Organizational Factors

Organizations align resources to realize their mission and deliver their products and services. Similarly, organizations must align resources to increase cybersecurity and reduce risk while achieving their mission. Organizational Factors evaluates organizational design, security agenda, and board culture regarding cyber risk. This evaluation helps organizations ensure proper resourcing, communications, and focus to meet their customer’s demands for their products in a secure manner.

A complete cyber risk strategy will incorporate measures that identity and educate the entire workforce on the benefits to cyber security controls and policies. These benefits outweigh the costs to the individual, organization, customers, partners, and suppliers, encouraging unanimous buy-in.

Situational Factors

Maxxsure recognizes situational risk assessment as the determination of quantitative or qualitative value of risk related to a concrete situation and a recognized threat. As situations morph, they may increase increase the likelihood or impact of an attack on your organization.

Maxxsure’s neural network stays awake 24/7, tapping into social sentiment data that we couple with deep learning techniques. Maxxsure uses these data to monitor for any changes to your situation and adjust your M-Score in real-time to determine risk to your technology based on political or social change.

Governance Standards

Infrastructure Vulnerability Assessment

Penetration testing evaluates the security posture of an organization by highlighting network vulnerabilities from hackers’ and insiders’ point of view. Infrastructure vulnerabilities pose a great risk to operations and businesses if they are exploitable, and unfortunately such vulnerabilities are inevitable. By conducting penetration testing exercises, organizations can verify that existing and new applications, systems, and networks are not vulnerable to security risks that could allow unauthorized access to the company resources. It examines a system’s immunity to actual hacking methodologies and gives actionable insights of the system’s exploitable vulnerabilities.

Penetration tests are a great way to identify vulnerabilities that exists in a system or network that has an existing security measures in place. A penetration test usually involves the use of attacking methods conducted by trusted individuals that are similarly used by hostile intruders or hackers. Hacking is not a technique but a “thought process,” hence the importance of conducting a simulated exercise of penetration testing periodically to counter the growing threat to organizational resources.

Depending on the type of test that is conducted, this may involve a simple scan of an IP addresses to identify machines that are offering services with known vulnerabilities or even exploiting known vulnerabilities that exist in an un-patched operating system. The results of these tests or attacks are then documented and presented as a report to the owner of the system and the vulnerabilities identified can then be resolved.

Application Vulnerability Assessment

Organizations currently own or rent thousands of applications and software assets, along with myriad hardware and cloud environments. With this greater level of complexity in the application environment, cyber risks lurk while management does not have any visibility into their vulnerabilities. Maxxsure collects thousands of variables from these organizations, combining these data with industry-related CVSS data to conduct a comprehensive risk assessment and computation in real-time for the organization’s application vulnerabilities..

People Factors

Your People (employees and contractors) deliver your products, support your customers, and handle your assets. Malicious external actors target your people with malware, ransomware, and social engineering. Organizations and their people struggle with the constantly changing compliance and best practice landscape.

People Factors ensures essential cyber risk management disciplines are being executed to create high resiliency and readiness. People factors measures people-oriented outcomes such as on-boarding processes and security and awareness training. Measuring these outcomes allows you to increase compliance and best practice adoption. This increased compliance and adoption translates into fewer incidents, a feeling of ownership for security, and increased productivity.