Four assessment practices. One evidence-first standard.
Most SCS assessments are tailored to the actual risk profile of your systems — with human operators, not automated reports. For Microsoft 365 Copilot risk, SCS also offers a fixed-scope Copilot Exposure Snapshot so teams can start with a faster paid diagnostic.
AI Security Assessments
Organizations deploying LLM-powered features, RAG systems, and AI agents face attack surfaces that didn't exist three years ago. SCS provides structured security review of AI-enabled systems before adversaries test them for you.
Available as a fixed-scope Copilot Exposure Snapshot for organizations preparing for or already using Copilot: 3-5 business days, starting at $3,500-$7,500. Full Microsoft 365 Copilot Exposure Assessments run 1-3 weeks and typically start at $12,500-$35,000 depending on tenant complexity, roles, connectors, evidence requirements, and remediation workshop needs.
Who This Is For
- Engineering teams shipping LLM-powered features in production
- Organizations using AI agents with access to internal APIs or databases
- Security leaders responsible for AI systems in regulated environments
- Companies building RAG systems over sensitive data
What We Assess
- Prompt injection — direct and indirect via external content
- Insecure tool execution and API trust chains
- Data leakage through model output and RAG context
- Authorization boundary failures and identity confusion
- Unsafe output handling in downstream processes
- Secrets exposure, logging gaps, workflow abuse paths
- Microsoft 365 Copilot exposure across SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, and connectors
- Role-based discovery of sensitive HR, legal, finance, audit, and executive content
- Oversharing, stale groups, broad access, source/citation leakage, and connector scope
- Evidence bundles and retest plans for remediation validation
Application & API Security Validation
Scanners identify known patterns. We identify real exploit chains — the ones that require understanding how your application actually works, who has access to what, and where business logic can be abused.
Who This Is For
- SaaS and product teams needing pre-release validation
- API-first platforms with complex authorization models
- Organizations with prior pentest findings that weren't adequately fixed
- Engineering teams that need findings engineers can actually remediate
What We Test
- Authentication flows, session management, access control
- REST and GraphQL API security, object-level authorization
- Business logic and abuse-case scenarios
- Input handling, injection, and output encoding
- Cloud-connected services and third-party integrations
- Mobile application testing (iOS, Android — where in scope)
Regulated Security Readiness
Compliance is a document. Security is technical evidence. For organizations navigating CMMC, NIST 800-171, DFARS, or RMF/ATO, SCS provides technical control validation grounded in offensive security experience — not checkbox consulting.
Who This Is For
- Defense contractors pursuing CMMC Level 2 or Level 3
- Organizations under DFARS 252.204-7012 requirements
- Federal programs navigating RMF and Authority to Operate
- Companies needing NIST 800-171 gap assessment and SSP development
What We Provide
- Technical control validation — not just policy review
- NIST 800-171 / CMMC gap assessment with risk-prioritized findings
- System Security Plan (SSP) development and documentation
- Scope reduction analysis to minimize cost and complexity
- Secure architecture review for CUI isolation and network segmentation
- Cleared personnel for sensitive environment access where required
Adversary Simulation
Full-scope red team engagements that emulate sophisticated adversary TTPs across people, process, and technology. Scoped for mature security programs with defined objectives — not packaged as a commodity product.
Engagement Types
- Full-scope assumed-breach and external intrusion scenarios
- Insider threat simulation and lateral movement testing
- Detection and response validation against real TTPs
- Social engineering and physical security components (where in scope)
Approach
- Objective-based scoping — not off-the-shelf packages
- Custom TTPs matched to your threat model and environment
- Real-world tradecraft from operators with federal experience
- MITRE ATT&CK-aligned findings and detection gap analysis
Start from the system, not the service name.
Buyers often arrive knowing something needs testing but not which practice applies. The mapping below is the same one SCS uses on a discovery call to route an engagement.
Which assessment fits your situation
| You are rolling out Microsoft 365 Copilot | Copilot Exposure Snapshot, then a full exposure assessment if the snapshot surfaces broad access. |
| Your product calls an LLM API | LLM security assessment, covering injection, leakage, policy bypass, and unsafe output handling. |
| Your system retrieves documents before answering | RAG security assessment, focused on indexing, chunking, permissions, and tenant boundaries. |
| Your agent can call tools or change records | AI agent security assessment, focused on tool authorization, approval gates, and unsafe action paths. |
| You ship a web application or API | Application and API security validation, including business-logic and authorization testing. |
| You carry CMMC, NIST SP 800-171, or FedRAMP obligations | Regulated security readiness, validating technical controls rather than documenting intent. |
| You want to test detection and response | Adversary simulation, scoped to objectives and aligned to MITRE ATT&CK. |
Engagement and scoping questions.
Which assessment do we need?
It depends on what the system does. If it retrieves documents before answering, start with a RAG security assessment. If it can call tools or change records, start with an agent assessment. If the concern is Microsoft 365 Copilot surfacing internal content, start with the Copilot Exposure Snapshot. If you are unsure, a discovery call scopes it from the architecture rather than from a package name.
How much does a security assessment cost?
The fixed-scope Copilot Exposure Snapshot runs 3-5 business days and starts at $3,500-$7,500. Full Microsoft 365 Copilot Exposure Assessments run 1-3 weeks and typically start at $12,500-$35,000 depending on tenant complexity, roles, connectors, evidence requirements, and remediation workshop needs. Other assessments are scoped to the system rather than sold as fixed packages.
How long does an engagement take?
The Copilot Exposure Snapshot is 3-5 business days. Full Copilot assessments run 1-3 weeks. Application, API, and AI system assessments are scoped from architecture, identities, and evidence requirements, and the timeline is agreed before work begins.
Do you work with federal contractors and regulated organizations?
Yes. SCS supports federal contractors and regulated organizations with technical control validation, CMMC and NIST SP 800-171 readiness, application and API testing, and cleared personnel where engagement requirements call for them.
Do you provide retesting after remediation?
Yes. Every confirmed finding ships with named retest cases, so the same conditions can be replayed against the remediated system to verify the fix rather than re-running the whole engagement.
What is different about working with SCS rather than a larger firm?
Assessments are delivered by senior practitioners rather than layers of account management, and findings are manually validated before delivery. The report reflects behavior an operator reproduced against your deployed system, with the evidence attached, rather than unvalidated scanner output.