Cyber Risk and Security Assurance

Security decisions you can defend.

New systems, cloud services, and material changes force a decision, whether to proceed, change the design, or accept the risk. When the decision is yours, we give you an independent, senior assessment of what could go wrong, what it would cost your business, and what conditions would make the decision defensible.

When you need this

You have a decision to make, and it needs to hold up.

  • You need to sign off a go-live or major release, and you want evidence behind your signature
  • A cloud service or supplier needs approval faster than your assurance process can move
  • An auditor or regulator has asked you for an independent view of a system or architecture
  • A security exception is up for renewal again, and nobody has re-examined the risk it carries
  • A design or architecture decision is stuck until someone senior and independent gives a clear opinion
What this covers

Assessments that support decisions, and the method behind them.

Cyber Risk Assessments

You are moving a new system, cloud service, or transformation programme forward, and nobody has established what could go wrong or what it would cost your business.

A structured assessment covering business criticality, threats, existing controls, inherent risk, residual risk, and treatment priorities. Scoped to support a decision.

Independent Security Opinions

You have a significant design, architecture, or service decision that needs a senior, independent view before it proceeds.

A senior practitioner reviews the proposal and gives a clear opinion, either to proceed, to proceed with conditions, or not to proceed. Findings, approval conditions, and risk acceptance considerations are written for the person who has to sign.

Security Architecture Assurance

You are building or changing an architecture, and it needs to stand up to internal and regulatory scrutiny before it carries critical services.

Review of identity, access control, segregation, data protection, logging, resilience, privileged access, administration, and recovery. Where the finding is that the architecture needs transformation, our Zero Trust services take it from there.

Cloud Risk and Control Assessments

You are adopting cloud services faster than you can assess them, and internal policy or regulatory expectations require an independent view.

Independent assessment of AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud, STACKIT, SaaS, and hybrid services against internal policy, recognised standards, and regulatory expectations. For ongoing cloud governance, see Cloud and Digital Security Governance.

Cyber Risk Management Frameworks

Cyber risks are assessed differently across your organisation, and the results cannot be compared or set against your enterprise risk appetite.

Risk categories, assessment method, impact scales, appetite and tolerances, acceptance and escalation, key risk indicators, and reporting, aligned with your enterprise risk management framework so cyber risk is managed alongside every other material risk. For decision rights and accountability, see Cybersecurity Governance and Board Advisory.

Where to start

Two defined starting points.

Fixed scope, defined outputs, senior delivery. Start with one decision, or with the method your organisation uses for all of them.

Fixed scope

Cyber Risk Decision Review

An independent risk opinion on one system, cloud service, or architecture. For decisions that need evidence behind them, such as approvals, exceptions, go-lives, and material changes.

What you receive
  • Findings against business criticality, threats, and existing controls
  • The residual risk position, stated plainly
  • Conditions for approval where the decision can proceed
  • Risk acceptance considerations for the decision owner
Request a decision review
Fixed scope

Cyber Risk Framework Design

Cyber risks are assessed in different ways across your organisation, so they cannot be compared, combined, or set against your risk appetite. We design a cyber risk management framework aligned with your enterprise risk management framework, so cyber risk is assessed and reported on the same basis as your other material risks and the board sees one consistent picture.

What you receive
  • Cyber risk categories and assessment method aligned with your enterprise risk framework
  • Impact scale and criticality approach applied consistently across services
  • Cyber risk appetite statements and tolerances for board approval
  • Risk acceptance, exception, and escalation process with named owners
  • Key risk indicators and reporting integrated with enterprise risk reporting
  • Implementation plan, including the roles that run the framework
Request a framework design
Common questions

Frequently asked questions.

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