We help you plan, design, and implement a clear path to stronger security through actionable roadmaps and proven reference architectures. Our approach ensures your investments are aligned with business priorities and deliver measurable risk reduction.
Security Roadmaps
- Define where you are today and your target security posture.
- Prioritise initiatives to reduce risk and meet compliance needs.
- Sequence capability improvements into clear, achievable phases.
- Provide executives and delivery teams with a shared, actionable plan.
Reference Architectures
- Deliver reusable, secure blueprints and solution patterns for cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments.
- Embed best practices, zero trust principles, and compliance mappings.
- Accelerate deployment and reduce design rework.
- Ensure security by design in every project.
The Result
- A clear, phased security transformation plan supported by proven designs.
- Faster, more consistent project delivery with lower risk and higher assurance.
- Confidence that your security investments are building a resilient, future-ready environment.
Security exposure and Risk management
We help organisations continuously identify, assess, prioritise, and mitigate cybersecurity exposure so that risk is managed proactively not reactively. Our approach embeds risk awareness into decision-making, design, delivery, and operations, ensuring security supports business objectives while adapting to evolving threats.
- Exposure Identification & Threat Modelling
- Asset Discovery & Classification: Cataloguing systems, data, users, third parties, and business processes to understand what needs protection.
- Threat Modelling: Systematically identifying potential adversaries, attack vectors, trust boundaries, and abuse cases using methodologies like STRIDE, PASTA, or MITRE ATT&CK mapping.
- Vulnerability Intelligence: Incorporating internal findings (e.g., from scans, tests) and external threat intelligence to surface known and emerging exposure points.
- Risk Assessment & Prioritisation
- Risk Analysis: Quantifying likelihood and impact of exposure through qualitative and quantitative methods, including business impact analysis and risk scoring.
- Contextualisation: Aligning risks to business objectives, compliance requirements, data sensitivity, and stakeholder risk appetite.
- Prioritisation Framework: Using risk matrices, threat-criticality weighting, and dependency mapping to rank exposures for remediation based on value, urgency, and feasibility.
- Risk Treatment & Mitigation Planning
- Control Selection & Design: Recommending preventive, detective, and corrective controls mapped to frameworks (e.g., NIST CSF, ISO 27001, CIS Controls, Essential Eight) appropriate to the risk.
- Risk Reduction Strategies: Options include acceptance (with documented rationale), mitigation (implementing controls), transfer (e.g., insurance or third-party contracts), or avoidance (architectural changes).
- Remediation Roadmaps: Defining and sequencing actions, owners, timelines, and dependencies to reduce exposure in a structured way.
- Secure Architecture Integration: Ensuring treatment aligns with reference architectures and does not introduce new gaps.
- Implementation & Operationalization
- Security by Design: Embedding chosen risk mitigations into projects, deployments, and changes via security gates, design reviews, and integration with SDLC/DevSecOps practices.
- Third-Party & Supply Chain Risk: Assessing and managing risks arising from vendors, partners, and outsourced services, including contract clauses, continuous monitoring, and dependency impact analysis.
- Policy, Process & Awareness: Translating risk decisions into enforceable policies, procedures, and user training to reduce human-induced exposure.
- Continuous Monitoring & Detection
- Exposure Drift Detection: Using posture management (cloud/native or hybrid), configuration monitoring, and integrity checking to surface deviations from expected secure baselines.
- Threat & Anomaly Detection: Feeding telemetry into SIEM/SOAR, user and entity behaviour analytics, and alerting systems to catch signs that exposures are being probed or exploited.
- Risk Reassessment: Periodically and event-driven re-evaluation of risk triggered by environment change, new threats, incidents, or business pivots.
- Governance, Reporting & Decision Support
- Risk Governance Framework: Defining roles, escalation paths, risk owners, and committees to ensure accountability and timely decisions.
- Dashboards & Metrics: Tracking key risk indicators (KRIs), vulnerability remediation rates, residual risk, mean time to detect/respond (MTTD/MTTR), control effectiveness, and compliance posture.
- Executive & Technical Reporting: Tailoring risk summaries for leadership (risk exposure vs tolerance, trends) and operational teams (actionable findings, backlog health).
- Risk Appetite Alignment: Continuously validating that current exposure levels align with the organisation’s stated risk tolerance and adjusting strategy if needed.
- Incident & Recovery Integration
- Exposure-to-Incident Linkage: Ensuring known exposures are mapped to potential incident scenarios so response plans are relevant and prioritized.
- Post-Incident Risk Refresh: Feeding lessons learned from incidents back into the risk model to recalibrate exposure assessments and controls.
- Continuous Improvement
- Feedback Loops: Using data from assessments, controls testing, audits, and incident post-mortems to refine risk models, prioritisation, and treatment effectiveness.
- Maturity Progression: Evolving from reactive to predictive risk management raising capability across people, process, and technology.
Outcomes:
- Clear visibility of what exposes the organisation to risk and how those exposures are being handled.
- Prioritised, measurable risk reduction aligned to business value.
- Integrated security decisions across design, delivery, and operations.
- Resilient posture that adapts to changing threats and business conditions.
- Improved stakeholder confidence through transparent governance and reporting.