Build Reviews
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Build Reviews
CyberLab’s Build Reviews proactively identify security weaknesses in your IT systems by assessing configurations against trusted industry benchmarks.
This process strengthens your organisation’s defences, mitigates potential risks, and ensures systems are securely configured to prevent exploitation.
Why Build Reviews?
A Build Review is a critical assessment of your IT systems’ configurations, ensuring they align with industry standards and security best practices.
By examining devices, servers, and cloud services against trusted benchmarks, CyberLab helps identify vulnerabilities and misconfigurations that could jeopardise your organisation’s security.
Proactive Risk Mitigation
Identifies misconfigurations and vulnerabilities before they can be exploited, reducing the risk of security breaches.
Compliance Assurance
Helps meet regulatory requirements by ensuring your systems adhere to security standards like NCSC guidance and CIS benchmarks.
Enhanced Security Posture
Strengthens the security of your IT systems by ensuring they align with industry-standard benchmarks and best practices.
Tailored Remediation
Provides actionable recommendations for improving configurations, ensuring your systems are optimally secured.
Build Reviews: The CyberLab Approach
Our Build Review process follows a structured, step-by-step approach to thoroughly assess and strengthen your IT systems. By identifying misconfigurations and vulnerabilities, we ensure your systems align with industry benchmarks, providing actionable recommendations to enhance security and reduce risk.
The first step involves understanding the scope of the review, including identifying the systems, devices, and services that will be assessed. Information about the organisation’s IT environment is gathered to tailor the review accordingly.
Security experts manually log into systems or administrative consoles to review configurations. This step involves comparing current settings against trusted industry benchmarks such as NCSC guidance and CIS benchmarks.
During the review, any misconfigurations, unnecessary services, weak access controls, or other vulnerabilities are identified. These could include insecure passwords, incorrect permissions, or outdated software versions.
Identified vulnerabilities are evaluated based on their potential impact. Risks are prioritised, categorising them by severity (low, medium, high) to ensure critical issues are addressed first.
After identifying vulnerabilities, actionable recommendations for remediation are provided. These may involve updating configurations, disabling unnecessary services, enhancing security settings, or applying patches.
A detailed report is generated, summarising the findings and providing a clear set of recommendations for improving security configurations. This report also includes steps to maintain secure configurations moving forward.
Once remediation actions have been implemented, a follow-up review may be conducted to verify that the security measures are correctly applied and functioning as intended.
“Having used CyberLab before in a previous Head of IT role, I had no hesitation in engaging them again to assist us with our security needs. Simply, I wouldn’t use them if they didn’t consistently deliver value.”
– Head of IT, NHS Trust
Why Choose CyberLab?
Thousands of organisations across the UK trust us, here’s why…
CREST & CHECK Accredited
We are certified for both CREST and CHECK Green Light testing - an achievement not all testing companies can claim.
CREST Infrastructure & Application Testing
We are certified in both CREST Infrastructure and Application testing, ensuring comprehensive security coverage for all your systems.
Experienced & Senior Consultants
Our team consists of highly experienced, senior consultants and penetration testers with over 15 years of industry expertise.
Outstanding Communication
We establish dedicated teams or Slack channels to ensure seamless two-way communication between project managers, testers, and your team throughout the entire project.
Clear and Concise Reports
We provide easy-to-understand reports with detailed findings and actionable recommendations.
Specialised Testing Teams
We have specialised teams for Cloud, Application, and API testing. Our app and API testers, who are former developers, communicate fluently with your development team, leveraging their coding expertise to deliver deeper, more effective testing.
We Save You Time and Money
Clients consistently tell us that we deliver higher-quality testing in less time.
Forward-Thinking Security
Our pen testing team goes beyond identifying vulnerabilities, offering proactive solutions to mitigate future risks and ensure your security evolves ahead of emerging threats.
CREST, CHECK & Cyber Scheme Certified
CyberLab is both CREST and CHECK-certified, meaning our team meets the rigorous standards set by the NCSC and other leading industry bodies. CREST (the Council of Registered Ethical Security Testers) is an international accreditation with strict codes of conduct and ethics. CHECK is the Government-backed accreditation from the NCSC, certifying that a company can conduct authorised penetration tests on public sector systems and networks.
All our penetration testers are certified by CREST, with senior consultants certified to the highest CCT Level. Additionally, our testers are either CHECK Team Leaders (CTLs) or Team Members (CTMs). Security testers passing the Cyber Scheme exams demonstrate “competence and skill at the highest levels,” as defined by NCSC.
With decades of combined experience, our team takes pride in operating at the industry’s highest level – conducting a broad range of government and commercial tests while always going the extra mile to ensure comprehensive results.
Build Reviews: FAQ's
A Build Review involves evaluating the security configurations of your IT systems, ensuring they align with industry best practices and security benchmarks. This helps identify vulnerabilities and misconfigurations that could be exploited by attackers.
Build Reviews proactively identify and address security weaknesses in your system configurations, reducing the risk of breaches and ensuring your IT environment is securely configured against evolving threats.
An ITHC generally includes external testing of internet-facing services, internal testing of networks and devices, and vulnerability scanning across the entire IT estate. This thorough evaluation identifies potential security gaps that need to be addressed.
Build Reviews should be conducted regularly, especially after significant changes to your IT environment or systems. It’s also recommended to perform reviews annually to ensure your configurations remain secure and compliant with the latest security standards.
A Build Review should be conducted by certified security professionals with expertise in configuration management and security benchmarking. CyberLab’s team is CREST and CHECK certified, ensuring compliance with industry standards and best practices.
A Build Review helps identify security misconfigurations, ensures compliance with security benchmarks, improves overall security posture, and provides tailored recommendations to reduce vulnerabilities and enhance system integrity.
While Penetration Testing simulates attacks to identify exploitable vulnerabilities, Build Reviews focus on manually inspecting system configurations against security benchmarks to identify misconfigurations and hardening weaknesses before they can be exploited.
Yes, you will receive a comprehensive report that outlines the findings, categorising vulnerabilities by severity, and providing actionable recommendations to enhance your systems’ security.
Red Teaming vs Penetration Testing
| Red Team |
|---|
| We test systems simultaniously |
| We work to fluid, adaptable targets |
| Longer testing schedule |
| We don't tell your people what we're doing |
| Our testers will be creative and use any means necessary |
| Pen Test |
|---|
| We test systems independently |
| We define our targets before we start |
| Short term tests |
| Your people know what we're testing and when |
| Our testers use a suite of commercially available testing tools |
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Whether you’re looking to implement basic cyber security best practice, improve your existing defences, or introduce a new system or solution, our team of expert consultants, engineers, and ethical hackers are here to help.
Our team specialise in creating bespoke security solutions and testing packages to improve and maintain your security posture.
We are 100% vendor agnostic and will only ever recommend the best products and solutions for your requirements.
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