--- title: Cybersecurity Assessment & 24/7 MDR | Vendor-Neutral description: Find your gaps before attackers do. Vendor-neutral risk assessment, 24/7 MDR, and vCISO governance. 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Start reducing risk. Your team is buried in false positives, no one is watching nights and weekends, and you can't tell leadership whether your controls actually work. We start with an independent, vendor-neutral assessment, then broker the right detection, response, and governance for your environment, your Microsoft 365 licensing, and your budget. [Get your free IT and security evaluation](https://itraven.net/assessments?hsLang=en)[Book a 15-minute call](https://meetings.hubspot.com/john-grazioli/round-robin-discovery-call-scheduler) 500+ partner networkExperience managing Fortune 1000 accountsVendor-neutralSecurity-first The problem ## Your firewall isn't the finish line You're buried in security alerts and can't separate real threats from noise. Nights, weekends, and holidays the network is wide open and nobody is watching. Cyber expertise is expensive and impossible to retain, so a pile of disconnected tools generates siloed dashboards instead of answers. And when the insurer, auditor, or biggest customer asks whether your controls actually work, you can't prove it, because no outside party has ever tried to break in. - $4.88MGlobal average cost of a data breach: $4.88Mproduct overview / solution brief - 43%Nearly half (43%) of all cyberattacks are against smaller organizationsSMB cybersecurity guide - 88%Approximately 88% of all data breaches are at least partly caused by human errorSMB cybersecurity guide - 75%of SMBs said they'd be able to survive only three to seven days following a ransomware attackMicrosoft 365 ransomware protection bundle How we solve it ## One independent partner between you and the breach We're vendor-neutral, so we assess your real exposure first and match the best-fit solution from a deep partner bench, instead of selling you whatever a vendor is quota'd to push. No rip-and-replace. You buy what closes gaps. 1. ### Independent assessment first We map your real exposure against frameworks like NIST, CIS-18, ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI, and CMMC before recommending a single tool. You get severity-ranked findings with business impact, a prioritized roadmap, and a re-test to prove the fixes held, not a 200-page scanner dump. 2. ### Brokered best-fit detection and response We broker MDR/XDR, SIEM/UEBA, and managed SOC from a deep partner bench, matched to your environment, your Microsoft 365 licensing, and your budget. We keep what works and close the gaps, with no forced rip-and-replace. 3. ### 24/7 monitoring with real response Every deployment is wrapped in around-the-clock monitoring and expert-led response, so nights, weekends, and holidays are covered. Alert triage cuts the noise and surfaces only what truly matters, instead of piling up tickets nobody reads. 4. ### Layered defense along the whole attack path Next-gen firewall, EDR/MDR, DNS-level filtering, email protection beyond native Microsoft 365, MFA, and patch management work together, because security comes from layers, not a single box. We stop known-bad traffic at the edge so your stack runs on cleaner data. 5. ### Harden the human layer Ongoing security-awareness training and realistic simulated phishing turn your staff from the weakest link into your first line of defense, where most breaches actually start. 6. ### Governance and a virtual-CISO rhythm Security roadmaps, executive-ready scorecards, tabletop exercises, and written incident-response and business-continuity plans mean leadership can always answer whether controls are working and whether risk is rising or falling, with data, not guesswork. We also extend governance to emerging shadow-AI and agentic risk. What you get ## Outcomes you can hold us to. - A clear, severity-ranked picture of your real exposure, mapped to the frameworks that matter to you - 24/7 monitoring with actual response, so nights, weekends, and holidays are no longer wide open - Fewer false positives and a quieter stack as known-bad traffic is filtered out at the edge - Expert-level security delivered as a monthly subscription, without hiring and retaining a full SOC - Defensible proof of an annual third-party test for your insurer, auditor, and biggest customer - Consolidated, coordinated tools with duplicate spend eliminated instead of more boxes - A survivable ransomware posture with immutable, independent backups and tested disaster recovery - Leadership scorecards and a vCISO roadmap that show whether controls work and risk is falling ### Patterns we see across industries - Reactive to roadmap: a high-profile organization with a small IT team, facing rising threats and compliance mandates, moved from firefighting to a proactive roadmap through penetration testing, NIST-aligned policy governance, and cross-functional