Cybersecurity Consulting, Regulatory Audit & Managed Defense
Comprehensive strategic advisory, CERT-In/RBI statutory audits, offensive VAPT, 24×7 managed SOC operations, incident response, and emerging technology governance.
Cyber Strategy, Roadmap & Governance
Establishing multi-year security roadmaps, security maturity assessments (CMMI, NIST CSF 2.0), comprehensive policy & procedure frameworks, and target operating models with defined RACI matrices.
- NIST CSF 2.0 & CMMI security maturity benchmarking
- Information security policy & standard operating procedures (SOPs)
- Board of Directors cyber risk briefings & fiduciary governance
- Security steering committee charter & operating model design
Cyber Risk Assessment & FAIR Quantification
Comprehensive cyber risk assessments aligned with ISO 27005 and NIST SP 800-30, coupled with quantitative financial risk modeling using the Factor Analysis of Information Risk (FAIR) framework.
- NIST SP 800-30 Rev 1 & ISO 27005 risk registers
- FAIR quantitative risk modeling in monetary values
- Annualized Loss Expectancy (ALE) & Return on Security Investment (ROSI)
- Threat scenario loss distribution & executive risk heatmaps
Compliance & Certification Readiness
Full lifecycle readiness for ISO 27001 ISMS, ISO 27701 (Privacy), ISO 22301 (BCMS), SOC 2 Type I/II, PCI DSS v4.0, and unified control frameworks integrated into enterprise GRC platforms.
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022 implementation & SOA mapping
- SOC 2 Type I & Type II Trust Services Criteria readiness
- PCI DSS v4.0 scoping, network segmentation & remediation
- Unified Control Framework (UCF) & ServiceNow/OneTrust GRC tooling
Security Architecture & Zero Trust Strategy
Enterprise security architecture aligned with SABSA and TOGAF. We engineer Zero Trust perimeters, micro-segmentation, SASE/SSE migration designs, and run vendor RFP proof-of-concept evaluations.
- SABSA & TOGAF business-driven security architecture
- NIST SP 800-207 Zero Trust network architecture (ZTNA)
- SASE & Security Service Edge (SSE) replacing legacy VPNs
- Security product selection: RFP formulation, vendor scoring & PoC trials
Cloud Security Architecture & Governance
Hardened multi-cloud landing zones, cloud workload migration security, Service Control Policies (SCPs), policy-as-code, and enterprise Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE) container isolation design.
- Multi-cloud security posture management (CSPM) & guardrails
- Cloud lift-and-shift & native workload migration security
- Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE) pod security standards & RBAC
- FinOps cloud security headroom & cost rationalization
Resilience, Clean-Room BCP & TPRM
Business impact analysis (BIA) with recovery targets (RTO/RPO), ransomware recovery readiness with backup immutability, isolated clean-room vaults, and structured vendor third-party risk management (TPRM).
- Business impact analysis (BIA) & disaster recovery planning (RTO/RPO)
- Ransomware readiness: immutable backups & privileged lockout
- Cyber recovery architecture: isolated clean-room recovery vaults
- TPRM: vendor tiering, SIG/CAIQ questionnaires & contract clauses
DPDP Readiness & Gap Assessment
Thorough audit across all 44 sections of the DPDP Act 2023. We evaluate current data collection practices, vendor agreements, privacy notices, and technical safeguards to formulate a phased remediation roadmap.
- Section-by-section statutory compliance benchmarking
- Third-party data processor contract reviews
- Prioritized risk scorecard & executive remediation roadmap
Data Discovery, Classification & RoPA
Automated and manual discovery of digital personal data across on-premises databases, multi-cloud data lakes (AWS/GCP/Azure), and SaaS applications to construct an audit-ready Record of Processing Activities.
- PII & sensitive data automated scanning & tagging
- End-to-end data flow mapping across internal & external APIs
- Statutory RoPA documentation aligned with DPBI requirements
Consent Management & Notice Architecture
Engineering itemized, clear, and unconditional consent collection mechanisms available in English and 22 languages specified in the 8th Schedule of the Indian Constitution, with seamless consent withdrawal flows.
