Cybersecurity Audits & Assessments

Cybersecurity Audits and Security Assessments

We assess where your environment is exposed, confirm each issue is real before reporting it, and give your team a prioritized order of work rather than a raw scanner dump.

Assessments cover cloud and identity configuration, external and internal exposure, vulnerability management, secure development practices and incident readiness. All testing is authorized in writing and scheduled with your team.

When this helps

Situations we are usually called into

  • A customer, insurer or investor is asking how you manage security risk.
  • You moved quickly into cloud services and are unsure what is exposed or misconfigured.
  • Scanner output keeps growing and nobody can tell which findings actually matter.
  • Identity settings, administrative access and legacy authentication have never been reviewed end to end.
  • You want to know how your team would cope with an incident before one happens.

Scope & deliverables

What the engagement covers

Cloud and identity configuration

How your tenants, accounts and identity platform are configured against widely used hardening guidance.

  • Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Azure, AWS or Google Cloud configuration review
  • Administrative role assignment and privileged access paths
  • Multi-factor and conditional access coverage and gaps
  • Logging, retention and alerting configuration

Exposure and vulnerabilities

What an outsider can see and which internal weaknesses are worth fixing first.

  • External attack surface and exposed service review
  • Authenticated and unauthenticated vulnerability scanning
  • Patch and end-of-life inventory
  • Manual validation to remove false positives

Secure development practices

For teams shipping software, the controls that keep releases from introducing avoidable risk.

  • Repository access, branch protection and secret handling
  • Dependency and container image hygiene
  • Pipeline security checks and their coverage
  • Environment separation and production access

Incident readiness

Whether your organization could detect, decide and act under pressure.

  • Incident response plan and contact tree review
  • Detection coverage for the scenarios that matter to you
  • Backup and recovery assumptions tested against a scenario
  • Facilitated tabletop walkthrough with your team

What you receive

  • Written authorization, scope, test windows and contact protocol before any testing
  • Validated findings with evidence, affected assets and clear reproduction notes
  • Risk ratings and a prioritized remediation sequence your team can work through
  • Configuration hardening recommendations mapped to your platforms
  • Executive summary written for non-technical decision makers
  • Optional retest of remediated findings with an updated status report

An assessment is not a penetration test

A security assessment reviews configuration, exposure and process to identify weaknesses, largely through inspection, scanning and interviews. A penetration test is a goal-driven exercise where a tester actively attempts to exploit weaknesses and chain them together, within tightly agreed rules of engagement. Assessments cover more ground and are usually the better first step. If you need exploitation-based testing, we scope it separately with its own authorization, rules of engagement and reporting, and we tell you plainly when the work you have asked for is one and not the other.

How we work

A five-step engagement

  1. Step 01

    Authorize and scope

    Agree targets, exclusions, test windows, escalation contacts and written authorization from someone able to give it.

  2. Step 02

    Collect and review

    Pull configuration exports, run agreed scans and interview the engineers who run the environment.

  3. Step 03

    Validate

    Confirm each candidate finding manually so the report contains real issues, not scanner noise.

  4. Step 04

    Prioritize

    Rate findings by exploitability and business impact, then sequence them into practical remediation waves.

  5. Step 05

    Report and support

    Deliver the report, brief your team, answer remediation questions and schedule any retest.

Working together

What we need from you, and how we handle your data

Your responsibilities

  • Provide written authorization for the systems in scope, including any hosted with third parties who require their own approval.
  • Name technical contacts who can answer questions and receive urgent findings during testing.
  • Grant read-only configuration access, or export configuration for the platforms in scope.
  • Tell us about fragile systems, maintenance windows and monitoring that should not be triggered.

Data handling

  • Findings, credentials used for authenticated review and configuration exports are treated as confidential and shared only with named recipients.
  • Any test accounts are created by you, scoped narrowly and disabled at the end of the engagement.
  • We do not extract or retain production personal data to demonstrate a finding when a redacted example will do.
  • Reports and supporting evidence are deleted at the end of the agreed retention period on request.

How we use enquiry information is set out in our privacy policy.

FAQ

Cybersecurity Audits & Assessments: common questions

Do you exploit the weaknesses you find?

Not during an assessment. We validate that a finding is real without pushing further into your environment. Exploitation-based work is a penetration test, scoped separately with its own rules of engagement.

Will testing disrupt our systems?

We plan around it. Scans are scheduled in agreed windows, intensity is tuned for fragile systems and we exclude anything you flag. There is always some residual risk with active scanning, which we discuss before starting.

How do you avoid handing us a scanner report?

Every candidate finding is reviewed by a person before it appears. We remove false positives, merge duplicates, add the affected assets and give you a sequence of work rather than a severity list.

Can you test our cloud provider's infrastructure?

We assess your configuration inside the service, which is where most cloud risk sits. Provider-owned infrastructure is out of scope and some providers require their own authorization for certain tests.

Do you offer monitoring after the assessment?

Monitoring and incident-response support can be arranged as a separate engagement and is scoped to what you actually buy, including coverage hours and response expectations. We do not imply round-the-clock coverage unless it is written into your agreement.

How often should we reassess?

Many organizations reassess annually and after significant change, such as a cloud migration, a merger or a major platform rollout. Between assessments, ongoing vulnerability management matters more than another point-in-time review.

Discuss a security assessment

Tell us what you run and what is worrying you. We will propose a scope, test window and reporting format.

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