Cyber Risk Management

Cyber Security Controls Assessment

Proactive identification of insecure architecture and controls, misconfigurations, technical vulnerabilities and errors.

A controls assessment is a comprehensive evaluation of the controls your organisation relies on — policies, procedures and technical controls — carried out to find where they are missing, misconfigured, or not functioning as intended across your IT infrastructure.

It combines manual and automated methods rather than relying on either alone: vulnerability scanning against your systems, penetration testing to confirm which weaknesses are genuinely exploitable.

Code review where source is in scope, and a read of the policies and procedures that sit behind the technical controls.

Each finding is tied to the control it belongs to. The result is not a list of issues but a statement about every control in scope — in place, partly in place, or absent — and what that means for the environment it protects.

When you need this

Controls assessment work usually begins with a date rather than a decision: an audit is scheduled, a tender needs a pre-qualification answer, or a regulator has asked for evidence that the controls you rely on exist and work as intended.

The Challenge

Identify gaps. Find where controls are missing, informally applied, or no longer effective in the environment they were meant to protect. Support compliance. Show, control by control, what you can actually evidence when compliance is reviewed.

The Solution

Inform investment decisions. Give security spend and strategy a factual picture of what is in place today, instead of an assumption about it. Set a baseline. Establish a starting point that later work can be measured against.

What you receive and how it runs

Findings recorded control by control

The output is structured so that it can be used by the people who review your controls, not only by the team that commissioned the work: what was tested, what was found, and which control the finding sits against.

The evidence behind each finding, kept in one register

So a finding can be checked rather than taken on trust.

A remediation sequence ordered by risk

So the work that closes the most exposure comes first instead of arriving as a flat list.

A summary that separates decisions from fixes

What needs an owner's judgement, and what needs a technician.

Scoping and evidence collection

Scoping. Agree the environment, the controls in question, and who holds the evidence for each of them. Evidence collection. Gather the policies, configurations and access needed to test the controls, working with the people who own them.

Assessment and findings review

Assessment. Manual and automated testing against the agreed scope, with interviews where a control's operation cannot be read from configuration alone. Findings review. Walk through what was found, correct anything that was misread, and agree the remediation order before the report is closed.

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