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IT Infrastructure Review

Assessment of your infrastructure architecture, hardening and resilience against good-practice baselines.

Overview

A healthy foundation for everything above it.

Your infrastructure is the foundation your applications, data and controls sit on. Weak architecture, inconsistent hardening and single points of failure create risk that compliance alone won’t fix.

We review your network, servers, endpoints and cloud architecture against good-practice baselines, identifying resilience, security and hygiene improvements.

What’s covered

What we assess and prepare.

Architecture review

Design, segmentation and resilience.

Hardening assessment

Baseline configuration across assets.

Patch & vulnerability hygiene

Currency and exposure.

Backup & recovery

Resilience against failure.

Identity & access

Directory and privileged access health.

Who needs this

Is this the right fit?

The organisations that most often turn to this engagement.

Growing IT estatesArchitecture and hygiene review.

Post-migration organisationsValidating new infrastructure.

Companies before auditsFoundation strengthening.

Hybrid / cloud environmentsConsistency and resilience.

Organisations after incidentsClosing hardening gaps.

Any org wanting infra assuranceA baseline review.

Regulatory drivers

Why this is required

A periodic infrastructure review is expected good practice and underpins the controls regulators and auditors rely on, surfacing configuration, resilience and security weaknesses before they are exploited.

ISO/IEC 27001:2022

Configuration, capacity and operations controls fall within the ISMS scope.

RBI / sector expectations

Regulated entities are expected to review and harden critical infrastructure.

CIS Benchmarks

Recognised hardening baselines for systems, network devices and cloud.

How we work

A proven, methodical approach.

A staged approach built to deliver a defensible outcome.

Scoping & asset discovery

Discovering the infrastructure, systems and assets in scope.

Architecture & configuration review

Reviewing architecture and configuration against best practice.

Security & resilience assessment

Assessing security posture, availability and resilience.

Gap & risk analysis

Rating gaps and risks by impact and effort.

Prioritised roadmap

A sequenced roadmap of improvements.

Report & readout

A clear report and leadership readout.

What you receive

Documentation built for every audience.

Infrastructure review reportFindings across your systems and architecture.
Architecture & risk findingsSecurity and resilience observations.
Hardening roadmapA sequenced plan of improvements.
Prioritised recommendationsPractical fixes rated by impact.
Executive readoutA leadership summary of findings.

Standards & frameworks

The work is mapped to the standards and rules that apply to you.

CIS BenchmarksNISTISO 27001Cloud Well-Architected

Checklist

Are you ready? A quick checklist

What to have in place before we begin.

Architecture diagrams available

Asset inventory current

Access to representative systems

Patch / vulnerability data

Backup & recovery configuration

Directory / IAM access

Hardening baseline agreed

Remediation owner identified

FAQ

Common questions

Is this a penetration test?

No. An infrastructure review is an architecture and configuration assessment against best practice and hardening baselines, focused on how your systems are built and configured. It pairs well with penetration testing, which actively exploits weaknesses — the review tells you how sound the foundation is, while a pentest proves what an attacker could do.

On-prem, cloud or both?

We cover on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments, and assess how securely they fit together. Many of the most important findings sit at the boundaries — how on-prem connects to cloud, how identity spans both — so reviewing the whole estate together gives the clearest picture.

What do we get?

You receive a clear report of findings across your architecture, configuration and resilience, each rated by impact, along with prioritised, practical recommendations to strengthen the foundation. We finish with an executive readout so both your technical team and leadership know what to fix first.