Governance, Risk & Compliance
A policy needs a practical place in the systems and processes people use. We work with your business and technical owners to translate agreed requirements into controls, responsibilities, and records that can be reviewed.
Talk to UsA Situation We Hear Often
This is how the problem usually shows up, and what changes at each step of the fix. Switch to By Service to see the work behind it.
The Rules Exist. Who Owns Them Is Less Clear.
Sooner or later every business is asked how it protects information. Follow the request, what changes, and how the same questions apply to AI.
Someone Asks How You Protect Their Information
A customer, an auditor, or an insurer asks how you protect their information
Ownership
It is unclear who owns the system or the information
Access
Access has built up over the years, one request at a time
Evidence
The evidence is spread across inboxes and folders
These arrangements grew with the business. Writing them down makes them easier to run and to show.
What We Can Work On Here
Scope of Work
Each of these can be a project on its own or part of a larger one. We start with the one your situation calls for.
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Responsibilities for systems, information, quality standards, changes, and the decisions that need approval.
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Roles, permissions, access reviews, retention, and handling rules connected to how information is used.
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Identify gaps against agreed requirements, prioritize technical controls, and assign responsibility for addressing and reviewing them.
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Implement agreed technical controls and the activity records and evidence needed for review.
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Define permitted uses, information access, approval boundaries, and human oversight, including how a model is evaluated before use, watched once it is live, and who is responsible when it changes.
Case Studies
Real projects in this area: the business problem, what we built, and what changed.
Logistics & Supply Chain
A freight settlement business moved from manual paperwork to automated extraction, evidence checks, and structured results. The supplied estimates put manual review at roughly 10% of submissions, with typical single-page processing under a minute.
How We Work
Start with the requirement, the systems and information it applies to, and the person accountable for it. Work with the business owners and relevant advisers to identify what must change and how it will be demonstrated.
The audit finding, customer review, or law in front of you, read together with your advisers, so the work answers what actually applies.
Which systems and information the requirement covers, and the person accountable for it.
Access rules, approvals, and records are built into the systems people already use, so following the rule is the normal way of working.
Evidence is gathered as part of daily work and reviewed on a schedule, so the next audit starts from a report, not a search through emails.
Measuring It
These questions help define the improvement with your team and the measures appropriate to the engagement.
For Technical Leaders
Who can reach which systems and information, how access is granted, and how it is reviewed and removed.
What is recorded when something is viewed or changed, and who can read that record later.
How long each kind of information is kept, where, and what happens when that period ends.
Where a piece of information came from and what has been done to it since.
Which rules the systems enforce on their own, and which rely on a person following a procedure.
How proof of a control is gathered as part of normal work, matched to the scope and systems involved.
These are the platforms and tools we use most for this work, and we are not limited to them.
Okta
Auth0
Keycloak
AWS IAM
Microsoft Entra ID
Google Cloud IAMMicrosoft PresidioMicrosoft PurviewAmazon MacieGoogle Sensitive Data Protection
Thoropass
Vanta
OneTrust
Osano
MLflowAmazon Bedrock GuardrailsAmazon SageMaker Model MonitorAzure AI Content SafetyGoogle Vertex AI Model Monitoring
WizAWS Security HubMicrosoft Defender for CloudGoogle Security Command Center
SonarQube
Snyk
Dependabot
Trivy
GitGuardian
Terraform
HashiCorp VaultAWS Secrets ManagerAzure Key VaultGoogle Secret ManagerAWS CloudTrailAzure MonitorGoogle Cloud Audit Logs
Datadog
GrafanaManaged Grafana
PrometheusManaged PrometheusIf your business runs on a different stack, we adapt to it and build on what you already have.
Governance establishes the rules, owners, and evidence requirements. Workflows put approvals into daily work. Security operations maintains and monitors the relevant protections. Compliance support follows the applicable requirements agreed for the engagement.
An existing control or clearer ownership may resolve the issue. Buying another tool does not itself establish governance or meet a compliance requirement.
A Useful Starting Point
No. We put the agreed technical controls and evidence in place. Certification and assurance depend on the applicable requirements, the wider business, and the relevant assessment process.
We work from the requirements that apply to you, agreed with you and your advisers or auditors. That may be a customer’s security review, a privacy law, or an industry standard. We turn them into controls in your systems and evidence you can show. We do not replace legal advice or the assessor.
It should be sized to the risk. Often the answer is clearer ownership and a few controls where they matter most, such as who can reach sensitive records and how that access is removed when someone leaves. Buying another tool does not establish governance on its own.
Yes. Data ownership, quality standards, access, permitted AI actions, evaluation, and review responsibilities can be included in the agreed scope.
You do, always. The policies, the controls built into your systems, and the evidence they produce belong to your business, and they stay with you if the engagement ends.
Share the problem, its business impact, and any systems or constraints involved. We can work from the business context, the technical detail, or both.
