Technology due diligence
Provides an evidence-based view of a target company’s security and compliance posture, highlighting control gaps and inherent risks that inform investment or acquisition decisions.
— Product & Tech
Security & compliance posture scan
Assesses security controls and supporting evidence against relevant compliance frameworks, producing a risk-led remediation plan or an assurance summary grounded in documented findings.
- Product & Tech
- Human review built in
- Traceable reasoning
- Runs anywhere
2–3 weeks → ~25 minutes
For a typical multi-document review workflow
No coding required
- Input
- Penetration test and security review reports
- Output
- Control, evidence and gap mapping against relevant frameworks
- Runs in
- Skillsize · ChatGPT · Claude · Copilot
- Export
- SKILL.md · MCP
- Time saved
- ~2–3 weeks per run
— USE CASES
What people use Security & compliance posture scan for
Compliance readiness review
Maps available evidence to relevant framework requirements and identifies gaps that need attention. Produces a remediation plan where material risks undermine readiness.
Vendor security assessment
Tests vendor security claims against questionnaire responses, supporting reports and public breach or regulatory history. Gives advisers a documented basis for risk discussions and assurance judgements.
Leadership assurance briefing
Produces an assurance summary where assessed risk is low, with clear links to supporting evidence and remaining gaps. Keeps the conclusion proportionate to what the available material substantiates.
What it works from
- Penetration test and security review reports
- SOC 2 and ISO compliance evidence
- Vendor security questionnaire responses
- Security incident logs and records incorporating incident dates and outcomes where available
What you get back
- Control, evidence and gap mapping against relevant frameworks
- Inherent risk assessment
- Security incident chronology
- Public breach and regulatory history findings where available and relevant to the assessed organisation or vendor profile under review for the diagnostic purpose specified by the advisory team in scope for the engagement overall as applicable to the evidence base provided or publicly discoverable within the review remit established for the assessment exercise undertaken here specifically in context of the security and compliance posture scan deliverable requested by the buyer for their intended use case and audience requirements
— HOW IT BEHAVES
How Security & compliance posture scan produces its result
The mechanics behind this specific template — what it reads, what it calculates, and where a human stays in the loop.
Consistent classification of risks
Risks are sorted into your categories using the same rules each time, which is what makes a large volume of risk registers, controls and policy documents readable.
Scored against your criteria
Each risk is assessed against criteria you control and weight, so the same standard applies to every risk in the risk universe in scope.
Risk registers, controls and policy documents pulled into one schema
Every risk is captured in the same field structure, so records drawn from different documents and sources stay comparable.
Chronology made explicit
Dates and sequence are lifted out of risk registers, controls and policy documents into a timeline, exposing the tenure, gaps and overlaps that prose hides.
Whole sets of risk registers, controls and policy documents at once
All of your risk registers, controls and policy documents is processed as one set, so patterns across documents surface instead of being read one file at a time.
Live research on the risk universe in scope
Current external sources on the risk universe in scope are researched during the run rather than recalled from training data, and every source travels with the output.
Why this is expensive by hand
Security and compliance reviews often draw on fragmented reports, questionnaire responses and incident records, making it difficult to distinguish evidenced controls from unsupported claims. Technology due diligence is the typical trigger — provides an evidence-based view of a target company’s security and compliance posture, highlighting control gaps and inherent risks that inform investment or acquisition decisions. Done properly it is defensible; done at pace it becomes a judgement call nobody can retrace. And "properly" usually means 2–3 weeks of manual work.
How this Skill produces it
Here the same job runs as a Skill. Your material goes in; control, evidence and gap mapping against relevant frameworks comes out, alongside inherent risk assessment. The judgement is built in — how items are broken up, what standard they are held to, and where the run stops for a human review. The practical effect: 2–3 weeks of manual work becomes a ~25 minutes run, held to an identical standard on the tenth engagement as on the first.
Who it's for
- Independent consultants codifying their own methodology
- Strategy and transformation teams standardising delivery
- Internal advisory functions under pressure to produce faster
- Operators who need defensible output, not a one-off chat answer
Run it in Skillsize — or export it anywhere
Security & compliance posture scan exports as a structured SKILL.md file and is MCP-ready, so the same method runs in ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or your own AI products. Adapt it to your methodology, and the intelligence stays yours — not locked to one vendor.
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