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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.
Northern Gas Networks Drives Detection and Response with Bridewell
The Challenge
To increase the cyber maturity that supports large-scale transformation projects, NGN understood the importance of working to improve its detection and response capabilities. Digital connectivity plays a major role in the future of NGN’s operational technologies within their pipeline network, and they recognised the importance of securing it appropriately by working with a suitable cyber security partner.
Before working with Bridewell, NGN already had solutions in-house to aggregate security data, but this wasn’t being effectively utilised or continuously developed and didn’t have the necessary capabilities to monitor their entire converging IT/ OT estate. In parallel to this, NGN had developed their technology strategy and was in the process of moving elements of its enterprise IT to a Microsoft-based technology platform. Whilst they were already making some use of their E5 licenses, they needed a partner who could help them fully realise the commercial and technological benefits of their licensing and how this could be aligned with their overall business and cyber security strategy.
To truly modernise its cyber security strategy, NGN was also aware of the value of a threat-intelligence-led approach that would incorporate Bridewell’s intelligence and insights into relevant threat actors to drive detection and response. For NGN, this created a specific set of requirements. They needed a threat intelligence-led partner who could continually mature their detection and response capabilities, had significant experience within the utilities sector and operational technology and had a strong understanding of Microsoft solutions and regulatory requirements set out in the NIS Regulations.
The Solution
To find the right partner, NGN issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) seeking proposals from leading cyber security service providers. Of the seven suppliers who responded, NGN chose Bridewell as they were impressed with their Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service. Underpinned by a modern approach to threat hunting and threat intelligence, Bridewell’s service aligned with NGN’s requirements by focusing on remediating threats rather than just identifying them.
Bridewell’s experience in protecting OT environments, within the utilities sector and beyond, and status as a CREST accredited NCSC Assured Partner and Microsoft Gold Partner with advanced specialisations and member of MISA (Microsoft Intelligent Security Association) also aligned with their selection criteria.
Working alongside a number of NGN’s in-house teams - ranging from IT, infrastructure and OT engineering – Bridewell delivered their MDR service. The service was built upon Extended Detection and Response (XDR) technology and incorporated Bridewell’s threat intelligence capabilities throughout. One of the service’s key features was vulnerability management. Bridewell implemented a risk-based model that helps NGN drive improvements in how they respond to vulnerabilities.
"We were very pleased that Bridewell brought the project in on time and within budget."The Results
After signature, but ahead of the contract start date, Bridewell’s cyber threat intelligence team identified the potential for war in Ukraine to increase risk for natural gas providers. Accordingly, Bridewell offered to start the service early, before the contractually agreed start date, to ensure that NGN was protected in the shortest time possible. Within 24 hours, Bridewell deployed the Microsoft Sentinel SIEM, connecting available data sources and turned on their security monitoring service that encompassed their entire IT estate.
These capabilities were advanced throughout the rest of the project as NGN’s wider IT technology, security vendors and operational technology were incorporated into the service. Having completed the onboarding process, NGN now have extensive detection and response capabilities that give them a complete view of their organisation as well as the ability to remediate any threats or vulnerabilities that may arise.
Beyond maturing their cyber security posture, Bridewell’s MDR service has supported their business objectives to date and has played a role in enabling future transformation projects. Delivering a secure, safe and reliable network that is monitored 24x7, which benefits both NGN and it’s customers, is a key deliverable to support it’s transition to whatever the future holds for the energy sector.
"Bridewell's technical subject matter experts are some of the best we've ever worked with. We've recommended them to other utilities providers in the UK and Group Companies."In the future, NGN will continue working with Bridewell to widen their technology visibility even further and complement security architecture in support of upcoming technical projects.
Learn more about our Managed Detection and Response Service.
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.
