Most businesses cannot answer one simple question with any confidence: if someone went looking at us right now, what would they find? Not in theory — in fact. Which accounts are exposed, which passwords have already turned up in a breach, which machines have missed a year of patches, and which of the protections you are paying for are actually switched on.
North Star offers a complimentary one-time cybersecurity risk assessment for businesses across the Denver metro area, Colorado Springs and Fort Collins. You complete a short intake form, we run the assessment, and you receive a written report of what we found. There is no cost, no commitment, and no requirement to become a client.
The assessment examines your environment the way an attacker would approach it — from the outside in, then from the inside out. It is a measurement exercise, not a sales presentation with a scan attached.
A written report in plain English, with findings ranked by severity rather than listed alphabetically. Every item says what was found, why it matters to a business like yours, and what fixing it involves — so you can tell the difference between something that needs attention this week and something that belongs in next year’s budget.
We will walk you through it on a call if that is useful. Plenty of people take the report, hand it to whoever currently looks after their technology, and get on with it. That is a perfectly good outcome.
A fair question, and it deserves a direct answer. We do this because it is the most honest way to start a conversation. Nearly every IT provider will tell you they are thorough; very few will measure your environment first and show you what they found before asking for anything.
Some businesses read the report, recognise the gaps, and ask us to close them. Others discover their existing arrangements are in better shape than they feared, and we hear from them a year later when something changes. Both are fine. What we are not doing is holding the findings back, using them as a pressure tactic, or putting you on a call list — the report is yours either way.
It suits any business between roughly 5 and 300 computers, with or without internal IT staff. In practice, it tends to be prompted by one of a handful of moments:
If your industry carries specific obligations — healthcare, financial services, legal, or defense contracting — the assessment is a sensible first step before any formal compliance work, because it establishes where you actually stand.
This is the fast, low-friction version: you start it yourself, it focuses on security risk, and it is designed to give you a clear answer without a discovery meeting first.
Our network health and security assessment is the deeper engagement that precedes a managed services proposal. It inventories everything connected, covers operational and lifecycle issues alongside security, and produces a budgeted roadmap. Most clients who engage us for managed IT services or managed security services go through that one. Starting here first costs you nothing and loses you nothing.
Genuinely free. There is no invoice at any point in the process and no charge to receive the findings. If you decide you want work done afterward, that is quoted separately and you are free to have someone else do it.
No. The assessment is read-only. Nothing is changed, removed or reconfigured, and your staff can keep working normally throughout. We are measuring, not intervening.
Findings are used to produce your report and to discuss it with you. They are not sold, shared or used for marketing to anyone else, and we will delete the data on request. If your organisation needs a confidentiality agreement in place first, tell us and we will sign one before anything begins.
Yes, and a fair number of people do exactly that. An independent measurement is the only practical way to verify that what you are paying for is working. If the report comes back clean, your provider has earned their fee and you have proof. If it does not, you have a specific, evidenced list to take to them.
No. There is no obligation, no trial period and no contract attached to the assessment. You keep the report regardless of what you decide.
Not for the assessment itself, which is conducted remotely. It matters for ongoing support, where our on-site coverage runs across the Denver metro area, Colorado Springs and Fort Collins. Businesses with remote and hybrid teams are common among our clients regardless of where the staff sit.
The intake form takes a few minutes and asks for the basics about your organisation so we know what we are looking at. Everything after that is on us.
Would rather talk to a person first? Call 303-552-0018 or book a short consultation and we will walk you through what the assessment covers before you start.
