Security Architecture, Identity, and Control Assessment
Cybersecurity Assessments Ranked by Real Attack Paths
Every growing company carries security gaps; the expensive question is which ones an intruder would actually use, and which fix removes the most risk for the least disruption. A Global Digital Forensics cybersecurity assessment examines your architecture, identities, vendors and controls as they really run and proves which weaknesses connect into a path to your data. Senior practitioners rank every correction by business consequence and verify the fixes once your team has made them.
The engagement
An Outside View of the Environment You Actually Run
The architecture diagram shows the network you designed. Intruders work in the one you have: the contractor account nobody disabled, the cloud role granted for a weekend migration, the alert that fires into a mailbox no one reads. CISOs, internal auditors and executives bring us in when they need an independent view rather than another self assessment. We trace how an attacker would move from the internet to the data that matters, which controls would stop that movement and which would only record it, and we hand back a plan with priorities, owners and the evidence that will show each fix is done.
Identity and Admin Paths
Privileged accounts, recovery flows, joiner and leaver controls and the forgotten service accounts that can still reach production.
Controls Shown Working
What your preventive, detective and response tools actually do on a Tuesday afternoon, compared with what the policy says they do.
Cloud and Vendor Exposure
Shared responsibility gaps, vendor remote access, tenant permissions and the logging that would, or would not, show misuse.
Our cybersecurity services
Choose the Engagement That Fits the Question
Offensive Security Testing
Prove what an attacker can reach with network and infrastructure penetration testing, application penetration testing, vulnerability assessments and secure source code review.
OT and Critical Infrastructure
Plants, utilities and ports assessed around uptime through OT, ICS and SCADA security assessments, critical infrastructure OT security and network segmentation validation.
AI Security
Models, agents and AI features attacked before release with AI security testing, AI powered penetration testing and AI security consulting.
Incident Response
Something already happening? Call (800) 868-8189, or see ransomware and data breach analysis, the Incident Response SLA and forensic readiness planning.
Cyber Risk and Regulation
Decisions for deals and boards through cyber due diligence, executive cyber risk advisory and NYDFS Part 500 technical evidence support.
Methodology
We Start With Your Risk Question and End at Retest
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Frame: Operations and Risk Questions
We name the critical operations, the decisions leadership has to make and the systems behind them, so the review targets what matters to the business rather than everything technically reachable.
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Examine: Controls and Their Evidence
We collect technical evidence, interview the people who run each system and validate selected claims inside the agreed scope, including controlled testing of attack paths where you authorize it.
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Prioritize: Corrections by Consequence
Each action is ranked by exposure, business consequence, dependencies and verification effort, so the team fixes what would hurt most first and can explain the order to the board.
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Verify: The Agreed Improvements
We define completion evidence for every correction and retest the agreed controls or attack paths, recording what was verified and what remains open.
Evidence commonly examined
Describe the environment and the deadline and the first call sets the test plan.
The Security Records We Review
Architecture and data flow records show the components and boundaries; asset and service inventories set the coverage. Identity and access configuration shows the authority that was intended, and the records from your security tools show what detection and response actually saw. Policies, documented exceptions and earlier assessments give us the stated expectations to test against.
What you can expect
Findings and an Improvement Plan
The report ties each finding to the observed condition and its evidence. The improvement plan sequences quick exposure reduction ahead of architecture changes that need budget or coordination, and separate technical and executive briefings present the same facts at the depth each audience needs, so the board and the engineers never argue from different records.
Bring your system list and your next deadline to a free first call. Start here.
Assessments Informed by the Incidents We Reconstruct
Global Digital Forensics was founded in 1992, and our assessment work is shaped by the response side of the practice: we know which weaknesses get used because we reconstruct intrusions after the fact. We have served AmLaw 100 firms and Fortune 1000 companies, and our examiners have testified in federal and state courts.
Founder, CEO and CTO Joseph Caruso, a CISSP whose technology career began in 1980 and runs through cybersecurity incident response, shapes how each assessment weighs a gap: by what an intruder would actually do with it. Read the team biographies.
Frequently asked
Compliance Audits, Penetration Tests and Active Intrusions
Is a cybersecurity assessment the same as a compliance audit?
No. The assessment starts from your systems and the risk questions leadership needs answered. It supports compliance work by producing the evidence an audit will ask for, and we map findings to a framework when that helps the decision.
Does the assessment include penetration testing?
When you want it to. Controlled validation of selected attack paths can be built into the assessment with its own rules and stop conditions, or scoped as a separate penetration test when that serves the decision better.
Will the report work for executives and engineers?
Yes. The decision summary and the technical evidence are two views of the same record: the board reads consequence and priority, the engineers read the affected systems, the evidence and the fix.
We think an intruder is already inside. Where do we start?
Call the 24/7 hotline at (800) 868-8189. An active intrusion needs incident response and evidence preservation first; the assessment can follow once the environment is stable.
How do we get a scope and price?
Tell us the systems, the business concern behind the request and the deadline. The first call is free and ends with a recommended scope, the timeline and the price.
Talk with an examiner
Choose the Priorities for Your Security Assessment
Tell us the systems, the business concern behind the request and the deadline. A senior practitioner will review the scope, relevant experience and any potential conflicts with you before engagement.
Court tested experts, 24/7 incident response and sixteen US offices since 1992.
Talk with a senior practitioner
Start With the Risk Leadership Must Answer For
Name the systems, access paths or control questions behind the request and the date the answer is due. On the first call a senior practitioner will recommend which engagement fits, how long it will take and what it will cost, and that consultation is free.
Reviewed by Joseph Caruso, Founder, CEO and CTO, CISSP. Last reviewed .