A Practical Guide to Running a Technology Risk Assessment

Technology risk assessments can easily become checklist exercises that produce long reports and little action. A better approach keeps the process grounded in business impact from the start.

We typically structure assessments around three questions: what are the organization's most critical systems and data, what could realistically go wrong, and what would the business impact be if it did?

Scoring risks against business impact - rather than technical severity alone - makes it far easier for leadership to prioritize remediation and allocate budget to the issues that matter most.