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Cybersecurity Maturity Assessment: What Is It?

By looking at your security policies, procedures, tools, technologies, governance and controls, and security awareness, cybersecurity maturity assessment (CMA) determines how advanced or successful your present cybersecurity initiatives are.

Understanding your organization’s readiness for changing attacks and your level of threat, risk, and vulnerability management are the objectives of this cybersecurity maturity model. This enhances your entire cybersecurity and compliance activities and helps identify the risk posture of your company.

Cyber maturity assessments are conducted by organizations using specific frameworks:

  • FAIR framework
  • NIST cybersecurity framework
  • ISO/IEC 27001
  • Centre of Internet Security (CIS)
  • Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies (COBIT)

Cloud cybersecurity maturity assessments assist you in reaching the greatest level of cyber defense, regardless of where you are in the process.

Why Conduct Assessments of Cybersecurity Maturity?

To identify and eliminate risks, you may have used a variety of cybersecurity techniques, including penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, and others. However, are you aware of their effectiveness? For your assault surface, are they sufficient?

By addressing these issues, a security maturity assessment seeks to determine this:

  1. Lack of resources: Some businesses lack the time, manpower, and financial means necessary to carry out in-depth evaluations of their security posture. The majority of their security expenditure is allocated to daily maintenance and operations.
  2. Skills and expertise: Many firms lack the necessary cybersecurity skills to conduct thorough security assessments and defend against the most recent assaults.
  3. Effect: The majority of decision-makers and company executives lack a thorough awareness of the seriousness of cyberthreats and their effects. To combat attacks, standard evaluations, regular audits, and compliance are thought to be enough. The reality has changed due to increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks.

Use Fortis Aegis Group to Evaluate and Enhance Your Cybersecurity Initiatives

FAG provides comprehensive cybersecurity maturity assessment services to improve your cybersecurity posture. Our security experts thoroughly evaluate your security strategies, policies, governance and controls, and technologies to detect risks and resolve them immediately. Here are the benefits you get:

  • Regulation adherence by protecting client and company data from intrusions
  • Quicker threat assessment and detection in cybersecurity through the use of the newest technologies and methods, such as risk assessments and SIEM.
  • Enhanced security stance
  • A comprehensive action plan to reduce risks and protect the resources of your company

How Do Our Evaluations of Cybersecurity Maturity Operate?

Internal and external cyberattacks, including ransomware, malware, and phishing, are completely defeated by our CMA services. We do cybersecurity maturity assessments as follows:

  1. First Consultation
    We meet with your security team to learn about your industry, the particular difficulties you encounter, and your entire organizational structure. This aids in defining the maturity assessment’s scope
  2. Analysis of gaps
    We assess your security policies, personnel, technology, and procedures, as well as all of your resources and assets, in order to conduct a thorough cybersecurity gap analysis. This aids in our comprehension of your security posture and maturity levels.
  3. Benchmarking for security
    We identify areas for improvement by comparing your present security posture and procedures to frameworks such as NIST.
  4. Setting priorities for risks
    To guide the mitigation efforts, we rank the threats according to their seriousness, beginning with the most important ones to shorten the attackers’ dwell time and lessen the effects on your company, such as data loss, operation delays, and so on.
  5. Mitigation that works
    We develop an efficient remediation plan and carry it out quickly based on the threats that have been identified, your attack surface, and security maturity. We also offer timetables and economical ways to finish the evaluations.
  6. Post-assessment support
    We still have work to perform when dangers are eliminated. We provide continuing assistance to address your concerns and do follow-up evaluations to eliminate new hazards for continued enhancements.

Why Select the Cybersecurity Maturity Assessment Services Offered by FAG?

One of the top security assessment firms, FAG has been protecting thousands of businesses globally for the past 40 years with efficient cybersecurity solutions. They trust FAG for the following reasons, and so can you:

Knowledge and experience: With more than 40 years of experience in cybersecurity, we have collaborated with companies in the US, UAE, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia, among other countries.
Professionals from our varied security team are adept at utilizing the newest tools and technologies, conducting cybersecurity maturity assessments, and protecting enterprises from changing threats.
Tailored solutions: We are committed to offering businesses distinct security solutions that are tailored to their particular attack surfaces and issues. For this reason, we spend a lot of time talking about your security needs and figuring out how secure your company is.
This enables us to offer cybersecurity assessment services that complement your operational requirements and risk tolerance.
Deference for international standards: Our security staff is well-versed in a number of compliance laws, rules, and guidelines that are in effect in the US, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and the UAE, including UAE NESA, SAMA, GDPR, and NIST. To identify and mitigate compliance risks, we do a security compliance audit and gap analysis. We also make sure that all of our technologies, services, and procedures follow the relevant laws and guidelines.
New technologies: At Fortis Aegis Group, we value ongoing learning and innovation. For this reason, we constantly add the newest tools and technologies to our technology stack and update our skill sets. In order to address new cyberattacks, we also continuously update our security best practices.
Systematic reporting: After conducting cybersecurity maturity assessments on your company, we produce a thorough report detailing all of our findings. It contains your main advantages and disadvantages, risks that have been discovered, their relative importance, and practical suggestions for resolving them and strengthening your security posture.
Dependable assistance: If you run into any problems or require any direction, you can rely on us. We offer round-the-clock end-to-end support to assist you at every stage while protecting your company and its resources against new dangers.

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