UK security governance & assurance
Fractional security leadership, ongoing ISO 27001 management and enterprise assurance support for UK B2B organisations that need accountable oversight without hiring a full-time CISO.
For UK B2B companies whose security responsibilities have outgrown informal processes.
The service portfolio
Choose the operating responsibility you actually need. Start with a narrow monthly remit and expand only when the work demands it.
01 / CONTROL
Keep the management system operating between audits.
A defined monthly rhythm for risk reviews, evidence upkeep, control ownership and certification readiness. Designed for teams with a live ISO 27001 programme but no dedicated day-to-day operator.
02 / LEADERSHIP
Senior security judgement without a permanent executive hire.
Part-time information-security leadership, proportionate to the organisation. A qualified practitioner helps leadership choose priorities, understand residual risk and coordinate specialist suppliers.
03 / EVIDENCE
Answer customer security questions with evidence, not guesswork.
Support for enterprise questionnaires and due diligence using a maintained, client-owned evidence library. Useful where commercial teams repeatedly need proof of security controls.
Why companies seek support
For many growing companies, the hardest part is not a lack of tools. It's an unclear hand-off between the people who run controls, answer enterprise buyers, review risk and prepare evidence for an audit.
A well-scoped retainer must draw a clear line between the qualified specialist, the technical operators and the senior leaders who approve material risk decisions.
How the work is structured ↗The risk register, action log and evidence library need more than a last-minute update.
Accurate answers and permitted evidence are scattered between technical and commercial teams.
Individual controls may be in place while leadership lacks a coherent view of residual risk.
A working method
The useful output is not the amount of paperwork produced. It is the clarity of responsibilities, current evidence and decisions taken.
We map the current owner, standards, audit dates, customer requests and the decisions that have been waiting for attention.
You receive a written responsibilities matrix, capacity allocation, deliverables, exclusions and escalation path.
We establish the register, review calendar, reporting template and a sensible operating cadence in your environment.
Your lead tracks actions and outstanding risks; management reviews them and approves material choices. The programme remains portable.
A better test of credibility
Inspect the operating method before making a buying decision: use our maintenance calendar, evidence-register worksheet and fictional board pack to assess how responsibilities could work in your organisation.
The samples are explicitly illustrative. A contract must separately identify the practitioner, scope, service levels and responsibility boundaries.
Explore the resources ↗Risk owner and trend
Evidence due this month
Supplier / customer assurance
Executive decisions outstanding
View the fictional board report →Questions / answers
Scope, evidence, responsibilities and independent assessment should be clear before an agreement is signed.
No. A governance retainer coordinates security policy, risk, evidence and oversight. Threat monitoring, managed detection and response, penetration tests and technical incident response must be separately contracted where needed.
No. Certification is awarded by an independent certification body. Advisory and managed ISMS work can help your organisation prepare, maintain records and address findings, but cannot guarantee an audit result.
Usually not. The proposed arrangement is designed to work alongside an internal IT team, MSP and existing tooling, while establishing who is responsible for which controls and escalations.
The intended model is that the client owns the information and controls its approved systems. Access, retention, subcontractors, transfer and termination procedures are set out in the service agreement.
That depends on available qualified capacity, the current state of the ISMS and the audit date. An initial review identifies the gaps and whether a realistically scoped engagement is appropriate.
A workable next step
Tell us where responsibility is unclear, when the next assurance deadline falls and what your team needs to stop doing manually.