Our Approach
Automate Your Risk Assessment Process
BALLAST is packed with knowledge obtained from hundreds of risk assessments, as well as guidance from national and international standards-making bodies. The result is a tool that will streamline the risk assessment process and eliminate the bottlenecks associated with manual approaches. BALLAST enables you to quickly deploy one or hundreds of assessments across your organization and visualize risk at-a-glance using intuitive dashboard reporting. Once high-risk threats are identified, you can efficiently prioritize, delegate and track remediations to mitigate your organizational risk.
BALLAST Features
BALLAST is a cloud-based risk assessment tool that streamlines the assessment process and provides on-demand compliance reporting.
Dashboard Reporting
Intuitive dashboard delivers real-time feedback on assessments and risk levels
Assign Assessments
Track assessments over multiple facilities and delegate tasks to process owners
Track Remediations
Seamlessly create, assign, and track remediation activities and due dates
Customizable Threats
Use pre-built threat and control standards or create your own
Upload Artifacts
Upload assessment artifacts as evidence of control effectiveness
On-Demand Reports
Generate risk assessment reports on-demand for auditors and regulators
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BALLAST Use Cases
BALLAST enables you to efficiently identify risk and maintain compliance in these industries and many more.
Healthcare
Hospitals and health systems have obligations to comply with the HIPAA Security Rule. BALLAST helps healthcare IT and security leaders meet the challenges of ever-increasing regulatory pressure and budgetary constraints in an industry where patient care always takes first priority.
BALLAST automates the risk assessment process, so you can concentrate on keeping systems online and patient data highly available and protected.
Key Healthcare Benefits:
- Meet compliance obligations in less time
- Gain critical data on areas of risk to PHI
- Optimized for use across multiple facilities
Private Equity & Holding
Understanding the cyber risk and compliance postures of portfolio companies is critical to minimize financial, operational and legal risks for organizations with sensitive or protected information in retail, healthcare, financial and service sectors.
BALLAST’s dashboard reporting gives managers visibility into assessments across one or hundreds of organizations.
Key Private Equity & Holding Benefits:
- Gain insights into risk across your entire portfolio
- Delegate assignments and tasks to company stakeholders
- Gamification compares portfolio companies to their peers
Insurance
Payers in the health and welfare ecosystem must comply with a host of regulatory mandates around healthcare data, personally identifiable information, along with cardholder data. Performing risk analysis is a requirement for many of these standards.
BALLAST helps insurance companies identify risk with third-party claims processing, data analytics, and services that access sensitive member data.
Key Insurance Benefits:
- Maintain compliance across multiple standards
- Perform third-party vendor risk management
- Build remediation plans and delegate tasks
BALLAST Workflow
BALLAST is designed for rapid deployment. We go through a quick setup process to create your secure environment, then you are ready to create and deploy your first assessment, monitor progress and review remediations. Easily prioritize, delegate and track remediations to manage your organizational risk.
View Case Study”There are other offerings out there for risk assessment, but it all boils down to the partnership that I've been able to establish with LBMC and BALLAST.
Michelle ByrdSenior VP of Compliance, VRC
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See for yourself how BALLAST can help simplify your risk assessment process. Contact us today to schedule your free demo.
Better Visibility. Don’t play guessing games. Get visibility into organizational risks at the click of a button.
Expertise Within Reach. We have led hundreds of risk assessments and worked directly with regulators – let us help you navigate the complexity.
Rapid Deployment. No costly infrastructure or integrations. We’ll get you up in running quickly (weeks, not months).
Questions? Call us at 1-833-GO-BALLAST (1-833-462-2552).
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