Comprehensive security assessments that help you understand where you’re vulnerable and what to do about it. Whether you need a focused review of specific systems or a broader evaluation of your security posture, we provide tailored reports highlighting your risks and helping you focus investments where they matter most.
Our Methodology
Controls First Approach
Traditional security assessments often produce overwhelming lists of findings without clear implementation guidance. We’ve developed a controls-first approach that maps identified risks directly to specific, implementable security controls.
Rather than generating theoretical vulnerability lists, our methodology identifies which security controls are priority based on your actual threat landscape, then scopes the implementation of those controls to mitigate your highest-impact risks. This is particularly valuable for teams with limited security expertise, as it provides a clear path from threat identification to practical security improvements.
When working with industry standards like NIST or ISO 27001, we focus on which controls matter most for your specific systems and provide implementation guidance scoped to your organizational maturity and capabilities.
How We Assess Your Systems
Systematic Threat Modeling: We employ two complementary methodologies: STRIDE and Attack Trees. STRIDE analyzes your system’s data flow diagram to identify threats across six categories (Spoofing, Tampering, Repudiation, Information Disclosure, Denial of Service, and Elevation of Privilege), ensuring comprehensive coverage. Attack trees then model how attackers could exploit identified threats, starting with attacker goals and branching into specific methods and preconditions. This dual approach provides both systematic breadth and practical depth, focusing on realistic attack paths rather than theoretical possibilities.
Configuration Review: Analysis of cloud infrastructure, application security settings, and system configurations against security best practices and your specific threat landscape.
Control Assessment: Evaluation of existing security controls and identification of gaps in your current security posture, with recommendations scoped to your organizational maturity and compliance requirements.
Assessment Types
We offer flexible engagement models to match your needs and budget:
Individual Assessments:
- Application security review including threat modeling and secure design analysis
- Infrastructure threat modeling with systematic attack path analysis
- Cloud configuration review against security best practices
- Specific system or component threat assessment
Assessment Series:
- Comprehensive security posture evaluation across multiple systems
- Phased approach allowing you to start small and build on results
- Coordinated findings that avoid duplication and provide unified recommendations
What You Receive
- Tailored Report: Clear findings focused on your specific systems and business context
- Executive Summary: Business-focused overview highlighting key risks and recommended investments for leadership communication
- Risk Prioritization: Ranking of identified risks by business impact and implementation effort
- Control Recommendations: Specific controls mapped to identified risks with practical implementation guidance
- Compliance Mapping: Alignment of findings with relevant standards (NIST, ISO 27001, HIPAA, SOC 2) when applicable
- Next Steps: Clear guidance on immediate improvements and longer-term security investments
Assessment Scope
Our security reviews systematically identify risks across your systems and provide practical recommendations for security improvements. We focus on actionable findings that your team can implement, whether you have dedicated security expertise or not.
Even teams with strong internal security capabilities benefit from external security reviews to validate internal risk assessments, identify blind spots in existing approaches, and provide independent validation for security investment decisions.
Our security reviews provide high-level threat identification and control mapping based on system architecture and stated controls. This complements rather than replaces detailed technical validation like penetration testing or active security monitoring. Use our findings to prioritize and scope those technical activities effectively, ensuring your most critical controls are tested and validated where it matters most.
Why This Approach Works
- Start Small: Begin with focused assessments and expand based on results and priorities
- Actionable Output: Move beyond finding lists to specific implementation guidance your team can execute
- Business Context: Clear rationale for security investments that executives can understand and support
- Resource Focus: Concentrate limited security resources on controls that address your actual highest-impact risks
Is This For You?
This service is designed for:
- Technical teams building or operating systems who want independent security validation
- Organisations launching new applications or infrastructure who need threat analysis before go-live
- Companies with some security capability who want external perspective on specific systems
- Teams preparing for penetration testing who want to prioritise and scope the engagement effectively