Completing a cyber security audit is fundamental to your wider risk appreciation and management, allowing you to understand and mitigate the specific challenges facing your organisation.
The Importance of Conducting a Cyber Security Audit
For many organisations, it is challenging to find suitably accredited and experienced consultants to conduct a cyber security 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 an Audit by Bridewell
Our consultants are dedicated to ensuring cyber security 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 cyber security 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 organisation’s full technology stack and operating model.
Why is it Worth Conducting a Cyber Security 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 organisation has implemented to mitigate risk.
A Cyber Security Foundation
An audit is integral to your organisation’s risk appreciation and management and supports wider cyber security initiatives.
Start your Cyber Security Audit Journey
Speak with one of our consultants to see how we can support your organisation with a cyber security audit.
How we Conduct a Cyber Security 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.
- Specialised Services - Our consultants can provide customised assessments into specialist areas, such as cryptographic hardware/ software and cryptographic key management for financial institutions.
Cyber Security Audit FAQs
The audit will cover all aspects of the organisation's operations and activities. This will include an evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the organisation's internal controls, risk management processes, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
The audit will also assess the organisation'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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Awards
Our team have won numerous industry awards, including 'Cyber Business of the Year' at the National Cyber Awards 2024 and 'Best Cyber Security Company of the Year' at the Cyber Security Awards 2023.
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.
