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Critical Start simplifies risk analysis with a flexible, SaaS-based Risk Assessments. Choose a high-level Quick Start or detailed NIST CSF questionnaire. Follow easy-to-understand guided assessments, attach evidence, and assign reviewers. Import past assessments to normalize data and consolidate analysis. Then, see your risk assessments come to life through user-friendly dashboards and rich reports.

Multiple risk management and compliance frameworks with more to come!

Quick Start Risk Assessment

This brief template is the quickest way to kick start your journey of cyber risk management. By answering only 15 simple questions, you not only assess your cyber risk but also get to know how your industry peers are managing their cyber risks. This benchmarking helps you direct your efforts in managing the risks prevalent in your industry.

NIST CSF Guided Assessment

This NIST CSF based template measures the maturity of the cyber risk assessment program using CMMI levels. The response definitions in this assessment are easily quantifiable and take into consideration how security tooling and processes are set up in your organization. You can compare cyber risk assessment state with your industry peers.

CIS Critical Security Controls v8

The Center for Internet Security CIS framework contains 18 Critical Security Controls to protect companies from cyber threats. CIS Controls version 8 help you not only comply with federal and state government compliances but also are extremely cost effective for small to mid size organizations.

NIST SP 800-171 v2 Security Requirements

NIST SP 800-171 is a set of guidelines for non-federal organizations to protect Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) in their information systems when working with the federal government. This template helps assess compliance levels of security measures safeguarding the CUI.

Custom Assessment

This provides a way to import and create your own customized risk assessments. This customization provides you the flexibility to create smaller assessments based on their scope or to create global templates for accommodating auditory, regulatory, vendor requirements in one go.

NIST CSF v1.1

The National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework (NIST CSF) is a popular framework that provides a comprehensive set of best practices to standardize risk management process. These practices are aligned towards five core functions of security – Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond and Recover.

NISTIR 8183 rev1 (Manufacturing Risk Profile)

Cybersecurity Framework v1.1 Manufacturing Profile is a specific implementation of the NIST CSF that has been tailored for the manufacturing industry. The profile provides a roadmap for reducing cybersecurity risk for manufacturers that is aligned with manufacturing sector goals and industry best practices.

NIST Special Publication 800-53 (Rev. 5)

A comprehensive catalog of security and privacy controls for federal information systems and organizations, offering guidelines for control selection and implementation.

ISO 27001

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has created the ISO/IEC 27001 in partnership with the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). This provides a certifiable set of standards to systematically manage risks posed by information systems.

SOC2

System and Organization Controls 2 is an auditing standard developed by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and focuses on the controls and processes related to the security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy of data.

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