A clear, objective view of your cybersecurity maturity — and a practical path forward

Burning Tree’s 360° Cyber Assessment & Benchmarking solution provides organisations with a comprehensive, independent view of their cybersecurity capability, risk posture, and resilience. Designed for leadership decision-making, it goes beyond technical control checks to assess how effectively cybersecurity is governed, delivered, and embedded across the business.
Our approach brings clarity to complexity — helping leaders understand where they are today, how they compare, and what truly matters next.

What Makes Our 360° Assessment Different

Traditional security assessments often focus narrowly on tools, compliance checklists, or isolated control gaps. Burning Tree’s 360° approach is broader, deeper, and more business-aligned.

We assess cybersecurity as a system of people, process, technology, and culture, examining not just whether controls exist, but whether they are appropriate, effective, and sustainable.

The result is insight that supports strategic decision-making, not just remediation activity.

What We Assess

Our assessment covers all major cybersecurity domains, tailored to your organisation’s size, sector, and risk profile. Typical areas include:

Governance & Leadership

Strategy, policies, accountability, decision-making structures, and board engagement.

Risk Management

Risk identification, prioritisation, treatment, and integration with enterprise risk management.

Identity & Access Management

Identity lifecycle, access governance, privileged access, authentication, and identity resilience.

Security Architecture & Controls

Network, infrastructure, cloud, data, application, and Zero Trust-aligned controls.

Security Operations & Monitoring

Detection, response, SOC capability, incident management, and resilience.

Third-Party & Supply Chain Risk

Assurance processes, vendor oversight, and dependency management.

Culture & Human Risk

Awareness, behaviours, roles, and organisational readiness.

Future Readiness

Preparedness for emerging risks such as post-quantum cryptography, AI, and regulatory change.

Assessment & Benchmarking Framework

The 360° Assessment is aligned to recognised international frameworks, including:

  • NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF)
  • ISO/IEC 27001
  • CIS Critical Security Controls
  • Cloud Security Alliance Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM)
  • CMMI-based maturity models

Where appropriate, we tailor these frameworks into a unified assessment model, reducing duplication and focusing on what matters most to your organisation.

We benchmark your maturity against:

  • Industry peers
  • Regulatory expectations
  • Leading practice maturity targets

This provides critical context — showing not just gaps, but relative performance.

How the Assessment Works

Our approach is structured, collaborative, and proportionate:

  1. Scoping & Context Setting
    We align on business objectives, risk appetite, regulatory context, and assessment scope.
  2. Evidence-Based Assessment
    Through interviews, documentation review, and targeted validation, we assess capability and maturity across domains.
  3. Maturity Scoring & Benchmarking
    Capabilities are scored against defined maturity levels and benchmarked against peers and standards.
  4. Insight & Prioritisation
    We identify key risks, capability gaps, strengths, and opportunities for improvement.
  5. Executive Reporting
    Findings are presented in clear, board-ready language — focused on impact, not technical detail.

What You Receive

The 360° Cyber Assessment delivers practical, decision-ready outputs:

  • Executive Summary — clear, concise insight for boards and senior leaders
  • Maturity Heatmaps & Dashboards
  • Benchmarking Against Peers & Standards
  • Risk-Based Prioritised Recommendations
  • Target State & Roadmap Guidance
  • Optional Deep-Dive Assessments (e.g. IAM, cloud, resilience)

Why Burning Tree Is Different

Our assessments are led by former practitioners and board-level advisors, not junior assessors. We’ve sat on both sides of the table — accountable for outcomes, budgets, and regulatory scrutiny.

That experience shapes how we assess, how we challenge, and how we advise.

  • Independent and vendor-neutral
  • Grounded in real-world leadership experience
  • Honest, objective, and proportionate
  • Focused on resilience, not box-ticking

Who It’s For

The 360° Cyber Assessment & Benchmarking solution is ideal for:

  • Boards and executive teams seeking clarity
  • Organisations preparing for regulatory scrutiny
  • CISOs needing independent validation
  • Businesses undergoing transformation or growth
  • Organisations reassessing maturity after incidents or change

From Insight to Action

Most importantly, our 360° Assessment is not an end in itself. It is designed to be the foundation for action — informing strategy, investment, transformation, and continuous improvement.

Burning Tree helps you move from understanding risk to building lasting resilience.

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