Take the first step to cyber resilience - discover your REAL attack surface
Work From Home didn’t just change the way we work, it exponentially changed the opportunities for cyber-attacks – on all businesses.
Every access point to the internet now puts you at risk – phones, wi-fi, home login, data storage devices and more – all broaden your attack surface.
“Cybersecurity is now a leadership and legal compliance issue not an IT issue”
Uncover your cyber vulnerability with Confidential Cyber-Risk Assessment (CCRA)
The first step to protecting your organization and your Directors/Owners is to conduct a thorough CCRA with professional cybersecurity experts.
Your CCRA answers all the typical questions directors and business leaders care about:
• How exposed are we?
• What’s most likely to hurt us?
• What do we fix first?
• What do “reasonable steps” look like in practice?
What your CCRA gives you (and why it matters)
Your CCRA outlines all you need to make decisions about how to manage your cyber-resilience:
• Exposure Map of your attack surface - what appears reachable and misconfigured in practice, with verified exposures & vulnerabilities (evidence-based)
• Exploit-validated priorities - separating “possible issues” from likely-to-be-exploited risk (what to fix first and why)
• A remediation roadmap ranked by impact and effort (actions IT can implement)
• Better audit outcomes - evidence starts with validated risk and tracked treatment
• Executive summary in plain English for owners/directors (password protected)
A vulnerability assessment … identifies and reports … vulnerabilities,
whereas a penetration test attempts to exploit the vulnerabilities …”
Source: PCI Security Standards Council - Information Supplement: Penetration Testing
How Cybertest.io conducts your CCRA
Without getting too technical, we do a complete Holistic Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Test – HVAPT.
Your HVAPT creates a practical Exposure Map of your externally reachable assets, key systems, identities and configurations, then validates risk by simulating real attacker techniques. It produces an evidence-based, prioritised remediation roadmap your IT team (or provider) can action immediately.
You can’t protect or prove compliance for what you haven’t found, tested, and prioritised across your real attack surface. So, it’s essential you know your risk situation.
In short: HVAPT is the foundation step that turns cybersecurity from guesswork into a measurable plan, before you invest in long programs or controls uplift.
Pass the audit with evidence (HVAPT is foundational)
Certification audits, e.g., ISO27001, SOC2, E8, require evidence that you understand your real exposure and treat risk in a disciplined, documented way. HVAPT provides that foundation by producing:
• Verified exposure and vulnerabilities (ground truth, not assumptions)
• Prioritised risks you can map into your risk register
• A remediation roadmap (risk treatment plan) for IT to implement and track
• An certification audit-ready narrative: discover -> validate -> prioritise -> remediate -> verify
Note: HVAPT supports certification readiness; certification depends on implementation and broader program requirements.
“Test the effectiveness and resiliency of enterprise assets …
simulating the objectives and actions of an attacker”
Source: Center for Internet Security (CIS) Critical Security Controls - Control 18
CCRA Milestones
Your CCRA is delivered in three key milestones:
• Initiation & Setup (commencement)
• Assessment & Validation (testing underway/initial validated findings)
• Report & Roadmap Delivery (final cybersecurity plan delivered)
Payment:
Payment is based upon the number of Full Time Employees as each employee opens up numerous attack surfaces that need to be assessed.
Payment can be made full in advance or progressively in three milestone payments.
“Penetration testing … mimic[s] real-world attacks…
using the same tools and techniques used by actual hackers.”
Source: NIST Computer Security Resource Center (CSRC) Glossary - ‘Penetration Testing’
Why a Confidential Cyber-Risk Assessment?
Most penetration tests (pentests) are only as good as their scope assumptions. If the scope is “test these IPs/URLs,” you can get a quality report, yet still miss the pathways your attackers also use: unknown internet-facing assets, identity-driven access, and human entry points.
Your CCRA reduces these blind spots by combining three views into one risk-based engagement:
• Attack surface discovery (Exposure Map) - so testing isn’t limited to an incomplete inventory
• Human risk pathways - because real attacks often begin with people and identity
• Technology testing - validated findings and attacker-like chaining to prioritise what matters
HVAPT does not promise to identify and test every possible exposure point. Attack surfaces change and attacker techniques evolve. Instead, HVAPT focuses on finding the most likely, highest-impact attack paths across your attack surface, people and technology, then delivers you a prioritised remediation roadmap and optional re-test.
Typical discoveries from a CCRA
These are typical examples of external exposures often uncovered (scope-dependent). Examples vary by environment. These are illustrative and may be discovered where attributable to the nominated domains and the agreed scope.
• VPN: concentrators and remote-access gateways (including old firmware, weak configs, exposed admin consoles).
• RDP / remote management interfaces and bastion hosts inadvertently exposed.
• IoT and ‘smart’ devices: cameras, printers/MFPs, door controllers, alarms, building management systems, AV gear.
• Internet-accessible firewalls, routers, switches and management planes.
• Third-party remote support tools (such as Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) software and screen-sharing applications) are left enabled.
• Dev/test/staging environments and forgotten subdomains (old marketing microsites, legacy portals).
• Cloud storage exposures (public buckets/containers), misconfigured SaaS sharing, and open file sync links.
• API gateways, webhooks, integration tokens and service accounts with broad permissions.
• Certificate/DNS leftovers, orphaned domains, and expired-but-still-resolvable records that point to live services.
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