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Risk Directed Security (RDS)

Risk Directed Security (RDS) is a VikingCloud capability, included with Managed Security Services (MSS) on the Asgard Platform, that continuously scores the operational and security health of every site an organization runs. RDS evaluates 15 network and infrastructure checks per site, spanning network performance, connectivity and redundancy, infrastructure health, and network services, plus endpoint and Wi-Fi signals where those services are in place, and rolls them into a patented 0 to 100 Cyber Risk Score and A to F grade for each site, account, and brand. Every score is computed against documented thresholds and linked to its underlying evidence. A ranked list of remediation actions mapped to NIST and CIS shows teams what to fix first. Because RDS reads telemetry from the firewalls already deployed at each site, it requires no new hardware or agents.

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