{"id":207016,"date":"2026-01-21T01:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T06:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/21\/for-cyber-risk-assessments-frequency-is-essential\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T10:55:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:55:40","slug":"for-cyber-risk-assessments-frequency-is-essential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/21\/for-cyber-risk-assessments-frequency-is-essential\/","title":{"rendered":"For cyber risk assessments, frequency is essential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4117003\/cyber-risk-assessments-risk-assessment-helps-cisos.html\">For cyber risk assessments, frequency is essential<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4117003\/cyber-risk-assessments-risk-assessment-helps-cisos.html\">https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4117003\/cyber-risk-assessments-risk-assessment-helps-cisos.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-21 01:34:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.csoonline.com\">www.csoonline.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Identifying vulnerabilities:<\/strong>\u00a0A cyber risk assessment helps to identify security gaps in a company\u2019s IT infrastructure, networks, and systems. This provides the opportunity to eliminate these vulnerabilities before they can be exploited by cybercriminals.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Prioritize risk management measures:<\/strong>\u00a0Not every system is critical, and not all of a company\u2019s data is equally important. The results of the risk assessment clarify which assets and systems are most critical and at the highest risk of attack. Based on this, security managers can prioritize their measures and thus allocate their resources more effectively to address the most critical risks first.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Meeting compliance requirements:<\/strong>\u00a0Almost every company must comply with various data protection and data security regulations, such as the GDPR or the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Many of these legal requirements explicitly demand specific risk assessments, such as a data protection impact assessment under the GDPR. Risk assessments help to meet the compliance requirements of various regulations. This ensures that the necessary security standards are met and that potential fines or legal consequences for violations are avoided.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Make smart decisions and reduce costs:<\/strong>\u00a0Cyber \u200b\u200brisk assessments give companies a comprehensive understanding of their cyber risks. This allows them to make informed decisions about risk mitigation strategies, thereby reducing the likelihood of a successful and costly cyberattack. Furthermore, it enables them to make targeted and therefore more effective investments in their cybersecurity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"a-look-at-data-risk\">A look at data risk<\/h2>\n<p>The target of most cyberattacks is a company\u2019s data \u2014 with enormously costly consequences: According to IBM\u2019s\u00a0Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025, a data breach caused an average of $4.44 million in damages. Therefore, it is crucial to take a close look at data and the risks it faces.<\/p>\n<p>This is all the more important&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4117003\/cyber-risk-assessments-risk-assessment-helps-cisos.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For cyber risk assessments, frequency is essential https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4117003\/cyber-risk-assessments-risk-assessment-helps-cisos.html Publish Date: 2026-01-21 01:34:00 Source Domain: www.csoonline.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4117003-0-54011400-1768977129-34.jpg?quality=50&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[30,24,28],"class_list":["post-207016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-breach","tag-cybersecurity","tag-data-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207018,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207016\/revisions\/207018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}