Security Controls Audit
Independent, technical assurance that your critical security controls are correctly designed, configured, and effective in practice. We review complex architectures and validate defenses through targeted, attack-driven tests—mapped to frameworks like DORA and NIST CSF.
Independent Validation
No vendor bias. We assess what’s deployed—policy, configuration, coverage—and verify it works against real threats.
Critical Control Assurance
Identity, network segmentation, filtering, monitoring, IR—tested for effectiveness and efficiency, not just presence.
Actionable Outcomes
Clear misconfigurations and bypasses, prioritized fixes, detection opportunities, and retest to close the loop.
Who This Is For
- Organizations needing control effectiveness & efficiency testing, and compliance with regulations like DORA.
- Identity/AD and Zero Trust programs requiring bypass & segmentation validation.
- Security teams measuring EDR/SIEM visibility, alert fidelity, and response readiness.
Beyond checklists: control effectiveness
Controls fail most often through design assumptions, subtle misconfiguration, or regression over time. We pair architecture and configuration reviews with hands-on validation to measure how your defenses behave under pressure.
The result is a defensible picture of risk: what’s protected, what’s exposed, and what to fix first—mapped to your business objectives and regulatory drivers.
Security Controls Audit Domains
We tailor depth and scope to your environment and objectives.
Network Protection
Firewalls, WAF/SWG, VPN/ZTNA, segmentation & data diodes; rulebase hygiene and bypass tests.
Identity & Access
IAM, SSO/MFA, conditional access, privilege models (on-prem & cloud), delegation and break-glass controls.
Detection & Telemetry
SIEM/EDR coverage, log quality, alerting, response integrations; test of key use-cases with realistic signals.
Incident Readiness
Runbooks, escalation paths, containment options, and table-top validation against priority scenarios.
How We Test Security Controls & What You Receive
Clear methods. Practical outputs your teams can apply immediately.
How We Test
- Design & configuration analysis: policy review, control objectives, dependency and trust mapping.
- Attack-driven validation: evasion and bypass probes, segmentation traversal, identity abuse tests, telemetry noise/quality checks.
- Detection & response drills: simulate priority TTPs to measure visibility, alert fidelity, and response paths.
- Safety & change control: approved windows, non-destructive techniques, immediate stop on impact, and clean-up steps.
What You Receive
- Executive summary: key risks, business impact, and a prioritized roadmap aligned to your objectives.
- Backlog-ready issues: evidence, reproduction, and remediation guidance (config examples, rule snippets, playbook updates).
- Standards mapping: findings aligned to DORA control areas and NIST CSF (ISO on request).
- Retest window: verification of fixes and an updated audit trail for stakeholders and regulators.
Need adversarial path validation or deep application assurance too? Explore our Penetration Testing Services and Application Security Services.
Security Controls Audit — FAQ
To verify that critical controls are designed, configured, and operating effectively against realistic threats—not just present on paper.
We provide evidence, clear misconfigurations/bypasses, and a prioritized remediation plan.
We tailor depth and scope to your environment. Common areas include:
- Network protection — firewalls, WAF/SWG, VPN/ZTNA, segmentation, data diodes
- Identity & access — IAM, SSO/MFA, conditional access, privilege models, delegations
- Detection & telemetry — SIEM/EDR coverage, log quality, alerting, automation
- Incident readiness — runbooks, escalation, containment options, table-top exercises
Yes. Findings can be mapped to DORA control areas and NIST CSF. On request, we also provide ISO/IEC 27001 Annex A mapping.
This helps stakeholders tie technical gaps to governance and compliance objectives.
A minimal starter set is ideal:
- Architecture diagrams and data-flow/trust boundaries
- Read-only access to relevant configurations and policies
- Representative test accounts (incl. privileged roles where required)
- Sample logs/alerts or SIEM views for detection checks
Audits are designed to be low-risk. We use change windows, non-destructive techniques, and an immediate stop on impact.
When intrusive checks are beneficial (e.g., segmentation traversal), we coordinate tightly with operations.
We combine review with attack-driven validation:
- Evasion and bypass probes for filtering/inspection controls
- Segmentation traversal checks for isolation guarantees
- Identity abuse attempts to validate conditional access/privilege design
- Detection drills to measure visibility, alert fidelity, and response paths
A concise executive summary, backlog-ready issues with evidence and remediation guidance (config examples, rule snippets), and standards mapping (DORA/NIST/ISO).
We also offer a retest window to verify fixes and update the audit trail.
Validate Your Security Controls Effectiveness And Efficiency
Independent, attack-driven audits mapped to DORA, NIST CSF, and ISO 27001.