Crossword's highly experienced cybersecurity consultants come from a diverse background, enabling your organisation to receive specialist support and advice.
Our expert GRC Consulting team has knowledge and experience across most standards, frameworks and legislation, helping clients across many different sectors and industry remain compliant and mitigate risk.
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We pride ourselves on providing expert and seamless services as an extension of your in-house team and have highly accredited teams throughout the business, including CREST, Cyber Essentials Plus and ISO27001 to deliver the very best in cybersecurity consulting.
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Whether you are a new CISO looking to assess the security and technology of your organisation, or an established IT leader aiming to improve cyber security protocols, Crossword's consulting teams will work collaboratively with you to achieve your cybersecurity goals.
Cybersecurity Consulting Services from Crossword
CyberAI and Engineering Services
The CyberAI Practice provides organisations with advisory, security testing and engineering services, which will allow organisations to manage Generative AI threats, and to harness the opportunities to improve efficiency in cybersecurity through building dedicated LLMs either in house, or outsourced to our engineering team.
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Virtual CISO (vCISO)
Our vCISO service enables you to get expert security support entirely tailored to your organisational requirements, ensuring the right mix and level of security controls are in place. You get the peace of mind of having a full time cybersecurity team, but without the cost.
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Supply Chain Cyber
Increasing cyber resilience is the approach to Supply Chain Cyber, ensuring that at the very heart of your third party risk assurance programme is the expertise of our cybersecurity specialists and platforms. Assisting your organisation in being resilient to third party breaches is our focus through a robust fully managed end-to-end process.
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Penetration Testing
Our penetration testing methodology, tools and techniques are accredited by the industry recognised certification body CREST. We simulate the hackers so you can know what they know by testing your defences. We do this by attempting to breach your systems and access your data, then inform you on how it can be done and what you can do to prevent it.
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Cyber Transformation
Effective cyber transformation involves more than just implementing technology. It’s about managing the uncertainty resulting from change to your people, processes, and technology. Crossword’s tailored, risk-based approach enables organisations to transform with confidence, capitalising on the benefits of change while managing the risks.
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Cyber Maturity Assessment
It is important to fully understand your organisation's risk profile. Crossword’s expert consulting team will carry out a comprehensive cyber risk assessment of your organisation against leading national cyber standards and accreditations. This will be followed by with prioritised and actionable recommendations for improvements for increased resilience.
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Benefits of using Crossword Cybersecurity Consulting
Personalised and collaborative
We have a strong track-record of delivering consulting projects at the very highest level, always working collaboratively with our clients. What's more, you'll have full contact with your key contact, communicating in the ways that suit you and your team best. We are an extension of your team.
Innovative thinking
We work with senior security leaders to plan for and manage future risk through innovative projects and technology. This includes strategy and transformation projects, CyberAI, and custom engineering and architecture projects.
Expertise and knowledge
Our team is highly accredited throughout the business, including CREST, Cyber Essentials Plus and ISO27001 to deliver the very best in cybersecurity consulting. We have consulting expertise and knowledge across most standards, frameworks and legislation.
Cost-effective
With Crossword's cybersecurity consulting services, you'll be getting the knowledge, expertise and delivery of that of the big four, but without the cost. All of our packages are competitively priced so that all organisations can access essential cybersecurity services.