Free Cybersecurity Maturity Assessment Tool | Check Your Security Posture

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Answer the questions below to receive an indicative assessment of your organization’s cybersecurity maturity and identify potential areas for improvement.

The assessment takes only a few minutes to complete.

How the Cybersecurity Assessment Works

The assessment follows a structured process to understand your organization, technology environment, and current security controls.

Step 1: Understand Your Organization

The assessment begins by gathering basic information about your organization and its technology environment. This helps provide context for the assessment.

Different organizations face different cybersecurity risks. For example, an organization with a large remote workforce, multiple cloud environments, customer-facing applications, and sensitive data will have different security priorities from an organization operating primarily from a single on-premises location.

Step 2: Identify Your Technology Environment

The assessment identifies the technologies and environments relevant to your organization.

This may include:

• On-premises infrastructure
• Cloud infrastructure
• Microsoft 365 or other SaaS platforms
• Remote users and branch offices
• Customer-facing applications
• APIs
• Containers and Kubernetes
• OT and industrial environments
• AI and generative AI applications

Step 3: Evaluate Existing Security Controls

You will be asked focused questions about your current security practices and controls.

The assessment considers whether appropriate controls are present across key areas of cybersecurity and identifies potential gaps where additional attention may be required.

Step 4: Assess Advanced Security Requirements

Based on your technology environment, additional questions may appear for specialized areas such as cloud, applications, APIs, containers, OT/ICS, or AI.

This helps ensure that the assessment is more relevant to your actual environment.

Step 5: Review Your Results

Once the assessment is completed, the tool provides an indicative cybersecurity maturity score and highlights areas that may require improvement.

The results can be used as a starting point for developing a cybersecurity improvement roadmap.

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Cybersecurity Areas Covered

Asset Visibility and IT Management

Organizations cannot effectively secure assets that they cannot identify or manage. Maintaining visibility into endpoints, servers, applications, cloud resources, and other IT assets is an important foundation of cybersecurity.

Key considerations include:

• Asset inventory
• Unauthorized device detection
• Software visibility
• IT asset lifecycle management
• Shadow IT identification
• Cloud asset visibility

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Network Security

Network security helps protect organizational infrastructure and communication from unauthorized access, attacks, and malicious activity.

Important controls may include:

• Next-generation firewalls
• Network segmentation
• Secure remote access
• Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)
• Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)
• Intrusion detection and prevention
• Network monitoring

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Endpoint Security

Endpoints are commonly targeted by cybercriminals and can provide attackers with access to organizational systems and data.

Organizations may need to consider:

• Endpoint protection
• Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
• Extended Detection and Response (XDR)
• Endpoint visibility
• Patch management
• Device control
• Ransomware protection

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Identity and Access Security

Identity has become one of the most important security perimeters for modern organizations.

A strong identity security strategy may include:

• Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
• Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Privileged Access Management (PAM)
• Single Sign-On (SSO)
• Conditional access
• Privileged account monitoring
• Least privilege access

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Email Security

Email remains one of the most common channels used for phishing, business email compromise, malware delivery, and credential theft.

Organizations should consider controls such as:

• Advanced phishing protection
• Malware detection
• Business Email Compromise protection
• URL and attachment analysis
• Email authentication
• Security awareness training

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Data Security and Data Loss Prevention

Organizations need to understand where sensitive data exists, who has access to it, and how it is being used.

Data security capabilities may include:

• Data discovery and classification
• Data Security Posture Management (DSPM)
• Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
• Data access monitoring
• Sensitive data protection
• Cloud data security
• Database security
• Data governance

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Cloud Security

Cloud environments can introduce security challenges related to misconfigurations, excessive permissions, workload security, and lack of visibility.

Relevant security capabilities may include:

• Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
• Cloud workload protection
• Cloud identity security
• Cloud entitlement management
• Cloud configuration monitoring
• Multi-cloud visibility

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Application and API Security

Customer-facing applications and APIs can expose organizations to security risks if vulnerabilities are not identified and managed effectively.

Organizations may need to consider:

• Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT)
• Secure application development
• SAST
• DAST
• Software Composition Analysis (SCA)
• Web Application Firewall (WAF)
• API discovery and security

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Container and Kubernetes Security

Organizations using containers and Kubernetes need security controls across the development, deployment, and runtime lifecycle.

Important areas may include:

• Container image scanning
• Vulnerability management
• Kubernetes configuration security
• Runtime protection
• Secrets management
• Kubernetes access control

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OT and ICS Security

Operational Technology environments have unique cybersecurity requirements because security incidents can potentially affect operational continuity and critical processes.

OT security may include:

• OT asset discovery
• Network visibility
• IT/OT segmentation
• Industrial threat detection
• Secure remote access
• Vulnerability monitoring
• OT incident response

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AI Security and AI Data Protection

As organizations increasingly adopt generative AI and AI-powered applications, new security and data protection risks can emerge.

Organizations may need visibility and controls around:

• AI application usage
• Shadow AI
• Sensitive data exposure to AI tools
• AI Data Loss Prevention
• AI governance
• Access controls
• AI-related security policies

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Understanding Your Cybersecurity Maturity Score

Your cybersecurity maturity score provides an indicative view of how well your organization has implemented security controls across the areas evaluated during the assessment.

A higher score generally indicates that more relevant security practices and controls are in place. However, cybersecurity maturity is not only about the number of security tools deployed. Effective security also depends on proper configuration, continuous monitoring, governance, people, processes, and the organization’s specific risk environment.

The assessment groups organizations into indicative maturity levels.

Initial

Security practices may be limited, reactive, or inconsistent. The organization may have significant gaps in basic security controls and visibility.

Priority: Establish fundamental security controls and address critical risks.

Developing

The organization has started implementing important security controls but may still have gaps, inconsistent processes, or limited coverage across some areas.

Priority: Improve coverage, visibility, and consistency.

Managed

The organization has implemented structured security controls and processes across multiple domains. Security activities are more consistently managed and monitored.

Priority: Improve integration, automation, and continuous monitoring.

Optimized

The organization demonstrates a more mature and proactive cybersecurity approach with strong visibility, structured processes, and continuous improvement.

Priority: Continue optimizing, automating, and adapting to emerging threats.

Important: This assessment provides an indicative maturity score and should not be considered a replacement for a detailed cybersecurity audit, penetration test, risk assessment, or compliance assessment.

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Why Regular Security Assessments Are Important

Cybersecurity is not a one-time project.

Technology environments change continuously. Organizations adopt new cloud services, applications, AI tools, remote working models, third-party services, and digital platforms. At the same time, cyber threats and attack techniques continue to evolve.

Regular cybersecurity assessments can help organizations:

• Identify new security gaps
• Review existing security controls
• Prioritize cybersecurity investments
• Improve risk visibility
• Support compliance initiatives
• Prepare for ransomware and cyber incidents
• Improve incident response readiness
• Identify changes in cloud and SaaS environments
• Manage emerging AI-related risks
• Build a long-term cybersecurity roadmap

Organizations should consider reassessing their security posture after significant changes to their infrastructure, applications, cloud environment, business operations, or threat landscape.