PLANO,
Texas, May 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today,
Critical Start, a leading provider of Managed Detection and
Response (MDR) cybersecurity solutions and pioneer of Managed Cyber
Risk Reduction (MCRR), announced the expansion of the frameworks
available in its Risk Assessments offering. These additions to the
tool expand upon the initial offering, providing additional
framework-based assessments for customers to achieve data-driven
evaluation, articulation, and monitoring their overall cyber risk
posture. This expansion provides security leaders with more ways to
identify gaps, demonstrate progress toward security maturity,
rationalize investments, and most importantly, strengthen cyber
defenses. Critical Start Risk Assessments also include peer
benchmarking for selected Frameworks like NIST CSF and CIS Critical
Security Controls, which provides customers with vital intelligence
regarding how their security program compares with like
organizations.
In this release, Critical Start adds supports NIST CSF 2.0, CIS
Critical Security Controls v8, and NIST SP 800-171, broadening
support for framework updates and additional frameworks giving more
options for organizations to measure their security maturity and
utilize Critical Start recommendations to further improve their
security programs to reduce cyber risk. For all available
frameworks, users can securely attach documents to any question in
the assessment as evidence and export an audit package of completed
assessment with attachments to provide to third-party auditors.
With these new frameworks, all Risk Assessments Essentials
customers gain immediate access to new templates at no additional
cost. Customers also have access to data from completed assessments
which will automatically crosswalk between framework
templates. For example, if a user has completed a NIST CSF
2.0 assessment and wants to start a CIS Critical Security Controls
v8 assessment, existing data from their previous assessments will
pre-populate where the fields match. This powerful feature enables
security and governance teams to eliminate redundant work efforts
and quickly pivot based on emerging organizational
requirements.
"Risk assessments are the first and best step for organizations
to measure their current risk posture and identify the immediate
improvements they can implement to reduce their cyber risk," said
Chris Carlson, Chief Product Officer
at Critical Start. "The Critical Start Risk Assessments offering
has been designed for organizations of all sizes to quickly and
easily assess themselves and to prepare for third-party audits with
no limit on the different frameworks or how many times a framework
is used for an assessment."
Additional benefits of Critical Start's expanded Risk
Assessments include:
● Assessment
Import where new customers can import data from spreadsheet
or paper-based assessments to continue building upon previous
work
- Added and updated frameworks where Critical Start
continuously adds/updates frameworks in the Risk Assessments
platform to keep customers ahead of new regulatory and audit
requirements
- Repeat Assessments where customers will have the ability
to take or retake assessments as often as they need without
incurring any additional costs so they can continually track
security improvements
- Risk-Ranked Recommendations that give prescriptive next
steps that customers can take to reduce risk
Multi-level framework assessment reports and dashboards provide
deep insights into point-in-time and trend data, and artifacts of
internally completed assessments can be shared with external
auditors, ultimately reducing the time and cost of external
audits.
For more information on Critical Start expanded Risk
Assessments, visit: Risk Assessments - Critical Start, or stop by
Booth #449 South at RSAC for more details and a demo.
About Critical Start
Organizations today face the challenge of aligning their cyber
protection measures with their risk appetite.
CRITICALSTART®, a pioneer of the industry's first
Managed Cyber Risk Reduction solutions, provides holistic cyber
risk monitoring via its Cyber Operations Risk & Response™
platform, paired with a human-led risk and security operations
team, combined with over 8 years of award-winning Managed Detection
and Response (MDR) services. By continuously monitoring and
mitigating cyber risks, Critical Start enables businesses to
proactively protect their critical assets with a measurable ROI.
The company's platform provides maturity assessments, peer
benchmarking, posture and event analytics, and response
capabilities. Its risk and security operations team evaluates and
actions threats, risks, vulnerabilities, and performs comprehensive
threat intelligence research. Critical Start enables organizations
to achieve the highest level of cyber risk reduction for every
dollar invested, allowing them to confidently reach their desired
levels of risk tolerance.
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Contact:
Abigail Dellapina
criticalstart@luminapr.com
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