Security Analysis

It sounds straightforward: Risk analysis calls for organizations to identify their key assets, the threats those assets face, the potential cost to the organization should a given threat come to pass and the cost of risk mitigation. When properly executed, risk analysis can help managers make informed decisions on where to invest their security dollars. It can also enable them to launch a comprehensive risk-management program.

In actual practice, however, risk analysis often falls short of this vision. Analytical exercises tend to be too limited in scope to be completely effective.

ATS Tech Solutions' approach is to conduct an information-security audit, identify vulnerabilities, and associate each vulnerability with a business risk. ATS then presents the client with a list of business risks. The list is circulated among the client’s executive committee, with each member estimating the cost of those risks.

ATS Tech Solutions also identifies steps that the customer must take to mitigate IT security risks. Price quotes for addressing the various risks are obtained and presented to the customer.

Dollars and Risk

The business focus is critical to risk analysis, which is first and foremost a matter of understanding your business. However, the information technology perspective may not be focused on the same things. The goal of ATS Tech Solutions' service is to converge the two perspectives and then build risk analysis into all of the secure audits ATS performs.

Many organizations think risk assessment is an overhead cost, but if you do it properly, it can save money in the long run. Contact ATS Tech Solutions to find out more about these services.