Offering 01

Security Program Assessment

Harder to rob, more from what you pay for, and proof your broker can read.

Length

About 5 weeks

Fee

Fixed, quoted after your free Exposure Scan

Ends with

Evidence a broker can read

Is this for you?

01

Your cyber insurance renews soon and you're not sure how to answer the questionnaire.

02

Someone almost paid a fake invoice, or a mailbox got taken over.

03

A customer, general contractor or bank wants proof you take security seriously.

04

You pay for backups, but nobody has ever tried a restore.

What it is

A fixed-fee engagement, about five weeks. We look at how your business actually runs, from email and logins to how bills get paid, and rank what's most likely to cost you money. Then we prove the riskiest gaps on your own systems: a timed restore, a payment-change callback, a one-hour practice drill. Along the way, we match your monthly bills to what you actually use.

What it isn't

It's not a penetration test. Nobody tries to break in. It's not a tool sale: we don't resell software or take a cut of licenses, so we make nothing when you buy something. And it doesn't replace your IT provider. We work beside them, in the systems they already run.

What happens after

The assessment builds the plan and proves it. The program runs it. Three quarterly reviews and an insurance prep call before your renewal are included. If you want help with the fixes, that's a separate fixed-scope project, and your assessment fee is credited toward it.

Six phases, three gates, five weeks

Phase 04 is where the risk stops being a theory. Nothing changes in your systems until you sign off at a gate.

Gate 1
Gate 2
Gate 3
Phase · 04 · Weeks 3–4

Prove

What happens

A timed restore test with your IT or backup vendor, an invoice-change callback walkthrough, and a 60-minute incident tabletop.

What you do

60 minutes for the tabletop, and your backup vendor on the call for the restore.

What you walk away with

A dated restore result, a tested payment-change rule, and an incident card your office can follow.

Gate 3 · you sign off

The restore succeeds inside the time we agreed, or you get a clear fix list for why it didn't.

Where the engagement lands
Phase 06 · ReadoutStep 01 · Plan
Read the engagement as a list
  1. Qualify & scope — Week 0 — then gate 1 · you sign off: Signed statement of work, named sponsor, read-only admin consent.
  2. Discover — Weeks 1–2
  3. Score & prioritize — Week 2 — then gate 2 · you sign off: You agree the top fixes and their order.
  4. Prove — Weeks 3–4 — then gate 3 · you sign off: The restore succeeds inside the time we agreed, or you get a clear fix list for why it didn't.
  5. Evidence & roadmap — Weeks 4–5
  6. Readout — Week 5
  7. The engagement joins the program at step 01, Plan.

Security Program Assessment

01Plan
02Put in place
03Adopt
04Run
05Review
06Integrate
01
OF 06

The readout is the first plan. From there the program keeps turning: put in place, adopt, run, review, integrate — and your three quarterly reviews happen at Review.

What you walk away with

All of it stored in your own account. These are drawn samples with placeholder values, not screenshots of a real client.

Evidence packSample
MFA export[VALUE?]
Admin list[VALUE?]
Restore result[TIME?]
Inventory snapshot[DATE?]
Incident response card1 page
Change logstarted

Evidence pack

In your account, not ours. Dated, and readable by a broker.

30/60/90 fix planSample
30 days · modest
[FIX?] · owner [NAME?] · covered by current spend
60 days · mid
[FIX?] · owner [NAME?]
90 days · premium
[FIX?] · owner [NAME?]

30/60/90 fix plan

Modest, mid and premium. Each step has an owner and a date, starting with what you already pay for.

Spend summarySample
[TOOL?] switched off[AMOUNT?]
[TOOL?] duplicate[AMOUNT?]
[TOOL?] unused seats[AMOUNT?]
[TOOL?] keep[AMOUNT?]
Per month[AMOUNT?]

One-page spend summary

What you pay, what's unused or duplicated, what can be switched on or cancelled.

Owner readoutSample
Before
[STATE?]
After
[STATE?]
Provenrestore in [TIME?] · callback rule tested
Left[COUNT?] items, dated

Owner readout

Before and after, what was proven, what's left. Broker invited if you want.

No internal score appears on any deliverable. Controls are scored behind the scenes; you see plain words, ranked fixes and dated proof.

What we need from you

Owner time: about 1 hour a week, plus 2 hours of overhead. About 7 hours over the five weeks.

We never ask for passwords.

Read-only access, granted by your admin, time-boxed and removed at readout unless you keep us on.

