Process
A Clear, Practical Assessment Process
Every engagement follows a structured approach designed to minimize disruption, produce actionable findings, and support your team through remediation.
Define the Scope
Identify what will be assessed, agree on boundaries, and establish written authorization.
Before any testing begins, we work with you to define exactly what is included in the assessment — applications, infrastructure, environments, data types, and any specific concerns you want addressed.
Testing occurs only within the agreed scope and only with written authorization. We will never test systems, accounts, or environments that are not explicitly included.
We also discuss testing constraints at this stage — production vs. staging environments, acceptable testing windows, rate limits, and any systems that should be excluded to avoid disruption.
Outputs from this step
- —Defined scope document
- —Written authorization
- —Testing constraints and schedule
Assess the Environment
Review approved applications, infrastructure, configurations, and access controls using technical testing and manual analysis.
Assessment work is performed within the agreed scope using a combination of manual testing, technical analysis, and configuration review. The specific methods depend on the assessment type and scope.
For application assessments, this includes reviewing authentication flows, authorization logic, input handling, API endpoints, session management, and other controls relevant to the application.
For infrastructure and cloud reviews, this includes examining network exposure, cloud configuration, access controls, credential storage, logging practices, and administrative access.
For compliance readiness reviews, this includes evaluating existing controls, policies, documentation, and practices against the relevant framework requirements.
Outputs from this step
- —Technical testing within agreed scope
- —Manual analysis and configuration review
- —Evidence collection for findings
Deliver the Findings
Provide a written report with prioritized findings, evidence, business impact, and remediation guidance.
Findings are delivered in a written report that includes an executive summary, prioritized vulnerability list, evidence and reproduction steps, business impact analysis, risk ratings, and remediation recommendations.
The report is written to be useful to both technical and non-technical readers. The executive summary explains the overall risk posture and most important actions. Technical sections provide the detail needed to reproduce and fix each finding.
Findings are prioritized by severity and business impact — not just by CVSS score. We focus on what matters most for your specific environment and risk profile.
Outputs from this step
- —Executive summary
- —Prioritized findings with evidence
- —Business impact and risk ratings
- —Remediation recommendations
Support Remediation
Review results together, answer technical questions, and optionally validate that fixes have been applied correctly.
After the report is delivered, we schedule a review session to walk through the findings, answer questions, and discuss remediation priorities and approaches.
We are available to answer technical questions as your team works through remediation — clarifying findings, discussing fix approaches, or reviewing proposed solutions.
Optional follow-up validation testing is available to confirm that critical findings have been addressed correctly before the fixes are considered complete.
Outputs from this step
- —Findings review session
- —Technical Q&A support
- —Optional follow-up validation testing
Deliverables
What Every Report Includes
Ready to Get Started?
Describe your application, environment, or security concerns and we will discuss an appropriate scope.