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Independent Cybersecurity Consulting and Security Assessments

Practical Cybersecurity Consulting, Security Assessments, and Penetration Testing

Cybersecurity touches every part of your business.

Your employees rely on cloud applications. Customers visit your websites and portals. Your IT team manages networks, devices, identities, and data. Vendors connect to your systems. Leadership often makes security decisions without a full understanding of the risks.

Tanner Security offers cybersecurity services to businesses seeking an unbiased assessment of their security and a simple plan to reduce risk.

We help companies find vulnerabilities, review security controls, prepare for compliance, test defenses, improve security policies, and respond to new threats.

We focus on the questions that matter most to business leaders.

“What are our most important cybersecurity risks?”

“Which weaknesses could an attacker exploit?”

“What should we fix first?”

“Are the security controls we already pay for working as expected?”

With more than 20 years of experience, Tanner Security provides hands-on assessments, penetration testing, compliance support, and security consulting for businesses.

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What Are Cybersecurity Services?

Cybersecurity services help a company identify, evaluate, reduce, and manage risks that could affect its technology, information, employees, customers, and business operations.

A strong cybersecurity program goes beyond just using individual security products.

A firewall does not automatically create a secure network.

Multifactor authentication does not automatically protect every account.

Backups do not automatically guarantee recovery.

A written incident-response plan does not automatically prepare employees to respond to a real attack.

Effective cybersecurity brings together technology, people, processes, governance, and risk management.

Tanner Security helps your company build a security program that addresses real business risks, not just a collection of tools and compliance tasks.

Cybersecurity Consulting Built Around Your Business

Every company has a different technology environment and risk tolerance.

A small professional services firm may need a focused IT risk assessment, Microsoft 365 security review, and vulnerability assessment.

A healthcare business may need HIPAA consulting, network security testing, incident-response planning, and ongoing security monitoring.

A defense contractor may need CMMC, NIST SP 800-171, network penetration testing, policy development, and technical remediation.

A software company may need a web application, cloud, custom application, and network penetration testing.

We start by learning about your business and then recommend the security services that fit your needs.

We understand that every company has different security needs.

We were fortunate to have collaborated with Tanner IT Security Consultants. From the outset, John’s team exhibited a remarkable depth of knowledge and a clear understanding of our specific requirements.

Andy W. – Chief Information Security Officer

Cybersecurity Consulting Built on Real-World Security Experience

Security programs often struggle with limited visibility into real risk. Automated tools can detect known vulnerabilities, but they rarely reveal how attackers move through networks or escalate privileges once inside.

Tanner Security conducts detailed cybersecurity assessments that evaluate both technical security controls and operational security practices.

Our team of consultants regularly works with companies that require independent security expertise, including:

  • Healthcare providers protecting sensitive patient data
  • Defense contractors preparing for CMMC and NIST SP 800-171 compliance
  • Financial services companies safeguarding regulated information
  • Technology companies securing cloud and SaaS infrastructure
  • Manufacturing organizations protecting operational systems

Through technical analysis and structured assessment methodologies, we help businesses understand where cybersecurity risks exist and how to reduce them.

Based on the findings of our cybersecurity risk assessment, we offer a range of additional consulting services, including:

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What Does a Cybersecurity Assessment Evaluate?

The scope depends on your company and the engagement objective.

A comprehensive assessment can examine governance, assets, identity, access control, network security, cloud systems, endpoint security, vulnerability management, logging, incident response, business continuity, vendor risk, security awareness, policies, and other areas relevant to your business.

Tanner Security also looks at how those controls work together.

A business may have strong endpoint protection but weak identity controls.

It may have good backups but poor recovery procedures.

It may have detailed security policies but limited evidence that employees follow them.

The assessment should reveal those connections rather than evaluate each control in isolation.

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Cybersecurity Assessment Process

Understand Your Business: We learn about your operations, technology environment, important data, major systems, business priorities, existing security controls, and known concerns.

