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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.
Bridewell Supports WLGA With Wales-Wide CAF Assessment Programme to Strengthen Cyber Security Maturity
The Challenge
In 2025, the WLGA were tasked with co-ordinating the implementation the NCSC’s Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) across Welsh local government, contributing to a Wales-wide approach to assessing cyber security under the “Defend as one” ethos. While they understood that the CAF provides a structured approach to enable this, it would require significant coordination, training, and subject-matter expertise.
“We knew that to deliver a project of this scale we would need specialised cyber support, not only to give us the technical knowledge but to also help drive the cultural change in local government that the CAF seeks to provide. After going to market and reviewing our options, Bridewell’s experience with working with local government in England and their large catalogue of specialised services made them the clear choice”
- Designing and delivering CAF training workshops for local government organisations
- Delivering documentation and training materials to support WLGA and local government organisations in completing CAF self-assessments
- Providing an independent review of the CAF self-assessments provided by local government organisations, including reviewing the evidence provided against Indicators of Good Practice (IGPs)
The Solution
- Delivering a Wales-wide landscape snapshot of cyber security maturity, establishing a baseline for ongoing improvement.
- Providing subject-matter expert support through training, quality review, and feedback
- Our team held multiple training sessions for local authorities covering: the purpose and structure of the CAF, CAF objectives, expected submission content, standard responses, tailored examples, and evidence requirements.
- Bridewell also delivered ‘CAF Surgeries’. These were in-person sessions where our team travelled across Wales to meet with local authorities and fire and rescue services to provide tailored support for their CAF assessments, help identify critical systems and review system architecture diagrams.
- Creating sustainable infrastructure (training materials, workbook templates, dashboard, knowledge repository) for ongoing CAF cycles
- This included a library of short videos explaining each of the contributing outcomes within the CAF and what evidence is required for each.
- All assets were made available in a centralised repository for easy access by local authorities.
- Establishing a programme that builds trust and encourages genuine engagement rather than a purely compliance-led approach.
Given the scale of the project, the requirements of the WLGA and participating organisations evolved quickly, requiring the Bridewell team to remain agile throughout delivery. The programme also required extensive planning and coordination, including regular planning sessions, monthly check-ins, and weekly interactions with individual teams to escalate issues and risks where needed
The Results
Through this programme of work, the WLGA has established a clearer view of cyber security maturity across participating organisations, including common gaps, areas for improvement, and opportunities to better support councils in aligning with the CAF. This was reflected in measurable improvements across the programme, with the 25 participating Welsh public sector organisations showing notable improvements to quality and completeness in CAF objectives as the programme progressed
- CAF Self-Assessment Workbook Template – A WLGA-adapted version of the NCSC CAF workbook for Welsh local government, with updated formatting for clarity, grouping of IGPs where applicable, and worked examples.
- Critical System Mapping Workbook – Architecture mapping workbook template for councils to document critical system components, dependencies, boundaries, and architecture maps. This includes a breakdown of dedicated and shared components.
- CAF Training Materials and Workshop Packs – A comprehensive training package including virtual session materials, in-person CAF Surgery workshop content, and FAQs.
- Bridewell Quality Review and Feedback Packs – Independent quality assessments of each submission scored across five dimensions (Completeness, Accuracy, Clarity, Evidence, Relevance) with confidential feedback provided to each organisation.
Wales CAF Landscape Baseline Snapshot – First Wales-wide snapshot of CAF positions across all 25 participating organisations, establishing the baseline for ongoing maturity tracking.
“The programme is starting to show tangible benefits for the collective cyber resilience of Welsh local government. As cyber threats continue to evolve, the CAF programme has provided Welsh local government with a common framework, shared language and evidence-based approach to strengthening cyber resilience. The foundations established through this work will support future CAF cycles and help organisations continue improving their cyber security maturity over time.
The work Bridewell has done to support this has been invaluable, their breadth of knowledge and experience has allowed us to give effective support and assured feedback to our local government partners to help their CAF assessments mature. Their pragmatic and considered approach to planning and programme management has also meant that close working relationships have been developed, allowing for open and honest conversation about the work have to do, and the best way to do it.”
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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.
