Identifying and prioritising risk puts you in the driver’s seat, and risk-based controls put resources where they are needed most. The third part of a successful cyber strategy is verification.
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Controls must be verified to confirm they are effective and resilient, and that they keep delivering as your risks change.
Without frequent verification, controls that worked in the past can end up offering little more than a false sense of security.
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For more than 25 years we have provided penetration testing for corporate and government organisations. Our testers do more than test: they build AWS-hosted services and IAM systems, have system hardening skills, and rotate through EDR and SIEM analyst roles.
That experience means practical, prioritised strategies that are reasonable to implement.
Phishing remains the most common form of social engineering, but attackers increasingly diversify their methods to get past technical safeguards.
Social engineering tests verify your awareness training and reporting controls, and support ISO/IEC 27001 (A.6.3), PCI DSS (12.6) and the ISM’s user education controls.
A capability maturity assessment measures how well your security processes and controls are designed, managed and improved over time, and builds a roadmap for improvement.
Assessments usually reference the CIS Controls v8.1, ISO/IEC 27002:2022 and the Australian Privacy Principles, with the NIST CSF or the Essential Eight where useful.
A tabletop exercise (TTX) is an interactive simulation that tests your incident response plan, capabilities and processes in a safe, controlled environment.
It shows where detection, containment and response need work, without the disruption and cost of an adversary emulation test.
Effective cyber security is a cycle: identify and prioritise your risks, apply controls that address them, then verify the controls work, and repeat as your risks change. See all our governance, risk and compliance services.
Want evidence that your controls work? We will scope testing and assessment around your risks and obligations.
Verification feeds back into risk prioritisation, so each cycle starts from better information.
