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IT & Cybersecurity Audit & Assessment Services

An audit is only valuable if it changes something. We deliver independent, evidence-based assessments — and then hand you a prioritised, costed remediation roadmap you can actually execute.

Overview

Audit & Assessment built for enterprise scale

Our auditors have led regulatory assessments for banks, insurers, government entities and large enterprises, and know the difference between a finding that matters and a finding that fills a page.

What we deliver

Our audit & assessment

The full capability list is published deliberately — it is what your procurement team needs to see, and what captures the long-tail searches your peers actually type.

Regulatory & Framework Compliance Assessments

Control-by-control assessment against the framework your regulator or customer actually cites.

  • NIST CSF maturity assessment
  • DORA and NIS2 readiness assessment
  • Sector regulatory assessment (FFIEC, HIPAA, GLBA)
  • ISO/IEC 27001 internal audit and pre-certification assessment
  • ISO 22301 business continuity audit
  • ISO/IEC 27701 privacy management assessment
  • SOC 1 and SOC 2 readiness assessment
  • PCI DSS gap assessment and pre-assessment
  • CIS Controls and CIS Benchmark assessment
  • Cloud security controls assessment
  • Multi-framework unified control assessment

Technology & IT Audit

Controls tested on the ground — configuration, evidence, walkthroughs and sampling.

  • IT General Controls (ITGC) audit
  • IT governance and IT strategy audit
  • Application controls and interface audit
  • Pre- and post-implementation system audit
  • Change management and SDLC audit
  • Logical access and user access review audit
  • Backup, recovery and continuity controls audit
  • Network, infrastructure and configuration audit
  • Database and data controls audit
  • Licensing and IT asset audit
  • IT outsourcing and cloud provider audit

Technical Security Assessments

Assurance grounded in technical fact, not questionnaires.

  • Cybersecurity maturity assessment
  • Vulnerability assessment and penetration testing for assurance
  • Configuration and hardening review against CIS Benchmarks
  • Active Directory and identity security assessment
  • Cloud configuration and posture assessment (Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI)
  • Application and API security assessment
  • Wireless and network architecture review
  • Cyber Threat Intelligence capability assessment
  • SOC and detection capability assessment
  • Red team and adversary simulation assessment
  • OT/ICS security assessment

Privacy, Data & Third-Party Assessments

Where your data goes, who else touches it and whether that is defensible.

  • Data privacy audit and privacy control assessment
  • Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA)
  • Data discovery, mapping and classification assessment
  • Cross-border data transfer assessment
  • Third-party and vendor security assessment
  • Outsourcing risk assessment
  • M&A technology and cyber due diligence

Reporting, Remediation & Re-Assurance

What you get at the end — and what happens next.

  • Executive summary and board-level reporting
  • Detailed findings register with risk rating and evidence
  • Prioritised, costed remediation roadmap
  • Control design and implementation recommendations
  • Remediation support and implementation assistance
  • Re-assessment, validation and closure reporting
  • Regulator and certification body response support
  • Continuous compliance monitoring
Outcomes

What you get

  • A defensible, evidence-backed view of your true compliance position
  • Findings prioritised by business risk, not alphabetically
  • Remediation plans with effort, cost and ownership attached
  • Regulator and certification body submissions handled with confidence
  • Independent validation your board and customers can rely on
Why NAZZTEC

Why us for audit & assessment

  • Senior consultants with two decades of experience, from Big-4 firms and global system integrators.
  • Delivery across three countries with onsite, offshore and hybrid models, and fluency across NIST, ISO, PCI DSS and GDPR.
  • Eleven adjacent service lines — findings remediated, platforms operated and gaps staffed without introducing another vendor.
  • Technology-neutral recommendations, backed by the ability to deploy and operate whatever we recommend.
  • Fixed, transparent commercial models with no unpriced obligations.
Engagement

How we engage

Listen

A free 45-minute discovery call with a senior consultant to understand the business driver, the constraints and the deadline — before any solution is proposed.

Scope

A written scope with deliverables, assumptions, exclusions, timeline, team composition and fixed pricing wherever the scope allows. No unpriced obligations.

Mobilise

A named engagement lead, a named delivery team and a kick-off that confirms access, stakeholders and reporting cadence.

Deliver

Execution with weekly progress reporting, visible artefacts, and early escalation of anything that could affect timeline or cost.

Evidence

Documented, auditable deliverables — findings registers, control mappings, runbooks, architecture documents and test evidence written to withstand scrutiny.

Sustain

Handover and knowledge transfer, or managed operations under agreed SLAs — so the outcome holds after we leave.

The technology behind this service

Audit & Assessment covers the expertise and delivery. If you are evaluating the platforms themselves — what we deploy, which vendors we work with and how we select between them — see Industry Solutions.

Industry Solutions
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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between a gap assessment and an audit?
A gap assessment is forward-looking and advisory: it identifies what is missing against a target framework and how to close it. An audit is a formal, evidence-based examination of whether defined controls exist and operate effectively over a period. Organisations approaching a new regulation usually start with a gap assessment; those maintaining compliance run periodic audits.
How do you ensure independence?
Assessment and remediation are delivered by separate teams under separate engagement letters, with findings reported directly to your nominated sponsor. Where certification independence is mandatory, we clearly define where our role ends and the certification body's begins.
Will you help us fix what you find?
Yes, under a separate engagement and with a different team, so independence is preserved. Many clients value having the people who found the issue available to advise the people fixing it — we simply make the separation explicit and contractual.

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