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Enterprise Risk Assessment
Your investors, your auditors, and your enterprise customers are all going to scrutinize your security posture. The question is whether you find the gaps first or they do. We find them first, prioritize them by what they would actually cost you, and give you a roadmap that holds up when it gets tested.
Who This Is For
Three situations that make
this non-negotiable.
Board and Investor Scrutiny
Your board is asking questions you don't have defensible answers to yet. Investor due diligence or cyber insurance underwriting is coming. You need documented posture, not a work in progress.
Pre-Compliance Baseline
SOC 2, ISO 27001, CMMC, or another certification is in your near-term plan. You need to know where you actually stand before committing to a certification timeline and budget.
Growth and/or M&A
Significant headcount growth, an acquisition, a cloud migration, or a new product line has changed your risk surface. The assessment you did 18 months ago no longer reflects the organization you're running today.
Assessment Deliverables
What you have when we're done.
Current-State Security Posture Report
A complete picture of where your controls stand today, scored against your selected framework, so you're not guessing what an auditor or due diligence team will find.
Risk Register and Prioritization
Every identified risk scored by business impact and likelihood, with treatment recommendations ordered by what actually matters to your organization, not by control number.
Strategic Remediation Roadmap
A phased plan with quick wins in the first 90 days, built around your real budget and team capacity, not an idealized program your organization can't actually execute.
Control Ownership Framework
Clear accountability for every control area so remediation doesn't stall because nobody knows who owns it. Includes a RACI matrix and KPIs for tracking progress.
Executive Summary for Leadership
Board and C-suite materials that translate risk into business terms. Written to be presented, not handed off to someone else to explain.
Technical Findings and Evidence
The full technical record your IT and security teams need to act on findings and your auditors or due diligence reviewers need to verify them.
Why It Matters Who Does This
Someone is going to find
what's broken. The question is
whether it's us or them.
Your investors, your enterprise customers, and your auditors are all running the same playbook, and it starts with a risk assessment. The only variable is whether you control the findings or they do.
The Board Meeting
A 200-page report doesn't answer the question your board is actually asking.
They want to know if you're exposed, what it would cost if something went wrong, and what you're doing about it. Most assessments produce findings. We produce answers that are risk-quantified, written in business terms, and ready to present.
Due Diligence
Series B technical due diligence will find what you haven't fixed. Before you do.
We know what due diligence teams look for: the gaps that delay closes, the findings that show up in side letters, the control failures that become post-close remediation requirements. We find them first and give you a documented plan that turns a liability into a managed risk.
The Vendor Review
Enterprise customers don't care about your intentions. They care about your documentation.
A security review that stalls a sales cycle costs more than this assessment ever would. We produce evidence packages that answer the questions enterprise procurement actually asks, not the questions a framework says they should ask.
The advisor who runs your kickoff is the one who delivers your findings.
- No junior analysts interpreting someone else's work. Every finding is written and defended by the senior advisor who conducted the engagement.
- Risk scored by what it would cost your business. Not by where it falls in a control category or framework hierarchy.
- A roadmap built to be executed, not filed. Phased and sequenced around your actual budget, your actual team, and your actual timeline.
Assessment Process
Five to six weeks.
No abiguity.
A defined process with defined milestones. You know what's happening every week with no scope surprises, no extended timelines, and no findings that surface after the engagement closes.
Scoping and Documentation Review
Kickoff with key stakeholders to align on scope, framework, and priorities. Collection of existing policies, architecture diagrams, and prior audit reports. Access provisioning and stakeholder interview scheduling.
Interviews, Technical Review and Control Testing
Stakeholder interviews across IT, security, compliance, legal, and business leadership. Technical environment review covering network architecture, cloud configuration, access controls, and data flows. Control testing and evidence collection.
Risk Analysis and Draft Report
Risk scoring by business impact and likelihood. Control maturity assessment and gap analysis. Remediation roadmap development. Preliminary findings validated with technical stakeholders before the report is finalized.
Final Report and Executive Presentation
Final report incorporating stakeholder feedback. Delivery of findings, risk register, and remediation roadmap. Executive presentation to leadership and the board with Q&A and next-steps planning.
Not sure which assessment
you actually need?
We'll talk through your current security posture, what's driving the urgency, and whether this engagement is the right fit for where you are right now.