You know security needs attention, but you are not sure where to start
You want to invest in security, but lack a clear view of which threats and weaknesses should come first.
Engagement 01
External Threat & Attack Surface Assessment
“Why would an attacker target us, what would they see from the outside, and what should we fix first?”
Lion Sec examines your company the way an attacker would: from the outside, with public information, external exposure data and threat intelligence. The result is a short list of attack scenarios that are realistic for your business, and a 90-day plan ordered by how much risk each action removes.
- Duration
- 10 business days
- Access
- No internal access required
- Format
- Remote, evidence-based
The problem
Security spending without a threat model is guesswork
Your company knows cyber risk exists. But without a dedicated security team, it can be difficult to determine which attack scenarios actually matter to your business. As a result, security decisions often default to generic best practices rather than your real external exposure, business model, and attacker incentives.
This can lead to security budget being spent on controls that are easy to buy rather than on weaknesses that matter in realistic attack chains — leaving you without a clear way to determine whether that investment actually reduced your risk.
It is for you if
Your company is growing faster than its security function
New employees, infrastructure, customers, or funding have increased your exposure, while security remains informal or owned by a small team.
A security event made the risk feel real
An incident, near miss, or attack against a competitor or partner raised questions about how your company could be targeted.
You need to make security decisions you can justify
Customers are asking security questions, a budget has been allocated, or your first security engineer has joined — and you need evidence-based priorities rather than generic best practices.
What Lion Sec does
How the engagement runs
Four stages, each feeding the next. Nothing is touched, probed or exploited — the analysis works from information that is already available to an attacker.
- 01
Attacker reconnaissance
What your company looks like from the outside, and why it would be worth someone’s time.
- Company attractiveness and attacker incentives
- Employee and executive exposure
- Publicly exposed company information
- Leaked credentials and data, where legally available
- Technology footprint, external assets and services
- Inferred infrastructure and technology map
- 02
Threat landscape
Which attackers are relevant to a company of your size, sector and business model.
- Relevant attacker classes
- Attacks against comparable companies
- Relevant tactics, techniques and procedures
- Known sector attack patterns
- 03
Attack scenario modeling
Three to seven prioritized scenarios, each written as a chain rather than a finding.
- Attacker objective and initial access
- Full attack chain and the conditions it requires
- Business impact, likelihood and confidence
- The evidence each conclusion rests on
- 04
Risk reduction plan
Recommendations ordered by risk reduction and implementation effort, split into immediate, 30, 60 and 90-day actions. Every recommendation names the attack scenario it addresses.
What you receive
Deliverables
Two audiences, one analysis: management gets a document it can decide from, engineering gets one it can work from.
Executive Threat Brief
Three to five pages for management: who would attack you, how, what it would cost the business, and what to approve first.
Technical Assessment
The full analysis with its working shown.
- External attack surface and OSINT findings
- Relevant threat actors and attacker classes
- Attack scenarios with supporting evidence
- Methodology, sources and confidence levels
90-Day Security Roadmap
Immediate, 30, 60 and 90-day actions, prioritized by risk reduction and implementation effort, each mapped to an identified scenario.
Not included
This is an analytical engagement, not a test. The following are explicitly not included, and are stated in the report:
- Penetration testing and exploitation
- Social engineering and phishing campaigns
- Application security testing
- Source-code review
- Internal architecture assessment
Scope boundaries are stated in the report as well, so findings are never mistaken for verification of something that was not examined.
After the engagement
What changes
Before
The company knows it should improve security, but not where to start — so investment is justified by intuition or by whatever the last vendor recommended.
After
You gain a clear, evidence-based security direction: which attack scenarios matter most, which weaknesses enable them, what to prioritize over the next 90 days, and why those investments are justified.
Why this is worth doing now
External exposure grows quietly with every new hire, subdomain, integration and funding announcement. Ten business days of analysis now is considerably cheaper than discovering the same attack path while it is being used.
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Next step
Talk through your situation before committing to anything.
An introductory call establishes whether the External Threat Assessment engagement is the right answer for your company right now, what it would cover in your environment, and what you would have at the end of it.