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Cyber Security Review Services

Cyber Security Review Services help organizations identify, assess, and mitigate vulnerabilities in their IT systems and infrastructure. By proactively reviewing the control environment, organisations can address weaknesses before they are exploited.

Overview

Cyber risk is frequently reported to boards as a technical status update, which makes it almost impossible for directors to exercise judgement over it. The useful question is not how many patches are outstanding, but which business services would stop, for how long, and what would have to be true for that to happen.

Our reviews are control-focused and business-framed. We assess the security control environment against a recognised framework, test the controls that matter most, and report in terms the audit committee can act on. Where deep technical testing is required, we scope it precisely rather than commissioning a generic scan.

What this covers

  • 01

    Cyber security maturity assessment

    Assessment against NIST CSF, ISO 27001 or CIS Controls, with a maturity rating by domain and a prioritised improvement roadmap.

  • 02

    IT general controls review

    Access management, change management, backup and operations controls over the systems that underpin financial reporting and critical services.

  • 03

    Identity and access review

    Privileged access, joiner-mover-leaver effectiveness, segregation of duties conflicts and orphaned account analysis.

  • 04

    Third-party and cloud risk

    Security assurance over vendors and cloud services, including shared-responsibility boundaries and the contractual right to audit.

  • 05

    Incident response readiness

    Review and exercising of incident response capability, including escalation, forensic readiness and regulatory notification obligations.

  • 06

    Data protection and privacy controls

    Data classification, retention, cross-border transfer and the control set required by applicable data protection law.

How we can help

What a full engagement typically produces. Scope is agreed up front and adjusted to what your organisation actually needs.

  • Cyber security maturity assessment report
  • Control gap analysis against the chosen framework
  • ITGC testing results
  • Privileged and user access review findings
  • Third-party and cloud risk assessment
  • Incident response readiness report
  • Prioritised remediation roadmap
  • Board-level cyber risk briefing

Standards and frameworks

Work is delivered against recognised standards so that findings are defensible to your auditors, your board and your regulator.

NIST Cybersecurity FrameworkISO/IEC 27001 and 27002CIS Critical Security ControlsCOBITNCSA National Information Assurance (NIA) StandardNational Information Security Compliance Framework (NISCF)Qatar Personal Data Privacy Protection Law

Questions we get asked

Is this penetration testing?
No. Penetration testing answers whether a specific system can be broken into at a point in time. A control review answers whether the organisation is capable of preventing, detecting and recovering from attack on an ongoing basis. They are complementary, and we will tell you which one your question actually needs.
Do you review OT and industrial systems?
We assess the governance, access and change control layers around operational technology and its segregation from corporate networks. Deep protocol-level OT testing is specialist work we would scope with a partner.

Talk to us about cyber security review services.

Tell us what you are trying to resolve. We will tell you honestly whether we are the right firm for it.