Cyber Risk Assessment in Charlotte, NC
You can’t fix what you can’t see. Our cyber risk assessment shows you exactly where your business is exposed — in plain English, ranked by real-world risk — and then goes one step further: we prove the fix with a free Zscaler zero trust proof of concept in your own environment.
Schedule Your Free Risk Assessment Call (704) 206-8900Why Charlotte Businesses Get Assessed Now
Most companies discover their security gaps one of two ways: an assessment, or an incident. One of them is free.
Attackers Already Scanned You
Automated tools probe every business’s internet-facing systems daily, hunting for open doors. An assessment finds those doors before someone walks through one.
Insurance Depends on It
Cyber-insurance applications now ask detailed questions about MFA, EDR, backups, and monitoring. Wrong answers mean denied claims; unknown answers mean denied coverage.
Compliance Requires Proof
HIPAA, CMMC/NIST 800-171, and FTC Safeguards all require documented risk assessments — not once, but on a regular cadence. “We think we’re fine” is not documentation.
What the Assessment Covers
External Exposure
What attackers see from the outside: exposed services, vulnerable systems, leaked credentials circulating from past breaches, and your domain’s email spoofing protections.
Identity & Access
MFA coverage, stale accounts, admin sprawl, and password practices — the #1 way attackers get in is a legitimate login that shouldn’t have worked.
Endpoints & Patching
Endpoint protection coverage, patch status across workstations and servers, and unsupported systems quietly accumulating risk.
Email & Phishing Defense
Filtering effectiveness, spoofing protections, and how prepared your team is for the phishing and wire-fraud attempts they’re already receiving.
Backup & Recovery Readiness
Whether your backups would actually survive a ransomware event — isolation, encryption, testing history, and realistic recovery time.
Network & Zero Trust Posture
Segmentation, remote access security, and legacy VPN exposure — scored against the zero trust standard that modern insurers and frameworks expect.
From Assessment to Proof — in Four Steps
Assess
We evaluate your environment across all six domains — typically without disrupting your team at all.
Score & Prioritize
You get a plain-English risk scorecard: what’s exposed, what it could cost you, and what to fix first.
Roadmap
A prioritized remediation plan with realistic budgets — including the documentation insurers and auditors ask for.
Prove It: Zscaler POC
For the biggest gaps — remote access, web threats, lateral movement — we deploy a free Zscaler proof of concept so you see zero trust working in your environment before you spend a dollar.
Don’t Take Our Word for It. Run the Zscaler POC.
As the Charlotte metro’s Zscaler specialists, we deploy a working proof of concept in your environment — real users, real traffic, real threats blocked. You watch legacy VPN exposure and risky web traffic disappear, then decide with evidence instead of a sales pitch.
Start Your Free Zscaler POCWhy Get Assessed by Network Essentials
- CISSP-led. Your assessment is designed and reviewed by certified security leadership — not generated by a scan tool and mailed to you.
- Zscaler specialists. We don’t just report on zero trust gaps — we’re the metro’s specialists at closing them, and we prove it with a live POC.
- Plain English, ranked by risk. No 80-page PDF of jargon. You get what matters, in order, with costs.
- No-pressure by design. The assessment and POC are free. If the findings say you’re in good shape, we’ll tell you that too.
Recognized Nationally, Trusted Locally
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Frequently Asked Questions
What does the cyber risk assessment cost?
It’s free, with no obligation. We offer it because most businesses that see their real risk picture choose to act on it — and because you should know where you stand either way.
How long does an assessment take?
Most assessments complete within one to two weeks, with minimal involvement from your team. The findings review takes about an hour — that’s where we walk through the scorecard and roadmap together.
What is a Zscaler proof of concept?
A working deployment of Zscaler’s zero trust platform in your actual environment, with a pilot group of real users. You see risky traffic blocked, VPN exposure eliminated, and performance in practice — evidence, not a demo video.
Will the assessment disrupt our business?
No. The evaluation runs alongside your normal operations, and the Zscaler POC deploys to a pilot group without touching the rest of your team.
Does this satisfy our compliance or insurance assessment requirement?
The findings and documentation map to what HIPAA, CMMC/NIST 800-171, FTC Safeguards, and cyber-insurance applications ask for. For formal compliance attestations, we scope the assessment to your specific framework.
What happens after the assessment?
That’s up to you. Some businesses have us fix the findings; some take the roadmap to their internal IT; some just gain peace of mind. There’s no obligation attached to the assessment or the POC.
Know Where You Stand. See the Fix Working.
Start with a free cyber risk assessment — and when the findings point to zero trust, we’ll prove it with a free Zscaler POC in your environment.
Schedule Your Free Risk AssessmentOr call (704) 206-8900 • info@tneus.com