Define the Objective: Every assessment should answer a specific business question. You may need to understand cybersecurity risk, prepare for compliance, validate security controls, evaluate a new environment, or investigate a specific concern.

Review the Environment: We examine documentation, policies, architecture, configurations, security tools, processes, and other relevant evidence.

Test the Controls: Depending on the engagement, Tanner Security can perform technical testing, interviews, control reviews, vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, or other validation activities.

Prioritize the Risk: We help your leadership and IT team distinguish between issues that need attention now and those that can fit into longer-term security planning.

Build the Roadmap: The final report will clearly show your company what steps to take next. We provide practical recommendations your team can use to reduce risk, strengthen controls, and plan security investments.

What Should You Expect From a Cybersecurity Consulting Firm?

A cybersecurity consulting project should give you more than just a standard checklist.

You should get an independent assessment of your environment, clear explanations of key findings, practical recommendations, and the context you need to make decisions.

Tanner Security focuses on three outcomes:

Understand the risk.

Prioritize the work.

Improve the security program.

Our service model combines assessment, technical testing, compliance consulting, governance, and remediation support. Tanner’s current service portfolio spans penetration testing, IT compliance, IT consulting, and IT advisory services.

This broad approach helps our consultants connect findings across many areas instead of treating each security issue separately. When Should a Company Hire an IT Security Consultant?

Companies often bring in an independent cybersecurity consultant when they lack internal expertise, need an objective assessment, face a compliance requirement, plan a major technology change, experience a security incident, or want leadership-level visibility into cybersecurity risk.

An outside consultant can help when your IT team is busy keeping systems running and doesn’t have the time or independence for a security review.

You don’t have to wait for an incident to assess cybersecurity.

Significant changes to your network, cloud environment, applications, employees, vendors, business operations, or regulatory requirements can all create reasons to review risk.

Why Choose Tanner Security?

Tanner Security has more than two decades of cybersecurity consulting experience and works across technical security, compliance, risk, and governance.

Our service portfolio includes penetration testing, cybersecurity risk assessments, IT audits, vulnerability assessments, NIST and CMMC consulting, PCI services, cloud security, Microsoft 365 security reviews, SIEM and log monitoring, GRC, enterprise risk management, security governance, policy development, and social engineering testing.

That range matters because cybersecurity problems rarely fit into one category.

A vulnerability can become a compliance issue.

An identity weakness can become a business continuity issue.

A policy gap can create technical risk.

A vendor relationship can create an attack path into a critical system.

Tanner Security evaluates those connections and helps businesses focus on the risks that matter most.

We are an independent consulting firm, not a security product vendor. Our advice is based on your security needs, not on selling products. We focus on independent assessments, hands-on testing, and practical security guidance.

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Cybersecurity Services FAQ's

Cybersecurity services help businesses identify, assess, reduce, and manage risks involving technology, information, identities, applications, networks, cloud environments, employees, and business operations. Read more about our cybersecurity risk assessment checklist.

An IT security consultant evaluates security risks and controls, identifies weaknesses, recommends improvements, and helps the business strengthen its cybersecurity program. Depending on the engagement, a consultant may perform an IT risk assessments, penetration testing, compliance assessments, policy work, and help a business know what investment they should make first.

Tanner Security provides cybersecurity risk assessments, penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, cloud security services, Microsoft 365 security reviews, IT audits, NIST and CMMC consulting, PCI services, GRC, enterprise risk management, policy development, security governance, SIEM and log monitoring, social engineering testing, and related cybersecurity consulting. Learn more about what cybersecurity investment a company should make first.

Start with the business problem, not a specific security product or test. Tanner Security can help determine whether you need a risk assessment, penetration test, vulnerability assessment, compliance assessment, cloud review, policy work, or another service based on your environment and objectives. Tanner can help debunk the top 10 cybersecurity myths.

