A security gap analysis compares the controls you have against the controls your risk profile requires. WorldSafe inventories what exists, tests it against realistic scenarios, and hands you a ranked list of what is missing.
Request a gap analysisSecurity controls arrive one decision at a time. A camera system after an incident. Badge readers during a renovation. A visitor policy written by whoever had capacity. Each one made sense when it was purchased.
What rarely happens is someone examining the whole set against the threats the organization actually faces. Controls overlap in places and leave nothing in others. Ownership is unclear. Some systems are running firmware nobody has touched in years.
A gap analysis is that examination, written down and ranked.
Three phases over about two weeks for a single facility.
A practitioner catalogues every control in place, physical and procedural, and records who owns each one. Unowned controls are findings in their own right.
Realistic scenarios get walked end to end. An intruder at the loading dock. A contractor badge that outlived the contract. A staff member who needs the plan in sixty seconds.
Each gap is scored by consequence and likelihood, then ordered. The list includes a recommended action and a rough effort estimate for every item.
Six domains, including the assets that usually fall between departments.
Entry points, badge policy, door discipline, lighting, and sightlines
Whether written plans exist, stay current, and are usable under pressure
What staff know, what they have rehearsed, and whether they report
Cameras, controllers, and building systems, including patch and vendor status
Who gets called, how fast, and whether the path works after hours
Contractor and vendor access, credential lifecycle, and joint review
A gap analysis sits between assessment and program. It needs a scored risk picture to rank against, and it produces the sequence a program executes.
A security assessment scores the risk the gaps get measured against.
The physical and cyber seam is where most findings concentrate.
An integrated program closes the list on a schedule.
Scope, timing, deliverables, and how it differs from an assessment.
A structured comparison between the security controls an organization has and the controls its risk profile calls for. It inventories what exists, tests it against realistic scenarios, and ranks what is missing by consequence.
A risk assessment asks what could happen and how bad it would be. A gap analysis asks what you have in place against that risk and what is missing. WorldSafe usually runs them together, because the gap list is only meaningful once the risk is scored.
A control inventory with a named owner for each item, findings from scenario testing, and a ranked gap list scored by consequence and likelihood. Each gap carries a recommended action and a rough effort estimate.
A single facility takes about two weeks from site visit to written report. Multi-site portfolios depend on location count and travel.
Yes. Badge systems, camera networks, visitor management, and building management systems sit between facilities and IT. Those assets produce the most common findings, because neither program audits them.
The ranked list becomes a remediation sequence with owners and dates. Organizations on Resilience as a Service get quarterly re-scoring so the list stays current.
Talk to WorldSafe about a gap analysis for your facility or portfolio.
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