Cyber Risk & Compliance Assessment

Find Out Where You’re Exposed Before Someone Else Does

You don’t have a security team, so nobody has ever been asked the question that matters: where are we exposed? USDG answers it in plain English, ranked by what it would cost your business, and mapped to the rules that apply to you.

It’s 2 a.m. Someone logs into your cloud account from a device you’ve never seen. Who would know? An assessment finds those blind spots while they’re still just blind spots.

Scope of Examination

What This Covers

Comprehensive, multi-vector discovery engineered for SMB realities.

Technical Vulnerability Scanning

Technical vulnerability scanning across your network, endpoints, and cloud accounts to uncover unpatched firmware, open firewall ports, and unmanaged devices.

Access & Identity Review

Access review — who can get to what, and whether they still should. Identifying former employees with lingering logins, ghost admin accounts, and missing MFA.

Email & Payment-Fraud Exposure

Email and payment-fraud exposure assessment. Auditing SPF/DKIM/DMARC configurations, inbox forwarding rules, and business email compromise (BEC) pathways.

Vendor & Third-Party Risk Review

Vendor and third-party risk review. Mapping out external software vendors, billing providers, and remote IT suppliers who maintain unmonitored hooks into your environment.

Backup & Recovery Check

Backup and recovery check. Testing whether your critical backups are air-gapped from ransomware, actually restorable on demand, and compliant with retention rules.

Policy & Mandate Review

Policy review against HIPAA, the FTC Safeguards Rule, and cyber insurance requirements to pinpoint discrepancies before underwriters deny claims or regulators inspect.

Linear Process

How It Works

A disciplined, zero-disruption evaluation designed to run quietly alongside normal business operations.

We look first — your environment, obligations, and budget

A 30-minute scoping discussion to map operations, critical workflows, regulatory boundaries, and where real assets live.

We assess — scans and control review run side by side

Non-intrusive external telemetry scans execute while our compliance specialists examine internal policies, configs, and vendor contracts.

We rank findings — critical, high, medium, low, tied to business impact

Vulnerabilities are translated out of technical jargon into real commercial liability, downtime estimates, and regulatory exposure.

We hand you a plan — what to fix first, what it costs

You receive an executive briefing, an audit-ready compliance document, and a tactical remediation roadmap your IT team or MSP can execute.

Statutory Defense

Regulation & Compliance Mapping

Defensible documentation tailored to your governing examiners and insurers.

Rule

What You Get

HIPAA Security Rule

(healthcare)

A risk analysis covering every system that touches patient data.

Meets the foundational requirement of 45 CFR § 164.308(a)(1)(ii)(A), identifying electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) repository boundaries, transmission pipelines, and vendor access agreements.

FTC Safeguards Rule

(dealerships, lenders, tax firms)

A written risk assessment you can hand to an examiner.

Delivers the statutory documentation explicitly required under 16 CFR § 314.4(b), verifying your customer information safeguards, multi-factor authentication mandates, and data disposal protocols.

Cyber insurance & vendor questionnaires

(all regulated commercial sectors)

Documented answers for renewal season.

Back up every representation made on cyber warranty applications with empirical scan evidence and architecture charts, preventing claim denial during an extortion or wire-fraud incident.

Tailored Scopes

Industry Fit

Assessments are scoped differently for healthcare (patient data, uptime, BAAs) and automotive (finance-office data, plant systems). See Healthcare Industry Security (/industries/healthcare) and Automotive Cybersecurity (/industries/automotive).

Healthcare Industry Security

Specialized protocol targeting electronic health records, connected medical equipment, Business Associate compliance, and zero-downtime clinical environments.

Automotive Cybersecurity

Tailored for dealership groups and Tier-1/2 automotive suppliers. Focused on consumer credit data in the finance office, Dealership Management Systems, and shop IoT.

Clarity & Terms

Frequently Asked Questions

Is the free assessment really free?

Yes. It’s a conversation, and you keep what we learn.

We review your perimeter, examine your current posture, and generate an executive risk readout at zero charge. There is no credit card required, no automated renewal trap, and zero high-pressure sales calls.

Will you just find problems to sell us services?

The report is yours to take anywhere.

We believe in objective measurement. Every vulnerability and compliance gap is cross-referenced with standard NIST, CIS, or federal statutes. If you prefer to hand the report to your internal team or your existing managed IT vendor for remediation, you have our full support.