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Better Security Assessment

It Starts With a Better Controls Assessment

Traditional assessments are slow, subjective, and disconnected from business realities.

The HQBE cloud platform changes that — delivering a controls assessment that is faster, clearer, business-aligned, and built for continuous improvement.

Better Measurement & Results

HQBE incorporates the business context, threat context, and metrics missing from today’s assessments and frameworks.
The result: a more relevant, business-focused picture of your security controls and how well they defend against the threats you face.

HQBE includes powerful analytics that let you view security posture through multiple lenses — technical, management, and executive — increasing visibility, buy-in, and support across the business.

The Assessment Experience

Your assessment begins like any standard controls assessment with a structured onboarding workshop.

But once onboarded, HQBE lets your team conduct assessments internally, eliminating dependency on consultants and dramatically reducing effort and cost.

Support Options That Fit Your Needs

You choose the level of support:

  • DIY: Run the assessment yourself using the HQBE platform

  • Guided: Get advice, validation, and expert review along the way

  • Full-Service: Our experts perform the complete assessment for you

What You Get

  • An executive-ready PowerPoint report communicating security strategy, control performance, value-for-spend, and budget/protection options

  • Detailed management reports for control owners and delivery teams

  • Optional access to your own dedicated HQBE cloud environment, enabling your team to:

    • Update and evolve the assessment over time

    • Run reports on demand

    • Analyze data and track progress at any scale

Challenges With Existing Assessments

  • Subjective maturity models and consultant interpretations create ambiguity

  • Snapshots in time quickly become outdated and lack analytics

  • Poor scalability — intrusive, expensive, and dependent on external resources

  • Too technical for executives, resulting in weak traction and delayed remediation

  • Compliance-heavy assessments pull focus away from real security priorities

Benefits of a Better Security Assessment

  • Business- and threat-informed metrics give you objective, consistent, data-driven performance measurement
  • Track progress with a centralized system-of-record and report anytime
  • Scales to any size — baked-in expertise reduces reliance on consultants
  • Communicate business implications and executive accountability for key risks
  • Stay focused on the strategic security plan, with compliance built in

Enhanced Core Security Controls

HQBE includes 38 built-in security controls based on CIS 20 plus 18 additional real-world controls that reflect the needs of modern cybersecurity programs.

Threat Context

HQBE embeds threat-actor sophistication models and MITRE D3FEND-aligned metrics for every control — helping you prioritize improvements based on real-world attack techniques and the threats most relevant to your organization.

Embedded Frameworks

HQBE includes alignment with major frameworks:

  • NIST CSF

  • ISO 27001

  • CIS

  • Cyber Essentials

  • PCI

HQBE’s meta-framework allows assessment against any framework at any point in time.

Assessments & Analytics

HQBE’s analytics suite helps you evaluate and optimize:

  • Budget and resource allocation

  • Control deployment

  • Security roadmap planning

It becomes your decision engine for prioritizing security improvements.

SLAs & Blueprints

Use HQBE metrics to:

  • Define SLAs for vendors and remote teams

  • Guide solution design and SecOps build requirements

  • Justify resourcing and budget with defensible evidence

Multiple Outcome Lenses

HQBE’s built-in data modeling lets you view assessment results through multiple perspectives:

  • Ransomware exposure

  • Framework compliance

  • Business unit maturity

  • Resource efficiency

  • Control performance

This supports requests from any internal or external stakeholder.

Expertise Behind the Platform

HQBE is built on the experience of assessing and advising hundreds of organizations, informing national cybersecurity strategy, and leading programs across SMEs and the Global 500.

This is more than a better assessment. It’s the new standard for measuring, managing, and improving cybersecurity.

Have questions or want to see HQBE in action?

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Communicate with the C-Suite in Business Terms

Translate the jargon of ‘doing security’ into real-world protection and cyber risk exposure narratives that actually resonate with Executives.

Model Protection Outcomes

Enable Executives to choose 'what good looks like' to them so they can easily show fiduciary duty and defend the opportunity cost of the security budget.

Correlate Budgets to Outcomes

To ensure the CISO isn't liable for cyber risk they weren't funded to effectively handle.

Guide, Track, and Optimize Delivery

With a comprehensive suite of metrics, assessments, and analytics tools; and centralize the visibility and accountability of security deliverables and assets.