- Dynamic, multi-lingual consent notices & preference centers
- Verifiable consent logging & immutable audit trails
- Automated consent withdrawal & downstream data purge APIs
Data Principal Rights Management
Building automated customer-facing grievance and rights fulfillment portals to service Data Principal statutory rights within regulated timelines.
- Right to Access: Summary of processed data & third-party sharing
- Right to Correction, Completion, Updating & Erasure
- Right of Grievance Redressal & Right to Nominate workflows
Significant Data Fiduciary (SDF) Governance
Specialized advisory for entities designated as SDFs by the Central Government based on data volume, sensitivity, national sovereignty, or public order risk.
- Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) frameworks
- Mandatory periodic independent data audits
- Resident Indian Data Protection Officer (DPO) governance
vDPO, 72-Hour DPBI Breach & PQC Readiness
Virtual Data Protection Officer (vDPO) retainer service offering fractional executive leadership, board advisory, emergency 72-hour DPBI reporting, and post-quantum cryptographic readiness.
- Fractional / Virtual DPO certified practitioners
- Mandatory personal data breach notification playbooks to DPBI
- Post-quantum cryptographic readiness & secure data disposal
Regulatory Compliance & Empanelled Audits
Independent audits mandated by statutory authorities for financial institutions, market infrastructure, government entities, and critical infrastructure.
- CERT-In Empanelled Audits: “Safe-to-Host” certificates for government websites and web apps
- RBI-Mandated Audits: IS audits for commercial banks & NBFCs, Cybersecurity Framework, Payment Data Localization (SAR), and Payment Aggregator/Gateway (PA/PG) audits
- SEBI CSCRF Audits: Periodic cybersecurity audits & VAPT for stock brokers, depositories, AMCs, clearing corporations, and MIIs
- IRDAI Cybersecurity Audits: Audits under Information & Cyber Security Guidelines for insurers
- UIDAI (Aadhaar) Audits: Mandatory compliance audits for AUAs, KUAs, and ASAs
- Government Critical Infrastructure: STQC application testing & NCIIPC protected systems
Compliance & Certification Audits
Formal independent audits against international standards and frameworks to deliver customer-facing attestations and regulatory proof.
- ISO 27001 Internal & Pre-Certification: Independent audits against clauses 4-10 and Annex A controls
- SOC 1 / SOC 2 / SOC 3 Reports: Attestation reports on service organization controls with licensed CPA partners
- PCI DSS Assessments: QSA Report on Compliance (ROC), ASV quarterly scans, PCI PIN, 3DS & SSF
- SWIFT CSP Assessments: Customer Security Controls Framework annual attestation review
- Cloud Assurance: CSA STAR Level 1/2 assessments and MeitY cloud empanelment via STQC
- Privacy & Healthcare: GDPR compliance, HIPAA Security Rule, and HITRUST CSF validation
IT & Information Systems Audits (ITGC & SOX)
Rigorous evaluations of IT general controls supporting financial reporting, enterprise ERPs, user access lifecycles, and operational processes.
- ITGC Audits: Testing logical access, change management, backup, and computer operations per COBIT
- SOX / Internal Financial Controls (IFC): IT testing supporting financial reporting for listed companies
- ERP Controls Audit: SAP / Oracle configuration reviews and Segregation of Duties (SoD) matrix analysis
- User Access Reviews: Privileged account management, orphan account cleanup, leaver deprovisioning
- Operational Audits: Change/patch SLA compliance, backup/BCP recovery testing, physical data center reviews
- Vendor & Outsourcing Audits: Executing contractual right-to-audit clauses on technology partners
Technical Security Audits & Hardening Reviews
Deep-dive technical reviews of operating systems, databases, network device configurations, and directory services to eliminate misconfigurations.
- Secure Configuration Hardening: OS, databases, routers & firewalls audited against CIS Benchmarks
- Firewall Rule-Base Audit: Finding shadowed, redundant, overly permissive, and stale rules
- Active Directory / Entra ID: BloodHound attack path mapping, Kerberoasting, delegation abuse
- Cloud & M365 Reviews: CIS Foundations for AWS/Azure/GCP, tenant external sharing, conditional access
- Email Security & DMARC: SPF, DKIM, DMARC p=reject enforcement and anti-phishing gateway controls
- Compromise Assessment: Proactive hunting for active or historical indicators of compromise (IOCs)
Web Application & API Security Testing
Thorough manual penetration testing of web applications, SaaS portals, and RESTful, GraphQL, gRPC, and SOAP APIs against OWASP Top 10 and ASVS standards.
