How confident are you that your online operations truly resist today’s threats?
We provide website security audit services that validate controls, policies, and configurations against recognized frameworks. Our approach blends automated checks with expert manual review to reveal gaps across applications, infrastructure, and processes.
As a trusted partner, we tailor scope to your business needs so audits run with minimal disruption. We benchmark findings against CIS controls and readiness for iso 27001, delivering prioritized actions that support budgeting and roadmap decisions.
Our team follows a formal process—planning, evidence-based verification, risk ranking, and measurable outcomes. Drawing on years of field experience, we help each client reduce uncertainty and focus investments where they matter most.
Key Takeaways
- We deliver tailored audits that map to business needs and recognized frameworks.
- Automated tools plus expert review uncover practical risks across the stack.
- Benchmarks include CIS controls and iso 27001 readiness for compliance alignment.
- Typical engagements span days to weeks and scale by asset count and complexity.
- Focused results support budgeting, roadmaps, and evidence of due diligence.
Protect Your Business with a Proven Website Security Audit Partner
Rising threats demand a consistent, expert-led review that reduces exposure and builds trust.
Cyberattacks increased by 46% year over year, and businesses now block over a billion unique attacks each month. Regular security audit activity helps prevent data breaches, malware infections, and hacking attempts while reinforcing user trust and regulatory requirements.
We act as a long-term partner who combines deep knowledge of your environment with sector-aware techniques that find issues generic scans miss.
- We align the audit to your company context, clarifying scope, dependencies, and ownership for this year.
- We frame findings in business terms so leadership gets clear information to support decisions.
- Our team streamlines handoffs with yours to make evidence collection efficient and minimally disruptive.
- Guidance extends beyond the site to connected systems and suppliers, strengthening trust with every client and customer.
Our services focus on defense-in-depth and practical fixes that improve resilience quickly, help build institutional knowledge, and make future work faster and more cost-effective.
Why Website Security Auditing Matters Today
Today’s threat landscape forces businesses to reassess how they protect public-facing digital assets.
Attacks rose 46% year over year, and defenders block over a billion unique intrusions every month. Forty percent of breaches involve public cloud data and the average incident cost reaches about $5.17 million.
Regular review of your external environment and connected systems reduces exposure to legal and compliance penalties. It also helps find risks from outdated software, weak authentication, misconfigurations, and risky third‑party integrations before adversaries exploit them.
- Risk reduction: Verified controls lower the chance of a costly breach, especially for cloud-hosted information and data.
- Performance gains: Removing insecure plugins and excessive scripts often improves reliability and page speed.
- Trust and visibility: Demonstrable protections build customer confidence and can boost search rankings for stable sites.
- Actionable insight: Evidence-based findings let teams prioritize fixes that deliver the greatest reduction in risks per unit of effort.
In short, a disciplined verification process creates a defensible record that you exercised reasonable care. It also supports continuous improvement as threat trends shift across your industry this year.
Our Website Security Audit Services
We deliver tailored engagements ranging from narrow checks to full‑stack evaluations with hands‑on remediation.
Choose the level of review that fits your risk profile and compliance goals. Options include targeted assessments, comprehensive analysis, and combined review-plus-remediation packages that close gaps quickly.
Targeted, all-around, and audit-with-remediation options
Targeted work addresses discrete concerns such as admin authentication or CMS hardening. All‑around reviews provide full visibility across assets, software, configurations, access, and logging.
For speed to value, we bundle remediation assistance to implement prioritized fixes, verify outcomes, and reduce exposure.
Internal vs. external audits: when each adds the most value
Internal reviews leverage your company context and operational knowledge to accelerate discovery and cut follow-up time.
External assessments give independent assurance, uncover less obvious vulnerabilities, and support attestations for clients or regulators.
- We map scope to CIS control families to cover inventories, configurations, access management, and logging.
- Where needed, we integrate penetration testing to validate exploitability of critical paths and measure real‑world risk.
- Engagements scale to meet iso 27001 readiness, PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, or GDPR goals while staying pragmatic.
- Each engagement ends with a prioritized roadmap, clear owners, and effort estimates so remediation moves from plan to action.
Scope Guided by Best Practices and Real-World Risks
A practical scope ties recommended practices to the real risks in your environment. We define boundaries that map to controls you can implement and sustain. This keeps findings actionable for leadership and technical teams.