IR tabletop exercises. - 90% vulnerability cut: a renewable-energy company with sprawling IT/OT across 15+ facilities under SEC pressure started with a CIS-Controls gap assessment, adopted a managed vCISO model and a 12-month roadmap, and cut critical vulnerabilities by 90%. - The threat already inside: a combined internal and external pen test came back low-risk externally but surfaced high-severity internal issues, proving the bigger threat was already inside the perimeter, behind the firewall, with a ranked fix list. - Ransomware made survivable: a mid-market organization learned native Microsoft 365 couldn't recover beyond a short window, and that attackers delete backups before striking. Immutable, independent backups plus tested DR turned a business-ending event into a recoverable one. - MDR without headcount: a K-12 district hit by ransomware and buried in alerts added managed detection-and-response, gaining continuous monitoring without new staff and freeing IT to focus on students. - Backed by a 500+ partner network and experience managing Fortune 1000 accounts, we match the right capability to your size, not the vendor's quota. Outcome patterns from across the industry: the shape of results vendor-neutral delivery produces. Questions, answered ## Frequently asked Key facts - Nearly half (43%) of all cyberattacks are against smaller organizations, making "too small to be a target" a costly assumption. - The global average cost of a data breach is $4.88M. - Approximately 88% of all data breaches are at least partly caused by human error. - 75% of SMBs said they could survive only three to seven days following a ransomware attack. - A vendor-neutral security assessment maps real exposure against frameworks like NIST, CIS-18, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI, and CMMC before recommending any tool. We're too small to be a target. Why does this matter for us? That assumption is the most expensive one in the dataset: nearly half (43%) of all cyberattacks hit smaller organizations, and a $200,000 ransomware hit can land weeks after leadership says exactly that. A right-sized assessment shows your actual exposure before an attacker prices it for you, with no enterprise budget required. We already have EDR, a firewall, and Microsoft 365. Aren't we covered? Single tools stop attacks at one point on the path; real defense comes from layers. We don't rip-and-replace. We run a vendor-neutral gap assessment, keep what works (including your Microsoft 365 licensing), and close the gaps. The most severe risk we find is usually already inside the perimeter, behind the firewall you trust. We can't afford a security team or a full SOC. How does this work? That's the point of a brokered, managed model: expert-level 24/7 monitoring and response delivered as a monthly subscription, scaled to your size and budget, instead of hiring and retaining talent you can't keep. You get the outcome without the headcount. We already paid for a pile of security tools. Why buy more? You likely need fewer and coordinated, not more. We consolidate fragmented, siloed tools, eliminate duplicate spend, and stop known-bad traffic at the edge so the stack you already pay for gets cleaner data and fewer false positives. Step one is mapping what you own, not selling you a new box. Won't an assessment just be a 200-page scanner dump my team can't act on? Ours isn't a scanner dump. We deliver severity-ranked findings (critical/high/medium/low) with business impact, proof of concept, a prioritized remediation roadmap your team can fund and act on, an executive summary for leadership, and a re-test to prove the fixes actually closed the gaps. Why use a broker instead of going direct to a security vendor? A vendor sells its own catalog; we're vendor-neutral and assess your real exposure first, then match the best-fit platform from a deep partner bench to your environment, Microsoft 365 licensing, and regulatory profile. You buy what closes gaps, not what someone is quota'd to sell. ## Find your weak spots before attackers do Start with an independent, vendor-neutral security and vulnerability evaluation. We map your real exposure, hand you a severity-ranked roadmap your team can act on, and show you exactly where you stand, with no enterprise budget and no obligation to buy a thing. [Get your free IT and security evaluation](https://itraven.net/assessments?hsLang=en)[Book a 15-minute call](https://meetings.hubspot.com/john-grazioli/round-robin-discovery-call-scheduler) [Compare suppliers for this in the IT Raven Store →](https://store.itraven.net/services/managed-security/) IT Raven ## Ask for your free IT and security evaluation Updated October 7, 2026. Written by Bert Frichot. [![IT Raven](https://itraven.net/hubfs/itraven-site/brand2/itraven-lockup-inverse-2x.png)](https://itraven.net/?hsLang=en) IT Raven LLC is a security-first, vendor-neutral IT partner. 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