According to NIST, risk assessments are a key part of effective risk management and facilitate decision making at all three tiers in the risk management hierarchy including the organization level, mission/business process level, and information system level. Because risk management is ongoing, risk assessments are conducted throughout the system development life cycle, from pre-system acquisition (i.e., material solution analysis and technology development), through system acquisition (i.e., engineering/manufacturing development and production/deployment), and on into sustainment (i.e., operations/support).(Source)
This webinar discusses the means for managing security for information assets and the means for assessing and mitigating the risk to organizational information assets. This example document from the state of Virginia is used to assist each agency in assessing the risks to its sensitive systems and data, and protecting the resources that support the mission. This standard defines the key elements of the Commonwealth’s information security risk assessment model to enable consistent identification, evaluation, response and monitoring of risks facing IT processes. The CRR is a no-cost, voluntary, non-technical assessment to evaluate an organization’s operational resilience and cybersecurity practices. This article from ISACA discusses Enterprise Security Risk Assessment Methodology. This NIST publication addresses assessment and analysis of security control effectiveness and of organizational security status in accordance with organizational risk tolerance. This NIST Special Publication provides guidance for conducting risk assessments. This SANS provided policy discusses performing periodic information security risk assessments.
This document provides self-assessment guidance for conducting Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) assessments for Level 1. This document provides assessment guidance for conducting Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) assessments for Level 2. This document provides assessment guidance for conducting Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) assessments for Level 3. The Cybersecurity Assessment Tool consists of two parts: Inherent Risk Profile and Cybersecurity Maturity. The purpose of this publication is to provide procedures for assessing the CUI requirements in NIST Special Publication 800-171.