Find your risks, close your gaps, stay compliant.
You can't fix what you can't see. Purple Shield benchmarks your posture against the standards that matter, HIPAA, NIST, CIS, ISO and PCI. Then hands you a prioritized risk register, a clear compliance gap list, and a remediation roadmap you can actually execute. No tools to sell you. Just a clear picture of your risk.
Independent
Vendor neutral
No products to sell
CREDENTIALS BEHIND THE ADVICE
CISSP
CISM
CRISC
AAISM
Risk Assessment, Explained
Most companies don't get breached by the risks they know about.
You've bought tools. You've passed an audit or two. But you still can't answer the question that matters: if an attacker hit you today, where would they get in — and would you even know? A risk assessment answers it, in plain language, with hard numbers.
See where you're actually at risk
We evaluate your environment end-to-end including people, process and technology, to surface the blind spots that hide in plain sight: missing policies, unmonitored systems, weak access controls, unclear ownership. Each finding is ranked by real-world exposure, not hype.
Prove it against the standards
We benchmark your posture against HIPAA, NIST, CIS, ISO and PCI, translate each requirement into mapped controls and owners, and produce the evidence auditors and customers ask for, so you can prove progress, not just document gaps.
Why frameworks? Because "trust us, it's fine" no longer wins audits or deals. Mapping your posture to HIPAA, NIST, CIS, ISO and PCI turns a vague worry into a measured score, a prioritized risk register, and evidence you can put in front of an auditor, a board or a customer's security team.
The Standards We Measure You Against
Benchmarked to the frameworks that matter.
Each standard answers a different question about your security. Together they give you a complete, defensible picture. From board level governance down to the exact control an auditor will ask to see.
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Governance & risk · the general baseline
The framework U.S. organizations and regulators point to as a baseline. We assess your program across its core functions and give you a maturity score for each.
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Identify— assets, data and where risk lives
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Protect— access, training and safeguards
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Detect— monitoring and anomaly detection
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Respond & Recover— readiness to act and restore
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Technical hardening · the practitioner's checklist
The prioritized set of safeguards that stop the most common attacks. We measure your coverage across the Implementation Groups so you know what to harden first.
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Asset & software inventory coverage
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Access control & account management
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Data protection & secure configuration
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Logging, monitoring & response gaps
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The global standard · for credibility at scale
The internationally recognized benchmark for an information security management system. We assess your ISMS against the standard's requirements and Annex A controls so you know the gap to certification.
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Readiness against ISO/IEC requirements
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Annex A control gaps ahead of certification
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ISMS scope, risk treatment & Statement of Applicability
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A staged path to Stage 1 / Stage 2 audit
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Regulated data · for healthcare & PHI
The safeguards required to protect patient data. We assess your administrative, physical and technical controls and map the gaps to the specific rule requirements.
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Administrative, physical & technical safeguards
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Required HIPAA risk analysis & documentation
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Access, audit & transmission controls
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Business Associate & vendor exposure
What You Walk Away With
An assessment you can act on and show.
No 80-page PDF that sits in a drawer. You get a clear picture of where you stand, what to fix first, and the evidence to put in front of the people who ask.
Compliance gap list
Where you stand against HIPAA, NIST, CIS, ISO and PCI. Each gap with its risk impact and next step.
Prioritized risk register
Your risks rated by severity and likelihood, each tied to an owner and a remediation priority leadership can use.
Control mapping
Requirements traced to mapped controls, owners and procedures, and proof of exactly how you meet each one.
Remediation roadmap
A ranked fix list, what to remediate first, what it protects, and the effort each item takes.
Why Assess Now
The hard part isn't buying tools. It's knowing where you're exposed.
Every organization carries risk it can't fully see. Our assessments dig past the surface to find the root causes of vulnerability, gaps in policy, weak access controls, thin incident readiness, or compliance obligations you're not fully meeting, and rank them by what actually matters to your business.
Blind spots you can't see
Missing policies, unmonitored systems and unclear ownership hide in plain sight until something goes wrong. We surface them and rank them by real-world exposure.
Third party risk
Vendors touch your data and systems with security maturity you've never verified. A supplier's weak controls quietly become your breach.
Gaps that stall deals
HIPAA, SOC 2, and PCI questions now decide contracts and audits. "We don't have a policy" is no longer an acceptable answer to a customer or a regulator.
Tools without strategy
Misaligned priorities and reactive decisions leave even well-funded environments exposed. More tools don't fix a missing plan.
Exploitable exposure
Weaknesses across endpoints, servers, cloud and internet-facing services are what attackers actually use. Most teams can't tell the noise from the real risk.
Risk to the business itself
Sensitive data, reputation, financial loss and operational continuity are what's truly at stake, not a checklist. We keep the focus there.
Full Risk & Compliance Assessments
From finding the gaps to proving you've closed them.
