About SCORA
SCORA — Security, Compliance & Risk Assessment — is a cybersecurity assessment platform that helps organizations understand, measure, and improve their security posture with clarity and precision. It turns complex cybersecurity and compliance frameworks into structured, guided assessments — and turns the results into clear priorities and a practical path forward.
Our Mission
SCORA exists to make cybersecurity maturity measurable, understandable, and achievable — giving every organization a clear, confident path to a stronger security posture.
What SCORA does
SCORA replaces ad-hoc spreadsheets and one-off reviews with dynamic, framework-aligned assessments. Organizations work through structured questionnaires built on recognized standards — including NIST CSF 2.0 and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 — alongside sector-specific assessments such as an SME Cyber Health Check and readiness models for fields like healthcare and education. Each assessment produces maturity and risk scoring, AI-assisted analysis, and clear executive and technical reporting, giving organizations a measurable, repeatable view of where they stand and where to focus next.
What sets SCORA apart
Most assessment tools stop at a score. SCORA is built around outcomes. By combining structured logic, risk-based evaluation, and AI-assisted insight, it produces recommendations tailored to each organization's context — surfacing the gaps that matter, prioritizing them by risk, and laying out concrete next steps. Whether the goal is an internal audit, compliance readiness, or continuous improvement, SCORA gives leadership clear visibility into posture, priorities, and progress over time.
Built to scale across organizations
SCORA is designed for organizations of every size and sector — from SMEs taking their first structured look at cybersecurity, to enterprises managing maturity across complex environments, to institutions in regulated fields. Its extendable, multi-tenant design and governance-oriented structure let it serve as both a day-to-day decision-support system and a long-term foundation for cybersecurity maturity.
Security by design
As a platform built to hold sensitive assessment data, SCORA applies the same standards it helps others measure against — including encryption of sensitive data at rest, strict tenant isolation, and modern authentication. Organizations can evaluate their security posture on a platform that takes its own seriously.
Founders
SCORA was founded by three cybersecurity leaders who bring together advisory expertise, technical and academic depth, and a commitment to security education and digital resilience.
Dr. Nabih Abdelmajid
Co-founder; Founder of Security Circles
Dr. Abdelmajid brings extensive cybersecurity advisory and consulting experience through Security Circles, spanning governance, risk and compliance, managed security services, AI-powered solutions, and software engineering.
Dr. Samer Aoudi
Co-founder; Architect and Technical Lead
A cybersecurity academic, researcher, and platform builder who leads SCORA's assessment methodology, security architecture, and standards alignment, helping turn rigorous frameworks into practical risk and compliance workflows.
Mr. Kamal Sedra
Co-founder; Founder of eduCYBER
Mr. Sedra brings a focus on cybersecurity awareness, training, and community resilience through eduCYBER, helping organizations and individuals build the knowledge and skills to protect themselves.
The organizations behind SCORA
Security Circles
Security Circles is an international cybersecurity, technology consulting, software engineering, and digital resilience company helping businesses, governments, and institutions strengthen security, governance, compliance, cloud infrastructure, AI-powered solutions, and organizational resilience.
eduCYBER
eduCYBER is a Switzerland-based cybersecurity awareness, training, and support company helping non-profits, media organizations, educational institutions, businesses, and families build safer digital habits and strengthen resilience against cyber threats.
“Together, these founders and the organizations behind them give SCORA a rare blend: the advisory and engineering depth to build it, the academic rigor to ground it in real frameworks, and the education focus to keep it understandable for everyone who uses it.”