Security Threat and Risk Assessment

Published
2025-09-17T14:06:35.806+02:00 23 March 2021
Business Digital Intelligence
Security Threat and Risk Assessment is a truly holistic threat and risk assessment methodology in which we examine your exposure to full spectrum attack through the identification of threat led and evidence based risks
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Our unique understanding of threats, risks and vulnerabilities, developed from our heritage within UK Defence and National Security has, over the course of a decade, allowed us to develop a truly holistic security risk assessment process.

Our STARA® methodology not only allows for a comprehensive analysis of your organisation’s current exposure to full spectrum attack, but also to understand the maturity of your security against some of the most advanced and persistent threat actors in the world.
 
Through a variety of technical and physical assessments, our STARA® will allow you to identify, understand, measure, report, and respond to comprehensive and evidenced based risks. Ultimately empowering your organisation to move from a two dimensional and siloed Security system, to adaptive and hybridised Defence in Breadth.

Our STARA® Framework at a glance

  • Identify - Our Threat Assessment Methodology has been designed to identify, understand, define and validate the current threat environment in which your organisation operates, whilst modelling the delivery of your core security strategy, mission and operations. 
  • Understand - We will review and understand all documentation and physical, people and logical assets in order to determine their criticality to your organisation and its operational environment.
  • Measure - We will measure the potential attack surface of the identified assets and your organisation to realistic threat scenarios, vulnerabilities and risks in line with ISO27001, NIST Cyber Security Framework, NCSC Cyber Assurance Framework and NIS Directive. STARA® is a truly holistic assessment; therefore, we will measure the physical, logical and socio technical (Human Factors) security architecture of the organisation, department or asset.  Ensuring that you understand your exposure to full spectrum attack. 
  • Report - We will bring together the STARA® outputs and ensure that your stakeholders are engaged in a collaborative process, to understand the findings of the assessment and the context in which they are made. Ultimately to support you and your organisation in maturing your security posture.

 

Learn more about our STARA® capabilities:

STARA (Security Threat and Risk Assessment)
STARA (Security Threat and Risk Assessment)
Our Clients:

STARA® has been supporting the protection of UK Health Critical National Infrastructure since 2019 and has been pivotal in maturing several front line Health Arm’s Length Bodies during the global COVID-19 pandemic.

STARA® has been deployed in an enduring programme of work which assisted a Highways Operator to focus on critical road infrastructure and securing National CNI against a range of national security threats.

STARA® has been deployed across a multitude of UK and International customers to rapidly mature security posture and support national security and cyber strategies. This has been as large as a national programmes to singular departments/assets/platforms.

STARA® has been utilised to review global provider of secure financial services and its exposure to threat. Defining its maturity in the physical and socio-technical domains to support a security improvement programme.

STARA® was deployed to review a multinational business group with a view to understand its existing security controls against international standards and good practice.  Supporting the development and implementation of a global security threat and risk programme.

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