Practical, senior-level strategic advisory and specialist augmentation for existing CISOs, CIOs and enterprise security teams—without displacing the client’s appointed security leadership.
Work alongside your CISO and security team on strategy, security architecture, governance and complex priorities.
Typically for: Appointed CISO, CIO, security steering committee and executive sponsors
Select a focused assessment or combine specialist modules under a defined statement of work.
Priorities, security investment choices, strategy and executive risk challenge.
Discuss this scopeZero Trust, cloud, IAM, architecture principles and security technology choices.
Discuss this scopeRoadmaps, governance cadence, critical remediation and specialist augmentation.
Discuss this scopeExplore the modules relevant to your environment. Each module is selected against objectives and competencies confirmed during scoping.
Risk-informed security priorities, strategy, operating models, management decisions and advisory support.
Architecture principles, Zero Trust, identity, network segmentation, cloud/data security and security design assurance.
Current-state capability review, future-state plan, programme priorities, sequencing and investment roadmap.
Security committee support, KPIs/KRIs, material issue escalation, board-ready risk insights and management reporting.
Security workstream planning, implementation oversight, coordination of specialists and remediation governance.
Technology evaluation, platform rationalisation, security controls selection and architecture alternatives.
Advisory challenge on risk treatment, security exceptions, regulatory preparation and material findings.
Agreed access to relevant experts across testing, risk, architecture, cloud, privacy, AI and resilience.
Risk-based security design review using relevant enterprise architecture and security frameworks (such as TOGAF, SABSA concepts), threat modelling and MITRE ATT&CK-informed scenarios where appropriate.
Enterprise-wide security strategy, governance priorities, TOGAF and SABSA-informed security architecture, structured threat modelling and ATT&CK-mapped scenarios where applicable.
Defined scope and evidence standards make the specialist work useful to both technical owners and senior management.
Agree incumbent leadership, decision rights, business priorities and outcomes.
Review maturity, architecture, control gaps and material dependencies.
Develop decisions, a pragmatic roadmap and executive messages.
Review progress, risks and agreed management outputs at a defined cadence.
Illustrative samples use fictional data. Actual deliverables and report depth are defined by your engagement scope.
Our CISO and architecture advisers can combine enterprise architecture practices (including TOGAF), security architecture concepts (including SABSA), structured threat modelling and MITRE ATT&CK-informed scenarios. These are applied as methods where relevant—not represented as team certifications unless separately verified.
Previous specialist experience helps inform our assessment approach to the relevant technical, regulatory and business risks.
Regional CISO and enterprise security architecture experience in a multinational industrial environment, including IT/OT security, cloud risk and governance assessments of enterprise AI and agentic workflows.
Executive responsibility for business-critical technology services, regional delivery organisations, cybersecurity governance, managed-service operations, recovery arrangements and major technology change.
Security Architecture Advisory combines enterprise architecture, security design and threat-informed assessment methods.
Map critical business capabilities, data, systems, owners, architecture dependencies and technology risk decisions.
Translate business attributes and threat scenarios into prioritised security architecture requirements and control design.
Use relevant adversary techniques to evaluate detection gaps, protection assumptions and coordinated red/blue team readiness.