IT Risk Management
Effective risk management is not optional, it is essential to informed decision-making, compliance, and organisational resilience. I work with you to build or refine your IT risk programme using frameworks like ISO 27005, ISO 31000, and COBIT, ensuring your approach supports strategic objectives and operational realities.
What IT Risk Management Means for You
Risk is not theoretical, it is the intersection of your most valued assets, potential threats, and organisational vulnerabilities. My approach helps you:
- Map how critical assets may be impacted across confidentiality, integrity, and availability
- Understand potential consequences and regulatory implications
- Prioritise risks based on value, likelihood, and impact to your operations
This is about translating uncertainty into strategic clarity, not generating risk scores alone, but enabling governance informed by real-world threat scenarios.
Frameworks That Inform the Approach
While ISO 27005 delivers a structured seven-stage process for risk management, and NIST RMF provides a control-oriented framework for federal environments, neither offers full enterprise context without a governance overlay.
For organisations using COBIT, the ISACA RISK IT framework provides valuable alignment between risk and governance objectives.
I tailor recommendations based on your maturity and strategic posture:
- Newer programmes: prioritise ISO 27005 alignment
- COBIT-aligned enterprises: incorporate RISK IT to link risk with governance
Deep Dive Services
🧭 Asset Discovery & Classification
You cannot protect what you do not know. I guide your team through structured identification of assets, including shadow IT, key applications, data, and services, grouped into categories like Zero Trust taxonomy.
📝 Threat & Vulnerability Assessment
Together, we model realistic threats, whether human, technical, or environmental, and identify vulnerabilities across systems and processes. This ongoing assessment helps shape mitigations that matter, not just those that exist.
⚖️ Risk Assessment & Register
I help quantify risk according to asset value and threat likelihood. We build a structured risk register with owners, mitigation plans, priority rankings, and review triggers, turning assessment into actionable governance.
📊 Strategy, Treatment & Governance Embedding
With the risk register in place, I support defining risk treatment protocols, escalation workflows, and aligning remediation across governance structures, ensuring risk alignment with board oversight and decision-making mechanisms.
🧪 Workshops & Governance Review
To embed risk discipline, I facilitate leadership workshops and governance sessions to validate assumptions, adjust risk appetite, and institutionalise reporting mechanisms across your committees and executives.
How Effective Risk Management Enhances Your Security Posture
- 🔍 Improved Visibility & Accountability: Clear asset classification, owned risks, and standardised tracking mean you no longer guess who is responsible or what matters most.
- 🔁 Proactive, Risk-Informed Decisions: Your leadership can act confidently, reducing backlog, preventing escalations, and tying risk mitigation to strategic outcomes.
- ♾ Stronger Alignment with Governance: Integrating frameworks like COBIT and RISK IT ensures that risk activities are part of enterprise oversight and performance measurement.
- 📈 Reliable Compliance & Audit Posture: A structured, traceable risk programme supports readiness for audits, certifications, and regulatory obligations.
- 🚀 Business-Focused Advantage: When risk is tangible and understood by leadership, it becomes a strategic asset, enhancing trust, agility, and resilience.
📞 Ready to Integrate Risk into Your Strategy?
If you want to embed risk management into your governance framework, move beyond reactive patching, and lead from clarity, not crisis, then I would welcome the opportunity to help.