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An independent read on the controls your customers keep asking about
A vulnerability scan tells you what was open last Tuesday. It does not tell a customer, an insurer or a regulator whether you run patching, access control, logging and awareness training with any discipline. A cyber security assessment measures your controls against a recognised framework, evidences what is working, and hands you a prioritised roadmap for what is not.
You need Cyber Security if…
- !A customer’s security questionnaire has arrived with ninety questions, a deadline, and nobody who owns the answers.
- !Your cyber insurance renewal now asks for evidence of MFA, tested backups and endpoint detection before it will quote.
- !A contractor system needs approval before it is allowed to connect to a government or defence network.
- !The board asked for a security posture report and got a scan output nobody in the room could read.
- !An incident happened, and the internal review found controls that existed on paper only.
- !Procurement at a large account wants a third-party assessment, not another self-declaration on your letterhead.
A structured review of an organisation’s security controls - network, endpoint, identity, cloud, supplier and people - against a recognised control framework, producing a rated picture of current posture and a ranked list of what to fix first.
SIS performs the assessment and issues an assessment report and certificate of conformity. This is an assessment against a framework, not an accredited management-system certification like ISO/IEC 27001.
Findings describe posture on the assessment dates. Certificates are normally issued for one year, with reassessment as the estate and threat picture change.
Contractors connecting to customer networks, IT and telecom providers, banks, hospitals and public bodies asked to evidence posture rather than intentions.
Where this certification is demanded
Cyber Security is applicable across 5 of the 25 industries SIS covers. The pages below set out the specific reason it comes up in each one.
What Cyber Security Actually Requires
The backbone an implementer has to build, in the order it usually gets built.
A current list of systems, applications, cloud tenants, data stores and third-party connections. Assessment against a framework is meaningless if half the estate is missing.
Named accounts, multi-factor authentication on remote and privileged access, joiner-mover-leaver records, and evidence that dormant accounts actually get disabled rather than merely flagged.
Documented build standards, a patching cadence with dates you can show, and a way to prove that critical fixes reached servers, laptops and network devices.
Central log collection from key systems, retention long enough to investigate, alerting that reaches a human, and a record of what was done with each alert.
Backups isolated from the production domain, restore tests with results written down, and stated recovery time and recovery point targets the business has actually agreed.
A plan naming who decides, who notifies and who talks to customers, plus phishing simulation and training records for the staff who click.
How Cyber Security Assessment Works
No black box. A defined, time-bound route from first call to report and remediation roadmap.
Scoping & Framework Selection
We agree which entities, networks, cloud tenants and applications are in scope, and which control framework the assessment runs against, based on what your customers and regulators are asking for.
2–5 daysEvidence Collection
The access review is usually the one that stalls. Somebody has to prove dormant accounts were disabled, and the export shows leavers from two years ago still enabled.
1–3 weeksControl Testing & Interviews
Assessors validate evidence against reality - sample configurations, review privileged accounts, walk through a past incident with the team, and test whether written controls are actually operating.
1–2 weeks, remote and on siteReport, Roadmap & Certificate
Procurement reads the rating and stops there. The board reads the roadmap. The certificate of conformity is what goes into the vendor portal, and it carries the assessment dates.
Report in 1–2 weeks; annual reassessmentIndustries That Need Cyber Security
Commonly taken alongside
Not Sure Which Certification You Need?
Three questions. The selector reads the same industry-to-standard mapping this whole site is built on, then shortlists what applies to you.
Which sector best describes your organisation?
Your insurer and your biggest customer want different evidence
Which comes first - the insurance renewal, the customer questionnaire or the network connection you have been promised? The answer changes which framework we assess against, and what it costs.
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Certification is not a certificate on the wall. It is a working system that pays for itself.
Questionnaires answered once
One assessment report covers most of what customer security questionnaires ask, so sales stops rewriting the same twelve answers for every prospect.
Network connection approval
Defence, government and large enterprise customers often require a third-party assessment before a contractor system is allowed to connect to anything of theirs.
Better insurance terms
Underwriters price on evidence. A rated posture report with dated remediation usually gets a quote where a self-declaration gets a longer list of questions.
Spend aimed at exposure
Findings ranked by exposure and effort stop the security budget going to whatever the last vendor demonstrated, and give finance a defensible order of work.
A route to 27001
The control gaps found here are the ones that raise nonconformities at an ISO/IEC 27001 audit, so you learn the distance before committing to a certification programme.
Reporting the board reads
A rated posture with movement between assessments gives directors something to govern against instead of a list of unpatched machines.
Knowledge Base - Downloads
Practical documents prepared by our auditors. Fill the short form once and every download on the page unlocks.
Security questionnaire evidence pack checklist
The documents customers ask for most often, in the order assessors want them, with a note on what usually goes missing.
Choosing a control framework that fits
How recognised frameworks differ in scope and depth, and which one your customers are most likely to accept without argument.
Remediation roadmap and owner tracker
A working sheet for findings, exposure rating, owner, target date and retest evidence, structured the way boards ask to see it.
From assessment to ISO/IEC 27001 certification
What carries across from a framework assessment into a certification audit, and what still has to be built from scratch.
Frequently Asked Questions
Straight answers to what buyers ask before they commit to Cyber Security.
Is this the same as ISO/IEC 27001 certification?
How is this different from VAPT?
Which framework do you assess against?
How long does the certificate last?
Do we need to fix everything before you assess?
Can SIS also fix the gaps we find?
Get a defensible view of your posture
The scope conversation takes twenty minutes and decides most of the fee. After it you will know what evidence your team has to pull, and from whom.
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