Securing What
Matters Most
Strategic cybersecurity advisory for organisations navigating complex threat landscapes — from risk assessment to resilience architecture.
End-to-End Security Capability
We partner with leadership teams to build security programmes that are proportionate, measurable, and aligned to business outcomes.
Security Strategy
Develop a cohesive, board-ready security strategy aligned to your business objectives, regulatory landscape, and risk appetite.
AdvisoryRisk Assessment
Systematic identification, analysis, and prioritisation of cyber risks across your entire attack surface — technical and operational.
AssessmentTechnology Architecture
Design and validate secure technology architectures — Zero Trust, cloud security posture, identity, and network segmentation.
ArchitectureSecurity Frameworks
Implementation advisory for NIST CSF, ISO 27001, CIS Controls, DORA, and sector-specific compliance requirements.
ComplianceAwareness Training
Bespoke security awareness programmes that drive behaviour change — from exec briefings to technical deep-dives and phishing simulations.
TrainingResilience
Build organisational and technical resilience: incident response planning, BCP integration, crisis simulation, and recovery readiness.
ResilienceDPDP Act Readiness
Consent, notices, breach response, and grievance redressal built to meet India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023.
RegulatoryFirewall Audit
Rule-base review against your segmentation intent, CIS benchmarks, and vendor hardening guidance — with a prioritised remediation set.
AssessmentAPI Security Testing
Authenticated testing of REST and GraphQL interfaces against the OWASP API Security Top 10, business logic included.
TestingPII Data Discovery
Find, classify, and map personal data across databases, file shares, SaaS platforms, and backups — including the copies nobody documented.
DiscoveryReady to Strengthen Your
Security Posture?
Our advisors are available for an initial no-obligation consultation to understand your challenges.
Schedule a ConsultationAdvisory Built for
Real Threats
Ten practice areas. One integrated approach to cyber resilience.
Security Strategy
We work alongside your executive team to define a multi-year security strategy that is grounded in business reality, not vendor checklists. Our approach aligns security investments to risk appetite, regulatory obligations, and growth objectives.
Deliverables include a current-state assessment, target security architecture, a prioritised roadmap, and board-ready communication materials. We ensure security becomes a business enabler.
- ▸Security vision and mission alignment
- ▸3–5 year capability roadmap
- ▸Investment prioritisation framework
- ▸Metrics and KPI design
Risk Assessment
Attack Surface Analysis
Systematic mapping of your technical and organisational attack surface, threat actors, and likely attack vectors using STRIDE and PASTA methodologies.
Risk Quantification
FAIR-based quantitative risk analysis translating cyber risk into financial exposure — enabling CFO and board-level decision-making.
Supply Chain Risk
Vendor risk assessment programmes, TPRM frameworks, and continuous monitoring of third-party exposure across your supply chain.
Architecture & Frameworks
Zero Trust Architecture
Design and implementation advisory for Zero Trust network architecture — identity-centric security, microsegmentation, and continuous verification.
Cloud Security Architecture
Secure-by-design cloud architecture for AWS, Azure, and GCP — CSPM, CWPP, data security posture, and DevSecOps integration.
Framework Implementation
End-to-end implementation support for NIST CSF, ISO 27001, CIS Controls, SOC 2, and DORA — from gap analysis to certification.
Training & Resilience
Awareness Programmes
Role-specific training journeys for executives, technical teams, and general staff — combining e-learning, live workshops, and phishing simulations.
Tabletop Exercises
Crisis simulation exercises for incident response, ransomware, and data breach scenarios — testing your playbooks against realistic attack narratives.
Resilience Planning
Business continuity integration, DR testing programmes, and incident response plan development — ready before you need it.
Specialist Assessments
Targeted engagements that answer a specific question, sized to weeks rather than quarters. Each runs standalone or feeds into a wider programme.
Indian DPDP Act Readiness
End-to-end readiness for the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023. We map your personal data flows, establish lawful processing and consent mechanics, draft the notices and records the Act requires, and stand up breach-notification and grievance-redressal processes. You finish with a defensible position and evidence to show for it.
Firewall Audit
Rule-base review across perimeter and internal firewalls. We identify permissive and shadowed rules, any-any exposure, unused objects, and drift from your intended segmentation model, then benchmark the configuration against CIS and vendor hardening guidance. Output is a prioritised remediation set your network team can action directly.
API Security Testing
Authenticated testing of REST and GraphQL interfaces against the OWASP API Security Top 10 — broken object-level authorisation, function-level authorisation gaps, mass assignment, and rate-limit weaknesses. We test business logic, not just the schema, and every finding arrives with a reproduction path and a fix.
PII Data Discovery
Discovery and classification of personal data across databases, file shares, SaaS platforms, and backups — including the copies nobody documented. We produce a data inventory and flow map, flag over-retention and unnecessary exposure, and give you the register that DPDP and ISO 27001 both expect you to maintain.
