Cyber resilience
Built for
the storm.
Security tries to stop the storm.
Resilience keeps the light on.
You can't stop every storm. But you can be prepared for it.
We help organisations assess, strengthen and prove their ability to withstand, recover and adapt to cyber disruption.
Anticipate
Understand risk before it strikes.
Withstand
Protect what matters most.
Recover
Restore operations and momentum.
Adapt
Evolve and emerge stronger.
In-depth cyber security assessment
Risk to resilience.
A multi-week, in-depth cyber security assessment scoped to your environment. We measure your maturity, map every gap to business risk and build a prioritised path to a stronger posture.
Led by named consultants and ending in a board-ready readout, with recommendations sequenced by value — not guesswork pricing.
Scoped to the size of your estate. We agree time and effort upfront, with no surprise costing.
Assessed against
The gap
Most IT leaders are working without a baseline
Security decisions get made ad-hoc, driven by the latest incident or audit finding rather than a clear view of risk.
You know you need to certify or improve, but have no agreed measure to track progress against.
The full assessment fixes that first problem properly: an evidence-based baseline, a detailed gap analysis and a prioritised path you can act on.
Common challenges
- ✕ No evidence-based view of current cyber maturity
- ✕ Certification requirements with no clear path to meet them
- ✕ Security spend that cannot be tied to measurable risk reduction
- ✕ Improvement efforts that stall as one-off fixes
- ✕ A board asking how exposed the organisation really is
The result is effort without assurance, and spend without measurable risk reduction.
What’s included
One deep dive. Four things you walk away with.
A multi-week deep dive led by our cyber consultants and scoped to your environment, ending in a readout session with you and your team.
Comprehensive maturity benchmark
Your posture scored in depth against recognised cyber frameworks, so progress can be measured objectively over time.
- ›Assessed against Cyber Essentials, ISO 27001 and NIST CSF 2.0
- ›A range of cyber frameworks where relevant to your sector
- ›Full review across people, process and technology
Detailed risk-based gap analysis
Every gap mapped to business risk and prioritised, so you know what to fix first and why.
- ›Findings ranked by likelihood and impact
- ›Quick wins separated from longer-term work
- ›Tied to the frameworks relevant to your sector
Certification readiness
A practical read on how close you are to the certifications your customers and regulators expect.
- ›Gap to Cyber Essentials and ISO 27001
- ›What it would take to close each one
- ›Evidence you can hand to auditors and partners
Value-driven roadmap, board-ready
A prioritised roadmap and written summary you can take straight to the board or your leadership team.
- ›Recommendations prioritised by ROI — cost-benefit driven
- ›Time, effort and value estimation for each step
- ›A plain-language summary for the board and auditors
Scoped to the size of your estate. We agree time and effort upfront — value-driven, never speculative costing.
Who it’s for
Is the full assessment right for you?
The deep dive suits organisations ready to invest in a clear, evidence-led view of their cyber risk and a prioritised path to improvement. We scope every engagement to your environment.
Right fit if
- → You hold a senior IT or security leadership role — CIO, IT Director, Head of IT, CISO or equivalent
- → You have influence over security decisions and budget in your organisation
- → Your organisation is UK-based with 50 or more employees
- → You operate in a regulated or data-sensitive sector, or handle sensitive customer data
- → You are looking for an honest assessment, not just a quote
Probably not the right fit
- ✕ Sole traders and micro-businesses
- ✕ Other MSPs or security vendors
- ✕ Anyone needing a one-line "are we secure?" yes or no
Not sure where you sit? Have a five-minute conversation with us and we'll tell you honestly.
Our cyber consulting team
The cyber security specialists who keep your light on
Every SysGroup cyber security assessment is run by named, certified consultants — not a faceless queue. The specialists who benchmark your maturity, map your risk and surface your quick wins are the same people who sit with you for the readout, helping your organisation weather whatever the threat landscape brings.
- ›Ex-KPMG penetration tester
- ›French Foreign Legion · 6 years
- ›FTSE 100 enterprise security architect
- ›Cyber strategy, architecture & GRC
Team spotlight
Ryan King
Director of Cyber · Leads the Cyber Strategy, Architecture & GRC Consulting Practice
Ryan King’s CV takes some explaining. He started as a penetration tester at KPMG, decided that wasn’t quite enough variety, and spent six years in the French Foreign Legion.
Back in corporate life, he spent three years consulting on cyber strategy, architecture and governance — helping clients keep pace with regulations that kept shifting across regions and sectors. A spell as enterprise security architect for a FTSE 100 multinational followed: he owned cloud security, identity and access, network and detection architecture, all while driving his CISO’s transformation agenda.
He now leads the Cyber Strategy, Architecture and GRC Consulting Practice at SysGroup. South African by background. Technically deep, operationally tested, and comfortable in high-stakes environments.