A complete set of assessments grouped into the work that finds your exposure and benchmarks your compliance, and the work that maps controls and hardens the specific environments where your risk lives.
Gap Assessment
We benchmark your posture against the standards that matter and give you a clear gap list, risk impact and prioritized next steps, so you can prove progress, not just document gaps.
Risk Register
We identify your highest-impact risks, quantify severity and likelihood, and produce a risk register leadership can actually use tied directly to remediation priorities and business objectives.
IS Risk Assessment
We evaluate your environment end-to-end including people, process and technology to pinpoint your highest business impact risks, with an executive summary and a prioritized action plan.
Exposure Assessment
We find exploitable weaknesses across endpoints, servers, cloud and internet-facing services, then separate noise from what attackers can actually use, ranked by likelihood, impact and effort.
Control Mapping
We translate regulatory requirements into mapped controls, owners and operating procedures, so you can show exactly how you meet each one for audits, due diligence and customer security reviews.
Third-Party Risk
We assess vendor access, data sharing and security maturity to reduce hidden supply-chain risk with a vendor risk rating, required remediation items and recommended contract requirements.
Cloud Risk Assessment
We assess your cloud architecture, identity and access, segmentation, data protection and logging regardless of platform with a practical roadmap to harden workloads.
AI Risk Assessment
We assess how you use AI and where sensitive data, IP or regulated information could leak, data exposure, prompt injection, weak controls with practical policies and a roadmap.
The Difference It Makes
Guessing about risk vs. measuring it.
Unassessed risk vs. a Purple Shield risk & compliance assessment
AI with no assessment
Visibility
No clear picture of where you're exposed
Benchmark
A vague sense that you're "probably fine"
Prioritization
Every finding treated as equally urgent
Audit & buyer questions
No evidence when auditors or buyers ask
Independence
Guided by whichever vendor sells the loudest
Purple Shield vCISO services
Visibility
A ranked view of your blind spots and real exposure
Benchmark
Maturity scores vs. HIPAA, NIST, CIS, ISO & PCI
Prioritization
A risk register ranked by severity and likelihood
Buyer questions
Control mapping and evidence ready for review
Independence
Vendor-neutral — nothing to sell you
How It Works
How the risk assessment works.
Scope
A short kickoff to map your environment and the frameworks that apply, HIPAA, NIST, CIS, ISO or PCI, and what matters most to your business.
Assess
We evaluate people, process and technology, benchmark your posture against your frameworks, and identify the gaps and exposure that carry real risk.
Report
You get an executive summary, a prioritized risk register, a compliance gap list and a remediation roadmap in plain language, walked through with your team.
Remediate
We stay in it with you working alongside IT and leadership to close gaps, strengthen controls, and keep you audit-ready over time.
Credentials That Back The Advice
Decades of hands-on security leadership
Most security advice comes with a sales agenda. Ours doesn't. That single difference changes everything about the guidance you get.
Who We Serve
Built for industries under real regulatory pressure.
We work with organizations where protecting data and keeping operations running are critical whether you're handling sensitive information, managing distributed teams, or preparing for an audit.
Healthcare
Protect patient data, meet HIPAA requirements and strengthen your posture — from risk analysis to incident response planning, built around the pressures providers face.
Legal
Safeguard privileged client information and meet ethical obligations around data security, with clear policies, secure communications and protected digital records.
Financial Services
Protect sensitive data, maintain customer trust and meet strict regulatory requirements securing transactions, preventing fraud and defending against threats.
Small & Mid-Sized
Real estate, logistics, education, manufacturing and professional services. Cyber threats don't discriminate by industry, and a breach hits hard without regulatory pressure.
What Our Clients Say
Trusted by firms who can't afford to get this wrong.
Cameron Eghbali - U.S. Games Dist.
"As a mid-size company, we didn’t have the resources for a full-time CISO. Purple Shield’s vCISO gave us top-tier leadership and a clear roadmap to strengthen our security while scaling our business."
Brian Cohen - Q&A Manufacturing
"We don’t have the budget for a full-time CISO, so having Purple Shield as our vCISO has been a lifesaver. They translated all the security jargon into plain English and gave us a clear plan we could actually follow. I finally feel like we know where we stand and what to do next."
Joe Mobassernia - Mobassernia, P.C.
We were scaling faster than we could keep up with, constantly adding people and systems, and security was the thing nobody owned. We needed someone to just take it off our plate and keep us safe while we grew. Purple Shield stepped in and ran the whole program, set up the right controls, and grew the security side right alongside us.
Our Numbers
Two decades of results behind every engagement.
200+
Clients Served
30+
Incidents Responded To
20+
Years of Experience
100+
Assessments Completed
Senior security leadership, on demand.
Let's talk about where your business stands today. We'll talk through where your firm is exposed and the first steps that matter most — in plain English, with no sales agenda.