Services
Assessment. Validation. Remediation. Advisory. Scoped to your environment — not a product package. Analyze | Detect | Respond | Defend.
A Baseline assessment is a legitimate assessment, not bait. If greater depth is warranted, we explain what additional evidence or assurance you receive. Scope, schedule, and approach are developed after an initial discussion — pricing is a conversation, never a gate on the website.
Cybersecurity assessments & security reviews
Establish what is actually happening in the environment and identify practical opportunities to reduce risk.
- Comprehensive cybersecurity assessments
- Focused technical security reviews
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework assessments
- Security posture and gap assessments
- Network and security architecture reviews
- Configuration and security-control validation
- Existing security-tool effectiveness reviews
- MSP/MSSP service and control validation
- Physical and technical security observations
- Documentation and process reviews
- Remediation verification and reassessment
Asset, software & environment discovery
Establish an accurate understanding of the systems, software, users, and infrastructure that need to be protected.
- Hardware asset discovery and inventory
- Network device inventory
- Software and SaaS inventory
- User and account inventory
- Server and infrastructure inventory
- Authorized active or passive network discovery
- Asset reconciliation against existing records
- Unsupported, obsolete, or unknown system identification
- Unauthorized or unexpected device identification
- Business function and asset criticality mapping
Network security & architecture
Evaluate and improve how systems communicate and how the network limits exposure.
- Network architecture assessment
- Firewall configuration and policy review
- Network segmentation assessment
- VLAN and access-control validation
- Routing and traffic-flow review
- Internet exposure assessment
- Remote-access and VPN security review
- Wireless network security review
- Management-plane security review
- Third-party and vendor connectivity review
- Network security architecture design
- Segmentation and firewall policy development
- Implementation and remediation support
Vulnerability & configuration management
Identify exploitable weaknesses and help establish a repeatable process for managing them.
- Vulnerability scanning and assessment
- Authenticated vulnerability scanning
- Vulnerability prioritization
- Patch-management review
- Configuration assessment
- Exposure analysis
- Remediation planning
- Vulnerability-management program development
- Remediation tracking
- Follow-up validation and rescanning
Identity & access security
Determine who has access, what they can access, and whether that access is appropriate.
- Identity and access-management assessment
- User and account review
- Privileged-access assessment
- Administrative account review
- MFA and authentication review
- Role and security-group analysis
- Account lifecycle and offboarding review
- Effective-access validation
- Service and application account review
- Vendor and MSP access review
- Legacy authentication identification
- Identity logging and auditing review
Detection, logging & security monitoring
Determine whether existing security systems provide meaningful visibility and whether suspicious activity can actually be detected.
- Logging and telemetry assessment
- SIEM architecture, implementation, and optimization
- Log-source identification and onboarding
- Detection engineering
- Alert and detection-rule development
- Endpoint detection and response review
- Network security monitoring
- IDS/IPS assessment and deployment
- Security monitoring architecture
- Alert escalation and response workflow review
- Detection coverage validation
- Controlled detection testing
- SOC capability and readiness assessment
Incident response & recovery readiness
Prepare organizations to respond effectively when prevention fails.
- Incident-response program, plans, and procedures
- Incident-response playbooks
- Escalation and notification procedures
- Roles, responsibilities, and severity models
- Technical response procedures
- Communications planning
- Backup and recovery assessment
- Recovery procedure review
- Tabletop and incident-response exercises
- Detection-and-response validation
- After-action reviews and lessons learned
Governance, policy & security program development
Build the documentation and operating structure necessary to turn individual controls into a sustainable program.
- Cybersecurity policy development
- Standard operating procedures
- Security standards and guidelines
- Security program development
- Roles and responsibility definition
- Risk-, asset-, vulnerability-, patch-, access-, and incident-management processes
- Evidence and documentation management
- Security awareness program development
- Security metrics and reporting
Compliance & framework readiness
Help organizations understand and prepare for cybersecurity requirements — with a clear line between consulting support and independent certification or audit.
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework alignment
- NIST-based security assessments
- CMMC Level 1 preparation and self-assessment support
- Security control evidence collection and organization
- Policy and procedure development
- Control implementation support
- Gap identification and remediation planning
- Technical control validation
- Readiness reassessment
Scope note: Readiness consulting and preparation support only — not a C3PAO or certification assessment. Black Flag Security does not perform CMMC Level 2 assessments.
Security engineering & remediation
Turn assessment findings into practical technical improvements.
- Security architecture design
- Firewall and network configuration
- Network segmentation implementation
- Logging infrastructure and SIEM implementation
- IDS/IPS implementation
- Security-tool and endpoint configuration
- Secure remote-access implementation
- Monitoring and telemetry improvements
- Security control remediation
- MSP/client remediation coordination
- Technical documentation
- Post-remediation validation
Advisory & leadership support
Experienced cybersecurity guidance without requiring a full-time senior security hire.
- Cybersecurity leadership advisory
- Security strategy and roadmap development
- Risk prioritization
- Technology and security-tool evaluation
- Vendor and MSP technical review
- Security investment planning
- Architecture decision support
- Executive cybersecurity briefings
- Technical-to-business risk translation
- Project and implementation oversight
- Independent second-opinion reviews
Security validation & exercises
Test whether documented controls and expected capabilities work in practice.
- Security control validation
- Segmentation and firewall rule validation
- Detection and logging validation
- Access-control validation
- Backup and recovery validation
- Incident-response and tabletop exercises
- Technical scenario testing
- Remediation verification
Continuous assessment & security improvement
For organizations that need an ongoing security relationship rather than a one-time assessment.
- Periodic security posture reviews
- Recurring vulnerability assessments
- Security-control reassessment
- Remediation tracking and validation
- Configuration-change review
- Security metrics and trend analysis
- Asset and exposure monitoring
- Detection coverage review
- Policy and procedure maintenance
- Leadership security advisory
- Security roadmap management
Not sure where to start?
Describe the problem. You will get a plain recommendation — assessment, validation, readiness, remediation, or leadership support — sized to what you actually need.