How TCSR Reports Align With Global Security Standards

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?" From today, the answer is explicit. Every TCSR report — and the assessment behind it — is built to align with the security standards the world already recognises.

Let's be precise about one word up front, because it matters: alignment is not certification. TCSR is not an accredited audit, and Talivio Technology OÜ is not certified against the standards below. What we have done is design our 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

How a test is conducted is just as important as what it finds. Our scan engine follows the established technical-testing guides rather than improvising:

• NIST SP 800-115 — the Technical Guide to Information Security Testing and Assessment, the reference for structured, repeatable security testing.
• OWASP Top 10 (2021 edition) — the canonical list of the most critical web application security risks. TCSR's finding mappings use the 2021 category IDs (e.g. A05:2021); OWASP has since published the 2025 edition.
• OWASP Web Security Testing Guide (WSTG) — the detailed playbook for testing web-facing assets.
• PTES — the Penetration Testing Execution Standard, which frames scoping, intelligence gathering, and reporting.

In practice this is 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 assessment is automated, so it covers the automatable technical-testing subset of these methodologies. Manual penetration testing and business-logic analysis are outside its scope.

The control frameworks

Finding a weak TLS configuration or a missing security header is one thing; telling you which obligation it touches is what makes a report actionable. Every TCSR finding is mapped to the relevant controls across the major frameworks:

• ISO/IEC 27001:2022 — Annex A controls (cryptography, configuration management, network security, vulnerability management, and more).
• NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 — Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover.
• CIS Critical Security Controls v8.1 — the prioritised, practical control set.
• PCI DSS v4.0.1 — where payment-data protection in transit is in scope.
• SOC 2 — the AICPA Trust Services Criteria for security.

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

For organisations operating in Türkiye and the EU, technical findings carry legal weight:

• GDPR Art. 32 — security of processing.
• KVKK m.12 — the Turkish data-security obligation.

Our reports give findings this regulatory context so your legal team isn't left translating technical jargon into duty.

Why this matters to you

You don't get a TCSR report to admire it — you get it to do something with it. Standards alignment turns a list of technical findings into a document that:

• survives scrutiny — every claim traces back to a recognised reference;
• shortens conversations — your auditor sees ISO/NIST/CIS mappings they already know;
• prioritises correctly — controls, not opinions, drive the remediation roadmap;
• builds buyer trust — your customers' security teams recognise the framework names instantly.

The honest part

We say it in the report and we'll say it here: these standards are a methodology and mapping reference, not a badge we've been awarded. Referencing ISO 27001 or NIST CSF does not mean TCSR — or your domain — is certified. It means the automated assessment follows those references for its approach and maps its findings to their controls. That honesty is the whole point: a report you can defend is worth more than a logo you can't.

Run a verified scan, and you'll see the new Standards & Methodology Alignment section in your next report — right alongside the finding-level control mapping you already rely on.