  • A sponsorA decision-maker who can agree the plan.
  • An adminSomeone who can grant read-only access.
  • 3–5 peopleShort interviews: you, the office manager, whoever pays the bills, a field lead, your IT provider contact.
  • The billsYour monthly technology bills.
  • Your vendorYour IT provider or backup vendor, for the restore test.
  • 60 minutesFor the incident tabletop.

Your bill, annotated

Every engagement reads your monthly technology bills and tags each line. We make no money when you buy a tool, so the first place we look for budget is the money you already spend.

Amounts and tool names here are placeholders. This is the shape of the one-page spend summary, drawn, not a real client’s bill.

Monthly technology spendSample
[TOOL? productivity suite]switched off[AMOUNT?]
[TOOL? second backup product]duplicate[AMOUNT?]
[TOOL? field service app]unused seats[AMOUNT?]
[TOOL? accounting]keep[AMOUNT?]
What this bill already covers[AMOUNT?]
We don’t
  • Resell software.
  • Take a margin on licenses.
  • Replace your IT provider.
  • Ask for passwords.
We do
  • Write the requirement and let you choose the product.
  • Work read-only first.
  • Leave the evidence in your account.
  • Put a named retainer partner in writing for 2am.
Price

Fixed fee, quoted after your free Exposure Scan


  • +Includes 3 quarterly reviews and an insurance prep call, timed to your renewal date.
  • +Your assessment fee is credited toward remediation.
What affects your quote
  • How many people work there.
  • How many locations.
  • How many systems are in scope.

Why there's no price on this page yet

The number depends on how many people, places and systems are in scope, and we don't know that before the scan. So the scan is free and the fee is fixed once we do.

What it replaces: buying a tool, setting it up once, and finding out at renewal — or after an incident — that nobody kept it current.

Your first year

The engagement, then the reviews that are already included.

  1. Weeks 1–5Engagement≈5 weeks, fixed fee
  2. IncludedQuarterly review
  3. IncludedQuarterly review
  4. IncludedQuarterly review
  5. Timed to your renewal dateInsurance prep callThe renewal month you give us on the scan form schedules it.

Vertical on mobile, same order. The renewal month you give us on the scan form is what schedules the last one.

After the engagement, if you want it

Sold now, started only when you say so. The assessment stands on its own.

Next, optional

Remediation project

Fixed scope, drawn straight from the 30/60/90 plan you signed.

Then, optional

Ongoing operation

Evidence refresh, annual review and restore test, admin and connected-app watch.

The money

Your fee credits forward

The assessment fee is credited toward remediation.

Thinking about AI as well? Security comes first — here's why →

Questions owners ask

Is this a penetration test?

No. A penetration test pays someone to break in. We check how your business runs day to day, then test what matters most: can you restore, can a fake invoice get paid, does your team know who to call.

Will my IT provider be replaced?

No. We work beside them. They keep your computers running; we own the plan and the proof. We'll ask them to help with the restore test, and we never recommend a second copy of something they already run well.

Will this get me cyber insurance?

We can't promise coverage or a price. Only your insurer decides that. What you get is evidence your broker can read, an insurance prep call before renewal, and clear answers for the questionnaire.

Do I have to buy new tools?

Usually not. Your fix plan starts with what you already pay for. If something new is needed, we write the requirement and you pick the product. We don't resell software, so we make nothing either way.

What do you need from my crew?

About seven hours of your time over five weeks. Short interviews with three to five people, your monthly technology bills, an admin to grant read-only access, and a one-hour practice drill. Never passwords.

Who do I call at 2am?

Not us. We're not an emergency response team. Part of the engagement is naming who you call, in writing, and putting it on an incident card your team keeps.

Free · one front door

Start with a free Exposure Scan

Start with the free Exposure Scan. Answer plain questions online and see where you stand right away, or book a 20-minute call. No email needed to see results.

Way in · 01

Answer online now

About a dozen plain questions, one per screen. You see your result per area as Ready, Close or Gap. No email needed.

Way in · 02

Book a 20-minute call

Skip the questions and talk it through instead. We’ll set a time around your jobs.

Book the call
  • Either way, we run the outside checks before the call: domain email authentication, and services open to the internet.
  • We never ask for passwords, and nothing changes in your systems.

Book your 20-minute call

We’ll reply to set a time.

What do you already use? Pick any.

We use this only to schedule your scan. No newsletter. Privacy