Strategy & Risk · Compliance · Data Protection & Privacy
Knowing what to defend requires understanding what you have, what matters, and what the rules require. Our Security Assessment practice covers three disciplines — Security Strategy & Risk, Compliance, and Data Protection & Privacy — each designed to give your leadership team a clear, defensible foundation for security investment and operational decisions.
Assessment Disciplines
Select a discipline below to explore the scope, methodology, and deliverables for each assessment service.
Security strategy without risk grounding produces programs that look comprehensive but miss the threats that actually matter. Our Security Strategy & Risk Assessment evaluates your current security posture, identifies your most significant risk areas, benchmarks your program against relevant industry peers, and produces a prioritized roadmap for improvement that your board can fund and your team can execute.
Structured evaluation of your security program across governance, risk management, detection, response, and recovery capabilities against a recognized maturity model.
Translation of technical security risks into business impact terms using FAIR methodology — giving leadership the financial context needed for investment decisions.
Industry-specific threat landscape assessment drawing on TDU intelligence to identify the adversary groups, attack techniques, and risk scenarios most relevant to your organization.
Evaluation of your current security technology stack against coverage requirements — identifying gaps, redundancies, and optimization opportunities across detection, response, and recovery.
Prioritized, business-aligned security improvement roadmap with phasing, resource requirements, and expected risk reduction for each initiative.
Board-ready presentation of assessment findings, risk posture, investment priorities, and roadmap — designed for directors and C-suite executives without security backgrounds.
Compliance failures are expensive in every dimension — financially, operationally, and reputationally. Our Compliance Assessment practice conducts rigorous gap analysis against relevant regulatory frameworks and control standards, identifies your current compliance posture, and produces a prioritized remediation plan that closes gaps efficiently before audit, examination, or incident.
Compliance assessment for financial institutions against the regulatory frameworks governing their operations and cybersecurity obligations.
Compliance assessment for healthcare organizations and their business associates against healthcare-specific cybersecurity and privacy regulations.
Compliance assessment for operators of critical infrastructure against sector-specific cybersecurity requirements and federal mandates.
Maturity assessment and gap analysis against leading security control frameworks used for internal governance and audit purposes.
Compliance assessment for cloud-native organizations and SaaS providers against cloud-specific security and compliance requirements.
Compliance assessment against emerging AI governance requirements for organizations deploying AI systems in regulated environments.
Data protection and privacy obligations have expanded dramatically — and the penalties for failure have grown to match. Our Data Protection & Privacy Assessment identifies what personal and sensitive data your organization holds, maps it against applicable privacy regulations, evaluates your current protection controls, and designs the program and processes needed to maintain ongoing compliance.
Systematic discovery and classification of personal, sensitive, and regulated data across on-premises, cloud, SaaS, and AI environments using Atlas-powered data flow analysis.
Analysis of applicable privacy regulations based on your data types, processing activities, and the jurisdictions where your organization operates or processes data about individuals.
Evaluation of technical and organizational controls protecting personal and sensitive data — including encryption, access controls, data minimization, and retention enforcement.
Assessment of your organization’s ability to fulfill data subject rights requests (access, erasure, portability, rectification) within regulatory timeframes across all data systems.
Assessment of personal data handled by AI agents, LLM applications, and autonomous systems — including training data, inference data, and data accessed via MCP tools.
Assessment of your organization’s privacy breach response procedures — including detection capability, notification obligation identification, and regulatory reporting readiness.
All three assessment disciplines follow a consistent, rigorous methodology — evidence-based, practitioner-led, and designed to produce findings that drive real decisions.
We begin by understanding your business context, regulatory environment, technology landscape, and the decisions this assessment needs to support. Scope is defined jointly — we don’t produce generic findings; we answer the specific questions your leadership team needs answered.
Our assessment team collects documentation, reviews configurations, interviews key personnel, and where applicable deploys the Nexus platform for automated evidence collection across identity, cloud, SaaS, endpoint, and AI systems. We test controls, not just document them.
Findings are developed from evidence, not assumption. Every gap identified is supported by specific evidence. Every risk quantified uses documented methodology. Every recommendation is tied to a specific finding with a clear rationale for priority.
We produce both a detailed technical report and a board-ready executive summary. Technical findings are presented to your security team. Strategic findings and investment recommendations are presented directly to your CISO, C-suite, and board as required — in language appropriate for each audience.
Assessment doesn’t end with report delivery. We work with your team to develop a realistic, prioritized remediation plan, validate that critical gaps are addressed, and provide follow-on advisory support as remediation proceeds. Findings from every assessment are also mapped to Nexus platform capabilities where applicable.
Security Assessments answer strategic and compliance questions. Exposure Management validates those answers technically — finding the vulnerabilities and attack paths that confirm or challenge assessment findings.
Our Security Assessment team delivers the strategic clarity, compliance assurance, and data protection guidance your leadership needs to make confident security decisions.
