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Cyber Security Risk Management
Mitigate risk and ensure compliance against relevant standards and guidelines by establishing a comprehensive risk management program.
Our service provides the people, expertise, and resources necessary to implement a risk management strategy that mitigates risk without disrupting your operations.
The Importance of Risk Management
Most organisations realise the importance of cyber security risk management but often discover the task is more complex and time-consuming than first anticipated.
Interconnected Systems Larger organisations with extensive, interconnected systems find it harder to identify risks and how to mitigate them without impacting business operations.
Understanding Risk Ensuring a fully integrated risk management function requires a clear understanding of interactions and dependencies across the business and their potential impacts.
Resourcing Challenges In-house teams are often tasked with too many priorities to fully dedicate themselves to risk management, leaving little resource for this essential activity.
What to Expect from a Risk Management Service by Bridewell
Our consultants work closely with our clients to ensure their risk management strategy reflects their risk appetite, integrates with existing processes, and supports their wider business goals
Certified Risk Specialists
Our consultants have Certified Cyber Professional (CCP) certifications and NCSC Risk specialisms.
A Partner with Leading Industry Bodies
Our consultants work closely with the NCSC and other industry bodies to help shape national programmes and the future of the cyber security industry.
Experience Delivering Services at Scale
We have experience delivering risk management for some of the world’s largest CNI organisations across critical sectors.
Proven Methodologies and Expertise
Our consultants are established leaders in cyber security risk, audit, and supplier assurance, with certifications and experience in advising on NIST, CMMC, ISO 27001, NCSC CAF, OWASP and PCI DSS.
A Tailored Approach
We take a tailored approach to risk management that reflects the unique risks inherent to your organisation’s processes, sector, and risk appetite.
Why is it worth taking on a
Cyber Security Risk Management Service?
Simplified and Cost-Effective Risk Reduction
Risk Mitigation Having a comprehensive view of risk across the organisation enables you to easily apply pragmatic and cost-effective risk reduction strategies.
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Certification and Accreditation Requirements
Effective risk management to meet the quality and standards that auditors and accreditors require.
Easily Adopt New Standards and Legislation
Seamlessly align your cyber security programme with new standards, legislation, and business strategies.
Adapt to Changing Risk Levels
Manage the consequences of changing risk levels and develop appropriate continuity plans.
Start your Risk Management Process
Speak with one of our risk management experts to see how we can support your organisation in reducing risk and meeting regulatory demands.
How our Risk Management service works
Our risk management service encompasses all types of risk from security standards and policy, security controls information, security management system, to physical security.
- Step one: Our consultants perform an initial high-level assessment to identify potential risks within your organisation and where they fall short of industry frameworks or proprietary policies and standards.
- Step two: Depending on findings from the initial assessment, our consultants may advise whether any of your organisation’s third-party providers need a more in-depth, on-site visit and review.
- Step three: Having conducted a complete assessment, we then outline and implement an risk management process that addresses any identified risks or vulnerabilities to ensure they are mitigated and compliant.
- Step four: If required, our consultants can be utilised on an ongoing basis to augment your team and ensure this risk management process is adhered to on a continuous basis.
Azets UK Achieve ISO 27001:2022 Certification with Support from Bridewell
Azets UK is a specialist accounting and business advisory firm providing locally delivered audit, payroll, corporate finance, tax and business advisory services from more than 70 offices across the UK. To demonstrate their commitment to information security to their current and potential future clients, Azets UK were looking for a cyber security partner to help them achieve ISO 27001 certification.
The Challenge
Across their wide office network in the UK, Azets UK has over 3,800 employees delivering everything from accounting to tax, audit, advisory and business services to over 80,000 clients and as part of the larger international Azets business works with colleagues in the Nordics and Europe.
Given the scale of their business, meeting all the specific controls outlined in ISO 27001 was no small task. Specifically, ISO 27001 demands complex documentation that can be difficult to produce with limited resources and time. Azets UK were also looking to engage a wider range of their senior stakeholders with their ISMS.
