Common Mistakes to Avoid in Security Risk Assessments in UAE

 

Common Mistakes to Avoid in Security Risk Assessments

Identification of Security Risks in any organization in the pre or post-construction stage is extremely important to avoid potential risks and threats. Especially in the UAE, this process of security risk assessment is done by certified security consulting companies. However, many organizations make common mistakes when they do the security assessment.

1. Avoiding Regular Assessments

It's not always a one-time security risk assessment in the process. Most organization is involved in one one-time process and this isn't quite enough as it requires routing checks for a decided period to analyze proper security risk assessment, especially in UAE. 

2. Inadequate Scope Definition

Scope is one of the most important documents that every security consulting company in UAE should follow because this scope document will give you the A to Z idea about the procedure such as assets, systems or processes, neglecting or irrelevant information. Identifying the scope has led to success.

3. Relying on automated tools

Automated tools give fast results in the security risk assessment process, however, there could be mistakes as automated tools are not quite enough to calculate unforeseen factors in security threats and risk assessment procedures. A balanced approach of automated and manual assessment would give more efficient and effective results.

4. Lack of Communication

Security risk assessments require resources, time, and sometimes budget allocation for some certification from government institutes. Also, these processes will be done with communication between the client and local authorities as per the requirements and scope of the work.

5. Lack of historical data analysis

Security Risk Assessment also relies on historical data and known vulnerabilities. Security Consulting Companies (Security Risk Assessment Consultants) should stay updated on previous and latest trends about vulnerabilities, this will lead to minimize the rework of the risk assessment and smooth the process.

6. Failure to Prioritize Risks

Prioritizing the Risk Assessment tasks is one of the facts to improve the process. It will clearly allocate the resources on a priority basis. This prioritizing method will create a fast and smooth security risk assessment in Dubai UAE.

7. Lack of Follow-Up and Action Plans

Many organizations make the mistake of not following an action plan to identify security risks. As a leading security risk assessment consultant in UAE, DSP consultants provided proper action plans and methods for the security risk assessment process.