/ Avereth Exposure

AVERETH EXPOSURE™

Understand your cyber exposure with greater confidence.

Understand your cyber exposure with greater confidence.

Understand your cyber exposure with greater confidence.

Avereth Exposure™ is an independent assessment of your organisation’s cyber risk posture and governance effectiveness — helping leadership understand where material cyber risk exists, how effectively it is being managed and how much confidence can be placed in the current posture.

Avereth Exposure™ is an independent assessment of your organisation’s cyber risk posture and governance effectiveness — helping leadership understand where material cyber risk exists, how effectively it is being managed and how much confidence can be placed in the current posture.

EXPOSURE POSITION

Cyber risk posture mapped to executive decisions

mapped

Critical assets

Supplier risk

Control gaps

Scenarios

Jurisdictions

Residual risk

Evidence gaps

Board lens

Board-ready risk summary

Accountability and priority view

Conceptual risk map — not assessment results

THE EXECUTIVE QUESTION

Knowing what exists is not the same as knowing what matters.

Most organisations can identify vulnerabilities, security technologies and compliance requirements. Far fewer can confidently explain which cyber risks matter most, how exposed the organisation actually is, whether controls provide sufficient confidence and where leadership attention should be focused.

MANY ORGANISATIONS CAN ANSWER

• What vulnerabilities exist?

• What security tools are deployed?

• Which compliance frameworks are in scope?

FEW CAN CONFIDENTLY ANSWER

• What are our most significant cyber risks?

• How exposed are we?

• Are we focusing on the right risks?

• Should leadership be confident in our current cyber posture?

WHAT IT ASSESSES

WHAT EXPOSURE ASSURES

A structured view of cyber risk posture and governance.

Avereth Exposure examines whether cyber risk is understood, governed, prioritised and monitored at an executive level. The assessment connects evidence across seven domains to form an independent view of organisational cyber exposure.

01

Governance & Accountability

Assess whether cyber risk ownership, accountability and governance structures are clearly established.

01

Governance & Accountability

Assess whether cyber risk ownership, accountability and governance structures are clearly established.

02

Risk Identification

Assess how effectively cyber risks are identified, assessed, recorded and understood.

02

Risk Identification

Assess how effectively cyber risks are identified, assessed, recorded and understood.

03

Risk Visibility & Executive Awareness

Assess whether leadership has meaningful visibility into material cyber risks and changing exposure.

03

Risk Visibility & Executive Awareness

Assess whether leadership has meaningful visibility into material cyber risks and changing exposure.

04

Control Assurance & Confidence

Assess whether key controls provide sufficient evidence and confidence relative to the risks they are intended to address.

04

Control Assurance & Confidence

Assess whether key controls provide sufficient evidence and confidence relative to the risks they are intended to address.

05

Risk Prioritisation & Decision-Making

Assess whether cyber risks are prioritised appropriately and translated into clear decisions and actions.

05

Risk Prioritisation & Decision-Making

Assess whether cyber risks are prioritised appropriately and translated into clear decisions and actions.

06

Business Impact & Risk Quantification

Assess how cyber risk is connected to operational, financial and business impact.

06

Business Impact & Risk Quantification

Assess how cyber risk is connected to operational, financial and business impact.

07

Exposure Monitoring & Trend Analysis

Assess whether changes in cyber exposure are monitored, reported and understood over time.

07

Exposure Monitoring & Trend Analysis

Assess whether changes in cyber exposure are monitored, reported and understood over time.

WHAT YOU RECEIVE

EXECUTIVE OUTPUTS

Evidence that supports decisions.

01

Visibility of Cyber Risk

Develop a clearer understanding of material cyber exposure, existing safeguards and areas where uncertainty remains.

01

Visibility of Cyber Risk

Develop a clearer understanding of material cyber exposure, existing safeguards and areas where uncertainty remains.

02

Evidence-Based Assurance

Gain an independent perspective on the strength of available evidence and how effectively cyber risks are understood and managed.

02

Evidence-Based Assurance

Gain an independent perspective on the strength of available evidence and how effectively cyber risks are understood and managed.

03

Exposure Dashboard

A concise executive view of domain scores, risk distribution, top risks, trends and priority actions.

03

Exposure Dashboard

A concise executive view of domain scores, risk distribution, top risks, trends and priority actions.

SCOPE & INDEPENDENCE

Assurance, not implementation.

Avereth Exposure provides independent assurance over cyber risk posture and governance. It does not replace technical security operations or implementation services.

01

Penetration testing

Not included in this independent assurance service.

02

Vulnerability scanning

Not included in this independent assurance service.

03

Security tool implementation

Not included in this independent assurance service.

04

Security operations

Not included in this independent assurance service.

05

Compliance audits

Not included in this independent assurance service.

Stonegate assesses. Leadership decides. Others implement.

THE OUTCOME

A clearer understanding of cyber exposure.

Leadership gains a clearer understanding of material cyber exposure together with an independent opinion on the organisation’s current cyber risk posture, providing a stronger basis for governance, prioritisation and decision-making.

Build greater confidence in cyber risk.

Build greater confidence in cyber risk.

Avereth Exposure provides the independent assurance leadership needs to understand exposure, strengthen governance and make informed decisions.

/ 05 How an assessment works

Three to six weeks, from scope to board.

01

Scope

What is assessed, who we speak to, and the evidence cut-off.

02

Evidence

A tailored request list, a secure portal, and leadership interviews.

03

Assessment

Evidence graded by reliability, verified independently where it matters.

04

Your response

You respond to every preliminary finding before anything is final.

05

Opinion

Final reports and a board session, then quarterly assurance if you choose.

Know where you stand before your insurer, regulator or acquirer asks.

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Stonegate Advisory

Independent cyber risk assurance for boards and executive leadership across the United Kingdom and Europe.

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