Risk Compliance and Assessments
End-to-end evaluation of policies, processes, and technologies against shifting regulatory standards.
What Are Cybersecurity Risk Assessments?
Risk determination starts with discovery and assessment. That means understanding the business, its assets, its priorities, and its contractual obligations before anyone looks at a single system.
A technical discovery of systems, networks, and infrastructure comes next, since it surfaces critical vulnerabilities and assets. Existing documentation, such as network diagrams, system security plans, and security policies, gets reviewed alongside it.
Our process identifies potential threats, assesses their impact and likelihood, and works with you toward lasting outcomes.
From Discovery to Prioritized Outcomes
Business Discovery
Understanding your business, its assets, priorities, and contractual obligations.
Technical Discovery
Reviewing systems, networks, and infrastructure to surface critical assets and vulnerabilities.
Documentation Review
Examining network diagrams, system security plans, and security policies against reality.
Threat and Impact Analysis
Identifying potential threats and assessing their impact and likelihood.
Prioritized Outcomes
Ranking risks and working with your team toward lasting results.
What Risk and Security Assessments Can Do for You
Asset and threat identification
Vulnerability assessment and risk calculation
Risk prioritization with recommendations you can act on
Risk mitigation strategy and prioritized controls
Security awareness and crisis management training
Continuous monitoring and operational development
Risk Assessments and CMMC
Risk assessment and security assessment practices sit at the center of NIST SP 800-171, and CMMC Level 2 assesses them directly.
| Requirement | What It Expects |
|---|---|
| RA.L2-3.11.1 | Periodically assess the risk to operations, assets, and individuals from the operation of systems and the processing of CUI |
| CA.L2-3.12.1 | Periodically assess the security controls in organizational systems to determine if they are effective |
| CA.L2-3.12.2 | Develop and implement plans of action to correct deficiencies and reduce or eliminate vulnerabilities |
| CA.L2-3.12.4 | Develop, document, and periodically update system security plans |
As a CMMC Third-Party Assessment Organization, we know how assessors read these practices. Our risk assessments are built to feed your system security plan and your plan of action and milestones.
Who Needs a Risk Assessment?
A few situations tend to bring organizations to a risk assessment conversation.
Preparing for CMMC Level 2 and needing a documented, defensible risk assessment
Working from a system security plan that has not been revisited since it was written
Facing new contract requirements or shifting regulatory standards
Unsure which gaps matter most and where to spend limited security budget
Risk Assessments Built by Assessors
Most risk assessments stop at a report. Ours connect to the compliance work that follows, so the same findings shape your documentation, your remediation plan, and your preparation for an assessment.
Sentinel Blue is a CMMC Third-Party Assessment Organization with CMMC Certified Assessors on staff. We understand the standards behind your contracts because we assess against them.
We also run our own in-house Security Operations Center, so what we learn about real threats informs how we rank your risks.
Risk Assessment FAQ
A cybersecurity risk assessment is an evaluation of the threats facing your organization, how likely they are, and how much damage they could do. It covers your business, your assets, your priorities, and your contractual obligations, then ranks the risks so you know what to address first.
We start with discovery of your business, assets, and obligations, then perform a technical discovery of systems, networks, and infrastructure. We review existing documentation such as network diagrams, system security plans, and security policies, then identify threats, assess impact and likelihood, and prioritize the results.
Yes. NIST SP 800-171 requires organizations to periodically assess risk to operations, assets, and individuals, and CMMC Level 2 assesses that practice. Your assessment should connect to your system security plan and your plan of action and milestones.
A risk assessment evaluates the threats to your organization and ranks them. A CMMC assessment measures whether you meet a defined set of security requirements. The two feed each other, since risk findings shape which controls matter most and where gaps sit.
You receive prioritized recommendations tied to your actual risks and compliance obligations, so you know what to fix first and why. We work with you toward lasting outcomes, not a report that sits on a shelf.
Ready to Get to Work? So Are We.
Our cyber adversaries are not waiting, and neither are we. Let's talk about your environment, your contracts, and where your biggest risks sit.