The Solution
To start Azets UK on their journey to certification, we first delivered an ISO 27001 gap analysis to identify any areas that would require improvement to pass an audit. This analysis was based on a series of detailed workshops conducted by our consultants with Azets UK key stakeholders, including their CEO, CTO, Director of Security, HR, and Procurement.
Through these workshops, we identified that while Azets UK was already mature in its approach to information security, they would need to make some changes to meet specific ISO controls. Additionally, many of their policies and procedures, while aligned with best practice, weren’t formalised and would benefit from formal documentation.
These findings were shared with Azets UK in a report, which led directly into a 12-month project where our consultants supported Azets UK in implementing the recommendations outlined in the report.
This implementation project consisted of:
- Incorporating Azets risk management framework into the ISO 27001 risk register
- Performing risk assessment workshops
- Drafting new policies, procedures and standards
- Supporting with the design and implementation of new and improved information security and data protection controls.
To assess how the project was going, we also developed KPIs to monitor and measure security performance throughout the duration of the project. This was further supported by the establishment of an Information Security Leadership Board (ISLB), which held monthly meetings to review how the project was progressing, keep stakeholders up to speed on the project, and clearly define their roles and responsibilities.
“Throughout the project, Bridewell were easy to work with and managed the project effectively. In particular, we benefitted from the weekly meetings they held with our control owners to review progress against our KPIs and assign tasks to ensure we kept on track to meet ISO 27001 standards by our deadline.”
The Results
Having implemented all the recommendations from the original gap analysis, Azets UK then undertook their ISO 27001 audit. The audit came back with no findings, which was a great result and a testament to the increased maturity of Azets’ ISMS.
“We had no findings in our ISO 27001 audit. They made the certification process straightforward, identifying areas where additional work was needed for the control objectives and what we needed to do to get there. The roadmap they provided, alongside their ways of working, provided a clear structure to the project and made it very manageable.”
In the future, as their ISMS continues to mature, we have already outlined a number of actions Azets UK can take to maintain their certification.
Industry
Risk Management FAQs
The length of the engagement varies depending on the scope, current maturity and requirements. Some clients require days of advice and guidance, others prefer to utilise Bridewell for more in depth analysis, or to reduce the demand on their own resources on a temporary or long term basis.
Risk management is an ongoing process and Bridewell share knowledge, best practices and examples with clients to support organisations to mature and continue risk management practices independently.
Ideally an organisation will have an asset inventory, existing risk assessment and risk management processes and a previous risk assessment. We appreciate that organisations operate at different levels of maturity and that not all items might be available or complete.
Allocation of resources internally to support the engagement and risk management process is beneficial, often with communication to the business on the importance of risk management and what is required from staff and teams to support the initiative, along with the organisations reasons for focusing on risk management (e.g to support an ISO 27001 implementation or new business opportunity).
Some of the top cyber security risks include phishing attacks, ransomware, insider threats, advanced persistent threats (APTs) and unpatched software vulnerabilities.
Cyber security focuses on protecting systems, networks and data from cyber threats through measures like firewalls and encryption. Cyber risk management is a strategy within cyber security that involves identifying, assessing and prioritising risks to mitigate potential impacts.
A cyber security risk management plan is a structured approach to identifying, assessing and prioritising cyber security risks. It outlines strategies for mitigating or treating risks that include policies, procedures and controls. The plan also includes monitoring and reviewing approaches to new threats to maintain the ongoing protection of vital information.
To identify a cyber security risk, it’s important to conduct a structured risk assessment that will help identify, analyse and evaluate any potential threats to information centres. Some methods include cataloguing all data and hardware assets, identifying potential vulnerabilities, and determining threat likelihood.
Risk levels in cyber security range from low risk, which may have a minor impact on your organisation, through medium and high impact levels, to critical levels, which represent immediate and catastrophic damage to your organisation. Risk factors are determined by assessing the severity of impact, how easily they’re exploited, how widespread they are, and how easily they can be identified.
Why Us?
Awards
Our team have won numerous industry awards, including 'Cyber Security Company of the Year' at the Cyber Security Awards 2026 and Best Cyber Security Service Provider' at the Cyber Security Awards 2025.
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.
