SMB Comprehensive Security Assessment
Practical and efficient security evaluation designed specifically for small and medium-sized businesses. This streamlined assessment focuses on essential security controls, cloud security, and practical recommendations that can be implemented with limited resources. Our SMB-focused approach delivers actionable security guidance without requiring enterprise-scale security teams or budgets.
In scope
- Essential security controls assessment
- Cloud security configuration review
- Identity and access management evaluation
- Data protection practices assessment
- Network security fundamentals review
- Endpoint protection assessment
- Business email security evaluation
- Backup and recovery assessment
- Basic incident response readiness
- Vendor security review
- Security awareness evaluation
- Regulatory compliance fundamentals
You receive
- SMB security assessment report
- Prioritized security recommendations
- Implementation roadmap with timeframes
- Security quick-wins list
- Cloud security checklist
- Essential security policy templates
- Vendor security questionnaire template
- Incident response plan template
- Security awareness materials
- Executive summary with clear next steps
Tiers
Choose the depth.
Essential SMB Security Review
$25K
Assessment of the 12 core control areas for a business of up to 50 employees, 1 location and 1 cloud environment. Interviews, configuration checks of email, identity, endpoints and backup; no compliance mapping.
- employees
- 50
- Sites
- 1
- cloud accounts
- 1
- Up to 50 employees, 1 location
- 1 cloud/productivity environment reviewed
- Email, identity, endpoint and backup checks
- Quick-wins list and roadmap
- Policy and IR plan templates
- — Compliance mapping to a framework
- — Custom application review
- — Penetration testing
- — Additional locations
Standard SMB Security Assessment
$35K
Assessment of the 12 control areas for up to 100 employees, up to 3 locations and up to 2 cloud environments, adding mapping to 1 compliance framework and review of up to 5 key vendors.
- employees
- 100
- Sites
- 3
- cloud accounts
- 2
- frameworks
- 1
- vendors
- 5
- Up to 100 employees, up to 3 locations
- Up to 2 cloud environments
- Gap mapping to 1 compliance framework
- Security review of up to 5 key vendors
- Roadmap with timeframes
- — Custom application review
- — On-prem/hybrid infrastructure deep-dive
- — Penetration testing
Advanced SMB Security Program
$45K
Assessment for up to 250 employees, up to 5 locations and up to 3 cloud environments with hybrid on-prem infrastructure, adding a design-level review of 1 custom application, mapping to up to 2 frameworks and up to 10 vendors.
- employees
- 250
- Sites
- 5
- cloud accounts
- 3
- frameworks
- 2
- vendors
- 10
- web apps
- 1
- Up to 250 employees, up to 5 locations
- Hybrid on-prem and up to 3 cloud environments
- Design-level review of 1 custom application
- Gap mapping to up to 2 frameworks
- Security review of up to 10 vendors
- — Penetration testing
- — Remediation implementation
- — Organizations over 250 employees (use an enterprise assessment)
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What's inside this engagement
Phase by phase.
How a cloud & identity assessment engagement runs, what happens in each phase and what you see. Exact scope, tier and timeline are fixed in your proposal and SOW.
01Scoping & read-only access
Accounts, subscriptions and tenants in scope, with read-only audit roles set up.
You see · Read-only access for the assessment.
02Configuration & identity review
IAM, network exposure, logging, encryption and workload configuration against CIS benchmarks and provider best practice.
You see · Nothing further.
03Attack-path analysis
Misconfigurations chained into realistic paths to sensitive data or admin control.
You see · The paths that matter, not just a list.
04Reporting & remediation plan
Prioritized findings with the exact configuration change, plus quick wins.
You see · A fix plan your platform team can run.
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.
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