Completing a cybersecurity audit is fundamental to your wider risk appreciation and management, allowing you to understand and mitigate the specific challenges facing your organization.
The Importance of Conducting a Cybersecurity Audit
For many organizations, it is challenging to find suitably accredited and experienced consultants to conduct a cybersecurity audit.
Increase Cyber Resilience Understanding threats, vulnerabilities and other weaknesses within your business helps you implement appropriate capabilities and policies.
Meet Legal Requirements In some cases, completing an audit is a legal requirement.
Demonstrate ROI Without completing an audit, it is challenging to assess the controls you have implemented and thereby demonstrate a tangible return on investment.
What to Expect from a Audit by Bridewell
Our consultants are dedicated to ensuring cybersecurity assessments are effective and not treated as a simple checklist or tick box exercise.
Sector and Regulatory Experience
Our consultants have designed programmes on behalf of government bodies and regulators which have been used to provide cybersecurity oversight across sectors.
Trusted Guidance and Support
During and following an audit, our consultants offer practical suggestions for addressing areas of non-compliance or otherwise driving improvements.
Extensive Metrics and Insight
We provide meaningful audit metrics for clients that can be integrated into their wider risk management.
Advanced Tooling
Bridewell has developed several proprietary tools that generate audit metrics, track remediation activities, highlight supplier trends, and map controls across standards.
Tailored Approach
We take a modern approach that seeks to understand and incorporate your organization's full technology stack and operating model.
Why is it Worth Conducting a Cybersecurity Audit?
Supplier Assurance
Be confident that your suppliers are complying with their contractual and legal and regulatory obligations.
Highlight Trends Across Suppliers
Identify broad issues with how the suppliers have been commercially engaged and are operating.
Validate Effectiveness of Controls
Assess the effectiveness of the controls your organization has implemented to mitigate risk.
A Cyber Security Foundation
An audit is integral to your organization's risk appreciation and management and supports wider cyber security initiatives.
Start your Cybersecurity Audit Journey
Speak with one of our consultants to see how we can support your organization with a cyber security audit.
How we Conduct a Cybersecurity Audit?
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Our methodology covers: security standards and policy, security controls information, security management system, and physical security.
- High-level Assessment - If required, our consultants can initially perform a high-level assessment and overview that highlights areas requiring more in-depth investigation.
- In-depth Investigation - Based on these findings, we can recommend areas or third-party providers that require a more in-depth, on-site visit and review.
- Established and Proprietary Frameworks - We can provide audits against established industry frameworks or ones you have developed yourself.
- Specialized Services - Our consultants can provide customized assessments into specialist areas, such as cryptographic hardware/ software and cryptographic key management for financial institutions.
Cybersecurity Audit FAQs
The audit will cover all aspects of the organization's operations and activities. This will include an evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the organization's internal controls, risk management processes, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
The audit will also assess the organization's financial statements and assess the reasonableness of the accounting estimates and judgments made by management. In addition, it will evaluate the effectiveness of the organization's management in carrying out their responsibilities.
Why Us?
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180+ Security Specialists
Our team have diverse experience across sectors and disciplines, and hold accreditations from numerous industry bodies.
Certifications
Our people and services are highly accredited by leading industry bodies including CREST, the NCSC, and more. Our SOC holds extensive accreditations from CREST (including for CSIR and SOC2) and works closely with our cyber consultancy services.
Partnerships
As a Microsoft Partner, we also hold advanced specialisms in Cloud Security and Threat Protection. We’ve also implemented some of the UK’s largest deployments of the Microsoft Security stack, inc. Sentinel, Defender, Purview and more.
