The Confidence Standard · INSIGHT, Step One
Know exactly where you stand.
Then move in the right order
The Skyrocket Cyber Maturity Assessment.
8 weeks, a certified consultant, and weekly working sessions. We benchmark your program against the NIST Cybersecurity Framework across governance, controls, response readiness and compliance posture, then hand you a maturity score, a ranked gap list with owners and effort attached, and a roadmap sequenced so the first dollar removes the most risk. It's the entry point to everything else we do, and it's built so your own team could execute it without us.
Also available for AI readiness: Skyrocket Your AI→
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Skyrocket is a journey. This is stage one.
The assessment is the entry point to the Insight pillar, and to the 4 stages every Skyrocket engagement runs through. Starting the first doesn't commit you to all 4.
ASSESS
Score the program against NIST CSF. Rank the gaps.
PRIORITIZE
Sequence the roadmap by risk removed per dollar.
IMPLEMENT
Close the ranked gaps, often with tools you already own.
OPERATE
Run it, monitor it, and re-secore to prove the trend.
4 tiers. The one your board will actually understand.
A score on its own means little. A tier turns "we improved security" into "we moved from Developing to Repeatable, and here's the evidence," which is the sentence an audit committee, an insurer and a prospective client all want to hear.
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WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE IN PRACTICE
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TYPICAL NEXT MOVE
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Nascent
0-19
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Security happens when someone remembers. No owner, no inventory, no documented policy.
The controls live in products and never made it into a process.
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Establish basic governance and an asset inventory before buying anything else.
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Developing
20-39
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Policies exist on paper. Tools are deployed but partially configured. Response depends on who happens to be available. |
Finish configuring what you own, and write a response plan with named roles. |
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Repeatable
40-59
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Process is documented and followed consistently. Controls are measured. Incidents follow a rehearsed playbook rather than improvisation. |
Move to continuous measurement: exposure management and tested recovery. |
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Adaptive
60-79
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The program changes in response to its own data. Threat intelligence and lessons learned feed back into controls without a project being raised. |
Maintain, re-score periodically, and extend the method to new domains such as AI. |
Weekly sessions are the product. The report is the artifact.
This runs 8 weeks rather than 8 days because the value transfers in the conversations. Your team ends the engagement able to defend the findings without us in the room.
Baseline
Pre-assessment across policy, asset inventory, access control, response readiness and governance. Establishes where you stand before anything is recommended.
Deep dive
Domain-by-domain review against NIST CSF, with weekly sessions to test findings against how your environment actually operates, which is rarely how it's documented.
Score and sequence
Maturity scoring, gap ranking with owner and effort, and roadmap sequencing by risk removed per dollar, including industry-specific risk guidance.
Readout
Findings presented to your leadership by the consultant who did the work, in language a board can act on. You keep the score, the gap list and the roadmap.
What we assess.
Who owns security and what is written down.
Whether the plan has ever been tested.
What is deployed, and what is actually configured.
HIPAA, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, NIST.
You can't protect what you haven't listed.
The layer most assessments skip entirely.
What you actually walk away with.
Named artifacts, each one built to be used by someone other than the person who wrote it.
Maturity score & tier
Ranked gap register
Sequenced roadmap
When this is the right first move, and when something else comes first.
Start here if...
- You have tools but no single ordered picture of what's actually covered.
- A board, an insurer, an auditor or a large client is about to ask how mature your program is.
- Security spending is argued case by case with no framework to sequence it.
- You need your CIO and CISO working from one set of evidence instead of two.
- You're entering a regulated market or a compliance cycle for the first time.
Something else first if...
- You're in an active incident. Emergency response, 24/7. Assessment comes after containment.
- You suspect you're already compromised but can't confirm it. A Compromise Assessment answers that question directly and faster.
- Your problem is uptime and visibility. Start with a Network Assessment instead.
- You already have a current maturity assessment. Bring it. We'd rather build on it than repeat it.
Delivered by consultants who have run these programs.
Skyrocket gives you a named consultant who turns the analysis into execution and presents the findings to your leadership personally.
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Straight answers, before the call.
What exactly is the Skyrocket Cyber Maturity Assessment?
An 8-week, expert-led evaluation of your security program against the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. It produces a maturity score, a ranked list of gaps with owners and effort attached, and a sequenced roadmap. A certified consultant works with your team in weekly sessions throughout, so no part of it is a scan or a form you fill in.
Why 8 weeks? Can it be compressed?
8 weeks is what it takes to review governance, controls, response readiness and compliance posture properly, and to hold weekly working sessions instead of a single interview. The weekly cadence is deliberate, because that's where the knowledge transfers to your team. A compressed option [CONFIRM] is available where a board or audit deadline demands it; ask on the discovery call.
How is maturity scored?
Against NIST CSF, expressed as a score and a tier: Nascent, Developing, Repeatable or Adaptive. The tier is what makes progress legible to a board: it turns "we improved security" into "we moved from Developing to Repeatable, and here's the evidence." Re-score at a later cycle and you have a trend. Exact score bands: [CONFIRM]
We already did a penetration test. Do we need this too?
They answer different questions. A penetration test asks can someone get in through this path. A maturity assessment asks is the whole program organized to prevent, detect and recover: governance, asset inventory, access control, response readiness. A clean pen test result and a Developing maturity tier frequently coexist. If you have budget for one and no framework in place, start here. The assessment will tell you when a pen test is worth commissioning.
Do we have to buy anything afterward?
No. The score, gap list and roadmap are yours, and they're written to be executable by your own team or any third party. Most clients do continue with us, and the deliverable is built to stand on its own either way.
How is it priced?
Fixed price by organization size and scope, established on the discovery call, so the number doesn't move if the work takes longer than expected. [CONFIRM]: confirm whether a starting price can be published. Buyers rank pricing among their top selection criteria, and silence on it is a common reason to leave a service page.
Is Skyrocket the same thing as Skyrocket Your AI?
Same method, different subject. Skyrocket Cyber Maturity benchmarks your security program against NIST CSF. Skyrocket Your AI assesses AI readiness across 6 dimensions. Both run the same 4 stages (Assess, Prioritize, Implement, Operate) and both produce a score, a ranked gap list and a sequenced roadmap. Organizations frequently run both.
Pick the one that matches how ready you are.
You don't have to book a call to get value from this page. The self-assessment costs you nothing and needs no email address to start.
Score yourself first
5 questions, an immediate indicative score and tier. 5 self-reported answers give you a rough position, and the full assessment scores the same 6 domains against evidence.
Read a sample cyber maturity report
The actual deliverable: score, gap register and roadmap, with a real structure and anonymized findings. The fastest way to judge whether the output is worth 8 weeks.
Book a discovery call
We establish scope, confirm whether Skyrocket is the right first move for you, and give you a fixed price. If it isn't, we'll say so and point you elsewhere.
Book the call→
Every security program starts by finding out where it stands.
8 weeks, weekly sessions, a named consultant, and a roadmap you could hand to anyone. Book a discovery call and we'll tell you whether this is your right first move.