Insights &
Resources
Whitepapers, guides, and technical briefs from our advisory practice — freely available to security professionals.
Latest Publications
Building a Board-Ready Cyber Risk Report
A practical framework for translating technical risk findings into business language that resonates with non-technical executives and board members.
Zero Trust Implementation Roadmap: A Practical Guide for Mid-Market Organisations
Step-by-step guidance for adopting Zero Trust principles without disrupting business operations — covering identity, network, and data pillars.
DORA Compliance: What Financial Institutions Need to Know Now
A recorded webinar walking through DORA's ICT risk management requirements, critical third-party provisions, and timelines for compliance.
2026 Threat Landscape: Key Trends for Security Leaders
Our annual brief covering the evolving threat landscape — AI-assisted attacks, supply chain risks, and sector-specific threat intelligence.
Security Awareness That Works: Moving Beyond Compliance Ticking
Evidence-based approaches to human risk reduction — what actually changes behaviour, and how to measure the impact of awareness programmes.
Incident Response Planning: From Theory to Tested Playbooks
A comprehensive guide to building, testing, and continuously improving incident response capabilities — including tabletop exercise templates.
Browse by Topic
Risk Management
Frameworks, tools, and methodology for cyber risk identification, quantification, and treatment.
BrowseSecurity Architecture
Technical guides covering Zero Trust, cloud security, identity, and network architecture.
BrowseCompliance
Practical guidance on ISO 27001, NIST CSF, DORA, SOC 2, and sector-specific requirements.
BrowseOutcomes That
Speak for Themselves
Selected engagements demonstrating measurable security improvements across sectors and organisation sizes.
Case Studies
Enterprise Risk Programme for a Regional Bank
Designed and implemented a comprehensive cyber risk management programme for a mid-sized bank facing regulatory pressure. Delivered quantified risk reduction across 14 critical systems and achieved ISO 27001 certification within 9 months.
Post-Breach Recovery & Architecture Redesign
Following a ransomware incident, led the technical and organisational recovery — redesigning network segmentation, implementing endpoint controls, and rebuilding the incident response capability with tested playbooks.
DORA Readiness Programme for Critical Infrastructure
Delivered a full DORA readiness assessment and remediation programme across ICT risk management, third-party oversight, and digital operational resilience testing requirements.
Human Risk Reduction Programme for a Scale-Up
Designed a 12-month security awareness programme for a 600-person technology company experiencing rapid growth. Reduced phishing simulation click rates and embedded security champions across all business units.
Zero Trust Transformation for a National Retailer
Developed the Zero Trust strategy and oversaw implementation across identity, device, and network layers — enabling secure hybrid working for 3,000 employees across 200 locations.
Incident Response Capability Build for Government Agency
Built an incident response capability from scratch — playbooks, tooling, tabletop exercises, and a 24/7 escalation framework — reducing mean time to respond by 68%.
Security Advisors
Who've Been There
A team of seasoned practitioners with deep experience across financial services, critical infrastructure, healthcare, and technology.
Why XSEC
XSEC was founded by security practitioners who spent years inside large organisations and global consultancies — and saw firsthand how generic advice fails to translate into real security improvement.
We bring sharp technical expertise together with business acumen. Our advisors understand both the threat landscape and the organisational dynamics that determine whether security programmes succeed or fail.
We work as a genuine partner — embedded with your team, speaking your language, and accountable for real outcomes. Not just another report that sits on a shelf.
Business-First
Security exists to protect business value. Every recommendation is anchored to business risk, not technical orthodoxy.
Practitioner-Led
Our advisors have held CISO, architect, and security engineering roles — we advise from experience, not theory.
Measurable Outcomes
Every engagement defines clear success metrics upfront. We are accountable to measurable security improvement.
Meet Our Advisors
Our team brings together decades of experience across advisory, architecture, and operational security roles.
Advisor Name
Former CISO. 20 years across financial services and critical infrastructure. CISSP, CISM, SABSA.
Advisor Name
Security architect specialising in Zero Trust, cloud, and identity. Former Big 4 partner. TOGAF, AWS Security.
Advisor Name
Risk quantification expert. Implemented ISO 27001 and NIST CSF across 30+ organisations. CRISC, ISO LA.
Advisor Name
Incident response and resilience specialist. Led post-breach recovery engagements across healthcare and energy sectors.
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Last updated 12 August 2026
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The content is information, not advice
Everything published here describes our services and our general view of the security and regulatory landscape. It is not legal, regulatory, or security advice for your organisation, and it is not a substitute for an engagement. Do not act on it without taking advice specific to your circumstances. Security and regulatory positions change; we make no commitment that content stays current.
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