Assessments

Overview

Understanding your security posture is the essential first step in building a credible and effective cyber programme. You cannot protect what you cannot see, and you cannot prioritise what you have not measured.

CyberSolace’s assessment services give your leadership team a clear, objective and independent view of where your organisation stands — covering people, process, technology and governance — so you can make informed decisions, allocate resources wisely and demonstrate due diligence to clients, regulators and insurers alike.

For most new clients, an assessment is where we start. It establishes a baseline, surfaces the risks that matter most, and creates a practical roadmap for improvement that is proportionate to your business and budget.

How Can We Help?

We offer three complementary assessment services, which can be delivered independently or combined as part of a broader security programme.

Cybersecurity Maturity Assessments

A cybersecurity maturity assessment gives your organisation an honest, structured view of how well your current security practices, processes and controls measure up — and where the material gaps are.

Our approach is holistic and covers four dimensions: People, Process, Technology and Organisation. We also pay close attention to external influencing factors including regulatory obligations, industry standards and emerging operating models relevant to your sector.

We can benchmark your posture against recognised frameworks including ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials, and DORA, giving you an objective measure of where you stand against the standards your clients, insurers or regulators may expect you to meet.

Alternatively, we can deploy our own proprietary rapid assessment model — developed specifically for SMEs — which delivers in-depth cybersecurity insights for executives, management and technical teams alike. Our proprietary assessment uniquely incorporates an external technical scan of your digital footprint as seen from an attacker’s perspective, giving you a fuller and more actionable picture than a governance review alone.

Outputs are written for both technical and non-technical audiences and include a clear, prioritised set of recommendations tied to your specific risk profile and business context.

External Attack Surface Discovery & Assessment

Your organisation has a digital footprint that extends far beyond what your internal team can see. Forgotten subdomains, exposed credentials, unpatched internet-facing assets, and third-party supplier vulnerabilities all represent potential attack paths that adversaries actively scan for — often before you even know they exist.

Our External Attack Surface Discovery and Assessment service gives you a continuous, attacker’s-eye view of your organisation’s external exposure — without any disruption to your systems or operations. Unlike a penetration test, which is a point-in-time exercise, this is a continuous activity that can be run multiple times across the year or whenever your environment changes. It is often more cost-effective than a conventional penetration test, available for a fixed annual fee that is frequently comparable to the cost of a single pen test engagement.

Our service is also enriched with threat intelligence specific to your industry sector, so the picture you receive reflects the most relevant and likely risks facing your organisation — not a generic one-size-fits-all report.

Specifically, our service can:

Identify and analyse externally facing technical vulnerabilities and threats in real-time across your entire digital ecosystem — giving you a radar view of what an attacker sees when planning a campaign against your organisation
Minimise your exposure to breaches by surfacing risks before they can be exploited
Translate complex technical data into clear, actionable business intelligence that boards and executive teams can act on
Support more justifiable and evidence-based security investment decisions at leadership level
Provide peer benchmarking and sector comparison to contextualise your risk position
Assess your supply chain and third-party partners, offering continuous evaluation of the risks they introduce to your organisation

Penetration Testing

Penetration testing is the most direct way to understand whether your defences hold up against a real attack. Rather than reviewing controls on paper, our consultants actively attempt to exploit weaknesses in your environment — the same way a genuine adversary would — so you know exactly where you are exposed before the bad actors find out first.

At CyberSolace, we take a holistic approach to penetration testing that goes beyond infrastructure and applications. Our engagements cover:

Technical infrastructure and network testing — identifying exploitable vulnerabilities across your internal and external environment
Web and application testing — assessing the security of customer-facing and internal applications against recognised vulnerability frameworks
Physical penetration testing — simulating real-world attempts to gain unauthorised physical access to your premises and sensitive areas
Social engineering and phishing simulations — testing your people’s awareness and responses to manipulation-based attack techniques

We deliver CREST accredited penetration testing services, providing the independent assurance that management, clients and regulators increasingly expect. All findings are presented in clear, prioritised reports with remediation guidance tailored to your risk appetite and resources.

Penetration testing is a requirement under ISO 27001 and a recommended practice under Cyber Essentials Plus. If you are on a compliance journey, we can scope and time engagements to align directly with your certification requirements.

Not Sure Where to Start?

Try our online ISO-27001 Readiness Self-Assessments, the fastest and most cost-effective way to understand your current security position and build a credible plan from it.

Alternatively visit our “TOOLS & RESOURCES” section of the website to locate more online assessment options.

Whether you are starting from scratch, preparing for a compliance programme, or responding to a specific concern, we are happy to have an initial conversation at no obligation.

Try Our ISO27001 Readiness Self Assessment

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