PlexTrac ConceptsRisk Score

A risk score quantifies risk levels associated with threats and vulnerabilities. Risk scoring assigns a numerical value to security risks to help organizations prioritize risk, based on factors like potential for exploitation and likelihood of impact.

A cyber risk score measures the security strength of an organization’s networks and systems. It evaluates the vulnerability of its infrastructure to external threats such as cyberattacks, data breaches, and unauthorized access.

Some of the top risk management frameworks for assessing, quantifying, and scoring risk include:

1. NIST Cybersecurity Framework: Identifies risks based on threats, vulnerabilities, likelihood, and level of impact to prioritize cybersecurity efforts using a tiered risk assessment model with six steps: Categorize, Select, Implement, Assess, Authorize, and Monitor.
2. ISO 31000: Promotes continuous risk assessment through identification, evaluation, and risk treatment tailored to an organization. This approach emphasizes a structured but flexible risk management approach, where risks are assessed based on their likelihood and consequences.
3. COBIT 2019: Manages risks related to IT assets, business processes, and compliance requirements. It assigns control measures through a governance, control-based model.
4. FAIR (Factor Analysis of Information Risk): Measures risks by evaluating threat events, vulnerability, and loss magnitude to provide a monetary-value estimate of risk exposure on financial loss potential.
5. OCTAVE (Operationally Critical Threat, Asset, and Vulnerability Evaluation): Assesses risks based on asset value, threat likelihood, and vulnerability severity, emphasizing a business-centric approach to cybersecurity through a three-phase approach to prioritize risks: identifying critical assets, analyzing threats, and evaluating vulnerabilities.

Learn more about other top cybersecurity frameworks, including CIS v8, ​​CMMC 2.0, ISO 27001, and more.

PlexTrac helps organizations track thematic groupings of vulnerabilities and assets to drive risk-based prioritization via configurable, contextual scoring. Organizations can assign their own criteria and apply them with other scoring mechanisms from different sources.

PlexTrac Priorities is solving for the reality of risk prioritization with the industry’s first fully configurable, contextual scoring engine housed in the market-leading offensive security management and reporting platform.

Request a demo to see how our analytics, integrations, and priorities features can help you measure and manage risks and demonstrate your progress.

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