Many organizations mistakenly believe that assessing only infrastructure and network components is sufficient for managing cybersecurity risk. In reality, critical vulnerabilities often exist in overlooked areas such as applications, data repositories, user access, and third-party services, especially where sensitive data like ePHI is involved.
Effective risk assessments must go beyond infrastructure and consider the varying risk levels of all assets across the organization, ensuring that no critical system or data source is overlooked in the evaluation process.
To address this gap, organizations should adopt a holistic, comprehensive risk analysis strategy considering the full spectrum of assets and activities interacting with sensitive data. The analysis should be targeted in scope, identify potential threats and vulnerabilities, and assess risk based on both likelihood and potential impact to the organization. This approach enables more accurate prioritization of risk and ensures stronger protection of the systems and data that are most critical to the organization.
Results come from the right approach because you can’t secure what you don’t fully understand.
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