Advisory · Risk Assessment
Threat modelling, business impact analysis, and risk prioritisation grounded in your industry’s actual threat landscape. Output is a decision-ready risk register your board and security team can act on — not a document that gets filed and forgotten.
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Regulated sectors
Board‑ready
Output format
Sanctum
Ongoing risk tracking
Why risk assessment
Reactive security investment — buying tools after an incident, patching after a finding — is expensive and consistently one step behind. A formal risk assessment resets the basis for every security decision you make.
Before you can prioritise security spend, you need an honest inventory of what matters most — your crown jewels, your critical processes, and the data that would cause the most damage if it walked out the door. Most organisations are defending everything equally, which means they’re defending nothing effectively.
NIST, ISO 27001, and SOC 2 provide useful baselines. They don’t tell you that ransomware actors are specifically targeting K-12 school districts in your state, or that threat actors are using AI to craft convincing impersonation attacks against financial services firms. A risk assessment calibrated to your sector and your environment does.
A 90-page PDF emailed to a CISO is not a risk register. It’s a liability. Convergent’s assessments produce prioritised, actionable findings with clear ownership, timelines, and remediation paths — delivered into Sanctum so progress is tracked, not promised.
Engagement scope
Each engagement is scoped to your environment, sector, and regulatory obligations. The four components below are typically delivered together, though they can be scoped individually where an organisation has mature work already done in one area.
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Mapping the adversaries most likely to target your organisation — their motivations, capabilities, and the paths they’d take through your specific environment. Informed by current threat intelligence for your sector, not generic attack pattern databases.
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Quantifying the operational, financial, legal, and reputational consequences of a breach or disruption to each critical system or process. This is the evidence base for prioritisation — not every risk is equal, and the BIA makes the case for where resources go first.
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Measuring your existing security controls against the specific threats and regulatory requirements you face. Not a compliance checklist — a practical assessment of where your controls hold up against a realistic adversary and where they don’t.
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Prioritised findings with remediation ownership, realistic timelines, and board-level reporting language. Delivered into Sanctum as a tracked, living register — not a static report. Your leadership sees the risk posture in real time, not in next year’s assessment.
Powered by Sanctum
A risk assessment without a management layer is a document. Convergent loads your findings directly into Sanctum — so your risk register is tracked, assigned, and visible to leadership in real time from day one.
Risk register in Sanctum
Every finding from the assessment is loaded as a structured, prioritised risk item. Each has an owner, a target remediation date, and a status — replacing the PDF that gets emailed around and forgotten.
Remediation tracking
As your team works through findings, Sanctum tracks progress and updates your risk posture automatically. No manual status updates to chase. Leadership sees what’s been addressed without waiting for a quarterly report.
Board reporting cadence
The risk assessment findings become your baseline. Sanctum generates the executive dashboards and reporting cadence that keep your board informed between formal assessments — without requiring another engagement.
Continuous posture visibility
Between formal assessments, Sanctum surfaces new signals — vulnerability findings, control drift, threat intelligence from your sector — so your risk picture stays current rather than stale.
Most organisations run a risk assessment, receive a report, and file it. The risk profile changes. The report doesn’t. Sanctum closes that gap — turning a point-in-time assessment into a living programme.
Learn more about Sanctum →Across four regulated sectors
Risk assessments calibrated to the actual adversaries, regulations, and failure modes of your industry — not a generic framework applied to every client regardless of sector.
Media & Entertainment
Pre-release content and IP as primary adversary target
Cloud post-production workflow risk and third-party vendor access
TPN and DPP framework gap analysis
AI content tool risks and model endpoint exposure
Financial Services
GLBA Safeguards Rule and NYDFS 500 compliance scope
Payment system and trading platform risk exposure
AI-assisted workflow risks in collections and client comms
Third-party and vendor risk in financial supply chains
Public Sector
FERPA and CJIS compliance risk in K-12 and government
OT/IT convergence risk in utilities and public infrastructure
Ransomware targeting patterns specific to public sector
Budget-constrained remediation roadmap prioritisation
Healthcare
HIPAA technical safeguard requirements and PHI exposure
Medical device and clinical network risk profiling
Ransomware business impact on clinical operations
AI diagnostic tool risks and inference endpoint exposure
Common questions
A full engagement — threat modelling, BIA, control gap analysis, and risk register delivery — typically runs four to six weeks depending on organisational complexity and the availability of key stakeholders. Scoped engagements focused on a single component can move faster.
Not much. We start with a structured intake and stakeholder interviews to understand your environment and business context. Existing documentation — network diagrams, previous assessments, compliance reports — is useful but not required. We’ll identify gaps as part of the engagement.
A compliance audit tells you whether you meet a defined standard. A risk assessment tells you whether your controls are adequate for the actual threats you face. The two often overlap, but a compliance audit can give you a passing grade while leaving material risk unaddressed. Convergent’s assessments are threat-led, not checkbox-led.
Yes. If you have a prior assessment, Convergent can review it, validate the findings against current threat intelligence, identify what’s changed, and migrate it into Sanctum for ongoing tracking. We’ll be direct about where the existing work is solid and where it needs updating.
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Convergent works with organisations across media and entertainment, financial services, healthcare, and public sector. Engagements start with a scoping conversation — no commitment required.