Adversim helps organizations measure security maturity, uncover compliance weaknesses, and strengthen resilience through NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) and NIST 800-series assessments. Every engagement is led by senior consultants with decades of hands-on experience, ensuring you get results you can act on—not boilerplate reports.
Adversim’s experts provide structured evaluations against NIST standards, helping your organization measure maturity, uncover compliance gaps, and strengthen cybersecurity posture. Our assessments cover governance, risk management, controls, and technical safeguards to ensure you meet regulatory and industry expectations.
Our NIST assessment services evaluate your organization against multiple domains, including:
A NIST assessment is a guided review of your security program against the NIST CSF core functions—Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover—with Governance and Risk Management as the foundation across all five. Where needed, we also evaluate against control families from NIST SP 800-53 and related publications.
We examine policy, governance, process, and technology. We interview stakeholders across IT, security, and leadership. We validate that key safeguards exist not just on paper but in practice.
The result is a set of findings written for both executives and engineers, along with a prioritized roadmap that balances quick wins with long-term improvements. You get more than a score—you get a plan you can act on with confidence.
We use a repeatable, evidence-driven methodology
Define scope, objectives, and regulatory drivers.
Gather policies, diagrams, and technical configurations.
alidate practices with stakeholders across leadership and operations.
Perform targeted checks of controls and configurations.
Compare current state to NIST CSF categories and NIST 800-53 requirements.
Assign defensible scores across functions and governance.
Deliver a prioritized action plan with timelines and owners.
This process ensures findings are actionable and improvements measurable.
At the end of the assessment, you’ll receive deliverables designed to inform leadership and empower technical teams:
A major advantage of NIST is that it maps cleanly to other frameworks. Work done for NIST often satisfies large parts of ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA, GLBA, PCI DSS, and CMMC. This reduces duplicate effort and audit fatigue.
If you’re targeting FedRAMP or CMMC certification, a NIST assessment gives you a head start. It highlights control areas auditors will test and documents progress in a format they already understand.
Law firms and consulting groups rely on us for SOC 2 readiness, cloud security posture reviews, and data protection strategies. We help reduce risk while preserving attorney-client and sensitive client data confidentiality.
We assess infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments to uncover misconfigurations and application-layer threats. Our testing helps SaaS vendors protect customer data and maintain compliance.
Schools and education tech companies are often soft targets. We help secure student data, implement phishing training, and align cybersecurity programs with frameworks like NIST 800-171 and CMMC.
We help hospitality businesses secure guest data, protect booking and payment systems, and prevent cyberattacks. Our assessments ensure hotel networks, reservation platforms, and internal systems are safeguarded against breach.
We specialize in penetration testing and regulatory assessments for casinos and sportsbooks, with deep knowledge of Nevada Gaming Control Board (NGC) and Gaming Commission (GCB) requirements. From cage operations to physical access controls, we test what others overlook.
We help healthcare organizations protect patient data, meet HIPAA requirements, and defend against ransomware threats. Our services include network segmentation testing, endpoint hardening, and phishing resilience.
Financial institutions face strict compliance and high-value threats. We deliver GLBA- and PCI-aligned services, internal and external testing, and cloud security assessments to reduce risk and ensure trust.
We help retailers stay PCI DSS compliant, secure their payment environments, and prevent fraud. Our assessments ensure cardholder data, customer credentials, and internal systems are protected from breach.
Our consultants have led more than 500 NIST and compliance assessments across Fortune 100, government, healthcare, and critical infrastructure.
We don’t hand projects to juniors. Every engagement is led by experienced assessors who know how to translate findings into action.
Our deliverables are written for decision-makers. No boilerplate—just evidence, risk context, and a practical plan.
Based in Las Vegas, we support clients nationwide across all major industries.
Most engagements run 3–6 weeks, depending on size and scope. Larger or multi-line businesses may take longer.
No. We batch interviews and evidence requests. Most teams spend a few hours per week during the engagement.
Yes. NIST often maps directly to other frameworks, but it also highlights areas ISO or SOC 2 may not cover, especially governance.
Yes. We support policy updates, control design, vulnerability reduction, and tabletop exercises. We also validate improvements post-remediation.
Any industry subject to regulation or handling sensitive data. Finance, healthcare, government, retail, and SaaS providers benefit the most.
Governance is the foundation of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. A NIST assessment evaluates leadership accountability, risk ownership, and policy enforcement. By strengthening governance, organizations ensure security decisions are aligned with business objectives and supported by executive oversight.
Both. We review technical safeguards like access controls, encryption, and monitoring, as well as policies, procedures, and governance structures. This dual approach ensures controls are not just deployed but also managed effectively and consistently.
NIST assessments are valuable for organizations of all sizes. Small businesses use them to establish a baseline, mid-sized companies use them to prepare for compliance, and large enterprises use them to benchmark maturity and align multiple business units.
Most organizations benefit from a full assessment every 12–18 months, with lighter reviews or progress check-ins quarterly. Frequent assessments ensure that controls keep pace with new threats, regulatory changes, and business growth.
Adversim delivers senior-level expertise on every engagement. Unlike firms that rely on junior staff, our assessments are performed by consultants with decades of penetration testing, compliance, and risk management experience. You get actionable insights, not canned reports.
Adversim delivers senior-led penetration testing and security assessments at lower cost with a 100% US-based team. Once your scope is approved, we can often begin the following week, helping you meet deadlines, validate compliance, and strengthen security without delay.
