Cyber Essentials & Cyber Essentials Plus
Review scope, the five technical control areas, supporting evidence and readiness for certification or Cyber Essentials Plus assessment.
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Cybersecurity Gap Assessment
Cybersecurity gap assessment and readiness review
Understand your current security position, identify control, evidence and technical gaps, and build a prioritised roadmap against the framework or assurance goal that matters to your organisation.
1. Define the target and scope.
Start with the business requirement and the framework or assurance outcome that matters. Clarify legal entities, users, devices, networks, cloud services, suppliers and other relevant dependencies so the review is anchored to a clear target rather than a generic checklist.
2. Review controls, evidence and technical reality.
Review policies, processes, technical controls and available evidence across the agreed scope. Depending on the objective, this can include endpoints, identity, networks, cloud services, vulnerability management, remote working, governance and supplier-managed technology.
For larger or more complex estates, the review should also expose ownership gaps, unsupported technology, inconsistent implementation and dependencies that could affect the wider assurance programme.
3. Separate control, evidence and technical gaps.
Classify findings so teams can distinguish missing or ineffective controls from evidence gaps, technical weaknesses and areas requiring further investigation. Prioritise them by risk, dependency and impact on the target outcome.
The objective is not to force an organisation through a checklist. It is to establish what needs to change, what needs to be evidenced and what is already working well.
4. Build a prioritised remediation roadmap.
Turn the findings into an executive summary and practical remediation roadmap, with priorities, owners, dependencies and sequencing. Where a formal certification or assessment is planned, readiness support remains separate from the final certification decision and does not guarantee an outcome.
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A gap assessment can be scoped around a specific framework or used more broadly when the organisation has not yet committed to a certification route.
Defence Cyber Certification
Review the required DCC level, scope, control ownership, dependencies and evidence readiness before formal assessment.
ISO/IEC 27001 & IASME Cyber Assurance
Assess governance, controls, evidence and implementation against the target framework and identify the work needed to strengthen readiness.
Practical outputs
A gap assessment should leave you with a clear route forward.
- An executive summary of the current security position and material issues.
- A defined target framework, scope and key assumptions.
- A prioritised register of control, evidence and technical gaps.
- A remediation roadmap with owners, dependencies and sensible sequencing.
- Clear next steps for readiness, wider assurance or formal assessment.
For an initial discussion, high-level information is enough: what you are trying to achieve, the approximate organisation or scope, any target framework, known concerns and the timeframe driving the work.
See a gap assessment in practice →Request a cybersecurity gap assessment
Tell us what you are trying to improve or achieve, the approximate scope, current position and any target framework or deadline. We can define a review proportionate to the complexity of your environment.