# Risk Assessment and Security Questionnaire

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  * Read organization vision and Mission
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    * What is our  organization business requirements
  * what are our risks
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    * SWOT Analysis
  * Which things bring us down financially and legally
  * what is our current security controls in place
  * which gap assessments conducted (last 3 years)
  * What do we learn from them
  * Which strategy we are following
  * what metrics we are collecting to compare our growth
  * What is our cyber budget
  * What is our threat landscape
  * Cyber security team roadmap and strategic plan for critical business operations
  * Identifying the stakeholders
  * Auditing Supply chain risk Management
  * Which audit policies are followed by org
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    * Internal audit
    * External audits
  * Risk Assessment tools
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    * Inventory of Assests
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      * Hardware
      * Software
    * Critical assests
    * Critical Operations
    * Asset/Data owners/custodians
    * Asset classifications
    * Prioritize risk remediation
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  * Understanding current organization security environment and posture
  * Understanding critical information security issues faced/facing by organization
  * Initiating cyber security best practices
  * Developing modern Cyber Security program with Defense in Depth and Zero Trust
  * Developing Cyber Security Strategies to mitigate threats
  * Directing/Managing
  * Asset Management
* ○ High valued assets
* ○ Critical assets for operations
* \- Cyber Physical Security Management
* \- Hardware Security Management
* \- IOT/OT/SCADA Security Management
* Cyber Security Operations
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  * SIEM
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    * Audit log management
* SOC
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  * SOC Playbooks
* SOAR
* Incident Response
* ▪ Identifying
* ▪ Containing
* ▪ Eradicating
* ▪ recovering
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* Security breach management
* ▪ Ransomware
* ▪ Data loss
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* ○ Shadow IT
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* Cloud Security Management
* ○ Cloud Security Architecture
* Cloud Security tools
* ▪ CASB, CWPP, CSPM
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* ○ Security attacks
* Cloud security frameworks
* ▪ CSA, cloud adoption frameworks
* ▪ Cloud computing policy
* ▪ Cloud storage policy
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* ○ Zero trust on cloud
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* SecDevOps/DevSecOps/Security Engineering
* ○ Shift left with security in DevOps Pipeline
* ○ Security Misconfigurations
* Security automation
* ▪ Infrastructure as code
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* Data Encryption
* ▪ Symmetric
* ▪ Asymmetric
* ▪ Hashing
* ▪ Encoding
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* Risk Assessment and Management
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* ▪ Encoding
* ▪ Key exchange
* ▪ Certificates
* ▪ Digital signature
* ○ Data Privacy
* \- Application Security
* \- Secure Coding and software development
* Security Awareness
* ○ Security First
* ○ Security Situational Awareness
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* \- Cryptography, Data Security and Protection
* Vulnerability and Patch Management
* ○ Build
* ○ Audit
* ○ Review
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* Network Security/Perimeter security
* ○ Layered security controls
* ○ NGFW, NSM, IDS/IPS, Load Balancers, Proxies,
* ○ VPN, IPsec
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* Endpoint Security
* ○ End-user Security
* ○ EDR, XDR, HIDS,HIPS, EPP, FIM, Sandboxing, whitelist/blocklist
* ○ Malware defense
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* Cyber Security Governance, Risk, Compliance Management
* ○ Risk Assessment and Management
* ○ Information security Management
* Security policies
* ▪ Business continuity
* ▪ Disaster Recovery
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* ○ Cyber Security Maturity Models
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* Cyber Security Architecture
* Zero Trust Model
* ▪ Zero trust network access
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* Cyber Security Frameworks and controls
* ○ NIST cyber security framework
* ○ CIS critical controls
* ○ CMMC
* ○ NIST SP 800-171
* ○ NIST SP 800-53
* ○ ISO
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* Cyber Defense architecture and frameworks
* ○ MITRE ATT\&CK
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* \- Cyber Security Standards
* \- Cyber Security Reporting
* \- Cyber Gap Analysis
* \- Cyber Security Strategic Plan
* \- Security workflow and relationships among multiple teams
* \- Cyber Security Budget Management
* \- Cyber Security Team performance, growth, learning
* \- Penetration Testing/Red Team
* \- Bring your own device policies
* \- Remote work policies
* \- Cyber Security product and services SLA's
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* \- Cyber Security product and services SLA's
* \- Developing Non-Disclosure Agreements
* Cyber Threat Landscape
* ○ Threat actors
* ○ Nation state attacks
* ○ TTP's
* ○ Critical business operations
* ○ Stakeholders
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* \- Organization business goals and vision
* Security metrics
* ○ Weekly
* ○ Monthly
* ○ Quarterly
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* Few controls/areas on prem and cloud
* \- Physical Security
* \- Host Security/client/end point protection
* \- Network controls
* \- Application Security controls
* \- Identity and Access Management
* \- Data Classification
* Risk Frameworks
* \- Security and risk management
* \- Asset Security
* \- Security Engineering
* \- Communication and Network Security
* \- Identity and Access Management
* \- Security Assessment and Testing
* \- Security Operations
* \- Software Development Security
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* Reference:
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  1. [https://learn.cisecurity.org/cis-cat-lite](https://learn.cisecurity.org/cis-cat-lite)
