Evaluate your organization across six critical cybersecurity functions. Identify your most important security gaps, understand where your greatest risks exist, and receive a prioritized 30-day action plan to strengthen your cyber resilience.
30 practical questions
5–7 minutes to complete
Immediate results and action plan
✓Traceable guidance: customer recommendations are selected from a fixed PORT::ZERO ruleset mapped to published NIST and CISA guidance. The live assessment does not use generative AI to create or alter recommendations.
How the score works
Each answer is scored from 0 to 4. Function scores are normalized to 0–100 and combined using PORT::ZERO's proprietary weighting model: Govern 15%, Identify 15%, Protect 25%, Detect 15%, Respond 15%, and Recover 15%. Critical control gaps are flagged separately so that a strong average score cannot hide a serious weakness.
Standards, methodology, and recommendation provenance
PORT::ZERO owns the scoring and prioritization methodology; the cybersecurity guidance is standards-mapped and independently traceable. NIST CSF 2.0 provides the outcome structure used to organize the assessment. NIST SP 800-53 provides control-level traceability. Specialized NIST publications, CISA guidance, CIS Controls, and CIS Benchmarks provide additional implementation, resilience, prioritization, and hardening context where applicable.
◈No AI-generated customer recommendations: the live assessment uses deterministic scoring and a predefined PORT::ZERO advisory library. A customer's selections determine which fixed recommendations and source mappings appear. Generative AI is not used by the live application to create, modify, or personalize customer recommendations.
The PORT::ZERO Cyber Readiness Score™ uses a proprietary scoring and prioritization methodology. Cybersecurity recommendations are selected from a predefined advisory library and mapped to authoritative standards, controls, and implementation guidance. NIST CSF 2.0 provides the cybersecurity outcomes used to organize the assessment. NIST Special Publications, NIST Interagency Reports, CISA guidance, and recognized industry resources provide additional control, implementation, hardening, recovery, and resilience guidance. PORT::ZERO translates these sources into practical actions and verification criteria intended to help organizations prioritize cybersecurity improvements.
Framework Outcome identifies the NIST CSF 2.0 outcome supported by the recommendation. Control Mapping identifies applicable NIST SP 800-53 controls. Implementation Guidance points to specialized NIST or CISA resources that explain how to implement, prioritize, recover, or build resilience. Operational Baseline / Hardening points to applicable CISA or CIS resources for prioritized safeguards or technology-specific hardening.
Standards mapping does not equal compliance
A reference to a framework outcome, control, safeguard, or publication indicates that a PORT::ZERO recommendation supports or relates to that source. It does not establish complete implementation of the referenced control, compliance with a regulatory requirement, certification, or conformity with an entire framework. Organizations should validate requirements against their own legal, regulatory, contractual, insurance, sector, and risk-management obligations.
Core framework and control sources
NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0
Provides the six Functions and outcome-based cybersecurity taxonomy used to organize the assessment.
Provides guidance for identifying and estimating cybersecurity risk, including likelihood, impact, risk appetite, risk tolerance, and risk-register concepts.
Provides cyber-resiliency engineering guidance focused on the ability to anticipate, withstand, recover from, and adapt to adverse conditions and compromise.
Provides architectural guidance for resource-centric access, explicit authentication and authorization, least privilege, remote access, and modern cloud/BYOD environments.
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog
Provides CISA's authoritative catalog of vulnerabilities exploited in the wild and should be used as an input to vulnerability-remediation prioritization.
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Your Cyber Readiness Score
Readiness by cybersecurity function
Your overall score is weighted, but every function is shown separately so you can see where readiness is strongest and weakest.
Critical and high-priority findings
These findings are surfaced independently from the overall score because some weaknesses deserve attention even when other controls are strong.
Your top 3 priorities
These are the three highest-impact opportunities identified from your responses. Each priority includes a controlled PORT::ZERO recommendation ID, current-state interpretation, implementation action, verification evidence, and four-layer traceability to authoritative standards and guidance.
✓Source transparency: each priority below includes its NIST CSF 2.0 outcome mapping, applicable NIST SP 800-53 controls, and additional NIST/CISA implementation resources where relevant.
Your 30-day cybersecurity action plan
Use this phased roadmap to convert the assessment into accountable work. Assign an owner, complete the recommended action, and retain evidence that the control was implemented or tested.
At Day 30: review completed evidence, confirm that the controls operate as intended, capture any remaining gaps, and retake the PORT::ZERO Cyber Readiness Score™ to measure progress.
Authoritative reference library
Each priority above includes a four-layer authoritative basis. The source links below provide the core publications used by the PORT::ZERO advisory library.
Recommendation provenance
Framework Outcome → Control Mapping → Implementation Guidance → Operational Baseline / Hardening. PORT::ZERO implementation wording is a practical interpretation of the mapped sources. Linked publications remain the authoritative references.
Important: The PORT::ZERO Cyber Readiness Score™ uses a proprietary scoring and prioritization methodology. Recommendations are mapped to published NIST, CISA, and applicable CIS resources, with source references displayed in the report. PORT::ZERO's implementation wording is a practical interpretation of those sources and is not an official statement, certification, endorsement, or compliance determination by NIST, CISA, CIS, or any other referenced organization. A standards mapping indicates a supporting relationship; it does not establish complete implementation of a referenced control or conformity with an entire framework. This assessment is not a penetration test, vulnerability assessment, legal opinion, or guarantee of security. Results are based on self-reported information and represent a point-in-time view of selected cybersecurity practices.