CIS-aligned control coverage
We inventory assets and software to create a baseline, then verify secure configurations to reduce the attack surface. Our review also covers continuous vulnerability testing, access governance, and logging with SIEM correlation.
Data protection across environments
We trace sensitive data flows across cloud, on‑prem, and third parties to confirm encryption, retention policies, and alignment with iso 27001 and related mandates. These checks protect PHI, cardholder data, and intellectual property.
Perimeter, endpoints, and resilience
Evaluations include email and web defenses, malware controls, EDR posture, and backup/recovery testing to validate recovery time objectives. We also assess network architecture, monitoring, and incident response readiness.
- Employee training and third‑party controls
- Logging analysis for authentication, session activity, and configuration changes
- Prioritized findings so your team can act with clarity
Audit vs. Assessment vs. Penetration Testing
Distinguishing checks that prove controls exist from tests that show they work is essential for informed risk decisions.
An IT check that verifies control presence is different from a holistic evaluation and from hands‑on exploit testing. We separate those goals so leadership gets clear, usable information and decision makers know what each report will deliver.
What an audit verifies
An audit confirms required controls are present and configured as intended. It maps findings to standards, produces evidence for governance, and creates compliance-ready reports.
What an assessment evaluates
An assessment measures how defenses perform in practice. It blends policy review, control walkthroughs, and effectiveness testing to show operational strength across people, process, and engineering.
Where penetration testing fits
Penetration testing validates exploitability and classifies vulnerabilities by criticality. Focused testing (including social engineering and access pathway checks) quantifies real-world risk and informs remediation priorities.
- Use an audit for proof of controls and compliance evidence.
- Use an assessment to evaluate resilience and control effectiveness.
- Use penetration testing to confirm exploit paths and prioritize fixes.
Method | Primary outcome | Best for |
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Audit | Verification and evidence | Governance and compliance reports |
Assessment | Operational evaluation | Risk reduction planning |
Penetration | Exploit validation | Prioritizing technical fixes |
Recommended sequence: baseline audit, targeted assessments, then focused testing. This approach maximizes learning while minimizing disruption and accelerates measurable risk reduction for the company.
How Our Security Audit Process Works
We start by building a clear inventory and scope that drives focused testing and review.

Defining scope and gathering environment details
We enumerate assets, technologies, and third‑party integrations so the process covers all critical systems. That inventory guides targeted scans and manual work.
Automated scanning plus expert manual testing
We run tools like OpenVAS, Nessus, and Burp Suite, then follow with manual code review and business logic testing to find chained vulnerabilities tools miss.
Access control and configuration hardening checks
We validate access controls, password policies, MFA, and session management. We also inspect server, SSL/TLS, and framework settings for hardened configurations.
Malware detection, backup/recovery, and SIEM/log review
We search for indicators of compromise, verify backup frequency and restoration drills, and review logs to ensure authentication and deployment events are captured.
Findings, risk prioritization, and actionable remediation roadmap
Our concise report ties each vulnerability to business impact and provides testable recommendations. We deliver a roadmap with owners, timelines, and traceability from evidence to fixes so your team can measure progress and improve ability to respond.
Compliance and Industry Standards We Map To
Preparing for certification requires precise gap analysis and pragmatic remediation steps tied to business context. We help organizations translate technical controls into audit-ready evidence and a clear roadmap for compliance.
ISO 27001 readiness and pre-audit gap analysis
We run ISO 27001 readiness engagements that identify control deficiencies and recommend prioritized fixes. Our pre‑audit gap analysis ties findings to specific clauses, so your organization knows what to remediate before formal assessment.
HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOC 2, SOX, GDPR, NIST, GLBA alignment
Our work maps controls across HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOC 2, SOX, GDPR, NIST, and GLBA. We link technical checks to regulatory criteria and show where controls overlap or diverge.
- Clause mapping: Structured review that connects controls to criteria for predictable follow‑through.
- Evidence strategy: Sampling plans, test procedures, and evidence expectations to reduce surprises.
- Operational testing: Practical testing to confirm controls are implemented and operating as designed.
- Shared responsibility: Clarification of vendor and cloud provider obligations so compliance is complete end‑to‑end.
- Leadership reporting: Reports that support budgeting, prioritization, and a sequenced remediation plan.
In short, our approach makes compliance achievable and actionable—helping your company move from findings to measurable improvement.