- Business logic bypass & multi-step workflow abuse
- Broken Object Level Authorization (BOLA / IDOR)
- SQLi, SSRF, remote code execution (RCE) & GraphQL injection
- JWT signature tampering, OAuth2 flow bypass, rate-limiting flaws
Mobile & Thick-Client Application Pentesting
Deconstructing Android and iOS mobile binaries per OWASP MASVS/MASTG, alongside desktop thick-client applications (.NET, Java, C++) and local storage mechanisms.
- Binary reverse engineering & anti-tamper bypass
- Root / Jailbreak detection circumvention & memory hooking
- Insecure IPC, local keychain storage & cleartext caching
- Desktop thick-client network protocols & binary manipulation
Network, Cloud & Wireless Pentesting
External perimeter vulnerability assessments, internal assumed-breach Active Directory penetration testing, cloud workload privilege escalation, and wireless audits.
- Active Directory domain compromise (Kerberoasting, DCSync)
- Cloud IAM abuse, IMDS SSRF & container pod escapes
- WPA2/WPA3 enterprise Wi-Fi cracking & rogue AP detection
- Network segmentation validation testing (PCI DSS CDE proof)
Red Teaming & Purple Teaming
Stealthy adversary simulations emulating advanced persistent threats (APTs), coupled with collaborative purple teaming exercises to directly tune defenders’ SOC alerts.
- Custom Cobalt Strike C2 infrastructure & payload obfuscation
- In-memory EDR evasion & Windows Defender bypass
- Joint attack-and-detect purple team exercises with SOC
- Detection engineering with Sigma and YARA rules
Social Engineering & Physical Pentesting
Realistic multi-channel human adversary testing combining targeted spear-phishing campaigns, vishing, smishing, and covert physical facility intrusion exercises.
- Executive spear-phishing & credential harvesting portals
- Voice phishing (vishing) & multi-factor auth fatigue attacks
- Physical intrusion: tailgating, RFID badge cloning, rogue hardware drop
- Comprehensive employee susceptibility scoring & debriefs
Continuous Pentesting (PTaaS), BAS & EASM
Always-on security assurance utilizing Breach & Attack Simulation (BAS), External Attack Surface Management (EASM), and on-demand Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS).
- Continuous discovery of shadow IT, forgotten subdomains & exposed S3
- Automated Breach & Attack Simulation (BAS) controls validation
- PTaaS: on-demand testing aligned with developer release cycles
- Managed bug bounty triage & coordinated disclosure handling
Application Security & DevSecOps (Secure SDLC)
Embedding automated security controls into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins) with STRIDE threat modeling, SBOM generation, and developer enablement programs.
- Threat modeling workshops (STRIDE, PASTA, attack trees)
- Automated SAST, DAST, SCA, and secrets detection gates
- Software supply chain security: SBOM (CycloneDX/SPDX) & SLSA
- Security champions program & developer secure coding coaching
OT / ICS & SCADA Critical Infrastructure
Industrial cybersecurity programs designed for power transmission grids, manufacturing plants, and utilities aligned with IEC 62443 and the Purdue Model.
- Purdue Model Level 0-3 industrial network segmentation
- SCADA protocols security audits: Modbus, DNP3, IEC 60870, OPC-UA
- Passive OT network sensor architecture (Nozomi / Claroty / Dragos)
- Emergency plant fail-safe operational procedures & tabletop drills
AI Governance & AI Risk Assessment
Establishing governance, ethics, and security risk management frameworks for Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), and enterprise machine learning pipelines.
- NIST AI Risk Management Framework & ISO/IEC 42001 alignment
- Adversarial machine learning & prompt injection testing
- LLM training data leakage & intellectual property audits
- EU AI Act readiness, compliance tiering & risk scorecards
Blockchain & Web3 Security Advisory
Vulnerability auditing for EVM and Rust smart contracts, decentralized protocol security reviews, consensus mechanism analysis, and institutional wallet custody security.
