Use cases
- You need an independent view of current security posture before making larger investments.
- Leadership or an IT team wants a prioritized list of security gaps rather than another generic checklist.
- A customer, insurer, board, investor, or internal project has raised security questions that need a structured response.
- You are preparing for a major cloud, identity, website, vendor, or operational change.
Review surface
- Business email, identity, MFA, privileged accounts, and recovery paths
- Cloud and SaaS administrative access, external sharing, and high-risk permissions
- Websites, administrative interfaces, public exposure, TLS, and configuration hygiene
- Staff and vendor access lifecycle, offboarding, ownership, and escalation paths
- Incident readiness, evidence availability, backup ownership, and recovery dependencies
Method
01Confirm scope, authorization, systems, priorities, and evidence sources.
02Review agreed controls and configurations using non-destructive techniques unless a different method is explicitly authorized.
03Separate observations from assumptions and rank findings by practical consequence, not visual drama.
04Discuss material findings and produce a remediation sequence that owners and technical teams can act on.
Deliverables
- Executive summary for decision-makers
- Risk-ranked findings with evidence and affected areas
- Remediation priorities with suggested ownership and sequencing
- Technical notes suitable for internal IT or external technology partners
- Follow-up discussion to clarify findings and next steps
Practice context
Assessment work sits across Practice Leadership & Advisory and Technical Assessments & Defensive Engineering, with specialist input added when identity, cloud, incident, or compliance questions change the scope.
Illustrative finding — not client data
Area
Identity security
Observation
Privileged accounts rely on authentication controls that are not consistently enforced.
Consequence
A compromised administrator identity could provide broad access to business systems.
Example action
Enforce the agreed MFA standard for privileged users, review recovery methods, and verify administrative role assignments.
Scope
Engagement boundary
An assessment is not a guarantee that every weakness or future attack path will be identified. Scope, depth, evidence access, and testing methods are agreed in writing before work begins.