Cybersecurity Risk Assessments

• Assess technology risks, existing safeguards, governance practices, and control gaps to help management understand where additional attention may be needed.
  

IT Risk & Controls Assessments

• Evaluate controls across areas such as access management, change management, IT operations, security governance, third-party risk, and other relevant technology processes.
  

Cybersecurity Governance

• Support with policies, responsibilities, oversight processes, risk ownership, reporting, and governance structures surrounding cybersecurity and technology risk.
  

Framework & Compliance Readiness

• Assess existing practices against relevant control frameworks or compliance expectations and develop practical plans for addressing identified gaps.

Third-Party & Technology Risk

• Evaluate governance and controls surrounding vendors, cloud services, technology providers, outsourced processes, and other third-party dependencies.
  

Risk & Control Remediation

• Translate assessment findings into practical corrective actions, control improvements, documentation, ownership, and remediation plans.

Cybersecurity programs can quickly become lists of policies, controls, tools, questionnaires, and compliance requirements.

The challenge for management is determining which risks actually matter, whether existing controls address those risks, and where limited resources should be focused.

Schmid CPA helps organizations connect technology risks to the controls and processes intended to address them so management can better understand gaps, priorities, and remediation needs.



The objective is not to create more documentation. It is to create clearer visibility into risk and a more supportable control environment.

Organizations may need support when:



★ Management needs a clearer understanding of technology risk
★ Cybersecurity responsibilities or ownership are unclear
★ Policies exist but do not reflect actual processes
★ Controls are undocumented or inconsistently performed
★ Access management or privileged access creates risk
★ Third-party technology providers have not been adequately assessed
★ A customer, auditor, parent company, or other stakeholder requests evidence of security controls
★ A cybersecurity assessment identifies gaps requiring remediation
★ Multiple frameworks or compliance requirements create overlapping control activities
★ The organization is preparing for a new compliance requirement
★ Technology risks have changed because of cloud adoption or new systems
★ Control deficiencies continue to recur
★ Management needs a practical remediation roadmap
★ Cybersecurity reporting to leadership needs improvement

Frameworks can provide useful structure for evaluating cybersecurity and technology controls.

Depending on the organization’s objectives and requirements, assessments may consider established frameworks and standards such as NIST or ISO-based control environments, as well as other applicable compliance requirements.



The objective is not simply to check every box in a framework. Schmid CPA helps organizations understand which requirements apply, how existing controls address them, where gaps remain, and what practical improvements should be prioritized.

A risk assessment is most valuable when the findings lead to action.



Schmid CPA can help organizations translate identified gaps into specific remediation activities, responsible owners, priorities, timelines, and control improvements.

Where appropriate, remediation may involve changes to policies, system configuration, access, monitoring, documentation, workflows, responsibilities, or the underlying technology process.

This creates a path from identifying risk to actually improving the control environment.

Cybersecurity, IT controls, SOX, third-party risk, and technology governance often overlap.

The same access management process, for example, may affect cybersecurity risk, financial reporting controls, regulatory expectations, and internal audit.



Schmid CPA helps organizations consider these relationships so controls can be designed and documented efficiently rather than maintaining unnecessary parallel processes for every compliance requirement.

Technology risk should be understandable to the people responsible for managing it.

Schmid CPA works with management, IT teams, control owners, internal audit, compliance functions, and other stakeholders to translate technical and compliance requirements into clear risks, responsibilities, controls, and remediation actions.

Support can range from a targeted technology risk assessment to broader cybersecurity governance, controls, and compliance improvement.

Need a clearer understanding of your cybersecurity or technology control risks?

Schedule a consultation to discuss your environment, requirements, and current risk and compliance challenges.