Look like you have a CISO on staff, without buying a heavyweight platform.
Run a NIST CSF assessment in minutes. Praxis Brief turns it into a branded, plain-English report your client actually reads: a maturity scorecard, prioritized findings, compliance readiness across seven frameworks, and a vCISO roadmap.
For one real client. Free, no commitment. If it's not useful, you keep the report.
One stolen password could expose email, files, and patient records. CSF PR.AA, CIS 6
You can do the security work. Turning it into something the client reads is the painful part.
Most MSPs already do vCISO-style work: risk reviews, roadmaps, status updates. What's missing is the deliverable that packages it and justifies a retainer. Praxis Brief is that deliverable. Answer a short set of questions or paste your data, and it produces the report a seasoned CISO would write, grounded in real frameworks rather than a generic checklist.
Assessment in. Client-ready report out.
Run the assessment
Answer eight quick questions, run the full NIST CSF assessment across all six functions, or paste a scan or Secure Score. A few minutes either way.
It scores maturity like a vCISO
A posture score, a maturity level for each CSF function, prioritized findings with business impact, and compliance readiness across the frameworks your client cares about.
Hand it to the client
Export a branded PDF with your logo, plus a quarter-by-quarter vCISO roadmap. Keep the analyst detail internal, or include it. The report opens the retainer conversation.
The depth a seasoned CISO would expect.
This is not a six-question toy. It is built on the canonical frameworks and on how a real CISO reasons about risk and maturity.
NIST CSF 2.0 backbone
Every question and finding maps to the six functions: Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover. The language boards and insurers expect.
Maturity, not just a number
A 0-to-4 maturity level per function, from Absent to Optimized, so the client sees whether a control is missing, ad hoc, or actually managed.
Seven frameworks mapped
NIST CSF, CIS Controls v8, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, SOC 2, HIPAA, and CMMC. Assess once, speak in whatever language each client is asked for.
Analyst view
A toggle reveals control IDs, maturity levels, and the reasoning per domain. Keep it internal to the MSP, or share it. The client report stays clean.
vCISO roadmap
A quarter-by-quarter, 12-month plan built from the findings. The deliverable that turns a report into a retainer.
Multi-client and trend
Save a profile per client and track posture over time, so you can answer the one question a board cares about: are we safer than last month?
Readiness against the frameworks your clients are asked for.
Each report shows a readiness percentage and per-control status for the frameworks you select. The MSP chooses which a client sees.
Every report ends in a quarter-by-quarter plan.
Findings become a sequenced, 12-month roadmap a client can actually follow. It is the difference between handing over a document and owning the security relationship.
- Enforce MFA everywhere
- Lock down admin accounts
- Verify and test backups
- Baseline endpoint protection
- Turn on logging and alerts
- Document the incident plan
- Quarterly access review
- Tabletop the response plan
One retainer pays for the tool many times over.
A vCISO-style security retainer for an SMB usually runs $2,500 to $10,000 a month. Praxis Brief is a rounding error against that. You're not buying a PDF generator. You're buying the deliverable that opens the conversation.
See it on one of your real clients. Free.
Send one client's data (anonymized is fine, like a Secure Score summary, a scan export, or just answers to a few questions) and we'll run the assessment and send back the branded report you'd hand them. Same-day turnaround. If it's useful, we talk. If not, you keep it.
Priced against the revenue it unlocks.
Start free. Upgrade when you're billing for it.
- Watermarked reports
- Quick and full assessments
- Maturity scorecard
- See the value, risk-free
- Unlimited branded reports
- PDF export, your logo
- NIST CSF assessment
- For solo MSPs getting started
- Everything in Entry
- All seven frameworks mapped
- Analyst view and multi-client
- vCISO roadmap output
Straight answers.
How is this different from a checklist or a generic AI report?
It's built on the NIST CSF 2.0 framework and cross-mapped to CIS Controls, ISO 27001, and the rest, with a maturity model and a risk stance drawn from how CISOs actually reason. Every finding traces to a real control, not a guess. It reads like a practitioner wrote it because the logic is the practitioner's logic.
Do I need this if I already have a vCISO platform?
Probably not. The heavyweight vCISO platforms start around $15,000 to $20,000 to commit and are built for MSPs managing dozens to hundreds of clients. If you have 1 to 10 clients and just want the deliverable that lets you start charging, Praxis Brief is the lighter, cheaper on-ramp beneath them.
Which frameworks does it cover?
NIST CSF 2.0 as the backbone, plus CIS Controls v8, ISO 27001:2022, PCI DSS v4.0, SOC 2, HIPAA, and CMMC 2.0. You pick which a given client cares about, and the report shows a readiness view for each.
Is this a compliance audit?
No, and it doesn't pretend to be. The readiness views are directional and plain-English, showing where a client stands and what to prioritize. They open the conversation. They don't replace a formal assessment.
Whose branding is on the report?
Yours. The report goes out under your MSP's name and logo, to your client. Praxis Brief stays behind the scenes. The analyst detail is optional and easy to keep internal.
Who's behind Praxis Brief?
It comes from Praxis Secure, built by a veteran security and compliance leader who got tired of watching small MSPs leave advisory revenue on the table for lack of a good deliverable. The assessment logic comes from the recognized frameworks and from years of hands-on security and compliance work.
See the report you'd hand your client, before you pay anything.
Send one client's data and get the branded assessment back, same day. Free, no commitment.