Why it matters
A common language between your vCISO and your board
The five pillars give every finding a home. Instead of a pile of disconnected recommendations, your board sees one register that only ever grows more complete.
Advisory aligned to
NIST CSF
ISO/IEC 27001
NCSC Cyber Essentials
GDPR / UK DPA
DORA
SOC 2
§1 / 5
Identify
Map assets, data flows and third-party dependencies to understand what actually needs protecting, and what threatens it.
§2 / 5
Protect
Design and prioritise the policies, controls and architecture decisions that reduce risk to an agreed appetite.
§3 / 5
Detect
Assess monitoring coverage and close the visibility gaps that let incidents go unnoticed.
§4 / 5
Respond
Build and rehearse incident response plans so the first hours of a real incident aren't spent improvising.
§5 / 5
Recover
Plan for continuity and resilience, and turn every incident — real or simulated — into a documented improvement.
Why a fixed framework
Consistency your board can follow, engagement after engagement
Ad hoc consulting produces ad hoc reporting. Because every finding, recommendation and status update is mapped to one of the five pillars, your board sees a consistent register over time — not a new format every quarter. It also makes it straightforward to demonstrate progress against ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials or the NIST CSF directly, since the underlying structure is the same.