Cost depends on scope, company size, technology complexity, testing requirements, compliance requirements, and the services involved. Tanner Security provides fixed-fee proposals for defined engagements so the company understands the expected cost before the work begins.

No universal schedule fits every business. When determining assessment frequency, consider your risk, technology changes, compliance requirements, business growth, threat exposure, previous findings, and major changes to systems or vendors. Read more about how often a company should conduct a penetration test.

A risk assessment looks broadly at cybersecurity risk, controls, processes, and business impact. A penetration test attempts-controlled exploitation to determine what an attacker can accomplish.

Not every business needs the same depth or frequency of penetration testing. Companies with important internet-facing systems, sensitive information, customer applications, regulated environments, or IT risk should understand the importance of a web application penetration test.

Yes. A cybersecurity risk assessment can identify gaps and provide evidence that supports compliance efforts. However, the assessment should match the requirements of the applicable framework or regulation. A general cybersecurity assessment does not automatically establish compliance with every standard.

A small business can benefit from independent cybersecurity expertise when internal IT lacks specialized security experience, when the company handles sensitive information, when customers require security evidence, or when leadership needs a clearer understanding of cyber risk. NIST specifically provides CSF 2.0 guidance for small and medium-sized businesses.

Tanner Security provides SIEM and log-monitoring services as part of a larger cybersecurity service. The appropriate monitoring model depends on your environment, risk, technology, and operational requirements.

Yes. Tanner Security can help with remediation planning, policy development, technical security improvements, penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, compliance consulting, and other follow-up services.

Start by understanding the systems, applications, cloud environments, important data, security policies, vendors, prior assessment findings, and known concerns that fall within the assessment scope. Tanner Security can define the specific evidence and preparation activities during engagement planning.

Tanner Security can start with an independent cybersecurity assessment, identify the most important risks, and connect the findings to technical testing, compliance, governance, policies, and remediation services. The goal is to give leadership a practical path toward a stronger cybersecurity program.

Related Cybersecurity Services

Tanner Security provides a broad set of services that can support the findings and priorities that emerge from a cybersecurity assessment.

IT Risk Assessments: Evaluate technology and cybersecurity risk based on likelihood, business impact, and security goals.

Network Penetration Testing: Test internal and external network environments to determine whether attackers can utilize vulnerabilities and move through your systems.

Web Application Penetration Testing: Evaluate authentication, authorization, sessions, APIs, business logic, and other application-security controls.

Network Vulnerability Assessments: Identify known vulnerabilities and configuration weaknesses across systems and infrastructure.

NIST Cybersecurity Consulting: Build or improve a cybersecurity program around NIST CSF 2.0 and other applicable NIST guidance.

CMMC Consulting: Prepare defense contractors for applicable CMMC requirements and assess security controls related to federal contracting.

PCI DSS Consulting: Address PCI DSS scope, controls, documentation, remediation, penetration testing, and assessment preparation.

Microsoft 365 Security Reviews: Evaluate identity, authentication, access controls, cloud configuration, sharing, and Microsoft 365 security settings.

GRC and Enterprise Risk Management: Connect cybersecurity risk to governance, compliance, business priorities, and executive decision-making.

IT Policy Development: Develop practical security policies that are in line with your technical controls and business processes.

Strengthen Your Cybersecurity Program

Cybersecurity threats continue to evolve, and companies must continually evaluate their defenses. Independent cybersecurity assessments provide critical visibility into weaknesses that internal teams may not detect. Tanner Security helps businesses identify vulnerabilities, strengthen security controls, and build resilient cybersecurity programs.

If your company requires cybersecurity consulting, penetration testing, or risk assessments, our team can help you understand your security posture and improve your defenses.

Partner with Tanner Security for expert Cybersecurity consulting services to ensure your business meets the highest security standards. Contact us today to learn more about our services and how we can help you achieve PCI DSS compliance.

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