Most websites treat security as a one-time event: a scan before launch, a checkbox in a questionnaire, a line in the footer that says "we take security seriously." Then nothing — until something breaks. The problem is that security drifts. A certificate expires, a plugin update lands, a header quietly goes missing, a backup file ends up in the web root. TCSR (Talivio Cyber Security Report) started from a different premise: a security posture is only useful if it is verifiable, current, mapped to the standards the world already recognises, and something you can act on. Every part of the product follows from that.

TCSR is an on-demand cybersecurity assessment platform, built on Laravel. You prove you own a domain, run a tiered scan with our own in-house engine, and receive a clear, AI-authored report — independently verifiable and aligned with the recognised global security standards, from NIST and OWASP to ISO/IEC 27001, PCI DSS, GDPR and KVKK. Optional agents you install yourself surface what the outside can't see, and a self-updating badge lets you show the result in your footer.

Ownership First, Always

The fastest way to build an irresponsible security tool is to let anyone scan anything. TCSR refuses to. Before a single active check runs, you must prove control of the domain through one of four methods — a DNS TXT record, an HTML file, a meta tag, or a WHOIS/RDAP email code. Passive reconnaissance aside, every active and deep module runs exclusively against verified-owned assets. This keeps the product on the right side of the law and makes "deep" scanning something we can offer without hesitation, because the person triggering it has demonstrably earned the right to.

Built to the Standards the World Recognises

A security report is only as useful as the trust people place in it. When you hand a TCSR report to an auditor, a prospective customer, your board, or a regulator, the first unspoken question is always the same: "On what basis was this written?" TCSR answers it explicitly. The assessment methodology and every report are designed to align with the security standards the world already trusts.

Let's be precise about one word, because it matters: alignment is not certification. Talivio Technology OÜ is not accredited or certified against these standards, and a TCSR report is not a certified audit. What we have done is build the testing methodology and report structure to follow these standards, and map every finding to the matching controls — so the document speaks a language your auditor, board and customers already understand.

The testing methodology follows the established technical-testing guides rather than improvising: NIST SP 800-115 (the Technical Guide to Information Security Testing and Assessment), the OWASP Top 10 (2021), the OWASP Web Security Testing Guide (WSTG), and PTES (the Penetration Testing Execution Standard). This is precisely why our tiers move from passive OSINT, to light-active checks, to deep active probing — and why active modules only ever run against a domain whose ownership you have proven.

The control frameworks turn a technical finding into something actionable. Every finding is mapped to the relevant controls across ISO/IEC 27001:2022 (Annex A), the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0, CIS Critical Security Controls v8.1, PCI DSS v4.0, and SOC 2 (the AICPA Trust Services Criteria). So a single "HSTS header missing" finding doesn't sit in a vacuum — it lands on ISO 27001 A.8.26, OWASP A05:2021 and NIST CSF Protect, all at once.

The data-protection law gives findings their legal weight: GDPR Art. 32 (security of processing) and KVKK m.12 (the Turkish data-security obligation), so your legal team isn't left translating technical jargon into duty. Every report now carries a dedicated "Standards & Methodology Alignment" section alongside the finding-level control-mapping table — and states plainly, in the document itself, that alignment is a methodology reference, not a badge we have been awarded.

One In-House Engine, Three Depths

TCSR does not resell someone else's scanner. The engine is ours, and it is organised into 15 modules across three depths. Insight is passive OSINT — DNS, email security (SPF/DMARC), WHOIS, TLS certificate, HTTP security headers, technology fingerprinting, and subdomain discovery from certificate-transparency logs. Assess adds light-active checks that require verified ownership: exposed files (.git/.env/backups), directory listing, security.txt, TLS configuration, and cookie flags. Audit goes deeper still — port scanning, vulnerability probes, and known-CVE matching against the public NVD feed. Each finding carries a severity, and the whole scan is distilled into a single letter grade (A–F).

Reports Anyone Can Authenticate

A security report is only worth as much as its credibility. TCSR's reports are written by AI from the structured findings — an executive summary a non-technical decision-maker can read, prioritised findings mapped to the frameworks above, and a remediation roadmap — and rendered to a clean PDF. Crucially, every report carries a unique reference and a SHA-256 fingerprint. The recipient pastes the reference at our public verification page and uploads the PDF; the hash is checked entirely in their browser. A tampered or forged copy fails the check. The report is a document you can hand to a board, an auditor, or a customer — and they can prove it is genuine without trusting your word for it.

See What the Outside Can't

External scanning has a hard ceiling: it only sees what faces the internet. Server configuration, PHP settings, outdated packages, world-writable files, plugin versions — these are invisible from outside. So TCSR offers optional collector agents you install on infrastructure you own: a server bash script, a PHP drop-in, a WordPress plugin, and a client-side JS snippet. Each is generated with a one-time ingest token baked in, gathers internal posture, and sends only findings back over HTTPS. Those findings flow into the same report pipeline — turning an external snapshot into a genuinely deep assessment. Guardrails keep it honest: agents only run against verified domains, submissions are rate-limited and de-duplicated, and the JS snippet reports once per session rather than on every page view.

Always-On: Monitoring, Auto-Reports, and a Trust Badge

Because security drifts, a single scan ages badly. Turn on continuous monitoring and TCSR re-assesses daily, alerts you to exactly what changed between two scans, and auto-generates a fresh report whenever it detects a regression — so your latest PDF is always current. The visible payoff is a trust badge for your footer: a grade-coloured SVG seal that updates automatically and links to a public status page showing your current grade and last-assessed date, without disclosing detailed findings. It is a credible, independently-assessed signal your visitors can verify for themselves — the opposite of a static "we care about security" line.

Where AI Fits — and Where It Doesn't

TCSR uses Google Gemini at exactly two points: writing the report narrative and authoring the weekly security-news blog. Both follow the same rule the rest of our products do — graceful degradation is mandatory. The AI never gates the pipeline: the scan engine, the grading, the standards and control mapping, the SHA-256 fingerprinting, and the verification registry are all deterministic. If the AI key is absent or the call fails, a local composer writes the report from the same findings — standards-alignment section included — and the platform runs end to end with no API key at all. AI makes the report read better; it is never a single point of failure, and it never invents a finding the engine didn't produce.

Why This Matters

The hard part of a security-report product is not running the checks — those are well understood. The hard part is trust: making the scan something you are allowed to run, the report something a recipient can verify, the findings something management can act on, the methodology something an auditor recognises, and the whole posture something that stays current instead of rotting after launch. TCSR's answer is structural — ownership-gated scanning, an in-house multi-tier engine, tamper-evident reports, alignment with the recognised global standards, internal agents for depth, and always-on monitoring with a public badge. And it is honest about its limits: a report you can defend is worth more than a logo you can't. TCSR tells you where your website stands, proves it, and keeps proving it.