Know Exactly Where Your Security Stands
Every network has gaps. The only question is whether you find them before someone else does.
Pearl’s cybersecurity risk assessment maps your environment against HIPAA, PCI, CMMC, and NIST, scores what actually matters, and hands leadership a remediation plan. Run by the team behind our own 24/7 SOC.
- Expert-led interviews and a real baseline, not just a scan dump
- A compliance gap analysis your auditor and your board can both read
- A prioritized remediation roadmap ranked by real-world risk
In-House 24/7 SOC SOC 2 Type 2 CRN MSP 500, 2026
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No pitch. We talk through your environment, your compliance load, and what an assessment would cover.
In-House SOC SOC 2 Type 2 Illinois-Based Team
Typical mid-market security assessments run $3,000 to $25,000 depending on scope. You get an exact number before we start.
In-House 24/7 SOC SOC 2 Type 2 CRN MSP 500, 2026 Top 250 MSSP, 2025 Pearl-Owned Illinois Data Centers
You Cannot Defend What You Have Not Measured
Most mid-market companies are running on security assumptions, tools bought after the last scare, policies nobody has tested, and a compliance posture that has never been mapped. Four questions tell you where you stand.
If any answer is a guess, that is the gap. The assessment replaces guesses with a scored, prioritized plan.
A Real SOC, Not a Reseller
Most providers outsource their monitoring and mark it up. Pearl owns the whole stack, the Security Operations Center, the data centers behind it, and the response.
The people who assess your environment are the same team that watches ours and our clients’, around the clock.
What Sits Behind the Assessment
- SIEM correlating endpoints, network, cloud, and users in real time
- Risk-based vulnerability management, exploitability over severity scores
- 24/7 incident response with digital forensics and root-cause work
- Purple Team training, ransomware simulations, and tabletop exercises
- Immutable backups across Pearl-owned data centers in multiple locations
- Penetration testing when you want findings validated by a real attack
Sponsor of the Midwest Cyber Alliance Summit alongside FBI Springfield and Peoria InfraGard.
What the Security Assessment Delivers
More than a report. Six deliverables that give IT the technical detail and leadership the clarity to act.
Technical Assessment
A structured, expert-led evaluation of your environment, interviews, baseline, and resiliency, not just a scan export.
Executive Risk Readout
Risk insights written for the people who sign off, what is exposed, what it costs, what to do first.
Compliance Gap Analysis
Your environment mapped against HIPAA, PCI, CMMC, and NIST, with the gaps ranked and the fixes named.
Vulnerability Baseline
Continuous visibility across endpoints, servers, network, and cloud, prioritized by exploitability, not just severity.
Remediation Roadmap
A prioritized action list connected to real-world threats and business impact, so your team fixes risk, not noise.
Ongoing Reviews
Access to a risk management platform and quarterly expert reviews, because security does not stop at the report.
Structured, Expert-Driven, No Mystery
A defined engagement run by Pearl’s security team, with your IT lead and leadership in the loop at every step.
Interviews and Baseline
Expert-led interviews, baseline assessment, and resiliency evaluation, so findings reflect how your business actually runs.
Map and Score the Risk
Your environment mapped against HIPAA, PCI, CMMC, and NIST, vulnerabilities scored by exploitability and business impact.
Report, Readout, Plan
Detailed technical assessment, executive risk readout, compliance gap analysis, and a prioritized remediation list.
Findings Ranked by Real Risk, Not Noise
Risk Matrix, Likelihood × Impact
A Clear Read for IT and the Board
Every finding lands in one matrix with a named fix and an owner. IT gets the technical detail. Leadership gets the two-page version that says what to fund first and why.
Gap analysis mapped against the frameworks your auditors and contracts actually cite.
Gap analysis mapped against the frameworks your auditors and contracts actually cite.
What Security Actually Costs
Published market numbers, so you can sanity-check us against anyone.
What building and staffing your own 24/7 SOC costs in salaries, tooling, and turnover. That is the bill Pearl's shared SOC model replaces.
What mid-market security risk assessments run across the industry, depending on scope, environment size, and compliance mapping.
A 30-minute consult, then an exact scoped price before we start. No hourly meter, and the roadmap is yours either way.
Market figures from published 2025-2026 industry pricing guides. Your quote depends on environment size and scope.
