Security Attestations

What Is It?

A security attestation is a mechanism for confirming the security state of what has been assessed, be it a web service, compiled application, underlying infrastructure or cloud service for example. It is typically offered to buyers of the service or product to independently provide confidence around the service or product from a security standpoint. Security attestations can also be used inside project management to indicate an organisations readiness to formally accept the projects deliverable and deploy it into a live environment.

Why Assess It?

There are many reasons to conduct a security attestation, five of which are below.

Evidence Your Security

Buyers and users expect security to be part of the services or product they are consuming. Being able to share a security attestation, you can give the buyers and users confidence in your products or services security posture.

Ease the Selling Process

Buyers need to conduct due diligence and part of this is assuring their data or usage of your product or service. Supplying an independently obtained security attestation provides an answer to their assurance questions, allowing you to move forwards with the sales process.

Gain a Competitive Advantage

Buyers compare services and products and by showcasing an independently obtained security attestation you will have a differentiator from your competitors. This can increase the likelihood of you securing their custom.

Recognise Achievement

Security attestations are not just for external usage. They can be a real achievement to be shared with the teams who made the product or service. This provides both recognition for their hard work on securing the offering but also encourages the standard to be kept going forwards.

Focused Objective

Your product or service is the subject of your security attestation, meaning that you can focus certifying the security of just that without the need to provide your customers weighty assurance packs detailing the security of every part of your organisation.

The Agility Cyber Approach

Like all our engagements, we want you to get the most out of your security attestation and we do this by:

Shareable Achievement

We believe our security attestation is something to be proud of and so we empower you to share it widely, whilst having assurance in the fact that it has integrity and authenticity checks so nobody can mimic your success without meeting the same criteria.

Tailored Assessment

A security attestation is not limited to a specific type of assessment. We believe it should bring together multiple types of assessment in a tailored approach to provide the right level of coverage that secures real assurance over your specific product or service.

Collaborative Working

It is in both our interests to improve the security of your product or service. We ensure we share as much information with you as possible and follow on with further assessments where vulnerabilities have been fixed until you reach a state where you are happy with the attestation.

Independence

Whilst we work collaboratively, we always retain our technical and ethical independence. This allows you to be assured of not only the current worth of the security attestation, but its future worth.

Clarity

We do not believe in using overly complex language or giving high level ambiguous statements. Our security attestation is clear cut and provides an unambiguous summary of the security of your product or service.

Benefits of Partnering with Agility Cyber

Mutually Invested

Our experts work with you, not against you. There are no egotistical celebrations when a serious issue is discovered, just rapid full disclosure with pragmatic suggestions for effective remediation followed by ongoing support.

Clarity and Simplicity

We always provide clarity, believe in simplicity and value your time. An example is rather than waiting until the engagement starts, we will conduct open source intelligence gathering activities before the scoping meeting to help us understand your organisations position and risk posture thus enabling us to ask better questions, securing you higher value and saving you time.

Full Consultancy

Our team, based in the UK, is technically exceptional but we pair that with business sense to discover, triage and help you remediate the full range of security issues.

Impartiality

We are impartial, we do not sell you products or the latest buzzword laden trending solution.

Outstanding Service

We have an industry leading turnaround, agility is in our name after all. Proposals are shared with you within 24 hours of the scoping meeting. Accurate and complete daily debriefs are given during every engagement. The report is shared within 5 working days at the latest.

Scroll to Top