--- title: Cyber Security Strategy Consultancy UK | Cybercontrols description: "A cyber security strategy tied to your business goals: maturity assessment, target state, prioritised roadmap and board reporting from senior practitioners." image: https://www.cybercontrols.io/hubfs/cc-newsletter-laptop-banner.jpg --- [Cybercontrols.io](https://www.cybercontrols.io/) [Compliance](https://www.cybercontrols.io/compliance)[Specialist Services](https://www.cybercontrols.io/specialist-services)[Training](https://www.cybercontrols.io/training-courses)[Insights](https://www.cybercontrols.io/blog)[About](https://www.cybercontrols.io/about)[Meet Tony](https://www.cybercontrols.io/tony-the-auditor)[Contact](https://www.cybercontrols.io/contact) # Specialist Services · Cyber Strategy A security strategy your board funds and your engineers respect. Three-year security roadmaps grounded in your actual risk, your actual budget and your actual team, not a vendor's product catalogue. We set the direction, sequence the investment and give you the language to defend it at board level. [Book a scoping call](https://meetings-eu1.hubspot.com/mvan-aswegen)[All specialist services](https://www.cybercontrols.io/specialist-services) **ISO/IEC 27001:2022**Certified · SANCERT **ISO/IEC 42001:2023**Certified · SANCERT **Cyber Essentials**Certified **Government Commercial Agency**Approved Supplier · G-Cloud 15 What we deliver ## Direction, sequence and the case for investment. Strategy is choosing what not to do. We help you spend the next pound where it removes the most risk, and prove it. ### Security target operating model Where security sits, who owns what, and how decisions get made, designed for your size and sector rather than a bank's org chart. ### Maturity assessment An honest baseline against NIST CSF or ISO 27001, scored, benchmarked against your sector, and free of consultant inflation. ### Three-year roadmap Sequenced initiatives with dependencies, costs and risk-reduction rationale: quarters one to twelve, not a wish list. ### Business case & budget Investment cases in the language finance directors approve: exposure quantified, options compared, returns made explicit. ### Certification pathway Which frameworks to pursue, in what order, and which to decline, mapped to the deals and markets they actually unlock. ### AI & emerging risk A grounded position on AI adoption, supply-chain exposure and regulatory horizon-scanning: ISO 42001-informed and hype-free. Why Cybercontrols ## Strategy written by people who have run the audits, not just read about them. **805+**Clients guided across the UK, EU and beyond **3-year**Roadmaps costed and sequenced to the quarter **15+**Frameworks we implement and audit daily **G-Cloud 15**UK Government approved supplier How it works ## Six weeks to a strategy you can execute. ### Discover Interviews, architecture review and threat context: what the business is trying to do, and what could stop it. ### Baseline Maturity scored against your chosen framework, gaps ranked by exposure rather than checklist order. ### Chart Roadmap, operating model and budget assembled with your leadership: challenged, costed, agreed. ### Land Board presentation, funding case and quarter-one delivery plan, and we stay for execution if you want us. Questions ## Cyber strategy, answered plainly. We're mid-sized. Is a formal strategy overkill? The opposite. Smaller security budgets punish bad sequencing hardest. A one-page strategy that orders the next eight quarters correctly is worth more to a 200-person firm than to a bank. How is this different from a maturity assessment? An assessment tells you where you are. Strategy decides where you're going, in what order, at what cost, and gives your board the reasoning. We do both; the assessment is the first fortnight. Will the roadmap push us towards particular vendors? No. We sell no products, take no referral fees and hold no reseller agreements. Where tooling is needed, we define requirements and let the market compete. Can you present to our board? Yes, and we prepare your sponsor to own the narrative, so the strategy is the organisation's rather than a consultant's slide deck. ## Know exactly where the next pound goes. A 30-minute scoping call with a senior consultant, with no obligation and no sales deck. 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