Information Risk
How safe is your sensitive information?
You trust your people. But can you trust your process? Exigence evaluates the people, operating practices, physical safeguards, access methods, personal devices, and digital controls that shape real-world exposure.
What are we missing?
Five questions reveal whether the process matches the policy.
A practical review of how sensitive information is created or received, stored, accessed, used, transmitted, retained, and ultimately disposed of across an organization.
- 01
Who has access?
Determine who can access sensitive information, why that access exists, and whether each person still requires it.
- 02
Can you prove it?
Determine whether the organization can identify who accessed sensitive information, when access occurred, and whether it was authorized.
- 03
Where are the keys?
Review keys, access cards, passwords, shared credentials, authentication methods, and whether those access methods are genuinely controlled.
- 04
What about personal devices?
Assess whether company or client information is being accessed, transmitted, photographed, downloaded, copied, or stored on personal devices.
- 05
Would you know?
Evaluate whether the organization could identify inappropriate access, copying, removal, transmission, or viewing of sensitive information.
The risk may be the process surrounding the information.
A written policy provides limited protection when actual practices do not follow it. A secure system is not secure if sensitive information is routinely moved to uncontrolled devices. Physical safeguards do not work when keys and credentials are uncontrolled.
Exigence Sensitive Information Risk Assessment
Exigence evaluates how sensitive information moves from creation or receipt through storage, access, use, transmission, retention, and disposition.
What the assessment reviews
People; roles and permissions; operating processes; physical safeguards; keys and access cards; passwords and credentials; personal devices; information handling; logging and accountability; digital controls; documented vulnerabilities; and practical opportunities to reduce exposure.
Keep the first message general
Use the consultation form only for a general, non-sensitive description. Do not submit confidential records, credentials, case files, protected information, medical information, financial information, or sensitive evidence.
Assess · Plan · Implement
Assess
Trace how sensitive information moves through the organization and identify the people, practices, physical safeguards, access methods, and digital controls involved.
Plan
Document vulnerabilities, prioritize practical improvements, and align corrective steps with the organization’s operations and risk.
Implement
Support an accountable path for improving permissions, handling practices, physical controls, credentials, personal-device boundaries, logging, and follow-through.
Connected capabilities
Risk Assessment & Security Consulting
Connect information-handling findings to a broader assessment of people, property, facilities, operations, and security priorities.
Explore capabilityDigital Forensics & Electronic Evidence
Preserve and examine electronic evidence when an authorized matter requires answers within digital information.
Explore capabilityProfessional Investigative Services
Coordinate fact-finding when information-access concerns are part of a properly authorized investigation.
Explore capabilityDon’t wait for an incident to discover the gap.