How connected is your cyber risk operating model?
Score 35 statements across seven capabilities to expose blind spots, set priorities and choose your first 30-day action.
Find the gaps before pressure exposes them
Cyber risk often looks manageable until a vulnerability, supplier issue, incident, audit request or board question demands a clear answer. Teams then need to know what is exposed, who owns it, which controls apply and whether the evidence can be trusted.
In the scorecard, learn to test how your cyber risk operating model across these objectives:
- Assess links across cyber risk, resilience, compliance and board reporting
- Map dependencies across critical services, assets, vendors and owners
- Trace threats and vulnerabilities to business impacts, controls and actions
- Find duplicated effort across control frameworks, audits, and reporting
- Evaluate incident response, assurance and exposure readiness
- Identify your biggest blind spot and priority for the next 30 days
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This practical scorecard helps you test how well your cyber risk operating model connects across cyber and enterprise governance, risk and compliance. Use it to assess 35 statements across seven connected cyber risk capabilities, identify where fragmentation is creating blind spots and choose a practical first 30-day action.
“Cyber risk becomes harder to govern when the links between assets, vendors, controls, incidents and business impact are unclear. A connected model gives leaders the context to act sooner and prove assurance.” - Michael Franklin, Cyber Security Lead, Protecht
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Large companies identify third-party and supply-chain vulnerabilities as their greatest cyber resilience challenge. (World Economic Forum, Global Cybersecurity Outlook, 2026)
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48%
Breaches now involve a third party, an increase of 60% from the previous year. (Verizon, 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report)
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Breaches began with vulnerability exploitation, making it the most common initial access route in Verizon’s 2026 dataset. (Verizon, 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report)
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Respondents had fully implemented all the data-risk measures assessed. (PwC, 2026 Global Digital Trust Insights)
Comparing your options
Move from reactive, spreadsheet-based compliance to a connected, automated governance system - ready for the Aged Care Act 2024.
| Capabilities | Manual approach using spreadsheets | Protecht | ||
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Incident & SIRS management
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Incidents tracked manually, inconsistent categorisation, limited visibility, and no automated escalation. | Real-time logging and automated escalation aligned to SIRS, with full audit trails and reporting. | ||
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Compliance & governance reporting
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Separate spreadsheets per site; time-consuming updates; high audit risk. | Centralised dashboards and reports showing compliance across all facilities, in real time. | ||
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Risk & quality oversight
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Disconnected risk registers make trend analysis and board reporting difficult. | Integrated risk framework connecting controls, incidents, and actions to deliver organisation-wide visibility. | ||
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Audit readiness
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Manual evidence gathering across documents and emails - error-prone and stressful. | Pre-configured, auditable registers with one-click reporting and timestamped compliance evidence. | ||
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Workflow & accountability
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No clear ownership or task tracking; actions often lost in email. | Automated workflows with defined responsibilities, due dates, and escalation paths. | ||
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Data security & integrity
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Version control issues and risk of accidental data loss or breaches. | Secure, cloud-hosted platform with role-based access, encryption, and complete audit logs. |
KEY AUDIENCES
Who should read this?
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Audience |
What you will learn |
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CISOs and cyber security managers |
Get faster clarity on posture, ownership and assurance during incidents and audits. |
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CROs, Heads of Risk and risk managers |
Connect cyber exposure to enterprise risk and operational impact in plain language. |
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Compliance, audit and assurance leaders |
Reduce the scramble for evidence with a more repeatable, provable controls story. |
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Operational resilience and business continuity leaders |
Treat cyber disruption as a continuity test, not just a security event. |
How Protecht helps
Connect cyber risk to enterprise decisions.
Protecht helps cyber, risk, resilience, vendor, compliance and assurance teams work from connected information, reducing manual reconciliation and giving leaders a clearer view of exposure, ownership and action.
That means you can:
- Link risks, assets, vendors, controls, and incidents to business impact
- Map controls across frameworks and support compliance needs
- Connect vulnerabilities and incidents to affected services and owners
- Track findings, remediation, responsibilities and progress
- Use dashboards to explain trends, control gaps, and key decisions
