What we do
Right-sized cyber risk for regulated financial firms.
Whether a regulated firm has twenty people or four hundred, it carries the same cyber obligations. Ironshore Advisory holds that accountability — assessing where you actually stand, building only what your licence and your business needs.
One accountable owner. Evidence that stands up. Sized to your business.
One accountable owner
A named senior officer for cybersecurity, without the cost of a full-time hire.
Evidence that stands up
A record your board and your regulator can rely on, kept current rather than assembled under pressure.
Sized to your business
A programme proportionate to your firm and its maturity. What gets built into daily operations is what you can actually run.
Service areas
What we solve
Most firms need two or three of these rather than all five.
Governance and Board Advisory
The board is accountable for cyber risk but has no one able to challenge a security position with authority.
Directors get an independent read they can act on, a risk appetite that measures real decisions, and records that show oversight is working rather than assumed.
Cyber Risk and Frameworks
Risk gets assessed when someone asks for it — usually the month before an examination.
Risk becomes a standing process with named owners and dates. When the regulator asks what your exposure is, the answer already exists.
Security Controls, Policies and Operations
Avoid having policies describing controls the firm does not operate. Does the technology sit with third parties nobody has assessed?
Policies match how the firm actually runs, vendors are tiered and reviewed, and the control environment holds up when it is examined.
Resilience, Response and Recovery
There is a continuity plan. Nobody has tested it, and no one is certain who notifies the regulator, or when.
Roles, triggers, and notification thresholds are settled before the incident, exercised annually, and evidenced afterwards. Resilience is more than a generalized BCP and DR plan. Resilience is built by understanding the threats you have evaluated and responded to.
AI Governance and Risk Management
Staff are already using AI tools nobody approved, and vendors are embedding more of it in products you have already bought.
You know what AI is in use, which uses carry real risk, and what oversight your board should be requiring of management.
How to engage
Three ways to work with us
Most firms begin with an assessment and decide afterwards. Nothing obliges you to continue — and if you do, nothing is repeated.
Gap Assessment
Know exactly where you stand before you spend a dollar fixing it. A structured, evidence-based measurement of your security and governance programme against the standards that actually apply to your firm — delivered by an experienced security executive with no product to sell.
Learn about Gap AssessmentVirtual CISO
Ongoing accountability for your security programme — framework, controls, operations, and the reporting that feeds the board. The executive who ran your assessment carries it into delivery. Nothing is repeated and nothing is lost in a handover, because there is no handover.
Learn about Virtual CISOBoard Advisory
Directors of regulated firms are personally accountable for cyber and information risk. Ironshore Advisory puts an experienced risk and regulatory practitioner alongside your board — independent judgement, regulatory read, and challenge, with no interest beyond the board's.
Learn about Board AdvisoryWhy Ironshore Advisory
Ownership, not a checklist.
Integrated security and compliance
Cyber expertise, risk management, and regulatory judgement in one engagement rather than three suppliers with three views. Nothing lands in the gap between your IT provider, your compliance officer, and your board.
Risk reduced, not just recorded
The test is whether exposure actually falls. A policy describing a control nobody operates has reduced nothing, and it will not survive examination.
Trust you can demonstrate
Boards, regulators, clients, and investors ask the same question in different words. The work is built so the answer is ready before they ask it.
Improvement that outlasts us
You are left able to run what was built, with the knowledge and the documentation to own it. Meaningful operational improvement, not a compliance box ticked ahead of a deadline.
Experience with regulators
Over a decade engaging with financial services regulators, working to what supervisory expectations look like in practice — not only what the rule says on the page.
Standards we work to
The yardstick is set by your board.
Work is measured against the laws, regulations, and guidance in the jurisdictions you operate in. Where a recognised control benchmark adds value, frameworks such as NIST CSF, ISO 27001, or SOC 2 are proposed and agreed with your governing body.