Threat landscape and controls analysis
Gideon T. Rasmussen · 2025
Threat Landscape and Controls Analysis is organized to start from business management’s side of the table. We begin by considering the inherent risk of the organization. Provide an overview of potential adversaries, techniques for compromising data and the cybercrime ecosystem. Describe the potential for impact, while citing reliable sources. Reference the organization’s risk tolerance. Describe the organization’s assets. Pivot into cybersecurity with protection boundaries, control framework and risk assessments. Provide fair and balanced analysis by documenting risk mitigation and recent accomplishments in that domain. Detail residual risk with recommendations for new processes and controls. Conclude with a summary statement that praises the organization’s risk culture, with recognition for conducting risk analysis. Threat Landscape and Controls Analysis can be used within an assessment report as a preamble for findings and recommendations. It also has utility as stand-alone analysis to present cybersecurity issues to C-level executives and the Board of Directors.