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Security as a governance discipline.

Our Cybersecurity practice runs your security estate as a board-level governance function. SOC, identity, cloud security, compliance programmes and incident response — instrumented, audited, reported in business terms.

The business problem

Cybersecurity is no longer a technical discipline. It is a governance one.

The regulatory picture has shifted. NIS2 now covers dozens of sectors across the EU and the Western Balkans with penalties of up to €10M or 2% of global turnover. GDPR enforcement is assertive. Sector regulators in banking, energy, and critical infrastructure demand documented control evidence. Supply-chain attacks have replaced direct intrusions as the dominant breach vector.

Most organisations are not insecure because their firewall is wrong. They are insecure because security is managed as a technical task three levels below executive visibility — with no coherent answer to the question "what is our material cyber risk, and is it trending up or down?"

Our Cybersecurity practice rebuilds security as governance. The SOC produces monthly risk reporting, not alert counts. The compliance programme produces audit-ready evidence, not Word documents. The penetration tests are scoped against specific business risks, not generic scanning. Board conversations move from "are we secure?" to "given our risk appetite, where should we be tightening or loosening?"

Measurable outcomes

Numbers our clients report to their boards.

-73%
reduction in mean time to detect (MTTD)
Pre- vs post-SOC engagement
15min
response SLA on P1 incidents
Contractual · 24/7/365
-84%
reduction in audit findings year-over-year
Clients completing ISO 27001
100%
of NIS2 readiness engagements delivered on contracted date
Since 2024
What we deliver

Nine concrete services inside this one solution.

Every Digital Enterprise engagement is assembled from these modular services. Scope is agreed upfront, priced as fixed-outcome or time-and-materials, and governed by a single steering committee.

SERVICE 01

Cyber Risk & Governance Advisory

Board-level risk assessment, maturity roadmap, and security-governance design. Framework stays in place after we leave.

SERVICE 02

ISO 27001 Implementation

End-to-end ISMS implementation — gap analysis, Statement of Applicability, internal audit, certification support. 100% first-audit pass rate on engagements since 2023.

SERVICE 03

24/7 Security Operations Centre

Managed detection & response — SIEM, EDR, NDR, threat intel, human analysts. Contracted SLAs, monthly executive reporting, quarterly threat briefings.

SERVICE 04

Cloud Security & CSPM

Microsoft Defender, Wiz, native-cloud controls — across Azure, AWS, Oracle Cloud, private cloud. Continuous posture scoring and remediation orchestration.

SERVICE 05

Identity, Access & Zero Trust

Entra ID, Okta, PAM, MFA rollout, zero-trust network access — the single biggest lever for reducing cyber risk in most organisations.

SERVICE 06

NIS2 & GDPR Programmes

NIS2 scope assessment, control design, incident-reporting workflow, supply-chain due diligence. GDPR Article 32 alignment integrated.

SERVICE 07

Penetration Testing & Red Team

External, internal, web-app, API, and mobile testing — plus scenario-based red team exercises. CREST-aligned methodology.

SERVICE 08

Incident Response & Forensics

Retainer-based readiness, post-incident forensics, regulator notification support — including the uncomfortable conversations with legal and insurers.

SERVICE 09

Security Awareness & Phishing Simulation

Continuous user-awareness programme — phishing simulations, role-based training, culture metrics. Reported monthly.

Architecture & approach

Five layers, one integrated enterprise system.

Every Digital Enterprise engagement follows the same reference architecture — adapted to your scale, cloud posture, and compliance requirements. This is the stack-level view we present to steering committees and auditors.

VIRTUAL ERA REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE

Defence-in-depth capability architecture

Governance
ISO 27001 ISMS NIS2 programme GDPR controls Board reporting Risk register
Detection & response
SIEM (Sentinel / Splunk) EDR (Defender / CrowdStrike) NDR SOC 24/7 Threat intel
Prevention
Next-gen firewalls Email security Web filtering Zero-trust network DLP
Identity
Entra ID / Okta MFA / passkeys PAM Conditional access Identity governance
Infrastructure protection
Cloud security posture OT / industrial security Backup & recovery DR Physical security
Related capabilities

Capabilities that work alongside this one.

Most engagements combine multiple capabilities. These are the practices that most frequently operate alongside this one — each with dedicated leads, certified engineers, and standing playbooks.

Engagement shapes

Engagement patterns we see most often.

Different entry points, same practice. Whether the trigger is a strategic initiative, a regulatory deadline, a new system, or an operational problem, the engagement pattern is recognisable.

Engagement · NIS2

Essential / important entity preparing for NIS2 enforcement

Energy, banking, healthcare, transport, public administration, digital infrastructure. 12–16 week readiness programme — scope, controls, reporting, supply-chain due diligence.

Engagement · Post-incident

Organisation recovering from a breach or ransomware event

IR, forensics, regulator notification, insurer coordination, root-cause remediation. 6–9 months from breach to hardened posture.

Engagement · Certification

First-time ISO 27001 certification

Typical client: selling to tier-1 banks or EU customers who require certification of suppliers. 9–12 month implementation, we operate as external ISMS lead.

Engagement · Managed SOC

IT team overwhelmed by alerts, no 24/7 coverage

In-house IT handling security as side activity, missing out-of-hours coverage. We take over SOC operations under contract.

Technology partners

We certify our teams on the platforms that matter.

Digital Enterprise is platform-agnostic by design — we lead with the right tool for your scale and compliance load, not the one that pays us the highest margin. Our engineers hold certifications with every major vendor in this space.

Security platforms we operate:

Microsoft Fortinet Cisco Veeam Azure Aws
Where we apply it

Sectors most exposed to cyber risk.

All industries
Proof, not slides

A tier-2 bank replaced its core in 18 months, zero unplanned downtime.

Phased core banking modernisation across three subsidiaries — delivered against a central-bank audit deadline, a fixed-scope contract, and a zero-downtime commitment the steering committee demanded. The case study documents the scope, risks, and bankable business case.

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Let's talk

Start with a security assessment.

Two weeks, no obligation. Our senior team produces a documented risk assessment, NIS2 scope determination, and a prioritised remediation roadmap — signed off at CISO and board level.

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