Posture assessment
Controls reviewed against a recognised framework such as ISO/IEC 27001, NIST CSF or the UAE Information Assurance Standards.
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Cybersecurity Advisory
Security assessed against a recognised framework, prioritised by real exposure, and turned into a remediation plan with owners and dates.
Overview
Exposure first, framework second.
A control list is not a security programme. What matters is which gaps are genuinely reachable, what they would cost you, and what gets fixed first.
Solvidian provides advisory-level cybersecurity consulting: assessing posture against recognised frameworks, designing the control architecture, and building a remediation plan that is sequenced by exposure rather than by chapter order.
We map findings to the frameworks your auditors and regulators actually reference, and we are explicit about residual risk. Where a control is not worth the money for your threat profile, we say so and record the acceptance.
Scope
What's included
Scope is agreed in writing before an engagement starts. These are the components we most often build it from.
Security architecture design
Identity, segmentation, endpoint, email, data-protection and logging architecture designed as one coherent set.
Identity & access design
Authentication, privileged access, joiner-mover-leaver process and entitlement review design across your estate.
Risk register & remediation plan
Findings scored by likelihood and impact, sequenced into a costed plan with named owners and target dates.
Third-party & supply-chain review
Assessment of vendor access paths, contractual security obligations and the concentration risk sitting behind them.
Incident readiness
Response plan, roles, escalation paths, evidence handling and a facilitated tabletop exercise against a realistic scenario.
Deliverables
What you receive.
Tangible artefacts you own outright, in editable formats, with no dependency on us to read or maintain them.
- Posture assessment mapped to the chosen framework
- Prioritised risk register with scoring methodology
- Target security architecture and control set
- Costed, sequenced remediation roadmap
- Policy and standard set aligned to the controls
- Incident response plan and tabletop exercise report
Approach
How we run it.
Four stages, with a decision point at the end of each. You can stop after any of them.
01
Scope
Assets, data classifications, regulatory obligations and the threat profile that actually applies to your business.
02
Assess
Controls tested through documentation review, configuration inspection and interviews with the people operating them.
03
Prioritise
Findings scored by exposure and impact so remediation follows real risk, not framework ordering.
04
Plan
A remediation roadmap with owners, effort estimates and dates, then a review cadence to keep it moving.
What changes
What you should expect to be true afterwards.
If these are not true at handover, the engagement has not finished.
- A clear, evidenced picture of where exposure actually sits
- Remediation sequenced by risk rather than by convenience
- Framework mapping ready for audit or client due diligence
- Residual risk documented and formally accepted
Questions
Common questions
Our engagement is advisory: assessment, architecture and remediation planning. Where offensive testing is warranted we define the scope and rules of engagement, and coordinate a specialist testing provider on your behalf.
Most commonly ISO/IEC 27001, the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and the UAE Information Assurance Standards. We map to whichever framework your auditors, regulator or major clients reference.
Related
Other service lines
IT Strategy & Consulting
Independent advice on where your technology should go next, plus a costed, sequenced plan for getting there.
Network Design & Consultancy
Network architecture, segmentation and performance engineering: designed on paper, validated in test, documented for the people who run it.
Systems & Communications Software Design
Design of software that runs on and around computer systems and communication equipment: device interfaces, control planes and the platforms that manage them.
Next step
Bring us the symptom. We will help you name the problem.
A short scoping call costs nothing and usually saves a great deal of specification work later.
At a glance
What a first conversation covers
- What is actually happening, in your words
- Which discipline the problem belongs to
- Whether we are the right firm for it
- Rough shape, effort and sequence if we are
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