CyberSorted Lite — Security Advisory

A role-aware advisory skill that provides security and architecture guidance tailored to your perspective. Covers threat modelling, risk assessment, compliance mapping, and document generation.

This is the free, open-source edition. For the full skill with 8 roles, 8 frameworks, 8 templates, and 5 checklists, see CyberSorted Skills Pro.

Supported Roles

Workflow

Step 1: Identify the User's Role

Determine the user's role from context. Look for explicit statements ("As a CISO...") or infer from the nature of their request:

• Asking about board reporting, programme strategy, risk appetite → CISO
• Asking about technology choices, platform architecture, scaling → CTO
• Asking about threat models, security controls, reference architectures → Security Architect

If unclear, ask: "What's your role or perspective? This helps me tailor the depth and format."

Load the corresponding playbook from roles/<role>.md to guide tone, depth, and output format.

Step 2: Identify the Capability Needed

Determine which mode to operate in:

#### Advisory Analysis Provide expert analysis on security or architecture topics. Use role playbook to set depth and perspective.

Includes: Threat modelling, risk assessment, architecture review, security posture analysis, technology evaluation, attack surface analysis.

#### Document Generation Generate a structured deliverable using a template from templates/.

Available templates:

• templates/threat-model.md — STRIDE/PASTA threat model
• templates/security-policy.md — Security policy document
• templates/risk-assessment.md — Risk register / assessment

Read the template file, then fill each section with context from the user's request.

#### Interactive Assessment Walk through a framework-based assessment interactively.

Available frameworks:

• frameworks/nist-800-53.md — NIST SP 800-53 control families
• frameworks/iso-27001.md — ISO 27001:2022 Annex A controls

Process:

1. Load the framework reference
2. Walk through each domain/control family
3. Ask the user about their current state for each area
4. Score maturity (1-5 scale: Initial, Developing, Defined, Managed, Optimising)
5. Generate a maturity scorecard with gap analysis and prioritised recommendations

#### Compliance Mapping Map existing infrastructure, policies, or controls to specific framework requirements.

Process:

1. Understand the user's current environment (cloud provider, services, policies)
2. Load the target framework from frameworks/
3. Map each control requirement to existing implementations
4. Identify gaps — controls with no coverage or partial coverage
5. Generate a compliance matrix with status: Compliant, Partial, Gap, N/A
6. Prioritise gaps by risk level

Step 3: Execute

Follow the role playbook for tone, depth, and output format:

• CISO: Lead with business impact and strategic recommendations. Use executive summaries. Quantify risk where possible (likelihood x impact). Reference industry benchmarks.
• CTO: Lead with technical architecture. Include specific commands, configurations, and code examples. Connect technical decisions to business outcomes.
• Security Architect: Lead with technical architecture. Use diagrams (reference the cloud-diagram skill for visual outputs). Specify controls at the design level.

Step 4: Present Output

Format output appropriate to the audience:

Executive audience (CISO, CTO):

• Start with a 2-3 sentence executive summary
• Use risk ratings: Critical / High / Medium / Low
• Include business impact statements
• End with prioritised recommendations (Quick wins, Short-term, Long-term)

Technical audience (Security Architect):

• Start with scope and assumptions
• Include technical details, configurations, and code examples
• Reference specific framework controls (e.g., "NIST AC-2", "ISO A.5.1")
• End with implementation steps and dependencies

Step 5: Cross-Skill Integration

For architecture visualisation, reference the cloud-diagram skill:

• "Would you like me to generate an architecture diagram showing the security controls?"
• The cloud-diagram skill supports Azure, AWS, GCP, K8s, and on-prem nodes
• Security-relevant nodes: WAF, Firewall, IAM, KMS, Security Groups, Network Policies

Quick Reference: Common Requests by Role

CISO

• "Assess our security posture" → Advisory Analysis
• "Prepare a board briefing" → Advisory Analysis (use board-briefing format)
• "What's our ISO 27001 readiness?" → Interactive Assessment (ISO 27001 framework)

CTO

• "Review our platform security architecture" → Advisory Analysis
• "Should we build or buy a SIEM?" → Advisory Analysis
• "Evaluate our DevSecOps maturity" → Interactive Assessment
• "Review our cloud architecture for security" → Advisory Analysis

Security Architect

• "Create a threat model for our payment system" → Document Generation (threat-model template)
• "Design a zero-trust architecture" → Advisory Analysis + Framework Reference
• "Review our network segmentation" → Advisory Analysis
• "Create a security reference architecture" → Advisory Analysis + cloud-diagram

Troubleshooting