Security Gap Analysis

When did you last genuinely know
where your gaps were?

Most organisations discover their security gaps in an incident report, a regulatory finding, or a board briefing they weren't prepared for. A structured Security Gap Analysis changes that — permanently. It gives your leadership a clear picture of your current posture, your highest-priority risks, and exactly what to address first.

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Frameworks We Assess Against

ASD Essential Eight ML0 through ML3 maturity assessment

ISO/IEC 27001:2022 ISMS control gap mapping

NIST CSF Identify · Protect · Detect · Respond · Recover

IRAP Australian Government classification assessments

APRA CPS 234 Financial services cyber obligations

The Problem

A gap you can't see
is a risk you can't manage

With cloud services and hybrid work now embedded across Australian enterprises, users are accessing systems from more locations and devices than ever before. The attack surface is expanding faster than most security programmes can track — and the gaps that emerge are rarely visible until they are exploited.

A robust security gap analysis goes beyond visibility. It translates your control environment into a clear, prioritised remediation roadmap — so your team knows exactly what to address first, and your leadership understands the business consequence of each risk left open.

Without an assessment, you don't have a security strategy. You have a security budget.

Understand your current posture against recognised industry benchmarks
Identify gaps before regulators, auditors or adversaries find them first
Prioritise remediation by risk severity, likelihood and business impact
Produce board-ready reporting that speaks in the language of consequence
Build a 90-day and 12-month remediation roadmap with clear ownership

The GadgetAccess Approach

2–4 wks Typical engagement duration

100% Findings ranked by business impact

5 Frameworks we assess against

Board-ready Output format for every engagement

We don't conduct tick-box assessments. Every gap analysis is structured to produce findings your security team can act on — and your board can understand without a glossary.

Where others deliver a gap report, we deliver a risk register with ownership, timelines and a clear path to remediation — managed by our advisors alongside your team throughout the process.

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What's Included

A complete picture of your
security posture in four phases

Our Security Gap Analysis is structured as a four-phase engagement, aligned to your framework of choice and scoped to your organisation's size, sector and existing maturity.

Week 1

Discovery & Scoping

We establish your threat model, regulatory obligations, key systems and data classifications. This informs the depth and focus of the assessment — not a generic checklist applied uniformly, but a targeted evaluation of the controls that matter most for your specific organisation. We conduct stakeholder interviews with your security, IT, legal and executive teams to ensure nothing material is missed at the outset.

Weeks 1–2

Control Assessment

We evaluate your existing security controls against your selected framework — ASD Essential Eight, ISO 27001, NIST CSF or IRAP. We test not just whether controls exist, but whether they are effective, consistently applied, and maintained to the level required. Technical testing, policy review, configuration analysis and process interviews are all part of this phase.

Week 2–3

Gap Analysis & Risk Quantification

Every identified gap is assessed for likelihood of exploitation, potential business impact and remediation complexity. We produce a risk-ranked finding register with clear ownership designations for each item. Findings are classified as Critical, High, Medium and Low — with a plain-language explanation of the business consequence for each classification level.

Week 3–4

Remediation Roadmap Delivery

We present findings to your security leadership and board with a phased remediation roadmap structured across 30-day, 90-day and 12-month horizons — with effort estimates, resource requirements and prioritisation rationale for each workstream. You leave the engagement with a document your team can execute against and your board can track.

Assessment Frameworks

We assess against the frameworks
your sector actually requires

We align assessments to the regulatory and governance framework most relevant to your obligations — with the option to cross-map across multiple frameworks in a single engagement, reducing duplication and cost.

Government & All Regulated Sectors

ASD Essential Eight

Assessment of your current maturity against the ACSC's Essential Eight Maturity Model — from Maturity Level 0 through ML3. Mandatory for Commonwealth agencies and expected by most Australian regulators. We assess current maturity, identify gaps at each level and build a structured uplift programme to reach your target state with measurable milestones.

Enterprise & Financial Services

ISO/IEC 27001:2022

A structured review of your information security management system (ISMS) against the full ISO 27001:2022 control set. We identify gaps in policy, technical controls and governance ahead of certification or annual renewal. Our assessment maps directly to the audit evidence requirements, reducing the work required to achieve or maintain certification.

Sector-Agnostic

NIST Cybersecurity Framework

A capabilities assessment across all five NIST CSF functions — Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond and Recover. Provides an end-to-end view of your security programme maturity and resilience, with quantified maturity scoring across each function. Particularly useful for organisations seeking a sector-neutral benchmark or preparing for M&A security due diligence.

Australian Government

IRAP Assessment

Conducted by IRAP-certified assessors, our IRAP assessments evaluate your systems against the requirements of the Australian Government Information Security Manual (ISM). A mandatory step for any organisation handling government data above the OFFICIAL classification. We manage the full assessment lifecycle, including risk acceptance documentation and evidence packages for agency approval.

What You Receive

Outputs built to be used,
not filed and forgotten

Every Security Gap Analysis engagement produces six deliverables — structured to serve your security team, your executive leadership and your board in equal measure.

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Executive Summary Report

A plain-language summary of your current security posture, key findings and priority recommendations — written for board and executive audiences who need the picture without the technical detail.

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Risk-Ranked Finding Register

Every gap documented, risk-scored and assigned an owner. Critical, High, Medium and Low findings with plain-language business impact statements for each — not just technical descriptions.

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Remediation Roadmap

A phased action plan across 30-day, 90-day and 12-month horizons. Each workstream includes effort estimates, resource requirements and the risk reduction achieved on completion.

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Maturity Scorecard

A framework-aligned maturity rating for each control domain assessed — giving leadership a visual benchmark of where you stand today and what target maturity looks like.

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Technical Evidence Pack

For compliance-focused engagements, a structured evidence pack documenting assessment methodology, testing performed and findings — formatted to satisfy audit and regulatory requirements.

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Findings Presentation

A live briefing delivered by your lead advisor to your security leadership and board — tailored to your audience, with time for questions and discussion of the remediation strategy.

Our Track Record

Results that speak in the
language of risk reduction

94% of clients act on Critical findings within 30 days of delivery

2–4 wks Typical end-to-end engagement duration from scoping to delivery

5 Frameworks we assess against in a single engagement where required

100% Of engagements delivered with a board-ready executive summary

The GadgetAccess assessment gave us something we hadn't had in three years of internal reviews — a clear, ranked picture of what was actually at risk, with a roadmap we could take straight to the board. We had remediated the top five findings within six weeks.

— CISO, ASX-listed Financial Services Group (50–500 employees)

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Know your gaps before
your adversaries do

Our Security Gap Analysis engagements are scoped to your organisation's size, sector and existing maturity level. Most engagements are completed within two to four weeks, with findings delivered in a live briefing to your security leadership and board.

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Typical first response within one business day. Engagements scoped to your framework, sector and maturity level.

When did you last genuinely knowwhere your gaps were?