Illustrative examples of how our engagements unfold, drawn from the patterns we see most often. Names and identifying details are omitted; the work is real.
A mid sized financial services organisation needed to satisfy a contractual ISO 27001 requirement within six months. A typical engagement of this kind looks like this.
Significant gaps across access management, supplier governance, risk register and incident response. No formal evidence repository. Internal team stretched on operational work.
Structured in three phases: gap assessment against the standard, prioritised remediation plan, and audit readiness. AI risk folded into supplier governance. Evidence built progressively from week one.
Certification achieved within the original timeline. A continued remediation plan addressed the residual items beyond the audit, and surveillance support was retained for the following cycle.
A regional enterprise operating across multiple business units faced alert fatigue and limited night and weekend coverage. The shift to a managed detection and response capability looks like this.
Disconnected point tools, no centralised triage and limited out of hours response. Genuine incidents lost in alert noise, time to detection drifting upward.
Onboarded into the iSOC under a co managed model. AI assisted triage filtered routine noise; analysts handled escalated incidents. Detections mapped to MITRE ATT&CK and tuned over the first ninety days.
A measurable reduction in alert volume reaching the internal team, faster median response on confirmed incidents, and a clear ATT&CK coverage picture for the security committee.
A technology organisation preparing for an enterprise customer security review needed an independent application security assessment. A typical engagement looks like this.
A customer facing platform with web and API surfaces, recent feature additions and limited prior independent testing. Customer due diligence deadline four weeks out.
OWASP Testing Guide aligned engagement with authenticated and unauthenticated paths, business logic abuse cases, and OWASP API Security Top 10 coverage. Findings mapped to ATT&CK.
Critical and high findings remediated before the customer review. Retest confirmed closure. The report cleared the customer due diligence and supported the broader security narrative.
A growing organisation outpaced its informal security arrangements but did not yet need a full time CISO. A virtual CISO engagement of this shape looks like this.
Investor and customer pressure for formal security posture, no executive owner, policies inconsistent across business units, AI features adding new risk surface.
Fractional vCISO ownership of the security programme. A twelve month roadmap aligned to NIST CSF 2.0, with AI security folded in via NIST AI RMF. Quarterly board reporting and steady internal capability uplift.
Security programme stood up and visible at board level. Internal hires onboarded into a coherent function rather than into a vacuum. Customer security questionnaires answered consistently across the business.
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