You Work With the People Who Run the SOC
Anthony Mini
Sets the security bar for every engagement, and holds Pearl's own operations to the same SOC 2 Type 2 standard.
Peter Beaugard
Runs the SIEM tuning and threat analysis behind the assessment, and watches client environments from Pearl's SOC. LogRhythm-certified across administration, analysis, and deployment.
Backed by Pearl’s data center and IT teams when remediation touches infrastructure, so fixes get built, not just recommended.
How Pearl Compares to a Typical MSSP
Three ways to handle security. One of them owns the whole stack.
| Comparison point | Pearl Assessment + SOC | Status Quo / DIY | Typical MSSP |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24/7 monitoring and response | In-house SOC | Business hours, at best | ~ Often outsourced again |
| Assessment mapped to HIPAA / PCI / CMMC / NIST | ~ Extra engagement | ||
| Fixed assessment quote | Scoped up front | n/a | ~ Hourly creep |
| Owned data centers, immutable backups | Pearl-owned, Illinois | Rented infrastructure | |
| Incident response with forensics | 24/7 command center | ~ Retainer only | |
| Trains your team for the first 48 hours | Purple Team + tabletops | ||
| Local Midwest team you can meet | Peoria Heights, IL | n/a |
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a cybersecurity risk assessment?
A cybersecurity risk assessment is a structured evaluation of your IT environment that identifies vulnerabilities, scores them by likelihood and business impact, and maps your controls against frameworks like HIPAA, PCI, CMMC, and NIST. Pearl’s version combines expert-led interviews and baseline testing with a written technical assessment, an executive risk readout, and a prioritized remediation roadmap.
How much does a cybersecurity risk assessment cost?
Across the industry, basic assessments for smaller organizations run about $3,000 to $15,000, and focused engagements with compliance mapping typically run $8,000 to $25,000. Pearl scopes your environment in a free 30-minute consult and gives you a fixed quote before any work starts, so there is no hourly meter.
What does the assessment include?
Expert-led interviews, a baseline and resiliency evaluation, vulnerability analysis prioritized by exploitability, a compliance gap analysis against HIPAA, PCI, CMMC, and NIST, a detailed technical report, an executive-level risk readout, and a prioritized remediation list. Ongoing access to a risk management platform and quarterly reviews continue after the report.
What is SOC as a service?
SOC as a service means a provider’s Security Operations Center monitors your environment 24/7, detects threats, and responds to incidents, instead of you building that team in-house. Building your own around-the-clock SOC typically costs $1 million to $2 million a year. Pearl runs its own in-house SOC in Illinois, so monitoring and response come from the same team that assessed your environment, not a subcontractor.
Do you do HIPAA and CMMC risk assessments?
Yes. The gap analysis maps your environment against HIPAA, PCI, CMMC, and NIST, so a HIPAA risk assessment for healthcare organizations or a CMMC readiness check for defense-contract work runs inside the same engagement. You get the compliance findings your auditor or contracting officer expects, plus the remediation plan to close them.
Is this a penetration test?
No, and the order matters. The assessment finds and prioritizes your gaps first. A penetration test then validates specific findings by simulating a real attack. Pearl offers penetration testing as a follow-on once the fundamentals are mapped, so you pay to test defenses, not to rediscover known gaps.
How often should we run an assessment?
At least annually, and after any major change, a merger, a new line-of-business system, a cloud migration, or a compliance requirement like CMMC entering your contracts. Pearl’s quarterly reviews keep the picture current between full assessments.
What happens if you find something bad?
You get straight answers and a plan, ranked by exploitability and impact. If something is actively dangerous, we flag it immediately rather than saving it for the report. And because Pearl runs a 24/7 SOC and incident response practice, the same team can help you contain and fix it, not just document it.
What happens after the assessment?
The roadmap is yours. Run it with your own team, or have Pearl handle remediation, ongoing SOC monitoring, vulnerability management, or incident response readiness. There is no obligation to continue, and the deliverables stand on their own either way.
Know Where You Stand Before Someone Else Finds Out.
Book a free 30-minute call. No pitch. You leave with a clear read on your exposure and a fixed quote for the cybersecurity risk assessment, which runs about three days on site once scheduled.
- Pick a time that works for you
- We walk through your environment and concerns on the call
- You get a scoped, fixed quote and we book the assessment
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