Cybersecurity

Cyber Strategy & Transformation

We help organizations treat cybersecurity as a business enabler, not just an IT problem. Our cyber strategy and transformation work starts with understanding your business model, regulatory environment, risk appetite, and current security posture. From there, we design a practical, prioritized roadmap that aligns security investments with real business risks and objectives. That may include target operating models, policy frameworks, capability maturity plans, and governance structures that clarify roles between executives, IT, security, and third parties. We translate technical risks into business language so leadership can make informed decisions about trade-offs, budgets, and timing. Our focus is on building a security function that is right-sized for your organization: effective, measurable, and integrated into everyday decision-making—not a set of disconnected projects or shelfware policies.

Cyber Defense & Resilience

We help you anticipate, withstand, and recover from cyber threats. Our cyber defense and resilience services focus on strengthening your ability to detect, respond to, and contain incidents before they become crises. This includes threat and vulnerability assessments, control testing, tabletop exercises, and improvement plans for key capabilities such as identity and access management, logging and monitoring, endpoint protection, and backup strategies. We also support the design and refinement of incident response plans, playbooks, and communication protocols so your teams know what to do when something goes wrong. Resilience is more than just tools—it’s clarity of responsibilities, rehearsed actions, and tested recovery paths. Our goal is to reduce the business impact of cyber events and give leadership confidence that security is prepared for the “when,” not just the “if.”

Cyber Operate (Security Operations & Monitoring)

We help organizations design and improve the day-to-day operation of cybersecurity. Our Cyber Operate services focus on the practical realities of running security operations, whether you have an internal SOC, rely on managed service providers, or use a hybrid model. We assist with logging and monitoring strategies, alert tuning, use-case development, runbooks, and escalation paths so that your teams focus on meaningful signals instead of drowning in noise. We also help define and track operational metrics—detection times, response times, false positives, and coverage—to drive continuous improvement. Where needed, we align your operations with frameworks and regulatory expectations. The outcome is a security function that knows what to watch, how to respond, and how to coordinate with IT, risk, and business stakeholders when issues arise.

Enterprise Security (Architecture, Controls & Access Management)

We help you design security into the fabric of your technology and processes. Our enterprise security services cover security architecture, control design, and identity and access management across applications, infrastructure, cloud, and data. We work with IT and business teams to understand how systems interact, where sensitive data flows, and where control gaps exist. From there, we define and refine technical and procedural controls that are both effective and usable—covering areas such as network segmentation, secure configuration, privileged access, third-party access, and change management. We emphasize a risk-based approach, prioritizing protections where they matter most, and aligning with your existing tools and standards. The goal is a coherent, documented, and defensible control environment that supports compliance needs while enabling the business to move at the right speed.

Digital Trust & Privacy (Governance, Compliance & Data Protection)

We help organizations build and maintain trust with customers, partners, and regulators by protecting data and managing privacy risks. Our digital trust and privacy services span governance frameworks, policy development, data classification, and privacy-by-design practices. We support compliance with relevant regulations and standards by translating requirements into practical controls, procedures, and documentation. This includes clarifying data ownership, consent and retention practices, third-party data handling, and breach notification processes. We also help align privacy and security with business initiatives such as analytics, AI, and customer experience, ensuring that innovation does not outpace responsible data use. The result is a more predictable and transparent approach to how data is collected, used, shared, and protected—strengthening both regulatory posture and stakeholder confidence.

Cyber AI (Threat Detection, Automation & Analytics)

We help organizations leverage AI and advanced analytics to strengthen their cyber capabilities without losing control or explainability. Our Cyber AI services focus on identifying where machine learning, behavioral analytics, and automation can meaningfully improve threat detection, triage, and response. This may include use cases such as anomaly detection, user and entity behavior analytics, automated enrichment of alerts, or playbook-driven responses for common incidents. We design solutions that fit your existing tools and SOC processes, with clear guardrails for data quality, model risk, and human oversight. Just as importantly, we ensure that AI-driven outputs are understandable to analysts and decision-makers. The aim is to augment your security teams, reduce fatigue, and improve speed and accuracy in identifying and handling real threats.

Implementation Approach

An effective cybersecurity engagement treats security as a business risk first, technology domain second. The starting point is understanding what truly matters: your critical assets, obligations to customers and regulators, and the scenarios that could disrupt operations or damage trust. That means speaking with leadership and key teams, reviewing existing policies and incidents, and assessing your current controls, architecture, and third-party dependencies. The goal of this phase is a clear picture of where you are most exposed and which cyber risks matter most to the business—not a checklist exercise.

Phase 1: Assess & Prioritize

• Clarify business objectives, risk appetite, and regulatory requirements

• Identify critical assets, data, systems, and business services

• Evaluate current security posture, controls, architecture, and gaps

• Prioritize threat scenarios and vulnerabilities by likelihood and impact

From there, a focused cybersecurity roadmap is defined, anchored in risk reduction, resilience, and compliance. Rather than trying to “secure everything at once,” the plan concentrates on a set of high-value initiatives—across strategy, controls, operations, and response—sequenced by risk, complexity, and dependency.

Phase 2: Design a Risk-Based Roadmap

• Translate prioritized risks into specific capabilities and control objectives

• Define target-state security architecture, operating model, and governance

• Select and align enabling technologies (monitoring, IAM, EDR, SIEM, automation)

• Sequence initiatives into realistic waves with owners, timelines, and metrics

Execution is staged and iterative. Work is organized into waves that design, implement, and refine security capabilities. Early efforts often focus on “foundational hygiene” (identity, patching, backups, visibility) and high-impact improvements to detection and response. Alongside technical changes, equal emphasis is placed on processes, roles, playbooks, and training—because incidents are managed by people, not tools.

Phase 3: Implement, Operate & Improve

• Implement prioritized controls, processes, and tooling across people, tech, and data

• Stand up or refine security operations (monitoring, alerts, escalation, response)

• Test readiness with tabletop exercises and simulations, then close gaps

• Track performance with clear metrics and continuously tune based on events and feedback

Throughout, cybersecurity is integrated with IT, risk, and business decision-making, not run as a silo. Regular reporting to leadership, clear ownership, and pragmatic documentation keep efforts aligned with business goals.

The journey aims for capability-building, not dependency: playbooks, training, and governance structures that leave your organization more prepared, more resilient, and more confident in managing cyber risk over the long term.

Their thorough approach to risk management gave us confidence in our financial reporting and internal controls.

New York

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Chicago