A cybersecurity assessment is a structured evaluation of your systems, applications and security controls that finds exploitable weaknesses before attackers do, then shows you how to fix them, ranked by real business risk. IrisInfosec delivers it across three disciplines, executed by certified testers and mapped to the standards your auditors already recognise.
Compliance audits tell you whether a control exists. An assessment tells you whether it actually holds when someone competent attacks it. That gap is where incidents happen, and it is the gap a real-world test is built to close.
You commission an assessment when the cost of being wrong is high: before a product launch, ahead of a SOC 2 or ISO audits, after a near miss, when a customer security questionnaire lands, or when your cyber insurer asks for proof of testing. The output is not a list of theory. It is a ranked set of issues, each with evidence, business impact, and a fix your engineers can action this sprint.
A cybersecurity assessment
is a structured, evidence-based test of your systems and controls that surfaces exploitable weaknesses, proves their real impact, and hands you a prioritised plan to remediate them, mapped to the frameworks your customers and regulators expect.
THREE DISCIPLINES, ONE TEAM
Choose a single engagement or combine all three into a continuous testing programme.
Each links to a dedicated page with full scope, methodology and deliverables.
Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing across web, API, mobile, network, cloud, thick-client and ICS or OT. Breadth scanning plus manual exploitation that proves real impact.
Red, blue and purple team engagements, social engineering and physical intrusion. Full adversary emulation that tests detection and response, not just the perimeter.
Threat modelling, zero trust design, secure SDLC and control hardening. Fix the design flaws that create findings in the first place, before they reach production.
Standards & frameworks
We do not invent a private methodology and ask you to take it on faith. Engagements follow published standards, and findings are framed, so they map straight into your audit evidence.
Audit-ready output. Findings reference the relevant ISO 27001 Annex A control, SOC 2 criterion or PCI DSS requirement.
Repeatable method. PTES, OSSTMM and NIST SP 800-115 keep results consistent across engagements and testers.
Attacker-aligned. Techniques and reporting use MITRE ATT&CK so your defenders can act on the same language.
| Framework | How we use it | |
|---|---|---|
| OWASP Top 10 & ASVS | Web and API testing coverage and verification depth | |
| MITRE ATT&CK | Adversary technique mapping and detection validation | |
| PTES | End-to-end penetration testing execution method | |
| NIST SP 800-115 | Technical testing and assessment baseline | |
| OSSTMM | Operational security measurement and rigour | |
| ISO 27001 / SOC 2 / PCI DSS | Mapping findings to your audit and contract evidence |
How it works
A repeatable six-stage method built on PTES and NIST SP 800-115, adapted to your scope and
risk tolerance. You always know what is happening and why.
We agree targets, depth, test windows, data handling and emergency contacts in writing. No surprises, no scope creep, full authorisation on record.
Recon and enumeration build a live map of your attack surface: assets, entry points, technologies and trust relationships an attacker would chain.
Automated scanning for breadth, then manual exploitation for depth. We safely prove what a real adversary could reach, escalate and exfiltrate.
Every finding is validated to remove false positives, scored with CVSS and business context, and placed in a clear order of what to fix first.
You get an executive summary for the board and a technical report for engineers, plus a live readout call so nothing gets lost in translation.
Once fixes land, we re-test the affected findings and issue an updated report and attestation you can share with auditors and customers.
What you receive
No 200-page PDF dump. Every engagement produces a tight set of artefacts built for two
audiences: the people who fix the issues and the people who answer for them.
A board-ready narrative of risk posture, top exposures and the business impact, free of jargon and ready to forward.
Each issue with reproduction steps, evidence, CVSS score, affected assets and a specific, testable remediation.
A prioritised fix list ordered by exploitability and impact, so your team starts with what actually reduces risk fastest.
A working session where our testers walk your engineers through findings, answer questions and pressure-test fix ideas.
We verify your fixes and reissue the report, so a closed finding is provably closed, not just marked done.
A signed summary of scope and outcomes you can share with customers, partners and your cyber insurer.
Ready when you are
Tell us what is changing in your environment and what you are accountable for. We will scope the right assessment and give you a fixed quote, usually within two business days.
Why teams choose Iris
You get the discipline of a top-tier firm without the layers, the bench rotation or the price tag,
led by people whose names are on the report.
Automated tools find the obvious. Our testers find the business-logic flaws and chained paths a scanner never sees, then prove them.
The people who scope your work are the people who test it and brief you. No handoffs to a junior pool you never meet.
Founded by a global tech lawyer, Iris frames technical risk in the language of the regulations and contracts you answer to.
Teams across the EU, US and India give you follow-the-sun coverage and the option to keep data in-region when you need to.
Findings come with remediation your engineers can implement, not generic advice to patch and harden. Specific beats vague.
Closing the loop is part of the engagement, not an upsell. A fix is only done when we have confirmed it holds.
Questions, answered