Turn security blind spots into cyber resilience with proactive risk management.
In a world where cyber threats are more complex and sophisticated than ever, we understand that simply testing networks and systems is no longer sufficient to protect against today’s attacks. Over the past decade, Sentaris has conducted Penetration Testing services for some of Australia’s largest organisations, revealing that an organisation’s susceptibility to, and impact from, cyber-attacks often stem from more than just technical controls
Our NIST CSF Assessment, Controls Assessment, and Security Strategy services reveal any security blind spots, determine your holistic current state, define a target maturity, and design a roadmap to close critical security gaps. Leveraging an industry best practice approach, we strengthen your security posture and establish cyber security as an enabler of trust and long-term performance – not just a technical function.
Assess how well your people, process and technology protect critical assets.
Establish a risk-informed, business-aligned target state that prioritises key risk areas.
We work collaboratively to design a tailored plan that is aligned with your operational realities.
Implement a best practice framework that provides security and enables sustainable innovation.
Sentaris uses a structured, outcome-driven methodology to ensure targeted and effective outcomes. We assess, manage and enhance your cyber security posture using a four step process:
Evaluate Cyber Risk Management with a Globally Recognised Framework
The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Cybersecurity Framework (NIST CSF) provides a structured approach to managing cyber security risks. The framework is widely recognised as best practice for cybersecurity risk management and is an adaptable model used by critical infrastructure, national security and a wide range of industries.
Our NIST CSF assessment provides an in-depth evaluation of your organisation’s Information Security Management System. We analyse the policies, processes, and practices of your organisation against the framework’s six core functions: Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover.
Our team utilises a range of gap assessment tools to:
By conducting a Sentaris NIST CSF Assessment, leaders can gain a clear line of sight into organisational cyber security maturity and uncover hidden risks.
Validate the Effectiveness of Your Security Controls
Delving deeper into the analysis and uplift of your cyber security function, Sentaris analyse security controls that protect your critical assets.
This assessment supports your NIST Cybersecurity Framework assessment results to validate that the correct operational processes, technical controls and system configurations are in place to support the effective function of your cyber security framework.
Whether you already align with a control set like CIS Controls or Essential Eight, or need guidance selecting one, we’ll ensure your organisation is aligned with best-practice standards from day one.
Turn Insight Into a Targeted, Business-Aligned Security Roadmap
Don’t just assess – advance.
Utilising the data from our NIST CSF and Controls Assessments, we define a robust target state tailored to your organisation and it’s threat landscape.
We then work closely with your team to understand your organisation’s industry, business, and technology drivers and design a security strategy targeted toward mitigating risk. Acknowledging your business vision, risk appetite, and technology roadmap, a program of works is defined to close the gap on cyber security maturity. Finally, initiatives are set out within a prioritised roadmap that links projects to the gaps identified in the assessments.
Our Security Strategy service forges the pathway to design, uplift and validate security controls until you reach your ideal target state and achieve cyber security maturity.
Take Action and Drive Outcomes
Penetration tests are technical exercises that focus on identifying exploitable vulnerabilities in systems. A NIST CSF Assessment takes a broader view, assessing governance, processes, and controls to evaluate overall cyber security maturity.
That’s not a problem. Our methodology is designed to complement and integrate with whichever framework you use. Different framework? We’ll map your approach to the NIST CSF functions and utilise outcomes to identify any previously unknown gaps in your current approach. Non-NIST control set? Great, we’ll integrate it into the Controls Assessment to complement the NIST CSF assessment outcomes and ensure a comprehensive approach that accounts for all people, processes, and technologies.
Yes. Sentaris regularly assists organisations with framework crosswalks and version upgrades. Whether you’re transitioning between NIST CSF versions (e.g., NIST CSF 1.1 to 2.0, ISO 27001:2013 to 2022) or mapping from another standard, we provide a concise approach to ensure continuity and minimise duplication. This ensures your cyber security program remains consistent and up to date with the latest standards.
Our maturity model approach is great for organisations just getting started. Sentaris begins with defining your maturity through the NIST CSF Assessment. From there, we help you define a realistic target state and prioritised roadmap. This approach enables an iterative continuous improvement cycle that is aligned with your business priorities and risk appetite.