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Strategy & Consulting

Technology Risk and Compliance

Controls that work in practice, with evidence you can hand over.

Why It Matters

Obligations now arrive from several directions at once. Privacy rules, AI rules and resilience rules ask for evidence, and each one can arrive with a different owner. Systems built without that evidence are expensive to change later.

Compliance breaks down in predictable places. Compliance is added after the build. Controls exist on paper but cannot show they operated. The legal reading never reaches the engineers who must implement it. Each leaves a gap that an audit will find.

What We Do

  • How your data and AI use meet the obligations that apply to you, with controls and evidence.

  • We test whether you can keep serving customers through a failure, and rank the gaps.

  • The controls and evidence a management-system audit expects, prepared in your own environment.

  • We collect the evidence and rehearse the questions before the audit, so the pack holds up.

What Changes for You

  1. Each system has a list of the obligations that apply, the controls that meet them and the gaps that remain.

  2. Controls built into the system and the process, with a named owner and a test that shows they work.

  3. A pack that shows what was approved, what was tested and what happened, ready for an auditor or a customer.

When to Bring Us In

Bring us in when an audit, a change or a board question needs more than a policy document.

  • An Audit Is Due

    An auditor, a customer or a board has set a date. The evidence is incomplete, and the gaps are not yet ranked.

  • A Change Brings New Obligations

    A new system, market or AI use brings rules the current controls do not cover. The design must include them before launch.

  • The Board Asks for Assurance

    Leaders need to know which controls work and which are only described. They want evidence, not a policy document.

The Decisions We Help You Make

Your legal team decides what applies. We turn that decision into controls that can be tested.

  • Which Obligations Apply

    Your legal and compliance teams decide how the rules apply. We turn that decision into requirements for each system and data flow.

  • Which Controls to Build, Buy or Change

    We compare the options on risk, effort and the evidence each one produces. You decide the approach and the order.

  • Who Owns Each Control

    Every control gets one owner and one test. You confirm the owners and the dates.

How an Engagement Runs

The work starts with your legal reading and ends with evidence someone else can check.

  • Scope With Your Legal Team

    We list the systems, data flows and obligations in scope. You provide the legal interpretations, the system list and the audit scope. We agree what is in and what is out.

  • Test the Controls

    We compare the current controls with each requirement and rank the gaps. You decide the risk you can accept and the order of work. Each gap gets an owner and a date.

  • Design and Build

    We design the technical and process controls, then build or change them in your environment. You provide system owners and change windows. Each control gets a test and a record.

  • Rehearse and Hand Over

    We run the evidence through a practice audit with your team. You decide the audit date and the auditor. We hand over the pack and the open risks.

Who You Work With

A team that can read the requirement, build the control and prove it operates.

  • A lead who maps obligations to controls and owns the evidence plan. They work with your legal, risk and engineering teams.

  • An engineer who builds the controls into systems and data flows. They write the test that proves each control operates.

  • A lead who rehearses the audit and checks the evidence. They tell you what an auditor will ask for and where the pack is thin.

Platforms and Technologies

We prepare you for the audits your buyers and regulators expect. These are the two management-system standards we most often work to, explained in plain words.

Management-System Standards
  • ISO/IEC 27001: a standard for managing information security risks, with controls you can audit.
  • ISO/IEC 42001: a standard for managing AI risks, with controls for the whole life of a system.

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Questions

The questions leaders ask before they commit to a compliance programme.

What drives the cost?

The number of systems and obligations, the state of the evidence and how much engineering the controls need. A readiness review costs less than building the controls. We agree the scope and the audit date first.

How do you start?

With the audit date and the systems in scope. Your legal team gives its reading, and we turn it into requirements. The first output is a map of obligations, controls and gaps.

How long does it take?

A readiness review runs for a few weeks. Building the controls depends on the number of systems and the change windows. We agree the audit date and the end date first.

What is not covered?

We do not give legal advice or certify you; the certification body decides. We do not claim certificates we do not hold. We can rehearse the audit and hand over the evidence pack, and we set a review rhythm for rule changes.

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