication on cyber resilience with the Board and Leadership.
      • cyber investments more effectively, information planning and funding to most needed initiatives. 
      • insurance coverage proactively, as insurers increasingly monitor and question the cyber resilience of Entities to underwrite cyber coverage. 
      • cyber risk posture by utilizing an outside in perspective, to augment existing cyber resilience programs. 

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