- Solidity & Rust smart contract manual code auditing
- Reentrancy, integer overflow, flash loan & oracle manipulation
- DeFi economic incentive security & bridge protocol audits
- Multi-party computation (MPC) & institutional key custody
IoT Hardware & Firmware Reverse Engineering
Physical hardware extraction, JTAG/UART debug interface auditing, cryptographic coprocessor reviews, and firmware binary unpacking for connected IoT devices.
- Firmware binary extraction, decompilation & CVE analysis
- JTAG, UART, I2C, SPI hardware interface probing
- BLE, Zigbee, LoRaWAN, and cellular IoT protocol testing
- Secure boot verification & physical anti-tamper testing
Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Readiness
Preparing enterprise cryptographic architectures for quantum decryption threats (Harvest Now, Decrypt Later) by adopting NIST post-quantum cryptographic standards.
- Enterprise cryptographic inventory & crypto-agility roadmap
- NIST PQC algorithm migration (ML-KEM, ML-DSA) planning
- Hardware Security Module (HSM) & PKI quantum-safe transition
- Data retention & certified secure cryptographic disposal (NIST 800-88)
Security Implementation & Integration
Architecting and deploying leading security platforms, tuning detection rules, building automated response playbooks, and eliminating visibility blind spots.
- SIEM & SOAR deployment: Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Elastic, Cortex
- EDR / XDR rollout & policy tuning: CrowdStrike, Defender, SentinelOne
- SASE / SSE & ZTNA migration: Zscaler, Cloudflare, Prisma Access
- IAM, PAM & IGA rollout: CyberArk, BeyondTrust, Okta, SailPoint
- Enterprise DLP, CASB, Imperva DAM & Deception honeypot grids
Managed SOC / SOCaaS & MDR Services
24×7 real-time monitoring, alert triage, correlation, and Managed Detection & Response (MDR) delivering hands-on host isolation and account revocation.
- Continuous 24×7 alert triage, SIEM correlation & escalation
- MDR: active host containment, process termination & account locking
- Vulnerability Management as a Service (VMaaS) with patch tracking
- Proactive threat hunting across endpoint, network & cloud data
- SOC Build & Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) for corporate teams
Incident Response & Digital Forensics (DFIR)
SLA-backed emergency incident response retainer, active adversary eviction, isolated clean-room ransomware recovery, and court-admissible digital forensics.
- Emergency triage, containment, threat eradication & operational rebuild
- Ransomware response, decryptor feasibility & clean-room reconstruction
- Business Email Compromise (BEC) forensics & wire fraud recovery
- Disk, memory (RAM), mobile, and cloud forensics with chain of custody
- Static and dynamic malware reverse engineering & YARA authoring
Regulatory Breach Reporting & Litigation Support
Advisory and representation during major cyber breaches, fulfilling mandatory statutory notification deadlines and delivering expert witness legal testimony.
- Mandatory CERT-In 6-hour cybersecurity incident reporting
- Data Protection Board of India (DPBI) breach notifications under DPDP
- EU GDPR 72-hour regulatory notification playbooks
- Digital eDiscovery, expert witness testimony & litigation support
Virtual CISO (vCISO), vDPO & Staff Augmentation
Fractional executive cybersecurity leadership for boardrooms, outsourced privacy offices, and dedicated on-demand certified resident security engineers.
- Virtual CISO (vCISO): executive leadership, strategy & board reporting
- Virtual DPO (vDPO): outsourced statutory privacy office management
- Staff augmentation: resident SOC analysts, pentesters & GRC experts
- Security Program Management Office (PMO) for transformation governance
Crisis Management, Drills & Tool Health Checks
Cyber Crisis Management Plans (CCMP), executive and technical tabletop attack drills, post-incident root cause analysis (RCA), and tool configuration health checks.
- Executive tabletop exercises & board cyber crisis simulations
- Cyber Crisis Management Plans (CCMP) & CSIRT standard playbooks
- Root cause analysis (RCA) & lessons-learned corrective reports
- Security tool health checks: tuning noisy rules & maximizing ROI