Medical and dental practices
Understand the risks in patient-facing services, staff logins, cloud records and remote access.
Cybersecurity assessments for businesses without a security team
Find your weak spots.
Fix the right ones first.
Attackers scan every business on the internet, including yours. KernelHawk reviews your security across five areas, scores it 1 to 10, and gives your IT team a prioritized list of what to fix first.
Scope fixed in writing
Five security areas scored
30 / 60 / 90-day plan
Up to five fixes retested
BaselineOne explainable 1-10 score
CoverageFive essential security areas
Action30 / 60 / 90-day priorities
Follow-throughRetest of up to five fixes included; ongoing review available
The economics of attacks have changed
Serious security without building a security department.
Automated attacks are cheap to run, so small businesses are now targets. We keep our assessments affordable the same way: automated tools collect the evidence, and a security professional reviews all 20 checks, writes the findings, and sets the priorities. You get a professional assessment at a fraction of a traditional consulting fee. It is built for small and growing businesses that depend on cloud services, customer data, email, applications, and connected operations but do not have an in-house security team.
Law, accounting and insurance firms
Protect client records and email, including shared files, without hiring a full-time security person.
SaaS, technology, and ecommerce
Review the production application, its APIs and the cloud account behind them, and trace what an attacker could reach from outside.
Property, construction, and field services
Find the weak points in office systems, field device access and vendor connections, where a day of downtime has a price.
Owners and executives
Get a short answer to where the business stands and which two or three decisions matter this quarter.
IT providers and internal teams
Get findings you can reproduce, the systems they affect, and the exact test that closes each one.
Engagements
Three kinds of engagement
Every assessment starts with a business question, and these three services answer different ones.
KernelHawk Baseline
Assess all five security areas. Leave with a 1-10 score, ranked findings and a plan with dates.
About the BaselineKernelHawk Focused Review
Investigate one thing: a website, a cloud account, a mobile release, a device, or a weakness you already suspect.
About focused reviewsKernelHawk Watch
Review exposure and open fixes every month or every quarter, and report progress to leadership.
About KernelHawk WatchThe first engagement
A 1-10 score for leadership, backed by a plan for IT.
KernelHawk Baseline covers five areas. It starts with external exposure and identity access, then examines data protection, patch and configuration health, and detection and response. A security professional works through 20 defined checks and records what they saw, why it matters, and the evidence behind each one. The software calculates the five area scores and dates the overall number against that evidence.
A straightforward engagement
From uncertainty to a plan with owners and dates.
We start from what the business depends on and the decision the assessment has to support.
Talk
Tell us what changed, what worries you, and which systems matter most.
Scope
You get a written proposal: what is in scope, how we test, what you receive, when, and the price.
Assess
We review and validate only what your organization has approved.
Report
Leadership and IT review the score and findings, then agree on the ordered action plan.
Improve
Fix, retest, and keep the baseline current at the cadence your business needs.
Latest briefings
Make better decisions before the pressure is on.
Each article ends with what to do about it.
What the 2026 breach data changes for defenders
The 2026 DBIR puts vulnerability exploitation ahead of credentials for initial access, changing where defenders spend first.
Read the briefingPatch queues should start with evidence of use
Turn a long vulnerability list into a practical order of work using exposure and business context.
Read the briefingThe AI attack surface is already operational
Understand the new identities, data flows, tools, and vendor dependencies introduced by AI.
Read the briefingAlso from KernelHawk
Need the technical tools?
ThreatWing is KernelHawk's software tool set, including an iPhone app and a hosted Decompiler beta. ThreatWing and KernelHawk share no accounts or data.
Explore ThreatWing ↗Know where you stand
Do not wait for an automated attack to set your security priorities.
Tell us what the business depends on. We will name the smallest first engagement that answers it.
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