Compliance checkboxes don't stop breaches — but the frameworks behind them encode decades of hard-won lessons. Our assessments tell you where you actually stand against the standards your industry, your customers, and your regulators expect. Then they tell you what to fix first.
Every assessment is led by a senior practitioner with direct experience implementing the controls — not just documenting them. Below are the engagements clients ask for most.
The NIST Cybersecurity Framework is the most widely adopted security maturity benchmark in the United States — and the version released in 2024 added a sixth function (Govern) that most organizations still haven't accounted for.
We assess your environment across all six functions — Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover — mapping current state to target state with a maturity score for each subcategory. The deliverable is a heatmap your board will actually understand, paired with a prioritized roadmap your engineers can actually execute.
If you handle Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) for the Department of Defense — directly or as a subcontractor — CMMC 2.0 is no longer optional. The rule is published. The clock is running. Most contractors are not where they need to be.
We assess your environment against all 110 NIST 800-171 r2 controls (and the additional CMMC Level 2 requirements), identify CUI flows you may not be tracking, validate System Security Plan (SSP) accuracy, and produce the documentation package required for a C3PAO assessment. We do not perform certified C3PAO assessments — but we make sure you pass the one you do.
HIPAA's Security Rule has been law for over twenty years and is still the most commonly cited finding in OCR enforcement actions. The reason: most organizations conduct "risk analyses" that don't actually meet the HIPAA standard — and OCR knows it.
We deliver risk assessments that meet the formal HIPAA Security Rule requirement at 45 CFR § 164.308(a)(1)(ii)(A) — systematic identification of threats and vulnerabilities, likelihood and impact analysis, current safeguard evaluation, and a documented risk treatment plan. Your assessment becomes evidence, not just paperwork.
SOC 2 has become table stakes for selling software to enterprise customers — and the assessment is famously painful for organizations going through it the first time. Most failures stem from gaps that are easy to close if found early, and expensive to close if found by your auditor.
We assess your current controls against the Trust Services Criteria (Security is mandatory; Availability, Processing Integrity, Confidentiality, and Privacy are optional), identify the gaps that would create exceptions in a Type I or Type II audit, and produce a readiness package that dramatically reduces the cost and timeline of your actual audit. We do not issue SOC 2 reports — but we make your auditor's job dramatically easier.
Every regulated industry has standards that don't map cleanly to NIST or CIS. We have deep experience with the specialty frameworks below — including ones most generalist consultancies treat as someone else's problem.
Nevada Gaming Control Board's cybersecurity regulation requires annual risk assessments and independent reviews for licensed gaming operators. We assess against 5.260 and the associated MICS, with reports designed for regulatory submission.
The control catalog used by federal agencies and high-assurance environments. We assess against Moderate or High baselines, validate inheritance from cloud providers, and produce the evidence package for ATO or FedRAMP equivalency.
The Center for Internet Security's 18 controls remain the most practical maturity benchmark for mid-market organizations. We assess against Implementation Groups 1, 2, or 3 and produce a roadmap tied to measurable safeguards.
AWS, Azure, and GCP configuration review against CIS Benchmarks and provider-specific best practices. We identify identity misconfiguration, data exposure, network architecture gaps, and the silent privilege chains most CSPM tools miss.
Continuous-scan-style external and internal vulnerability assessments, plus a maturity review of your vulnerability management program — including SLAs, ownership, exception handling, and prioritization logic.
PCI-DSS v4.0 readiness for merchants and service providers. Scope definition, segmentation validation, control gap analysis, and pre-assessment work that makes your QSA engagement substantially faster and cheaper.
Assessment against the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and OWASP LLM Top 10, covering AI system architecture, data governance, model lifecycle, third-party AI integrations, and the new risks introduced by agentic systems.
NIST has standardized the first post-quantum cryptography algorithms. We inventory your cryptographic dependencies — including the ones buried in vendor products — and produce a migration roadmap aligned to NIST PQC and CNSA 2.0 timelines. See full quantum services →
Adversaries are already capturing encrypted data and storing it for the day quantum computers can break today's cryptography — a strategy known as harvest-now-decrypt-later. NIST has standardized the first post-quantum algorithms. NSA has published CNSA 2.0. The migration window is open. Most organizations have no visibility into where their cryptographic exposure even lives. Adversim's quantum readiness practice changes that.
