Cybersecurity consulting
services, on your terms
Four ways to put senior expertise to work: executive advice, a virtual CISO, a fixed-price mandate, or an expert inside your team.
700+
engagements delivered
100+
active clients
Certified
ISO 9001:2015, ISO/IEC 27001:2022
Senior expertise, in the shape you need it
Some decisions need an executive’s perspective. Some programs need a person accountable for them. Some projects just need doing. Those are different asks, and they don’t fit one contract shape.
Cybersecurity has been OKIOK’s only business since the early 1980s. The consultants who advise you work alongside the developers who build our products.
Four types of engagement, four different needs
Senior advice, someone accountable, a defined piece of work, or added capacity: each comes with its own scope, responsibility and contract.
Strategic consulting
Executive-level advice and thought leadership from OKIOK’s most senior experts, many years in the field, with proven and recognized expertise. A deliberately focused offer, concentrated on four topics where an outside perspective is key to a successful outcome.
- Who’s accountable
- You decide; we advise
- How it’s billed
- Retainer, project, bank-of-hours or hourly-rate engagements
- Typical duration
- Ongoing or per engagement
Cybersecurity vision
Where your security needs to be, and the case for getting there.
Cybersecurity program
The program that delivers the vision: scope, governance, priorities and sequencing.
Identity and access management
Vision, strategy and a staged roadmap for identity and access.
AI cybersecurity strategy
What AI changes for your threat model and your controls, and where you can put it to work safely.
Typical engagements include executive and key stakeholder workshops, and deliver a current-state review, a documented target state, and a prioritized roadmap you can fund and defend.
Discuss your strategy requirementsVirtual CISO
A CISO for your organization, part time, owning policies, risk assessment, the security program, controls, compliance, audits and reporting. OKIOK is itself ISO 27001 certified and holds a SOC 2 Type 2 attestation for its SaaS solutions: the governance we run for you is the governance we run for ourselves.
- Who’s accountable
- OKIOK holds the role
- How it’s billed
- Retainer or bank-of-hours engagements
- Typical duration
- Ongoing
Project-based consulting
A defined scope, start to finish: a maturity assessment, a policy or governance framework, or a technical build such as MFA, SSO, cloud security or SIEM/MDR implementation. If it can be defined and estimated, it can be delivered as a project. You pay for the outcome, not for hours. The delivery risk sits with us, by design.
- Who’s accountable
- OKIOK owns delivery
- How it’s billed
- Fixed-price engagements
- Typical duration
- Per project
Team augmentation
Our experts contracted for a set period, working inside your team, strategic through tactical, matched to the profiles and expertise you need.
- Who’s accountable
- You direct the work
- How it’s billed
- Hourly-rate engagements
- Typical duration
- Three, six or twelve months
Client success stories
Two very different problems, two long-lived solutions.
Building a security foundation for digital financial services
A major banking and financial group: banking, wealth management, brokerage and insurance, for consumers and businesses alike.
The group was modernizing its online services and needed security that could stand up to evolving Internet threats, absorb peak transaction volumes without slowing anyone down, and stay simple enough that customers adopted it instead of calling support.
No commercial product could meet the challenge. OKIOK designed and implemented a ground-breaking custom architecture, evolved over the years to include enhanced security mechanisms such as adaptive authentication, and it kept pace with a threat landscape that never stopped shifting. The solution received an OCTAS award for Security and Protection of Information in 2002.
25+ years
in continuous production
- Single sign-on across every customer-facing service
- Fine-grained authorization for financial transactions
- Comprehensive audit trails
- Delegated user management for business customers
- High-performance security controls
- An extensible architecture, designed to evolve
Transforming cybersecurity into an enterprise-wide service
A national energy utility: tens of thousands of employees and contractors, across four operating organizations.
Cybersecurity was split across four operating organizations, each with its own teams, technologies, processes and project methodologies. With hundreds of technical projects launched every year, security reviews and approval gates were adding weeks or months to delivery, and real cost.
OKIOK redefined the strategy around a corporate security architecture: nine standardized enterprise security services covering authentication, authorization, auditing, monitoring, patch management and other core capabilities, which projects consumed according to their risk profile, instead of each one designing its own controls.
15+ years
as its security foundation
- Significantly faster project delivery
- Consistent security controls across the enterprise
- Less cost and duplication: no more redundant MFA, backup and patching
- Stronger governance on a common enterprise security model
If it’s on your list, it’s on ours
Whatever you’re working on, we can help.
Core competencies
Strategy
- Cybersecurity vision
- Cybersecurity program
- Identity and access management strategy
- AI cybersecurity strategy
- IT disaster recovery planning
Governance, risk & assurance
- Maturity assessment
- Risk assessment and management
- Third-party security assessment
- Data categorization and classification
- Policy and governance frameworks
- Controls implementation and tracking
- Audits and reporting
- Cybersecurity awareness and training
Architecture & identity
- Security architecture
- Network architecture and security
- Identity and access management
- Authentication, MFA and SSO
- Cloud security
Technology & data protection
- SIEM / MDR implementation
- Public key infrastructure (PKI)
- Encryption and digital signature
- Secure file transfer
- Secure development lifecycle (SDLC)
- AI integration
- Cybersecurity product selection
Core practices
Each of these competencies is a full practice: you benefit from the whole team’s depth, a proven methodology and playbooks, and our commitment to the outcome.
Compliance
Meet the security and privacy standards your industry and customers require, and prove it.
Offensive security
Find the weaknesses an attacker would use, before they do.
Incident response
Contain the damage, investigate, and get back to business.
Digital forensics
Evidence identified and preserved so it holds up in court.
Questions about consulting?
How to get CISO-level expertise without hiring full time.
Let’s start with a conversation
Come with a question, a deadline, or an idea you are still shaping.