Deliverables That Drive Actionable Results
Our deliverables turn findings into clear priorities for leadership and engineering. We package evidence so your team can act quickly and your company can measure improvement.
Executive summary, technical findings, and risk-ranked report
The executive brief gives a concise posture view, business impact, and top recommendations for decision makers.
The technical section lists vulnerabilities by criticality, includes reproduction steps, and maps affected assets for rapid triage.
Clear remediation recommendations and roadmap
Each report delivers a prioritized backlog with owners, effort estimates, and sequencing to accelerate results.
- Executive-ready overview: risk posture and top fixes in plain language.
- Technical evidence: logs, traces, and reproduction steps for validation.
- Remediation roadmap: configuration targets, control objectives, and acceptance criteria.
- Validation options: follow-up testing to confirm fixes and update reports for auditors and stakeholders.
Deliverable | Audience | Primary value | Outcome |
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Executive summary | Leadership | Clear risk and budget priorities | Decision-ready results |
Technical findings | Engineers | Repro steps and evidence | Faster remediation |
Risk-ranked backlog | Project owners | Sequenced tasks with estimates | Trackable progress |
Validation report | Client & auditors | Proof of fixes | Reduced residual risk |
Industries We Serve and Common Threat Scenarios
Different industries face distinct threat patterns that shape how we prioritize testing and controls.
We tailor engagements by industry. Finance, healthcare, education, and ecommerce each have unique regulatory pressures and operational constraints.
Many organizations were hit by ransomware in the past year. Common threats include malware, phishing, SQL injection, cross‑site scripting (XSS), DoS/DDoS, and brute‑force attacks.
Finance, healthcare, education, and ecommerce risk profiles
In finance, attackers seek account access and transaction manipulation. Healthcare often faces data theft of PHI and ransomware targeting clinical systems.
Education and ecommerce are frequently targeted for credential theft and payment fraud. We map risks to compliance needs and business impact for each client.
Web app/CMS, plugin, and third‑party integration exposures
Web applications and plugins often introduce vulnerabilities through outdated software and weak permissions.
We evaluate CMS core, themes, and plugins, and we assess API and payment integrations that can propagate risks across partners and suppliers.
- High‑impact scenarios: ransomware, data theft, account takeover.
- Exploit testing: SQL injection, XSS, authentication bypass, and rate‑limit checks.
- Controls: WAF validation, segmentation, and least‑privilege patterns to reduce blast radius.
- Penetration testing: targeted tests where needed to validate exploitability for stakeholders.
- Playbooks: industry‑aware response guides to align monitoring and incident actions with your company and client base.
Pricing, Timelines, and Engagement Models
Pricing for a comprehensive review starts at $1,000 and scales with complexity and scope. Final cost depends on company size, asset count, and how complex your environment is (remote access, IoT, or custom apps).
Cost drivers
Major drivers include asset inventory size, architectural complexity, and documentation clarity. Clear diagrams and policies reduce discovery time and lower fees.
Typical duration and models
Most work completes in a few days to several weeks. Timelines are set during planning so testing and evidence collection fit your change windows and employee availability.
- Scope-based pricing: fixed-fee options for defined scopes and predictable deliverables and reports.
- Flexible models: time-and-materials for exploratory work or multi-phase plans that start with a quick baseline then deepen later.
- Efficiency gains: long-term partnerships shorten future engagements as our team gains context about your organization and processes.
We coordinate with internal employees to streamline interviews and validations, and we can bundle iso 27001 readiness and targeted testing to match near-term needs.
Why Choose Our Team
We combine certified expertise with repeatable processes to deliver clear, defendable findings.
Decades of experience, certified professionals, and secure data handling
Our team brings forty years of audit experience across iso 27001, NIST, PCI DSS, GLBA, FERPA, and HIPAA.
We employ Certified Ethical Hackers, ISO 27001 internal auditors, cloud security experts, and compliance consultants.
- Disciplined delivery: We operate under ISO 9001 and iso 27001 programs for controlled handling of client data.
- Broad capability: We run assessments, social engineering, mobile and web application testing, and compliance reviews.
- Practical integration: Our teams work with company employees and leadership to limit disruption and align priorities.
- Defensible reports: Findings support investigations, litigation, and board-level decision making.
