Every engagement begins here. We map your environment, identify risks, and establish a clear baseline so every recommendation is grounded in reality — not assumptions.
Start the ConversationYou can't protect what you don't understand. The Assess phase is about gaining deep visibility into your current security posture — your assets, configurations, policies, people, and processes. We combine automated discovery with hands-on expert analysis to build a complete picture of where you stand. This isn't a checkbox exercise: we look for the gaps that real attackers would find, and we contextualize every finding against your specific business and threat landscape. The output is a clear, honest assessment that tells you exactly what's working, what's not, and what matters most.
What this phase looks like depends on the engagement. Here's how we approach it across our services.
We perform comprehensive asset discovery and attack surface mapping across your infrastructure, applications, and cloud environments. This includes external and internal vulnerability scanning, manual validation of findings to eliminate false positives, configuration and policy review, and threat intelligence gathering specific to your operational context. We identify not just what's vulnerable, but how an attacker would realistically chain those weaknesses together.
We conduct a gap analysis against your target compliance framework — whether that's SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, CMMC, or others. This includes a full inventory of your existing policies, procedures, and controls, mapped against framework requirements to identify exactly where you meet, partially meet, or fall short of each control. We also assess your evidence collection readiness and audit preparedness.
Assessment begins with reconnaissance and scoping. We gather OSINT, map your external footprint, identify target systems, and define rules of engagement. For red team operations, this phase includes building adversary profiles based on threat actors relevant to your environment and developing custom attack plans. We identify the highest-value targets and most likely attack paths before testing begins.
We document your current network topology, map traffic flows, and audit every firewall rule, ACL, and security group. This includes identifying flat network segments, overly permissive rules, legacy configurations, and misaligned access controls. We also assess wireless security, DNS/DHCP configurations, and cloud networking posture across all environments.
We begin with a security program maturity assessment — evaluating your current capabilities, policies, team structure, vendor relationships, and risk posture. This includes stakeholder interviews with leadership, IT, and business unit owners to understand security's role in your organization and identify the gaps between where you are and where you need to be.
We baseline your organization's security awareness maturity through phishing susceptibility testing, skills gap analysis, and interviews with team leads. For technical training, we assess current skill levels and identify the highest-impact areas for upskilling. For mentorship programs, we evaluate each participant's background and goals to build a personalized development plan.