Reasons to Perform a Security Risk Assessment
Written by Kevin Mabry | BSN
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Why You Should Perform an SRA
- Client Engagement & Stickiness – your current client engagement strategy may revolve around immediate issues and fixes . This strategy doesn’t t often leave room for other conversation, especially when it comes to showing them risks present in their business before they become a problem. By performing an SRA on a regular basis, you are giving yourself an opportunity to discuss long term planning and ideas, some of which are not of an urgent nature. This gives your customer time to budget and think about the remediation and maintenance that they will need to plan for. You can build a proactive plan together rather than being responsive to their urgent needs when they are likely in a fearful state. Establish yourself as their long-term ally in their growth plan.
- Ongoing Upgrades & System Changes – Software and hardware upgrades can create security gaps that you didn’t see in the original SRA. And since they don’t occur on a scheduled basis, you need to review them on an ongoing schedule so that you catch anything that might have developed in between assessments. This is also true for new inventory that your clients will likely add to their business throughout the year that may not have been present on their last assessment.
- Policies & Procedures – Performing a Security Risk Assessment is also a powerful tool in discovering administrative gaps in your clients’ organizations. Many compliance standards require strong policies and procedures, and ensuring your clients have these in place and that employees understand these practices and expectations is incredibly important.
- Healthcare Clients & HIPAA – one of the requirements of HIPAA compliance is to complete an risk assessment. If you have a client in this industry, it’s a great opportunity to work with them to maintain that compliance as well as a strong cybersecurity posture. Sentree Systems has the tools that you need to support these healthcare clients, including a thorough HIPAA Security Risk Assessment which has a 100% audit pass rate with the Office for Civil Rights (OCR)!
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