Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Service

The assessment findings serve as a direct input to whatever comes next. A BCRA naturally leads into a vCISO engagement or a Managed Compliance Program for organizations that want ongoing security leadership or compliance operations. A Gap Assessment leads directly into a Compliance Readiness engagement to close the identified gaps and prepare for audit. Trava's practitioners carry the assessment context forward — you don't repeat discovery with a different team.

A security questionnaire asks you to self-report on your own posture. A Trava assessment is led by our practitioners, who gather evidence from your actual environment, evaluate it against threat vectors or framework requirements, and deliver findings based on what they found — not what you reported. The difference matters most for the gaps that are hardest to see from the inside.

Every engagement closes with a written report and a practitioner-led debrief. The report covers findings, risk categorization, and prioritized recommendations. The debrief walks your team through the findings and their implications — so the report doesn't sit in a drawer, and you leave with a clear answer on what to address first and what comes next.

Trava's Gap Assessment covers SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, CMMC, HIPAA, and other frameworks on request. The assessment is scoped to the specific framework requirements relevant to your organization — not a generic checklist applied regardless of the standard in play.

Start with the BCRA if you have never formally assessed your cyber risk, are operating on intuition rather than evidence, or need a baseline before deciding which compliance path to pursue. Start with a Gap Assessment if a specific framework has been named by a customer, contract, or regulator and you need to know the distance to compliance before committing to a readiness effort. Some organizations run both: the BCRA for a broad risk picture, and the Gap Assessment for a specific framework target.

The Baseline Cyber Risk Assessment (BCRA) is framework-neutral: it answers the question "where does our risk actually sit?" by evaluating your environment, controls, and exposure against the threats that matter to your business. The Gap Assessment is framework-specific: it answers "how far are we from the standard we have to meet?" by measuring your current controls, policies, and evidence against the requirements of a specific framework — SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, CMMC, HIPAA, or another. The right choice depends on the question you are trying to answer.

A cybersecurity risk assessment is a structured evaluation of an organization's security posture that identifies where cyber risk exists, which assets and systems are exposed, how effective existing controls are, and where the most significant gaps are. The output is a prioritized picture of risk and a set of recommendations for addressing it — based on evidence from the assessment, not self-reported assumptions.