You cannot defend against quantum threats you cannot see. We systematically enumerate and catalog every cryptographic implementation across your infrastructure, applications, and data flows — RSA, ECC, DH, symmetric ciphers, TLS/SSL configurations, certificate authorities, PKI infrastructure, and the cryptographic dependencies hiding in vendor products. The output is a complete Cryptographic Bill of Materials (CBOM) — the foundation for every other quantum readiness activity.
A structured evaluation of your organization's exposure to quantum computing threats. We model harvest-now-decrypt-later scenarios, apply quantum threat timelines relevant to your data sensitivity, score your readiness against NIST and NSA guidance, and produce a prioritized risk register that lets you make informed investment decisions instead of guessing about an emerging threat.
A practical, phased roadmap to transition your cryptographic infrastructure to NIST-standardized post-quantum algorithms — ML-KEM (CRYSTALS-Kyber), ML-DSA (CRYSTALS-Dilithium), and SLH-DSA (SPHINCS+). We assess cryptographic agility, identify migration dependencies, sequence work by risk priority, and provide vendor-specific guidance for PKI, VPNs, authentication systems, and application-layer cryptography.
Cryptographic vulnerabilities are embedded in architectural decisions. Fixing algorithms without addressing architecture creates a false sense of security. We evaluate your network segmentation, VPN configurations, identity infrastructure, key management, data-at-rest and data-in-transit protections, and cloud cryptographic controls through a quantum threat lens — then design the resilient target-state architecture you'll migrate to.
Every quantum engagement ships with the following — scoped to engagement type.
Leadership overview of quantum exposure, threat timeline estimates, and priority actions.
Complete CBOM with algorithms, key lengths, locations, owners, and quantum risk ratings.
Visual mapping of quantum-vulnerable assets by system, application, and business criticality.
Harvest-now-decrypt-later exposure including data sensitivity classification and risk window.
Benchmarked scorecard measuring readiness against NIST and NSA CNSA 2.0 guidance.
Phased migration plan with prioritized workstreams, timelines, dependencies, and success criteria.
Current cryptographic assets mapped to recommended NIST PQC replacements with implementation guidance.
Technical guidance for hybrid classical/PQC implementations during the transition period.
Walkthrough with technical and leadership stakeholders to align on next steps and execution.
Compliance work is rarely discretionary. Below are the most common triggers that bring clients to this conversation — if any sound familiar, we should talk.
HHS OCR audit, FFIEC examination, Nevada Gaming Control Board renewal, or a state attorney general inquiry. Regulatory-driven assessments require defensible documentation, not just internal opinion.
Carriers increasingly require formal cyber posture assessments before binding or renewing. A NIST CSF or CIS Controls assessment gives them what they need — and often reduces premium.
SOC 2 Type II is the most common contract demand. CMMC for DoD subs. HITRUST for healthcare customers. We get you ready for the audit that follows — and dramatically reduce its cost.
"Are we secure?" isn't a question internal teams can credibly answer to a board. A third-party NIST CSF assessment is the answer — measurable, comparable across years, and defensible to investors.
Acquirers want to know what they're inheriting. Sellers want to demonstrate good hygiene. An assessment positioned for diligence becomes a negotiation asset, not a liability.
Post-breach, organizations often face regulatory inquiry, customer concern, and internal blame. A structured assessment provides forward momentum and demonstrates remediation in process.
Whether you're chasing CMMC, preparing for SOC 2, validating HIPAA, or just need an honest answer about where you stand — a 30-minute scoping call gives us what we need to send a fixed-fee proposal within 48 hours.
A gap analysis tells you what needs to change. Offensive testing validates whether your controls actually work. Strategy engagements build the program that closes the gaps and keeps them closed.
Penetration testing, red teaming, and adversary simulation. Validate that the controls your assessment identified are actually doing what they claim — under real attack conditions.
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