Attribute | What we provide | Benefit |
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Experience | 40 years across multiple frameworks | Proven methods and institutional knowledge |
Team | Certified professionals and engineers | Technical depth and practical execution |
Process | ISO 9001 & iso 27001 controls | Secure data handling and repeatability |
As a trusted partner, we translate complex risk into clear action. Our ability to communicate with engineers and executives ensures remediation moves from plan to measurable outcome.
Conclusion
A disciplined cadence of checks turns ad-hoc fixes into lasting resilience. Regular reviews help prevent data breaches, strengthen incident response, and boost trust, performance, and search visibility.
We align scope and depth to your business needs and deliver a concise report with prioritized recommendations that produce measurable results. Typical engagements run days to weeks, with costs starting near $1,000 depending on scope and complexity.
- We act as a collaborative partner from planning through remediation validation.
- We sequence changes to close the most critical access and configuration gaps first.
- Engage our team to establish a repeatable cadence that keeps controls current.
Learn more about a practical website security audit and speak with us about objectives, timelines, and the right level of service for your organization.
FAQ
What is included in a comprehensive website security audit?
A thorough review covers assets, application and network configurations, access controls, logging, and backup/recovery. We combine automated scans with manual testing to identify vulnerabilities, assess risks, and produce an executive summary plus a prioritized remediation roadmap aligned to standards such as ISO 27001 and NIST.
How does a security audit differ from an assessment or penetration test?
An audit verifies controls and compliance against defined standards. An assessment evaluates risk exposure and business impact. Penetration testing actively exploits vulnerabilities to demonstrate real-world attack paths. We recommend combining all three for full coverage.
Which industries benefit most from these reviews?
Finance, healthcare, education, and ecommerce often have high regulatory and threat demands, but any organization handling sensitive data gains value. We tailor scope to each industry’s risks, regulatory needs, and technical environment.
What standards and compliance frameworks do you map to?
We map findings to ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOC 2, SOX, GDPR, and NIST frameworks, providing pre-audit gap analysis and actionable steps to improve readiness for formal certification or regulatory reporting.
How long does an engagement typically take and what affects cost?
Duration ranges from a few days for targeted checks to several weeks for full-scope audits. Cost drivers include asset count, environment complexity (cloud, on-prem, third-party integrations), and documentation quality. We provide transparent estimates after scoping.
Do we need to provide credentials or grant access for testing?
Yes — limited, controlled access improves coverage and accuracy. We follow strict secure data handling procedures and use role-based test accounts where possible. We coordinate access windows to minimize operational impact.
What deliverables will we receive after the review?
Deliverables include an executive summary, detailed technical findings with evidence, a risk-ranked report, and a clear remediation roadmap. We can also provide follow-up verification and remediation assistance if requested.
Can you help with remediation and long-term improvements?
Absolutely. Our team provides prioritized recommendations, implementation support, configuration hardening, and guidance on secure development and operational practices to reduce future risk and improve resilience.
How do you handle third-party and cloud data protection in an audit?
We assess third-party integrations, contract controls, and cloud configurations (IAM, encryption, logging). Our review checks data flows, vendor security posture, and measures for breach containment and recovery.
How do you prioritize vulnerabilities and findings?
We rank issues by exploitability and business impact, using real-world threat context. High-risk items affecting sensitive data or critical systems receive immediate remediation plans; lower-risk items are bundled into tactical improvements.
What qualifications do your team members hold?
Our professionals include CISSP, OSCP, CISM, and certified ISO 27001 auditors with decades of engineering and incident response experience. We combine certification with practical testing skills to deliver reliable results.
Will an audit help with improving performance and search visibility?
Yes. While our primary focus is protection and compliance, identifying misconfigurations and inefficient processes often improves uptime and page performance, which can positively affect search visibility and user trust.
How do you ensure reports are actionable for both executives and engineers?
We produce a concise executive summary highlighting business impact and risk posture, plus detailed technical appendices with remediation steps, patch references, and configuration changes for engineering teams to implement.
What happens after we fix issues — can you retest?
We offer verification testing to confirm remediation effectiveness, follow-up assessments, and ongoing monitoring partnerships to maintain a strong posture as your environment and threats evolve.
How do you protect client data during testing and reporting?
We enforce least-privilege access, encrypted data storage, strict retention policies, and contractual nondisclosure. Our handling meets industry best practices to safeguard evidence and sensitive findings throughout the engagement.