Security posture assessment
Show current risks, critical systems, existing safeguards and important control gaps.
Independent security assessment
Know where security can fail—and what to fix first.
SIFTCON provides practical cybersecurity checks that find important risks, test controls and turn technical findings into clear actions with named owners.
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Download a short guide to our security checks, approved testing process, results and enquiry options.
The objective
A security review must explain risk, not only list weaknesses.
A technical finding is useful when leaders know which system is affected, how an attack could happen, the likely impact and the action needed.
We combine approved technical testing with business context. This helps teams focus on the weaknesses that matter most and the fixes most likely to reduce risk.
Core capabilities
Test risks, controls and fixes as one system.
We shape the review around the organisation's systems, threats, critical services and level of confidence needed.
Vulnerability assessment
Identify and validate technical weaknesses across authorised infrastructure, applications and relevant configurations.
Penetration testing
Test realistic attack paths within agreed safety rules to show the possible impact and whether controls work.
Application & infrastructure review
Check security design, settings, access, exposed services and controls across important systems.
Control-effectiveness assurance
Check whether oversight, prevention, detection and response controls work as intended.
Fixes & checks
Rank the fixes, name the owners and retest completed work to confirm that risk was reduced.
Assessment coverage
Examine the paths that connect exposure to impact.
Coverage is prioritised rather than assumed, helping direct testing toward the assets, interfaces and controls most important to the engagement.
External attack surface
Internet-facing assets, exposed services, domains and other reachable points of entry.
Identity & access
Authentication, privilege, account lifecycle, remote access and pathways to elevated control.
Applications & interfaces
Web applications, APIs, integrations and the security assumptions within critical workflows.
Infrastructure & cloud
Configuration, segmentation, hardening, workload protection and administrative control.
Detection & response
Whether material activity can be recognised, investigated, escalated and contained effectively.
Governance & dependencies
Ownership, policies, assurance evidence, third parties and decisions affecting residual risk.
Vulnerability-assessment scope
Identify weaknesses across the environment.
- Internal and external network infrastructure
- Servers, endpoints and other critical systems
- Web applications, APIs and exposed services
- Configuration, hardening and access controls
- Asset exposure and the wider attack surface
Penetration-testing options
Validate whether exposure can be exploited.
- External and internal penetration testing
- Web-application and API penetration testing
- Credentialed and non-credentialed testing
- Targeted testing based on agreed threat scenarios
- Controlled validation with defined safety and stop conditions
Assurance method
Keep testing controlled from planning to retest.
A clear method protects daily operations and keeps the evidence leaders need to understand and act on the results.
Define
Agree on the goal, scope, approval, critical systems, safety limits and evidence needed.
Test
Use approved methods to find and confirm weaknesses.
Evaluate
Explain the likely impact, whether controls work and how the findings affect the organisation.
Improve
Rank the fixes, name owners and check that completed changes work.
Controlled testing
Objectives, permitted techniques, exclusions, contacts and stop conditions are agreed before testing begins. Any certification, formal compliance opinion or third-party reliance requirement is addressed explicitly within the engagement mandate.
Target outcomes
Give technical teams and leaders the same priorities.
A good review makes risk easy to understand, fixes easy to track and improvement easy to measure.
Verified risk
Leaders see where security can fail and the likely impact.
Risk-based priorities
We rank findings by context, ease of attack, importance and other controls already in place.
Clear decisions
We explain what technical results mean, who should act and what they should do.
Checked progress
We retest fixes so closure means the risk is lower, not only that a task was marked complete.
Who this service is for
Organisations that need risk to be visible before it is exploited.
Assessment depth and testing methods are selected according to the environment, assurance need and operational tolerance.
Financial, healthcare & regulated industries
Organisations that must connect technical exposure to compliance, operational resilience and governance decisions.
Government departments, SOEs & public institutions
Public-sector environments requiring authorised, documented and decision-ready assurance.
Organisations managing critical information
Teams responsible for sensitive data, essential systems, internet-facing services or significant third-party access.
Audit and regulatory-readiness teams
Teams preparing for a review or needing proof that their fixes have reduced risk.
Strengthen security confidence
Start with the systems and exposure that matter most.
We can define the right scope, testing method and path from finding to a checked fix.
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