CISO Comprehensive Security Assessment
Holistic evaluation of your organization's entire security program across all critical domains. This efficient, structured assessment provides CISOs and security leaders with a complete diagnostic of security capabilities, maturity gaps, and prioritized improvement opportunities. Our comprehensive approach delivers actionable insights across governance, technical controls, and operational security to inform strategic decision-making and resource allocation.
In scope
- Security program governance assessment
- Security architecture evaluation
- Cloud security posture review
- Identity and access management analysis
- Application security program assessment
- Data protection controls review
- Network security evaluation
- Vulnerability management program assessment
- Security operations and incident response review
- Third-party risk management assessment
- Security awareness program evaluation
- Compliance posture analysis
- Emerging technology risk assessment
- Security metrics and reporting review
You receive
- Comprehensive security posture report
- Security program maturity scoring
- Domain-by-domain gap analysis
- Risk-prioritized recommendation roadmap
- Security investment guidance
- Executive presentation with findings
- Implementation timeline and resource requirements
- Benchmark comparison to industry peers
- Security metrics dashboard
- Detailed technical findings appendix
Tiers
Choose the depth.
Standard Enterprise Assessment
$65K
Security programme assessment across all 14 domains for up to 500 employees, up to 3 locations and up to 3 cloud accounts. Based on up to 15 stakeholder interviews and document review; maturity scoring, gap analysis, prioritised roadmap and 1 executive readout.
- employees
- 500
- Sites
- 3
- cloud accounts
- 3
- sessions
- 1
- All 14 programme domains assessed
- Up to 15 stakeholder interviews
- Maturity scoring and domain gap analysis
- Risk-prioritised roadmap
- 1 executive readout
- — Hands-on configuration review of cloud, identity and network controls
- — Penetration testing or vulnerability scanning
- — Peer benchmark comparison
- — Board presentation and executive workshops
Advanced Enterprise Assessment
$95K
All 14 domains for up to 2,500 employees, up to 10 locations and up to 10 cloud accounts. Adds hands-on configuration review of cloud, identity and network controls, up to 30 interviews, a technical findings appendix, peer benchmark and remediation guidance per finding.
- employees
- 2500
- Sites
- 10
- cloud accounts
- 10
- sessions
- 2
- Up to 30 stakeholder interviews
- Configuration review of cloud, identity and network controls
- Detailed technical findings appendix
- Peer benchmark comparison
- Remediation guidance with resource estimates
- 2 readouts (technical and executive)
- — Penetration testing
- — Board-level presentation
- — Executive workshops
- — Multi-year investment plan
Executive Security Program Assessment
$150K
No fixed headcount or location cap; scoped for multi-entity or multi-region enterprises. Everything in Advanced plus a board-level presentation, up to 4 executive workshops, a multi-year strategic roadmap with investment guidance and a security metrics dashboard design.
- sessions
- 4
- Scope set at kickoff, no fixed size cap
- Board-level presentation
- Up to 4 executive workshops
- Multi-year roadmap with investment guidance
- Detailed peer benchmarking
- Security metrics dashboard design
- — Penetration testing
- — Implementation of roadmap items
- — Ongoing vCISO support after delivery
Members: engagement coupons from the CISO Marketplace coupon book apply to services. There is no blanket discount.
What's inside this engagement
Phase by phase.
How a advisory & fractional leadership engagement runs, what happens in each phase and what you see. Exact scope, tier and timeline are fixed in your proposal and SOW.
01Onboarding & baseline
Current program, risks, commitments and stakeholders reviewed.
You see · Access to leadership and existing documents.
02Priorities & roadmap
A risk-ranked roadmap agreed with leadership.
You see · Decisions on priorities and budget.
03Ongoing cadence
Regular working sessions, decisions and deliverables to the agreed scope.
You see · A named advisor and a standing rhythm.
04Reporting to leadership
Board and executive reporting in business terms.
You see · Board-ready updates.
Commercials
From first call to final report.
- 01
Scoping call
A practitioner, not a salesperson, walks through targets, constraints and what a good outcome looks like for you.
- 02
Proposal & rules of engagement
A fixed-scope proposal with tier, price and deliverables. Rules of engagement, contacts and out-of-bounds systems are agreed in writing.
- 03
Sign, then start
MSA and SOW are signed electronically and the deposit is paid. Only then does testing begin.
- 04
Execution
Testing runs to the agreed plan. Critical findings are escalated as they are found; you don't wait for the report.
- 05
Report & debrief
An executive summary plus technical findings with evidence, reproduction steps and fixes, walked through with your team.
- 06
Retest
Where the tier includes it, we verify your fixes and reissue the report, so auditors and customers see the issues closed.
Timelines are set per engagement in the SOW.
Related
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Assess and govern non-human identities — secrets, API keys, service accounts, workload identities, and AI agent identities — covering issuance, rotation, least-privilege, and lifecycle.
Zero Trust Security Assessment
Comprehensive evaluation of your organization's zero trust architecture implementation, examining identity verification, network segmentation, and access controls. Our assessment identifies gaps in your zero trust strategy and provides a roadmap for enhancing security beyond traditional perimeter-based approaches.
Phase 0 — Enterprise AI Risk Assessment
The six pillars of the AI security program are not sold off a shelf — they are built into your ecosystem, and that requires knowing the ecosystem first. Phase 0 is a scoped, fixed-fee assessment that maps your environment end to end: every AI system in use (sanctioned and shadow), the DevSecOps reality, the data and identity stack, the SIEM / EDR / tooling landscape, and where testing should start. It defines how each pillar gets built for you (BYOK and open-source first, commercial upgrades where they earn their place), designs the integration seams into what you already run, and plans the deployment topology for distributed sites. The output is the current-state map, the future-state design and a sequenced build plan — and only then does the program get a number. CISO Marketplace members get the Phase 0 fee credited toward the program if they proceed.
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