Benchmark Audit
82 % of organizations say ballooning cloud costs are their #1 security headache. Packetlabs guides you past the chaos with a CIS Benchmark Audit that hardens every control, eases regulatory compliance, and even lowers cyber insurance premiums, without slowing delivery.
Your three‑step path to cloud confidence:
Discover and baseline: Our experts map AWS, Azure, and GCP configs against Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmarks
Score and prioritize: You get a board‑ready heat map showing which misconfigurations drain budget and spike risk
Fix and verify: Follow the step‑by‑step remediation playbook, then receive a complimentary retest that proves every gap is closed
Align with internationally recognized best practices, slash needless spend, and safeguard critical data before auditors or attackers find the weak spots for you.
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Your three‑step path to cloud confidence:
Discover and baseline: Our experts map AWS, Azure, and GCP configs against Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmarks
Score and prioritize: You get a board‑ready heat map showing which misconfigurations drain budget and spike risk
Fix and verify: Follow the step‑by‑step remediation playbook, then receive a complimentary retest that proves every gap is closed
Align with internationally recognized best practices, slash needless spend, and safeguard critical data before auditors or attackers find the weak spots for you.
Service Highlights
Have Confidence In Your Infrastructure
Have confidence that your infrastructure and sensitive information are safe by checking the status of your organization’s security and compliance posture against cybersecurity benchmarks.
Our Uncompromising Standards.
CREST Accredited
You, your leadership, and your team can’t afford guesswork; they need trust and proof that the partner testing your defenses exceeds the global standard. That’s why Packetlabs maintains the CREST accreditation, cybersecurity’s gold-standard seal, awarded only after rigorous, hands-on exams and ongoing audits by the Council of Registered Security Testers.
Beyond Automated Testing
While automated scanners can uncover simple surface-level findings, Packetlabs’ expert-led manual-first penetration tests probe the logic, business workflows, and chained exploits that scanners routinely overlook. Leveraging manual exploitation techniques, threat-intel-driven scenarios, and creative lateral thinking, our team exposes high-impact vulnerabilities competitors miss and translates them into clear, fix-ready guidance.
Continuous Improvement
Threat actors innovate every day, so our playbook and testing methodologies can’t stand still. After each engagement, our testers feed the latest exploit paths, red-team lessons, and threat intelligence insights back into our proprietary checklists and methodologies, evolving them in real-time. When we arrive at your environment, you’re protected by a continuously improved framework that already accounts for the newest tactics most competitors won’t confront until next year.
Proactive Security Benchmarking
CIS benchmarks are internationally recognized as security standards for defending IT systems and data against cyberattacks. Used by thousands of organizations around the globe, partnering with Packetlabs means your team receives in-depth prescriptive guidance for establishing a secure baseline configuration.
Why Invest in a Security Benchmark Audit?
Identify Gaps in Configurations
A CIS Benchmark Audit helps organizations move from reactive security practices to a proactive, defense-driven strategy. Instead of waiting for vulnerabilities to be exploited, this audit evaluates your systems, configurations, and controls against the Center for Internet Security (CIS) Benchmarks, globally recognized best practices for securing operating systems, cloud environments, and applications.
By identifying misconfigurations and deviations from these standards early, a CIS Benchmark Audit enables your team to strengthen defenses before attackers can exploit weaknesses.
Verify That Findings Are Determined By Risk Ratings
A CIS Benchmark Audit doesn’t just identify configuration gaps: it helps you understand their true impact through risk-based validation. Each finding uncovered during the audit is assessed and prioritized using a structured risk rating system that considers factors such as exploitability, potential business impact, likelihood of occurrence, and the sensitivity of affected assets.
This approach ensures that remediation efforts are driven by risk, not guesswork. High-severity issues, such as misconfigured administrative privileges or unpatched critical services, are addressed first, while lower-risk findings are scheduled according to business priorities and available resources. By verifying that every recommendation aligns with an established risk rating, a CIS Benchmark Audit provides leadership with clear, actionable intelligence to allocate time and investment where it matters most.
Meet Payment Card Industry Data Standards
A CIS Benchmark Audit plays a crucial role in helping organizations meet federal cybersecurity compliance requirements such as those outlined by FISMA (the Federal Information Security Management Act) and the Department of Defense (DoD) Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (SRG).
By aligning your systems and configurations with these benchmarks, a CIS Benchmark Audit ensures your organization is following security baselines that directly support FISMA compliance objectives.
Compare with Secure Baseline Configurations
Evaluate organizational controls against a baseline of secure configurations and recommended best security practices. Alongside ensuring regulatory compliance, comparing against secure baseline configurations guarantees that teams understand the value of their information systems and assets (for example, sensitive information about customers may require protection, as might proprietary intellectual property that makes the organization competitive.)
Resources
CIS Benchmarks
Explore the value of CIS benchmarks via the Center for Internet Security's official documentation.
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Penetration Testing Sample Report
Take a look at our sample infrastructure penetration testing report to get a better understanding of what information will be delivered in the final report.
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