01 · Strategic Consulting

Security Transformation

A helping hand in transforming your security posture — empowering you with multi-framework strategy, helping safeguard digital assets, and enhancing cyber resilience. Built on a risk-based program management approach, not vendor-pushed security.

  • One-stop-shop. Strategy, deployment, and ongoing monitoring under one accountable program.
  • Budget & roadmap. Bespoke roadmap catering to your risk appetite and budget appetite.
  • Transformation with minimal disruption. Balance security and usability without halting the business.
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Engagement at a glance

Engagement length12–52 weeks
StakeholdersBoard · CIO · CISO
OutputsRisk sheet · Roadmap
FrameworksNIST · CIS · ISO · C2M2

vCISO role coverage

360° Technology ReviewOwned
Gap AssessmentOwned
Risk QuantificationOwned
Strategy & PolicyOwned
Training & AwarenessOwned
KPI / KRI BuildingOwned
02 · Leadership

Virtual CISO

Fractional CISO leadership for organisations that need senior security oversight but aren't yet ready for a full-time hire. Cost-effective, flexible, and immediately impactful.

  • Seasoned cybersecurity professional on a part-time or fractional basis.
  • Tailored security strategy based on a risk assessment of your business and data.
  • Proactive posture ahead of threat and compliance changes.
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03 · Risk Management & Mitigation

Identify, quantify and resolve risk — methodically

Every risk has a different method of mitigation. Our framework treats risk as an asset class: it can be accepted, transferred, avoided, or mitigated. We help you choose deliberately.

R1

Risk identification

Surface risks through a structured gap assessment across governance, identity, infrastructure and SDLC.

R2

Risk measurement

Quantify against regulatory, legal and compliance requirements with industry-standard scoring.

R3

Risk monitoring

Operate the right security controls in monitor mode, then tune for noise reduction and actionable alerts.

R4

Risk reporting

Dashboards built for boards and CxOs — highlighting actionable items, not red-amber-green theatre.

R5

KPI / KRI building

SMART goals — Specific, Measurable, Aligned, Relevant, Time-bound — that map directly to business outcomes.

R6

Budgeting

Solution roadmap with budgets adjustable by choice of SaaS, on-prem or MSSP — your call.

04 · Governance, Risk & Compliance

Audit-ready — not audit-panicked

We build programs that pass the audit naturally because the controls work, not because the binders look thick. Full support for major frameworks and continuous control monitoring.

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Regulatory Compliance

PCI-DSS, RBI, CERT-In, ITGC and sector-specific obligations.

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ISO 27001:2022

Internal audit, gap closure and certification readiness.

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Continuous Control Monitoring

Automation parameters tuned to focus support time on what matters.

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Compliance Risk Tracking

Live tracking of compliance risk against business and regulator obligations.

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Maturity Assessments

Quantify maturity per CIS and NIST CSF — and chart the path forward.

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Enterprise Awareness

Board, admin, and end-user awareness with measurable behavioural metrics.

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Cybersecurity Strategy Dev

From mission to operational metrics, ready for board approval.

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Information Security Metrics

KPIs and KRIs that map directly to business outcomes — not noise.

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DPDP & Privacy Management

DPDP Act & GDPR readiness, data mapping, consent and DPO-as-a-service.

05 · Incident Response

Breach Response & Recovery

When something does break through, an experienced hand on the wheel is the difference between a contained incident and a board-level crisis. We bring decades of incident leadership across forensics, ransomware, and dark-web monitoring.

  • Breach coaching & assistance. A steady hand for executives, legal, and your responder team.
  • Ransomware recovery. Containment, eradication, recovery, and a thorough post-incident review.
  • Forensic investigation. Evidence preservation and forensic timeline reconstruction.
  • Cyber insurance assistance. Coordinated engagement with carriers, brokers, and panel firms.
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Incident playbook

1 · Triage & containFirst 24 hrs
2 · Eradicate & preserveDay 2–5
3 · Recover & hardenWeek 1–4
4 · Insurance & reportingConcurrent
5 · Post-incident reviewWeek 4–6
06 · Security Architecture

Reference architectures that hold up at scale

Zero-trust, defence-in-depth, and least-privilege — done practically for cloud, hybrid, OT, and product environments.

A1

Cloud Architecture Review

AWS, Azure and GCP landing-zone reviews. Identity, network, encryption, key management and SaaS integration.

A2

Identity & Access Control

Zero-trust identity strategy with practical conditional access, PAM and SSO patterns.

A3

Network & Segmentation

Segmentation strategy for hybrid networks; micro-segmentation for the workloads that earn it.

07 · Product Security Coach

Embed security into the product lifecycle — not bolt it on after

We partner with product and engineering teams to integrate security from design through deployment, promoting a culture of security across the product organisation.

P1

Security requirements

Requirements gathering and analysis with product owners — captured as testable acceptance criteria.

P2

Design reviews

End-to-end product security strategy and architecture-level threat modelling for major surfaces.

P3

Pipeline review

CI/CD and DevSecOps pipeline review with practical guard-rails — not blocking, just signalling.

P4

Policy guidance

Review and guidance on information security policies tailored to product engineering teams.

P5

Champion upskilling

Coach-led upskilling for nominated product security champions across squads.

P6

Secure SDLC playbooks

Pragmatic, opinionated playbooks tailored to your stack and engineering culture.

Also available on request

Specialist services

Engage us for any of these directly, or as part of a wider vCISO program.

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VAPT — Cloud Infrastructure

Vulnerability assessment and penetration testing for cloud landing zones.

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VAPT — Endpoint

Workstation and server build hardening with post-exploitation assessment.

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VAPT — Hardware / Firmware

Embedded and IoT device security assessment, supply-chain considered.

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ISO 27001 Internal Audit

Internal audit and certification readiness for ISO 27001:2022.

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Forensic Investigation

Evidence preservation, timeline reconstruction, and reporting.

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Ransomware Recovery

Containment, eradication, recovery and post-incident lessons learned.

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Breach Coaching

Executive coaching during live incidents — communications, decisions, escalation.

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Cyber Insurance Assistance

Carrier and broker engagement, questionnaire support, coverage optimisation.

Not sure where to start?

We'll spend 30 minutes mapping your business to the right shape of engagement — vCISO, a single service, or a focused workshop. No obligation.