Security Assessments

Establish truth quickly. Produce an executable backlog and evidence pack suitable for audit and leadership reporting.

Outcomes

Clear understanding of your current security posture with prioritised actions and evidence suitable for audit.

What Is Included

  • Cloud security posture assessment across Azure, AWS, Microsoft 365, and Google Cloud
  • Network security assessment: segmentation, firewall policy quality, exposure mapping
  • Endpoint and identity assessment across major platforms including Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, and others
  • Vulnerability management assessment: coverage, SLA governance, exception handling
  • Logging and detection assessment: SIEM onboarding quality, data gaps, retention
  • AI security readiness assessment: GenAI adoption risks and data exposure pathways

Deliverables

  • Executive summary in plain English
  • Risk map and prioritised backlog with impact and effort
  • Quick wins delivered where safe
  • Evidence pack suitable for audit and board reporting
Rapid Security Reality Check: 10 business days

Larger or multi-domain assessments typically take 2 to 4 weeks depending on scope.

Success Looks Like

Leadership has a clear, evidence-backed picture of security posture and a prioritised roadmap they can act on immediately.

Who It Is For

CISOs, security leaders, and IT directors who need to understand their current state before making investment decisions.

Engineering and Remediation

Implement improvements and drive closure across the stack. Not just findings—actual fixes with configuration artefacts and runbooks.

Outcomes

Security improvements implemented, tested, and documented—not just recommended.

What Is Included

  • Cloud hardening and guardrails: secure baselines, governance workflows across Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud
  • Endpoint hardening, attack surface reduction, and identity hardening across major platforms
  • Network and firewall remediation: policy cleanup, rule recertification across Palo Alto, Fortinet, Cisco, Check Point, and others
  • Vulnerability remediation acceleration: ownership model, SLAs, closure reporting
  • Security automation enablement: scripting and APIs for reliability

Deliverables

  • Implemented controls or controlled change plans
  • Configuration artefacts and operational runbooks
  • Validation evidence showing controls work as intended
  • Handover and operationalisation plan
Duration: Scope-dependent

Success Looks Like

Backlog items closed, controls operational, and your team equipped to maintain what has been built.

Who It Is For

Organisations with findings from audits or assessments who need implementation capacity to drive closure.

Specialism: Zero Trust Architecture

Operational Zero Trust that works in real networks—not just diagrams. We design and implement identity-centred access control, network segmentation, and SASE architectures across major platforms including Zscaler, Netskope, Palo Alto Prisma, Microsoft, and others.

  • SASE and Zero Trust access design and rollout across major platforms
  • Network segmentation strategy and enforcement
  • Identity-centred access control: Entra ID, Conditional Access, device trust
  • Zero Trust maturity baselining and phased adoption planning
Typical duration: 4 to 6 weeks for uplift sprint

Visibility, Detection and Response Readiness

Make sure the organisation can see and respond. Reduce noise, increase fidelity, prove detections fire when they should.

Outcomes

Improved detection coverage, reduced alert fatigue, and validated response capability.

What Is Included

  • SIEM onboarding and data quality uplift across Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, Elastic, and others
  • Detection engineering: custom analytics, correlation rules, threat-specific detections
  • Detection coverage mapping aligned to MITRE ATT&CK framework
  • Incident response readiness review and tabletop exercises
  • Threat hunting packs and detection validation testing

Deliverables

  • Detection catalogue with coverage mapping
  • Tuned alerts with reduced false positive rates
  • Response playbooks and escalation paths
  • Evidence showing improved coverage and readiness
Typical duration: 3 to 4 weeks

Success Looks Like

SOC team has high-fidelity alerts, clear playbooks, and confidence that threats will be detected and handled.

Who It Is For

Security operations teams, SOC managers, and organisations building or improving detection capabilities.

Assurance and Compliance Enablement

Turn compliance into operational control maturity. Evidence mapping that connects to real engineering, not just paperwork.

Outcomes

Audit-ready evidence, clear control ownership, and compliance that reflects actual security posture.

What Is Included

  • ISO 27001 readiness support with evidence mapping to controls
  • NIST and Zero Trust maturity mapping tied to engineering workstreams
  • Control testing, evidence capture, and audit-ready artefact packaging
  • Supplier and third-party security reviews for SaaS and critical vendors
  • Gap remediation planning aligned to audit timelines

Deliverables

  • Control mapping with evidence pointers
  • Remediation plan aligned to audit timelines
  • Decision log for risk acceptance and compensating controls
  • Audit-ready documentation pack
Timeline: Audit-aligned

Success Looks Like

Smooth audit with minimal findings, and compliance that reflects genuine control effectiveness.

Who It Is For

Compliance managers, GRC teams, and organisations preparing for certification or regulatory audit.

AI and Data Security Enablement

Adopt GenAI safely without accidental data loss. Secure patterns for sensitive environments that enable innovation without exposure.

Outcomes

Safe GenAI adoption with clear guardrails, policy, and secure integration patterns your teams can follow.

What Is Included

  • GenAI usage policy development for sensitive environments
  • Data classification and leakage pathway analysis
  • Guardrails blueprint: access control, logging, monitoring, content filtering
  • Secure patterns for AI integrations your engineering teams can implement
  • Model and prompt risk assessment: misuse vectors, exposure risks, governance

Deliverables

  • AI risk register
  • Usage policy and acceptable use guidelines
  • Guardrails design blueprint
  • Secure pattern library for engineering teams
Typical duration: 2 to 3 weeks

Success Looks Like

Organisation can adopt AI tools confidently with clear boundaries and technical controls in place.

Who It Is For

CISOs, data protection officers, and technology leaders enabling AI adoption in regulated or sensitive environments.

Advisory and Programme Leadership

Strategic decision support for security leaders. On-demand expertise without the overhead of permanent headcount.

Outcomes

Better decisions, faster. Access to senior security expertise when you need it, without recruitment lag or permanent cost.

What Is Included

  • Architecture reviews and design validation
  • Vendor assessments and selection support
  • Security roadmap development and prioritisation
  • Programme governance and delivery oversight
  • Board and leadership security briefings
  • Incident support and crisis advisory

Deliverables

  • Decision support documentation
  • Architecture review reports
  • Vendor assessment matrices
  • Programme status and risk reporting
Engagement: Monthly retainer

Success Looks Like

Security leadership has trusted counsel available when decisions need to be made, without delays.

Who It Is For

CISOs, security directors, and technology leaders who need senior expertise on demand.

Productised offers to make buying easy

Clear scope, predictable timelines, defined outputs. Start with what you need.

10 Business Days

Rapid Security Reality Check

Risk map, top actions, quick wins delivered, executive summary, and evidence pack.

4 to 6 Weeks

Zero Trust Uplift Sprint

Target architecture, SASE policy blueprint, segmentation plan, pilot, and validation evidence.

3 to 4 Weeks

Visibility and Detection Uplift

Logging gaps, SIEM improvements, detection backlog, tuned alerts, and response playbooks.

2 to 3 Weeks

AI Security Enablement Pack

AI risk register, usage policy, guardrails blueprint, and secure patterns for engineering.

Monthly

Advisory Retainer

Decision support, architecture reviews, vendor assessments, and programme governance.

Not sure where to start?

Begin with a Rapid Security Reality Check. In 10 business days, you will have a clear picture and an actionable backlog.

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