Security Assurance
Providing confidence in your security measures and systems.
Building a bespoke security assurance package to safeguard your operations, minimise risks, and provide confidence in your business continuity. Our tailored solutions help you mitigate risks, ensure compliance, and maintain successful operations in an unpredictable world.
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FAQ'S on Security Assurance
Q1. What is Security Assurance?
Security Assurance is the process of providing confidence that security measures are effective, appropriate, and consistently applied to protect an organisation’s people, information, and assets. It demonstrates that security risks are being managed within an organisation’s risk appetite and in line with legal, regulatory, and business requirements.
In summary, Security Assurance gives stakeholders, such as executives, regulators, and customer trust that protective security controls are operating as intended, and that the organisation can prevent, detect, respond to, and recover from threats effectively.
Q2. What are the Elements of Security Assurance?
Governance and Accountability – Establish clear security policies, roles, and responsibilities, ensuring senior leaders are accountable for assurance outcomes.
Security Planning – Develop and maintain assurance plans that set the scope, methods, and frequency of assurance activities.
Testing and Validation – Use health checks, penetration tests, vulnerability assessment, and red-teaming to validate that controls are effective and resilient against threats.
Monitoring and Reporting – Continuously monitor systems and processes, documenting results in assurance reports for decision-makers.
Incident Review and Lessons Learned – Analyse past incidents or near misses to test whether controls worked and to identify weaknesses.
Continuous Improvement – Update controls, processes, and assurance activities in response to changing threats, risks, and business needs.
Maturity Assessment – Develop maturity assessment scores to evaluate and position the site on a scale ranging from immature through to optimised.
Q3. What are the Principles of Security Assurance?
Independence – Assurance activities should be objective and, where possible, conducted independently of those responsible for daily operations.
Evidence-Based – Findings must be supported by reliable data, testing, or observation, not assumptions.
Proportionality – Assurance activities should reflect the organisation’s risk profile and critical assets, avoiding unnecessary burden.
Transparency – Results and findings should be reported clearly and openly to decision-makers and stakeholders.
Continuous Review – Assurance is not a one-off activity; it must be cyclical and responsive to evolving risks and threats.