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IT andsecurity assessment
Find out what you have, what is missing and what to fix first, before you spend on new licences, a migration or an AI rollout.
- 6solutions in this category
- 2007in the Middle East since
- 1,500+active cloud customers
- 350,000+users migrated since 2007
- Largeteam of certified engineers
An IT assessment from Gulf Infotech is a structured review of one part of your setup, such as security, AI readiness, licences or cloud, that ends in a short report ranking what to fix by risk and effort. The public security check with a report, the Copilot readiness overview, the licence review and the short cloud assessment are free, for businesses across the Middle East.
Why start with an assessment from us
The engineers who would do the worka large team of certified engineers across Google, Microsoft and Zoho reviews your setup, not a sales script.
Partners of the platforms we reviewZoho Authorized Partner, Microsoft Solutions Partner for Modern Work and Google Cloud Premier Partner.
- 2007
Since 2007with 1,500+ active cloud customers across the Middle East.
Yours to keepthe report is yours whether or not you use us for the fixes.
Which assessment do you need?
Security check (free, with a report)
Everything about your company that is publicly visible, such as SPF, DKIM and DMARC records and exposed mail and web services, ranked by risk. It never touches your confidential data.
Platform security review (paid, with a report)
Microsoft 365, Google Workspace or Zoho security settings, admin accounts and multi-factor sign-in, endpoint coverage and backups, ranked by risk.
Products
Google Workspace
Microsoft 365
AI readiness check (free, overview)
How your teams use AI today, for generative content or for agents, plus sharing settings, oversharing in files and sites, sensitivity labels and licences, before Copilot or Gemini can search your data.
Products
- Microsoft 365
Licence review (free)
Every Zoho, Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace subscription against active users, plans and renewal dates.
Products
- Google Workspace
- Microsoft 365
Short cloud assessment (free)
A high-level view of which workloads could move to the cloud and the likely monthly shape of the cost.
Full cloud assessment (paid consulting)
A detailed review of cloud spend, billing and sizing, with the savings to act on.
Security check (free, with a report)
Everything about your company that is publicly visible, such as SPF, DKIM and DMARC records and exposed mail and web services, ranked by risk. It never touches your confidential data.
Platform security review (paid, with a report)
Microsoft 365, Google Workspace or Zoho security settings, admin accounts and multi-factor sign-in, endpoint coverage and backups, ranked by risk.
Products
- Google Workspace
- Microsoft 365
AI readiness check (free, overview)
How your teams use AI today, for generative content or for agents, plus sharing settings, oversharing in files and sites, sensitivity labels and licences, before Copilot or Gemini can search your data.
Products
- Microsoft 365
Licence review (free)
Every Zoho, Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace subscription against active users, plans and renewal dates.
Products
- Google Workspace
- Microsoft 365
Short cloud assessment (free)
A high-level view of which workloads could move to the cloud and the likely monthly shape of the cost.
Full cloud assessment (paid consulting)
A detailed review of cloud spend, billing and sizing, with the savings to act on.
How does an assessment work?
Turnaround depends on the scope and the size of your setup, so any timeline we give is an indicative estimate, agreed on the first call.
- 01
A 30-minute call
Users, sites, email platform, the tools you run and what worries you most. We agree which assessment fits.
- 02
Read-only access
You grant read-only admin access where the platform allows it, and you can remove it at any time.
- 03
Review
Our engineers check the areas in scope against the vendor's own recommendations.
- 04
Report
A short report in plain English, with each finding ranked by risk and the fix, the effort and any licence it needs.
- 05
Walk-through
We go through the findings with you and agree what to fix first, with our team or yours.
What do assessments usually find?
The same handful of issues come up again and again. Admin accounts without multi-factor sign-in. A domain with no DMARC record, so anyone can send email in its name. Laptops with no endpoint protection, or protection that stopped updating months ago. Backups nobody has tried to restore. Licences still assigned to people who left, and higher plans bought for users who only need email.
None of these needs a big project to fix. Most are settings and policies that take hours, not weeks, once you know where they are. That is why we rank findings by risk and effort: the first page of the report is the list of quick wins.
What is free and what is a project?
Takeaway: the assessments tell you what to do; deployment, migration, training and support are separate components that we scope and quote only if you ask us to do the work.
| Item | Free | Paid, quoted for your requirement |
|---|---|---|
| 30-minute call | Yes | |
| Security check of what is publicly visible, with a report | Yes | Fixing the findings |
| Platform security review of Microsoft 365, Google Workspace or Zoho, with a report | Yes | |
| AI readiness check (overview) | Yes | Permission clean-up, labelling and the Copilot or Gemini rollout |
| Licence review | Yes | Licence changes are billed as licences |
| Short cloud assessment | Yes | |
| Full cloud assessment (spend and billing optimisation) | Yes, as a consulting service |
Item: 30-minute call
- Free
- Yes
Item: Security check of what is publicly visible, with a report
- Free
- Yes
- Paid, quoted for your requirement
- Fixing the findings
Item: Platform security review of Microsoft 365, Google Workspace or Zoho, with a report
- Paid, quoted for your requirement
- Yes
Item: AI readiness check (overview)
- Free
- Yes
- Paid, quoted for your requirement
- Permission clean-up, labelling and the Copilot or Gemini rollout
Item: Licence review
- Free
- Yes
- Paid, quoted for your requirement
- Licence changes are billed as licences
Item: Short cloud assessment
- Free
- Yes
Item: Full cloud assessment (spend and billing optimisation)
- Paid, quoted for your requirement
- Yes, as a consulting service
What an assessment is not
It is not an audit or a certification. An audit tests your controls against a named standard and produces evidence for an auditor; our assessment is a practical engineering review that tells you what to fix and in what order. For an outside attacker's view of your websites and network, see VAPT and penetration testing.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What is an IT assessment?
An IT assessment is a review of how part of your setup is configured compared with how it should be. Gulf Infotech checks areas such as Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace security, AI readiness, licences or cloud, then gives you a report that ranks each problem by risk and shows the fix and the effort. It is the starting point for most security, migration and AI projects.
Is the assessment free?
The public security check with a report, the overview-level AI readiness check, the licence review and the short cloud assessment are free, as is the first 30-minute call. The platform security review of Microsoft 365, Google Workspace or Zoho and the full cloud assessment, which goes into spend and billing optimisation in detail, are paid services. Fixing the findings is quoted separately, and only if you want us to do it.
Is an IT assessment the same as an audit?
No. An audit tests your controls against a named standard and produces evidence for an auditor. Our assessment is a practical engineering review: it tells you what is misconfigured or missing, why it matters and what to fix first. Many companies use it to get their house in order before a client questionnaire or an external audit.
Do you need admin access to our systems?
Yes, read-only where the platform allows it. Read-only roles let our engineers see settings without changing anything, and you can remove the access as soon as the report is delivered. For Microsoft 365 we request only the roles the review needs, through Microsoft's partner access controls.
Should we assess before buying Copilot or Gemini?
Yes. Microsoft 365 Copilot and Gemini in Google Workspace can draw on any file a user already has permission to open, so oversharing that went unnoticed for years can surface in a single prompt. The free AI readiness check looks at sharing, permissions and licences first, so the rollout does not expose salary sheets or contracts.
Start with what you have
Tell us your user count, your email platform and the area that worries you most, and we will suggest the right assessment.