Boards and audit committees
Directors are accountable for oversight and cannot rely on the program's own account of itself.
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Established Enterprises
Independent measurement for a program that already exists
Established organizations already have a security program. The open questions are whether it is working, how much risk remains, and where the next dollar should go. We provide the independent baseline and the recurring measurement that show leadership and the board how the program is moving over time.
The pressure
What brings this buyer to an independent advisor
Regulators and auditors
Several regimes apply at once, each asking for the same facts in a different form.
Customers and insurers
Security questionnaires, contractual commitments, and underwriting questions arrive on their own schedule.
What we assess
What an engagement examines
- Capability maturity by domain against NIST CSF 2.0, the CIS Controls, or your regulatory obligations.
- Loss exposure for the risk scenarios that matter to the business, expressed in financial terms.
- Control design and operating effectiveness, tested independently of the teams that built them.
- Third-party and transaction risk across the vendors you depend on and the companies you acquire.
- Readiness for disruption: plans, playbooks, exercises, and tested recovery objectives.
What changes
What is different afterwards
- The board pack is produced from a measurement rather than assembled from opinion.
- Investment is argued in terms of loss reduction, which finance can compare against every other risk the business carries.
- Improvement is visible, because the next assessment measures against the same baseline.
- Auditors and examiners receive evidence in the form they ask for, without a fire drill.
Practices
Most often engaged
Cyber Risk and Maturity
Measure maturity against NIST CSF or CIS, quantify exposure in dollars, and know what to fix first.
View practiceThird-Party Risk and M&A
Judge the security of a vendor, a target, or a portfolio company before the commitment is made.
View practiceCertification Readiness
Reach a clean SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, or HITRUST report without the audit becoming the project.
View practiceRegulatory and Legal Compliance
Technical assessment behind privacy, healthcare, financial, and government obligations, often under counsel.
View practiceQuestions
Frequently asked questions
What frameworks do you measure against?
Usually the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 or the CIS Controls, scored on a capability maturity model scale, with results mapped to the regulations and standards that apply to your business.
How is an independent assessment different from our own internal review?
An independent assessment provides an outside, evidence-based view that boards, auditors, regulators, and insurers can rely on, benchmarks the program against recognized frameworks, and removes the blind spots that come from assessing work you designed yourself.
Start with a confidential conversation
Thirty minutes on where your program stands, what is being asked of it, and what would have to be true for the answer to hold up.