Cybersecurity risk assessment for business
- Evaluate risks related to leaked data, as well as network, web application, and email security.
- Receive a security risk score to see what attackers can find about your organization.
- Prioritize resources based on threat relevancy and raise executive awareness of security gaps.
What is cybersecurity risk assessment?
NordStellar’s cybersecurity risk assessment is an on-demand evaluation of your organization’s dark web exposure and the external risks linked to your domain. NordStellar conducts extensive external scans to produce a detailed cyber risk report — a snapshot of the current cyber risks to your organization. This report includes actionable insights for IT staff and executive summaries for your leadership, helping you allocate your cybersecurity resources in a way that guarantees maximum returns.
How NordStellar’s cybersecurity risk assessment is performed
NordStellar’s cybersecurity risk assessment process can be broken down into four parts.
PROVIDE YOUR DOMAIN
To generate your custom report, all we need is your company domain — no setup or integration is required.
EXTERNAL SCAN
NordStellar conducts an on-demand scan, combinining data from multiple sources, including the dark web, Telegram and ransomware blogs, to detect and analyze data linked to your domain.
Get a score
You’ll receive a detailed report with individual scores for key security areas and an overall score reflecting the health of your security. Each item is ranked by severity (from “very low” to “critical”) to help you prioritize.
Follow our recommendations
NordStellar’s cybersecurity risk assessment report includes highlights of the most pressing threats and expert recommendations for your security team.
How does a cybersecurity risk assessment benefit your company?
Regularly performing cybersecurity risk assessments lets your organization identify blind spots across external threats.
Get a clear overview of where your organization stands in the current cybersecurity landscape. Our report showcases both the potential and actual impact of the threats you face, including details such as uncovered attacks and identified vulnerabilities.
Different organizations have different cybersecurity needs — and limited budgets with which to address them. A professional cybersecurity risk assessment lets you prioritize security resources based on the most relevant threats.
Cybersecurity risk assessments offer an outsider’s perspective on the state of your organization’s cybersecurity. NordStellar cybersecurity risk assessment scans can be carried out on demand, giving you an overview of your security situation at a given point in time and letting you address any shortcomings as they appear.
Patching out vulnerabilities uncovered during cybersecurity risk assessments helps you meet data protection requirements under the law. In addition, regular assessments are necessary to satisfy prominent regulatory standards like ISO 27001, which serve as requirements for certification and government contracts.
Cybersecurity risk assessment reports help security teams to clearly communicate the risks to executives. Our reports highlight your organization’s security gaps and the potential impact of data breaches, with an executive summary that includes recommended actions for your leaders.
Our cybersecurity risk assessment report scoring
NordStellar’s scoring system evaluates four key risk factors — leaked data, website security, email security, and network security — on a scale from 0 to 10. The individual scores are weighted based on their relevance to your organization’s security and then combined into a single comprehensive score, which ranges from 0 to 100. These scores are further supplemented with highlights and recommendations for actionable insight.
Our methodology integrates elements from established frameworks and standards like NIST and ISO 27001 to align with the best practices in the industry. We also use CVSS metrics alongside additional information from diverse data sources to provide a broader view of potential cybersecurity risks.
What risks can you detect using cybersecurity risk assessment?
Professional cybersecurity risk assessment reveals the most dangerous external threats to your organization.
Discover leaks involving employee credentials, including details of the attack (such as whether it was based on malware and when it likely took place).
Key metrics:
- The number and scale of past breaches
- The number of malware (infostealer) infections
- The types of data exposed in breaches
- The time since the last known breach
- The number of instances of password reuse among employees
Test your domain email configuration for spoofing and phishing vulnerabilities and evaluate your email authentication policies.
Key metrics:
- The number of spoofable and potentially spoofable domains
- The strength of your DMARC policy
- The implementation and effectiveness of SPF and DKIM
- Your use of email encryption
Uncover any SSL/TLS issues affecting your organization, including affected IPs/domains and the error criteria.
Key metrics:
- Number of systems with critical vulnerabilities
- Average time to patch critical vulnerabilities
- The number of SSL issues
- Percentage of systems running up-to-date software
Identify needlessly open ports, outdated software, and other misconfigured, unpatched, or exposed internet-facing assets.
Key metrics:
- Number of detected vulnerabilities, their severity and density
- Your SSL/TLS protocol versions and security headers
- The number of open ports
- The strength of your encryption ciphers
Get your assessment
See what attackers know about your company and identify exposed assets before they become targets.
Assess leaked data, network security, web application security, and email security risks.
Help executives understand security gaps and their potential impact.
FAQ
Any organization can greatly benefit from a cybersecurity risk assessment report to identify vulnerabilities and determine where its IT priorities lie, but several industries find themselves in the line of fire much more often than others. In particular, companies involved in critical infrastructure (such as healthcare, finance, energy, education, or government services) make very attractive targets for hackers and need regular cybersecurity risk assessment to protect themselves.
You should carry out cybersecurity risk assessment regularly, either monthly or quarterly. The cyber threat landscape is constantly evolving, and even closed-off vulnerabilities can be re-opened by negligence or software updates in the future. NordStellar lets you order cybersecurity risk assessments based on your needs — either as custom one-off reports or as regular (monthly or quarterly) inspections.
A “high” or “critical” score indicates that there are several active risks to your organization that attackers could exploit. You should follow the expert recommendations for dealing with those risks provided in your cybersecurity risk assessment report.
For further insights into your cybersecurity, we recommend booking a demo of our NordStellar platform. NordStellar will tell you where your cyber risks are coming from, alert you to dark web mentions and leaked credentials, and identify exploitable vulnerabilities — all in real time.
You can purchase a cybersecurity risk assessment report directly from NordStellar — simply contact us for a quote, and we’ll get in touch with you about how we’ll conduct the assessment and what further information we’ll need from you.
Unfortunately, NordStellar does not offer free cybersecurity risk assessment reports at this time. Because cybersecurity risk assessment is an involved process that demands a lot of attention and resources, we also do not recommend that you try “free” assessments advertised online — these services may only offer generic, superficial information, or even be hackers in disguise.
However, you can get a reputable free glimpse at your organization’s cybersecurity with our cyber threat report. Keep in mind that this is not a full cybersecurity risk assessment and may be missing information that you’re looking for.
Enterprise cybersecurity is based on efficiently using limited resources. No organization has an unlimited cybersecurity budget — so identifying the key risks early and prioritizing appropriate cybersecurity measures can have a disproportionately large effect on your cyber resilience.
NordStellar helps your organization’s security leaders to quantify risk and provide the information they need to set appropriate security controls. With our custom cybersecurity risk report, security teams get a real-world view of the actual threats affecting your organization, including seeing what’s exposed right now.
Finally, common hacker patterns further solidify the importance of risk assessment in cybersecurity. Attackers don’t need to breach your network to find weaknesses — they’re constantly scanning the dark web for leaked data and probing your assets for misconfiguration. Cybersecurity risk assessment is the best way to discover potential routes into your organization before they’re exploited for an attack.