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.

Using a structured, evidence-based methodology, we evaluate security capabilities across people, process, technology, governance, and operational effectiveness — providing a holistic understanding of current maturity and risk exposure.

Our benchmarking capability places results in context, comparing maturity against industry peers, recognised frameworks, and leading practices to identify strengths, gaps, and improvement opportunities.

The outcome is more than an assessment report. Organisations gain clear visibility of current capability, an understanding of where investment will deliver the greatest value, and a prioritised roadmap for improving security maturity, reducing risk, and strengthening resilience over time.

Assessing capability. Benchmarking maturity. Building resilience.

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.

Capability Maturity Model

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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