Security strategy, owned end‑to‑end.
Advisory is where direction gets set — the risk picture that tells you what to fix first, the identity controls that hold up to audit, and a clear-eyed path for adopting AI. This is the "what & why," led at the executive level. Where you need someone to carry it day to day, that is a virtual CISO, delivered through Expertise On-Demand.
Risk & Exposure Management
Know your real exposure — and what to fix first.
We build a clear, current picture of where your organization is genuinely exposed — across your own systems, the vendors you rely on, and a steadily growing external attack surface. Every finding is weighed by real business impact and turned into a short, ranked set of decisions rather than a sprawling spreadsheet nobody reads. You leave knowing what to fix first, what can safely wait, and the reasoning behind both.
- Enterprise risk assessment
- Third-party / vendor risk
- Attack-surface & exposure
- Risk-based prioritization
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What we assess
- Enterprise risk assessment & quantification
- Third-party vendor assessments & tiering
- Critical fourth-party (supplier-of-supplier) mapping
- External attack-surface & exposure monitoring
- Security ratings & data-leak alerting
- Risk register, escalation & remediation governance
Vendor ecosystems deserve particular attention: a large share of breaches now route through a third party, and most organizations struggle to keep the balance of people, process, and technology needed to watch them. We run standardized vendor assessments — custom questionnaires or regulation-specific ones — and set the tiering model that decides who gets looked at, how closely, and how often.
What you take away
A consolidated view of known risks with clear ownership, an escalation process that actually gets used, and remediation effort aligned to ranked risk rather than to whoever asked loudest. The measurable outcomes are fewer third-party incidents and fewer repeat audit findings.
Where this ends and Managed Risk begins
This is an engagement: scoped to a defined set of vendors and systems, delivered over weeks, and finished when you have the register, the tiering model and the ranked decisions. Keeping that picture true afterwards — monitoring across the whole vendor base continuously, chasing questionnaires on a cadence, alerting when a rating moves or something leaks — is Managed Risk, in the Managed Security line. Some clients take only this and run it themselves; some hand the running over. Neither is a lesser version of the other.
Identity & Access Governance
Control who has access to what — and prove it.
Identity is where most breaches begin, so we treat access as a first-class control rather than an afterthought. We design who can reach what under least privilege, put real guardrails around privileged and admin accounts, and make joiner-mover-leaver changes and access reviews a routine instead of a fire drill. The outcome is an access model that satisfies auditors and shrinks your attack surface at the same time.
- IAM strategy & design
- Privileged access (PAM)
- Access reviews & lifecycle
- Zero-trust alignment
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Program capabilities
- Workforce IAM design — RBAC & ABAC
- Privileged access security (PAM) programs
- Customer & external identity (CIAM)
- Access reviews, attestation & certification
- Identity lifecycle & provisioning design
- Directory & identity-data assessments
- Identity governance maturity assessment
- Technology & process health checks
Where engagements start
Most identity work begins with a short, structured assessment — a two-to-three-day working session that maps your current identity landscape, business drivers, and gaps against the frameworks and regulations that bind you (NIST, ISO/IEC 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOX), and turns it into a sequenced blueprint rather than a big-bang program.
Platform depth
Our architects hold current certifications across the identity stack — SailPoint, Saviynt, CyberArk, Delinea, Okta, Ping, ForgeRock, BeyondTrust, and Microsoft Entra — so designs reflect what the platforms actually do, not what the datasheets say.
AI Advisory
Adopt AI without inheriting its risks.
AI is moving faster than most policies can keep up with, and that gap is exactly where the risk sits. We help you adopt it deliberately — assessing model and data exposure, setting responsible-use guardrails your teams will actually follow, and mapping controls to the regulations now taking shape. You get to say yes to AI initiatives with a clear view of what is being accepted and how it is governed.
- AI governance frameworks
- Model & data risk
- Responsible-use policy
- Regulatory alignment
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What's included
- AI governance framework & policies
- Model inventory & risk classification
- AI gap & readiness assessment
- Shadow-AI discovery
- Training-data & privacy governance
- AI security architecture & threat modelling
- LLM hardening & adversarial testing
- GenAI operating model & prompt governance
- Third-party AI risk management
Frameworks & regulation
The program is anchored to NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001, with EU AI Act readiness for organizations in its scope. That gives you defensible documentation — model inventories, risk classifications, control mappings — rather than a policy PDF nobody can evidence.