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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.
Recognising the importance of securing their cloud environments, our client was looking to secure their Microsoft 365 environments and services to the highest possible standard, aligning them with best working practices.
The Challenge
Our client required specialist expertise to manage and regularly assess their cloud security posture. Specifically, they were looking for a long-term engagement, with assessments carried out every six months as this would provide them with a repeatable baseline from which they could measure improvements or changes in environment that have led to any security degradation.
The Solution
As part of a long-standing standing Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) engagement, our client has been working with Bridewell since 2022. To deliver the CPSM, we provide our client with Cloud Security Posture Assessments (CSPA) every 12 months. These assessments inform them of any potential risks in their cloud platforms, provide a remediation plan to rectify any emergent concerns, and benchmark how their cloud security posture has improved over time.
These assessments also consider the Microsoft licences available to our client as well as the features that are offered within the licences. For both our client’s internal IT team and Bridewell, these assessments have been the foundation of our planning and strategy.
Throughout each assessment period, our consultants access our client’s various administrative portals to check controls and technical security measures are in place. Where controls are not in place, our consultants recommend a suitable mitigation or remediation. The technical controls being assessed are formed from three key areas including: CIS 1 benchmarks, Microsoft Secure Score, and our own curated technical checks aligned to current industry best practice and internal knowledge and experience.
Every six months, at the start of each CSPA, we hold a scoping meeting with our client to define any prerequisites for the assessment. This ensures that we have access to all the required people and systems to conduct the assessment with minimal disruption.
Using these CSPAs, our client has driven, and continues to drive, improvements in the following areas:
Identity and Access Management (IAM) Assessment
Our consultants assess how secure our client’s environment is in terms of users accessing data. The assessment framework we use covers many aspects that also align to Microsoft Secure Score. Therefore, our consultants considered various areas including Privileged Identity Management for administrative users. This assessment extended to assessing how administrators enter the environment as well as checking for a robust Breakglass/ Emergency access process.
Endpoint and Device Security Assessment
We review our client’s use of Microsoft Intune to check that required policies are in place, with emphasis placed on mobile device management.
Email and Phishing Protection Assessment
To ensure that email communication is protected, we assess several features and configurations within the environment including how Conditional Access applies to cloud applications and whether third party integrations are in place.
Data Security and Data Protection Assessment
As part of our CSPM engagement, we assess Data Loss Prevention (DLP) measures. This involves identifying gaps in existing configurations and advising our client accordingly.
Security Monitoring and SIEM Assessment
Our consultants check that logging is appropriate for our client’s budget, and ensure that security benefit is at the forefront of ingestion considerations. Leveraging Microsoft Sentinel’s native data connectors, we provide them with enhanced visibility into their environment. Any misconfigurations or missing configurations are identified and highlighted, with necessary implementations carried out.
Zero Trust and Network Security Assessment
Reflecting our client’s ways of working, our consultants have considered how their employees consume organisational data and services, introducing Conditional Access reviews and an Intune Bring Your Own Policy configuration. Through rigorous scoping, testing and implementation, we’ve ensured that data is accessed securely without hampering the user experience.
The Results
Since 2022, our client’s overall security posture has been significantly strengthened, and they now benefit from the successful implementation and enhancement of key security measures. They now meet best practice with their technical controls and have retooled security policies that reduce administrative overhead.
These improvements to the security of their environment have been reflected in their Microsoft Secure Score.
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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.
