What We Do / Technology Reality Assessment
Technology Reality AssessmentExpert discovery. Complete visibility.
In 30 to 90 days, you get a ranked list of what is actually wrong in your technology estate, and what each item is costing you. Led by current and former technology executives and enterprise architects, benchmarked against peers rather than your own history.
Six outputs, one executive-ready story.
Every assessment ends with findings ranked by cost and risk, not a binder nobody acts on.
Infrastructure & application map
The complete estate, including what has drifted from the original design.
Cybersecurity maturity score
NIST / CIS-aligned scoring with peer benchmarking.
Spend analysis
Technology spend compared against market pricing.
Vendor ecosystem review
Every vendor assessed on performance and fit.
Risk-prioritized findings
Each finding with a cost attached and a clear order of operations.
Executive presentation
Findings and roadmap presented to leadership.
Internal teams are too close to see what has become normal.
Internal IT and security teams are close to the environment they manage, which makes it hard to see architecture drift, unused licenses or maturity gaps that have quietly become normal over time.
An outside, vendor-neutral assessment benchmarks your environment against peer organizations rather than against your own history. MALA pairs current and former technology executives and enterprise architects with proprietary market and peer benchmark data, so findings reflect what similar organizations actually look like, not a generic checklist.
From discovery to a plan leadership will act on.
- 01
Discover
Interviews, documentation and tooling data across the estate.
- 02
Score
Maturity scoring against NIST / CIS and peers.
- 03
Benchmark
Spend and vendors against market pricing.
- 04
Rank
Findings ordered by what each one costs you.
- 05
Present
An executive readout with a risk-prioritized roadmap.
Quick wins and structural issues, each with a cost attached.
What the assessment surfaces depends entirely on your environment. We do not quote a number before we have looked.
Unused licenses
Seats assigned to people who left and tiers sized for yesterday's headcount.
Redundant tools
Two products doing one job, bought by different teams.
Cheap security gaps
Exposures that are inexpensive to close once someone sees them.
Structural drift
Architecture decisions made years ago that no longer fit your scale.
The start of a plan, not the end of one.
A reality assessment is only valuable if it leads somewhere. Every MALA assessment concludes with a risk-prioritized roadmap and an executive-ready presentation.
Findings connect directly into Technology Modernization Advisory and Technology Spend Optimization, so the work that follows starts from what is actually in your estate.
Built for the people who own the decision.
- CIO / CTOAn outside read on architecture, maturity and spend.
- CFOFindings ranked by cost, so you can decide what to fund.
- CISOMaturity scored against peers, not against last year.
- Board / CEO An executive-ready view of where the estate really stands.
No fee to you.
MALA is compensated by the provider you select, only if you choose to move forward with a change.
- Similar pay within each categoryProviders in each category have similar compensation models, so nothing steers the recommendation.
- Staying put is a good outcomeBetter terms with your incumbent is common, and there is no transaction behind it.
- No obligationYou are never required to select a participating provider.
What clients ask first.
What does the assessment include?
Infrastructure and application mapping, NIST/CIS-aligned cybersecurity maturity scoring with peer benchmarking, spend analysis against market pricing, a vendor ecosystem review, risk-prioritized findings and an executive presentation of findings and roadmap.
Why can't our internal team do this?
They are close to the environment, which makes drift, unused licenses and maturity gaps hard to see. An outside assessment benchmarks you against peers rather than your own history.
How long does it take, and who leads it?
30 to 90 days depending on complexity, led by current and former technology executives and enterprise architects with proprietary market and peer benchmark data.
What happens afterwards?
A risk-prioritized roadmap and executive presentation, connected directly into modernization and spend optimization work.
What does it cost?
A 30-minute conversation to decide whether a full assessment makes sense, with no fee to you to you.
Find out what is actually in the estate. Then decide what to fix first.
In 30 minutes an advisor will discuss your environment and help you decide whether a full assessment makes sense.
No fee to you. No obligation. An advisor responds within one business day.