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Assured Advisory.

New vendor solutions come and go, each claiming to solve more problems than the last. But technology needs testing, tuning, embedding, and integrating to truly reduce risk – and that’s where we come in.

Meet Assured Advisory

Out-of-the-box consulting doesn’t happen here. Your risk profile is unique, and you need someone who understands your business. Our ethos is built on solving problems, not pushing services or selling solutions. If we prioritise being genuinely helpful and delivering value, we know profitability naturally follows. At its core, advisory consulting is as much about education as it is about the provision of services. We’ve done the hard work to truly understand cyber risk at the technical and operational level, so we can make the complex simple. Without the jargon.

Compliant does not necessarily mean secure, but it’s a damn good place to start.

How can we help

Built on solid foundations

Assured Advisory has been passionately founded by a team of highly regarded cybersecurity professionals who are experienced in helping organisations navigate cyber risk. Headed up by specialist incident responders with backgrounds across Deloitte and S-RM, the team has successfully led cybersecurity programs for Construction firms, Financial Services organisations, Logistics companies, Big Tech, Higher Education, Critical National Infrastructure, and Private Equity firms.

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What can we do for you?

Cyber compliance

The cyber security legal and regulatory landscape is evolving rapidly. Understanding what is required of your organisation based on its industry, sector, jurisdiction, and business model can be a significant challenge, but our cyber compliance experts will help you understand what is expected of you, and what you need to do to achieve and maintain compliance.

Cyber strategy

Cyber criminals are constantly innovating. CISOs must keep their cyber security measures up to date with current best practice, by driving continuous improvements across a number of different workstreams. With tight budgets and short deadlines, understanding where to most effectively allocate this budget to maximise risk reduction is critical to the CISO’s success.

Cyber resilience

Traditional cybersecurity programs focused on perimeter protection and vulnerability management are no longer sufficient to protect modern computer networks from sophisticated cyber threats. A defence in-depth approach presumes your network will be breached and puts robust resilience measures in place to protect the availability of your organisation’s services and assets.

Offensive cyber security

A cyber security program that does not consider your corporate network from the perspective of a motivated threat actor is fundamentally flawed, because unauthorised access is often achieved in unintuitive, sometimes ingenious ways. Our offensive security professionals use cutting edge tactics, techniques and procedures used by real world threat actors to reveal security vulnerabilities, and make recommendations to address them.

1 Your success is our success

Our reputation with cyber insurers is critical to our success. By helping you minimise the likelihood of experiencing a cyber breach, we strengthen that relationship.

2 We don’t use jargon

Regardless of your technical background, if you can’t understand our advice, we haven’t done our job properly.

3 We operate fixed-fee only

It’s on us to be competitive, transparent, and precise with our fees. We don’t believe in open-ended projects.

4 Quality service. Without the overheads

We’re ex ‘big four’ consultants and experienced CISOs. You get a market-leading consulting service for a fraction of the cost.

5 We’re cyber obsessed

Each of our consultants has been picked based on their enthusiasm and ability to articulate cyber risk. We bring focus and energy to every project because this is what we love to do.

6 We’re still Assured

We’re cut from the same cloth, we talk straight, act fast, and live in the details. We have access to all the security information you’ve already produced, meaning no need to duplicate work.

“We believe in adopting the mindset that a cyber breach is inevitable. That means planning for zero day exploitation, locking down your access controls, and prioritising your resilience and recovery measures first.”

— Oliver Burnand, Head of Assured Advisory

Frequently asked questions

What makes Assured Advisory different?

Tired of paying senior leadership prices for cyber consulting services to be delivered by junior analysts? Our professional services team is made up of only experienced consultants and ex-CISOs, each bringing their own specific set of expertise. Alongside our reselling branch and partner network, all your requirements are covered under one roof.

We know we have a lot to do to improve our cyber maturity – but don’t know where to start. What should we do?

Running a cyber improvement program can seem like an immensely daunting task. We can conduct an assessment of your network, to quantify any gaps in your security controls in terms of the risk posed to your assets. This enables us to create a clear roadmap for improvement for you, designed to address your greatest cyber risks first.

I’m struggling to convince my board/exec to allocate enough budget to our cyber program – what should I do?

It’s unfortunate, but all too often we see cyber investment come only after a breach has occurred. Talk to us about our board level tabletop exercises. They are a low-cost, highly engaging forum designed to bring cyber impacts to life. Often, seeing just how bad a breach could be in a hypothetical setting, can be the trigger that brings more investment and buy in to the cyber program.

We’ve had bad experiences with cyber consultants before. Why should we trust you?

Our reputation is everything to us – and for us every project matters. Through delivering genuine technical expertise, setting transparent and fair pricing, and providing proactive client communications, we are determined to continue adding to the positive feedback we’ve received from our clients so far.

We don’t feel prepared for a cyber attack. What should we do?

Our team is built from all ex-incident responders. We know the tools and techniques threat actors leverage to compromise corporate networks, the assets they target, and their motives and demands. Our purpose-built services can help you become as prepared as possible for the worst-case scenario.

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Features 19.09.2024