Better Security Assessment

Establish where you stand. Make the case for what comes next.

You have security controls, assessments, reports and improvement plans. But can you clearly explain how well they protect your organisation, where the biggest limitations are, and what additional investment would achieve?

The Cyberseconomics Better Security Assessment uses our Better Assurance Platform to assess your cybersecurity capabilities, analyse protection and delivery gaps, compare improvement options and develop a practical plan.

The result is a clearer picture of where you stand and what to do next.

Does this sound familiar?

  • Your security assessments produce findings and maturity scores, but don’t clearly explain how protected you are.
  • You know improvements are needed, but struggle to show which ones matter most.
  • Executives want to understand what the cybersecurity budget buys and whether more investment is justified.
  • Your teams are stretched, and you need to focus available resources on the most important improvements.
  • You need an assessment and plan that security management and business leadership can both understand and use.

What the Assessment does

Establish your protection position

Evaluate the security capabilities, deployment coverage and supporting evidence relevant to your organisation and its threats.

Identify meaningful gaps

Understand where protection is limited by missing capabilities, incomplete coverage, operational weaknesses or resource constraints.

Compare improvement and investment options

Examine what different priorities, capabilities and funding choices could change, including the costs and trade-offs involved.

Establish a practical way forward

Identify the improvements that matter, the resources required and a defensible plan for progressing toward agreed protection expectations.

What you receive

Executive-ready assessment report

A clear explanation of your current position, protection limitations, improvement options and investment considerations.

Detailed management findings

Supporting information for the security team, including control findings, resource constraints, priorities and recommended actions.

Prioritised improvement plan

A practical roadmap setting out what should improve, why it matters, and the resources and investment required.

Better-informed decisions

A common basis for conversations between the CISO, executives and board about current protection, expectations, budget and accountability.

How the Assessment works

Step 1

Establish your context

Understand the business, its environments, relevant threats, existing cybersecurity programme and key management questions.

Step 2

Assess and analyse

Use the Better Assurance Platform to capture and evaluate capabilities, coverage, resources and supporting evidence.

Step 3

Model improvement options

Examine gaps, prioritise improvements and compare potential protection and investment outcomes.

Step 4

Report and agree next steps

Present the findings, explain the options and support a practical discussion of priorities, expectations and funding.

Powered by the Better Assurance Platform

The Better Security Assessment uses the same underlying technology that organisations can adopt to manage cybersecurity on an ongoing basis.

The Assessment provides a defined, point-in-time view. The Platform provides the ongoing capability to reassess, model, manage and report as circumstances change.

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Let’s discuss your priorities

Whether you need a clearer view of current protection, an investment case for the board, or a practical improvement plan, we can discuss the scope and deliverables that would be most useful.

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