15+ yrs
Cyber security experience
Strategy, architecture & GRC
Industry speciality
Financial services, regulated & FTSE 100
Sector focus
Certifications & qualifications
- ›Ex-BAE Systems security research analyst
- ›Started out in a Security Operations Centre
- ›CE, ISO 27001 & third-party risk engagements
Team spotlight
Amay Verma
Senior Consultant
Amay is a cyber security consultant specialising in governance, risk and compliance. He started in a Security Operations Centre, moved into security research at BAE Systems, and now helps organisations understand and reduce cyber risk through maturity assessments, compliance programmes and security strategies built around business objectives.
His background gives him an unusual vantage point: enough technical grounding to know what security controls actually do, and enough governance experience to know whether they are being applied sensibly. Collaborative by nature, and equally comfortable presenting to a board or working through the detail with a technical team.
4+ yrs
Cyber security experience
Governance, risk & compliance
Industry speciality
Financial services, retail & healthcare
Sector focus
Certifications & qualifications
- ›IEC/ISO27001:2022 Lead Auditor
- ›Cyber Essentials Assessor
- ›Supply Chain Cybersecurity, GRC and Audit
Team spotlight
Erica Truong
Cyber Security Consultant
Erica specialises in governance, risk and compliance, with extensive experience supporting organisations across the finance, legal and manufacturing sectors. As an ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Implementer and Cyber Essentials Assessor, she works alongside IT leaders to identify security gaps, uncover quick wins, and build practical roadmaps for improvement. Erica combines technical expertise with a business-first approach, translating cyber risk into clear, board-ready insights that help organisations strengthen resilience, meet compliance requirements, and make informed investment decisions.
5+ yrs
Cyber security experience
Governance, risk & compliance
Industry speciality
Finance, legal & manufacturing
Sector focus
Certifications & qualifications
- ›Leads the Penetration Testing & Compliance Consulting Practice
- ›External & internal pen testing across financial services
- ›IT Health Checks (ITHC) for local councils
Team spotlight
Alan Lim
Associate Director
Alan leads the Penetration Testing and Compliance Consulting Practice at SysGroup. He has extensive experience delivering penetration testing across financial services and insurance, running external and internal assessments from multiple attack vectors to identify and demonstrate points of weakness.
His technical expertise spans private and public cloud, Windows and Linux systems and network management devices. He also delivers IT Health Checks for local councils of all sizes — covering infrastructure, network device and end-user build reviews, remote access and Active Directory configuration, and password analysis.
15+ yrs
Cyber security experience
Infrastructure, web app & cloud security
Industry speciality
Financial services, insurance & public sector
Sector focus
Certifications & qualifications
- ›Ex-IBM UK Labs graduate research trainee
- ›C programmer at the London Stock Exchange
- ›Full-stack .NET / ASPX development background
Team spotlight
Gavin Solomon
Managing Consultant & Network Penetration Tester
Gavin is a penetration tester with a background in .NET and full-stack development. That mix of testing tools, penetration-testing methodology and hands-on engineering makes him effective at probing web applications, infrastructure and operational technology for the vulnerabilities that matter.
Though not sector-specific, his work with engineering, banking and retail clients has included security tests on mobile applications, identifying leaks of sensitive data and hardening defences against reverse engineering to protect intellectual property. More recently he has folded AI into his methodology, experimenting with inference engines and LLMs to sharpen security-testing outcomes.
8+ yrs
Cyber security experience
Operational technology & infrastructure
Industry speciality
Insurance, legal & engineering
Sector focus
Certifications & qualifications
Built for
The moment you need to know where you stand
- →I am new in post and need to understand our cyber security posture before I can act.
- →I need a baseline I can measure improvement against.
- →The board is asking how exposed we are and I need an evidence-based answer.
- →I want to know how close we are to Cyber Essentials or ISO 27001.
- →I need a second, independent opinion on where our real risk sits.
A deep, evidence-led
view of your risk.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What does the full assessment cover?
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A multi-week deep dive scoped to your environment: a comprehensive maturity benchmark, a detailed risk-based gap analysis, certification readiness and a prioritised roadmap, ending in a board-ready readout with you and your team.
How does pricing work?
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We keep it straightforward. Rather than a fixed price, we scope each engagement to your environment and agree the time and effort involved with you upfront, so there are no surprises. Recommendations are prioritised by value and ROI, so any investment goes where it reduces the most risk.
How long does it take?
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A multi-week engagement, depending on the size of your estate and how quickly we can access the information we need. It ends with a board-ready readout session with you and your team.
Which frameworks do you assess against?
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Cyber Essentials, ISO 27001 and NIST CSF 2.0 as standard, plus a range of further cyber frameworks where relevant to your sector. The scope stays focused on cyber.
What do I actually walk away with?
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A comprehensive maturity benchmark, a detailed risk-based gap analysis, a certification-readiness view, and a value-driven roadmap with time, effort and value estimation — all in a board-ready written summary.
Who runs the assessment?
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Named consultants from our cyber practice, led by our Director of Cyber. The people who assess your environment are the same people who sit with you and your team for the readout.