Cyber Security Risk Assessments for UK Businesses
Understand where your genuine exposure sits, in business terms, with a prioritised plan the leadership team can act on.
Our Approach to Risk assessments
A risk assessment answers a question most security tooling cannot: what would actually hurt this business, and what should we do first. Cloud Agile assesses your systems, information and controls, rates risks by likelihood and business impact, assigns owners, and produces a remediation roadmap that can be worked through in priority order.
Everything You Need From Risk assessments
- Business and technical scoping
- Identification of critical systems, information and processes
- Threat and vulnerability review across identity, email, endpoints and cloud
- Assessment of existing controls and where they fall short
- Likelihood and business-impact rating with risk owners
- Board-ready reporting, treatment recommendations and a remediation roadmap
Scoping around the business, not just the network
We start with what the organisation depends on: the systems that stop work if they fail, the information that would cause harm if exposed, and the obligations you carry to clients and regulators.
- Critical business processes and the systems behind them
- Sensitive or regulated information, and where it lives
- Contractual, insurer and regulatory obligations
- Suppliers and third parties with access to your data or systems
- Recovery expectations, and whether they are realistic today
Assessing exposure and existing controls
The technical review covers the areas where incidents actually begin, and takes account of the controls you already have rather than assessing against a blank page.
- Identity and access, including administrative accounts and MFA coverage
- Email security, phishing exposure and user awareness
- Endpoints, patching, malware protection and device management
- Cloud services, tenant configuration and data sharing
- Network, remote access and infrastructure exposure
- Backup, recovery and incident-response readiness
Rating, ownership and the treatment plan
Risks are rated on likelihood and business impact, so the conversation is about consequences rather than technical severity scores. Each risk gets a named owner and a recommended treatment: reduce, transfer, avoid or accept.
The output is deliberately usable by non-technical leadership, because that is who has to fund and prioritise the work.
- Risk register with likelihood, impact, owner and treatment
- Board-ready summary in plain language
- Prioritised remediation roadmap with quick wins identified
- Input to insurance, supplier questionnaires and certification work
- Follow-up review to track progress and reassess
How a Project Works
- 1
Scope
Agree what is being assessed and which business outcomes matter most.
- 2
Gather
Review systems, controls, configuration and processes with your team.
- 3
Analyse
Rate risks by likelihood and business impact, and validate them with you.
- 4
Report
Deliver the risk register, board summary and prioritised roadmap.
- 5
Review
Reassess after remediation to confirm the exposure has actually reduced.
The Outcomes You'll Actually See
Priorities you can defend
Risks rated on business impact give leadership a rational basis for spending decisions.
Owners, not observations
Every risk carries a named owner and a treatment, so findings turn into action.
Useful elsewhere
The output feeds insurance renewals, supplier questionnaires, Cyber Essentials and ISO 27001 work.
What Success Looks Like
- A risk register with likelihood, impact, owners and treatments
- A board-ready summary in plain business language
- A prioritised remediation roadmap, including quick wins
- A basis for certification, insurance and supplier assurance work
Related services
ISO 27001 Consultancy
Where the risk assessment becomes the engine of a full information security management system.
Cyber Security
Ongoing managed controls and monitoring once the priorities are agreed.
Cyber Essentials Consultancy
A technical baseline that addresses many of the common findings a risk assessment raises.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this a penetration test?+
No. A risk assessment evaluates exposure across systems, information, processes and controls. Penetration testing actively probes for exploitable vulnerabilities and is a separate engagement, which we would scope explicitly if it is needed.
How is this different from your managed cyber security service?+
The assessment is a point-in-time engagement that tells you where you stand and what to prioritise. Managed cyber security is the ongoing operation of controls and monitoring. Many clients start with the assessment and then decide what to hand over.
Will the report make sense to our board?+
That is the intent. The main report is written in plain business language around likelihood and impact, with the technical detail kept in supporting sections for whoever will do the work.
Can the findings support Cyber Essentials or ISO 27001?+
Yes. The risk register and control findings feed directly into ISO 27001 risk treatment and into Cyber Essentials remediation planning, so the work is not duplicated.
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