Risk, Resilience & Compliance
Framework-anchored assessment work for organizations that have to prove their security posture to a prime contractor, an examiner, an insurer, or a board — and want the evidence to hold up.
A scan is a snapshot. A framework is an argument.
Anyone can hand you a vulnerability report. What organizations actually need is a defensible position: this is the control, this is our current state against it, this is the gap, this is the plan and the date.
Ventori anchors every assessment to NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0, CIS Controls v8, or NIST SP 800-171 — the standards US customers, regulators, and insurers already recognize. The output is structured to be handed directly to the party asking the question.
NIST SP 800-171 & CMMC readiness for the supplier tier.
Defense primes push their contractual security obligations down the supply chain, and the machine shops, engineering firms, and specialty suppliers that receive controlled unclassified information have to demonstrate compliance to keep the work. Most of them are running lean IT with no internal compliance function.
That is the engagement Ventori was designed for. We scope where CUI actually lives, assess against the full control set, and produce the documentation package rather than a list of things for you to write yourself.
- CUI scoping — data-flow mapping to establish what is genuinely in scope and shrink the assessment boundary where possible.
- Full control gap assessment against the NIST SP 800-171 control set, with evidence recorded per control.
- Scoring support for supplier performance reporting requirements.
- System Security Plan and POA&M drafts you can maintain, not templates you have to interpret.
- A remediation plan sequenced by contractual urgency and effort — and, if you want it, the people to execute it.
The assessment catalog.
01Quick Security SnapshotFive business days · entry engagement
A fast external and internal posture check built for cyber-insurance renewals, executive pre-reads, and organizations that need a credible starting point without committing to a full assessment.
- Attack-surface review of your external footprint
- Top-ten prioritized risk findings
- A 60-minute executive readout
- Support answering insurance questionnaire items accurately
02NIST CSF 2.0 / CIS Controls v8 Maturity AssessmentTypically 4 weeks, compressible for deadlines
A control-by-control assessment with maturity scoring, gap analysis, and a remediation roadmap. This is the engagement that turns ‘we think we are reasonably secure’ into a scored position you can track year over year.
- Scored control matrix across the full framework
- Gap register with severity, effort, and dependency
- A prioritized remediation runbook
- Executive readout and a technical working session
03NIST 800-171 / CMMC Readiness AssessmentTypically 4–6 weeks · defense supply chain
Gap assessment against NIST SP 800-171 for defense subcontractors and suppliers, including CUI scoping and documentation development.
- CUI data-flow scoping and boundary definition
- Assessment against the full 110-control set
- Supplier performance score support
- System Security Plan and POA&M drafts
- A sequenced remediation plan
04Technology Risk AssessmentTypically 3–4 weeks
An enterprise technology risk register covering the failure modes that do not show up in a security scan: single points of failure, end-of-life exposure, vendor concentration, key-person dependency, and continuity gaps.
- Risk register with likelihood, impact, and current controls
- Single-point-of-failure and end-of-life inventory
- Vendor and platform concentration analysis
- Treatment recommendations by risk
05Infrastructure Health CheckTypically 2–3 weeks
A deep dive on servers, storage, network, backup, and monitoring measured against good-practice baselines. Often the fastest way to explain to a leadership team why the environment keeps generating incidents.
- Configuration and capacity review across the estate
- Backup coverage and restore validation
- Monitoring and alerting coverage gaps
- A remediation and refresh sequence tied to budget cycles
06Disaster Recovery & Resilience PlanningTypically 4–6 weeks · tabletop available standalone
Business impact analysis, recovery objective definition, DR strategy and runbooks, and a facilitated tabletop exercise to test whether the plan survives contact with a real scenario.
- Business impact analysis by process
- Defined recovery time and recovery point objectives
- DR strategy, architecture, and written runbooks
- A facilitated tabletop exercise and after-action report
07Operational Maturity & Asset LifecycleTypically 3–4 weeks
A review of the IT operating model — how work arrives, who owns it, and how change is controlled — plus asset lifecycle and refresh planning aligned to your budget cycle.
- Operating-model review of core service management processes
- Role and accountability mapping
- Asset inventory, age profile, and refresh plan
- Budget-aligned lifecycle schedule
08Annual Reassessment ProgramRecurring · 12-month term
Quarterly control re-testing and evidence upkeep for organizations pursuing insurance renewals, CMMC, SOC 2, or ISO 27001 readiness. Compliance decays quietly; this program is how you find out before an auditor does.
- Quarterly control re-testing against your chosen framework
- Evidence library maintenance
- Drift reporting against the prior baseline
- An annual refreshed scored position
How an assessment actually runs.
Scope
Define the framework, the boundary, the systems in scope, and who needs to receive the result.
Collect
Interviews with the people who operate the environment, configuration review, and tooling where it adds evidence.
Score
Each control assessed against defined criteria, with the evidence recorded so any finding can be traced back.
Report
Scored matrix, gap register, and a remediation plan sequenced by risk, effort, and contractual urgency.
Readout
An executive session and a technical session — different audiences need different conversations.
A gap register is a hiring plan in disguise. Remediation stalls when nobody has capacity. We can place the security analysts, engineers, and compliance-aware contractors who close the findings.
IT Workforce SolutionsWorking to a compliance deadline?
Tell us the framework, the deadline, and who is asking. We will confirm whether the timeline is realistic and scope the assessment to fit it.