Risk teams shouldn't need a translator to understand technology.
Technology risk requires understanding how systems are designed, deployed, accessed, monitored and operated. We assess the environment directly and produce findings that hold up in front of the engineers who have to act on them.
- Cloud, identity, application and resilience coverage
- Assessments performed against real configuration
- Findings written for engineering and for governance
- Control status defined for the period after the report
A representative evidence request for a Tier 1 platform assessment.
- Architecture and data-flow documentation
- Cloud org structure and IAM policy export
- Pipeline configuration and approval gates
- Access recertification output, last two cycles
- Restore test results and RTO / RPO evidence
- Vulnerability SLA performance by severity
Where each control category has to hold.
Control categories are rarely confined to one layer. Select a category to see the span it has to cover across a typical estate.
- 01UsersCustomers, employees, machine identities
- 02ApplicationWeb, mobile and internal front ends
- 03APIsPublic, partner and internal service interfaces
- 04CloudAccounts, networks, workloads, orchestration
- 05DatabaseTransactional stores, warehouses, backups
- 06Third partiesProcessors, SaaS, infrastructure providers
IAM: Who can reach production, through which identity, and what removes that access when the role changes?
What we assess.
Scoped to a platform, a service, a migration or an entire estate — with depth agreed against the criticality of what sits behind it.
Cloud and infrastructure
Account structure, network segmentation, workload isolation, privileged paths and the controls that are assumed to exist because the provider offers them.
- Cloud account & tenancy review
- Network and segmentation design
- Workload and container security
- Infrastructure-as-code review
- Key management & encryption
- Shared-responsibility gap analysis
Identity and access
The control set that determines blast radius. Who can reach production, through which identity, with what standing privilege, and what removes it.
- IAM architecture review
- Privileged access management
- Joiner / mover / leaver testing
- Access recertification design
- Machine and workload identity
- Authentication & session controls
Application and delivery
How a change reaches production and what stands between an idea and a customer — including the pipeline itself, which is production infrastructure.
- Secure development practices
- CI/CD and pipeline controls
- Change and release management
- Application architecture review
- Dependency & supply chain risk
- Vulnerability management process
Resilience and recovery
Impact tolerances tested against a real dependency map, and recovery capability demonstrated rather than documented.
- Important business service mapping
- Impact tolerance definition
- Backup design & restore testing
- Disaster recovery assessment
- Failover and continuity exercises
- Data protection & retention controls
How a technology risk assessment should run.
- 01
Read the environment directly
Architecture records, cloud configuration, IAM policy, pipeline definitions and logging setup. We work from the artefacts, not from a description of them.
- 02
Trace controls to real reachability
A finding matters in proportion to what it exposes. We follow the path from an identity or a vulnerability to the data or service at the end of it before rating anything.
- 03
Write findings twice, deliberately
The engineering team gets the specific condition and the change required. The risk committee gets the exposure and the decision. One finding, expressed for both audiences.
- 04
Agree remediation that will survive planning
Recommendations sized against how the team actually delivers, so they enter a backlog rather than a register of things everyone agreed were important.
- 05
Keep the assessment alive
Control status, exception expiry and re-test triggers defined at the end of the engagement, so the assessment degrades gracefully instead of silently.
Get an assessment your engineers will not dismiss.
Start with a single platform, a cloud environment, or a review of how technology risk currently reaches your risk committee.