Practice 04 · Cybersecurity
Defence that holds when it matters.
For finance and critical systems the question is not whether something will go wrong but how fast you detect it and how cleanly you recover. We review and design security architecture, test resilience against the scenarios DORA and NIS2 supervisors now ask about, and get incident playbooks ready before they are needed, on a retainer for teams that need senior judgement more often than they can hire it.
Scope
- Security architecture
- Resilience
- Incident readiness
- Detection & response
Why now
Security is moving from retrofit to mandatory spend.
Risk
$4.99M
Average breach cost
A record, up 12% year on year. AI-enabled breaches average about $6M.
Source: IBM, Cost of a Data Breach 2026
Where to start
One engagement, scoped to an outcome.
Start with · Advisory
Security architecture and resilience advisory
Senior judgement on security architecture, resilience and incident readiness, on a monthly retainer, for teams that need it more often than they can hire it.
- Type
- Advisory
- Shape
- Monthly retainer
- For
- Security and risk leaders in finance, infrastructure and the public sector
- Diligence / Scoped in proposalAI and cybersecurity technical diligenceAn operator's read on the security, cryptography and AI claims behind a transaction, a vendor selection or a partnership, before you commit.
- Placement / Scoped in proposalTalent network and placementSenior security, cryptography and AI hires for your team, from people who have shipped in regulated environments.
How to engage
Start small. Expand on evidence.
Most clients begin with a two-week readiness sprint and decide what comes next with the results in hand.
- 01
Readiness sprint
A fixed-fee, two-week sprint: an exposure heatmap, a Mosca analysis and your top ten priorities.
About the readiness sprint - 02
Pilot
A scoped discovery or secure-AI pilot with named senior leads and a weekly delivery cadence.
- 03
Partner
An ongoing advisory and migration programme, led by the same senior people who ran the sprint.
How we work
What you can hold us to.
Senior pods, named leads
The people who scope the work deliver it. No pyramid of juniors behind a partner.
Evidence over opinion
Every finding is tied to a named primitive, system and data class, so it survives audit.
Conflicts in writing
Where a recommendation touches a party we have a relationship with, we disclose it in writing before you decide.
Let's talk
Start with two weeks.
A fixed-fee readiness sprint: an exposure heatmap, a Mosca analysis and your top ten priorities.
Get in touch
contact@qctcapital.com