Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Services
Strengthen how emerging and evolving cyber risk is understood, managed and governed across your organisation.
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Our services
Third-party Risk Management
Standalone or ongoing management of cyber risk introduced by suppliers and partners, aligned to procurement, governance and ongoing oversight.
This service supports:
- ✓ Improved visibility of risk across suppliers and partners
- ✓ Consistent and proportionate assessment of third-party risk
- ✓ Stronger governance across the supply chain
Cyber Security Awareness & Training
Cyber awareness programmes built around your threat landscape and operating context, combining organisation-wide learning, role-specific training and realistic scenarios.
This service supports:
- ✓ Closer alignment between policy and day-to-day user behaviour
- ✓ Improved protection against phishing and social engineering attempts
- ✓ Strengthened decision-making across the workforce
Cyber Risk Management
Cyber risk management defined around your organisation’s risk appetite and operating context, supporting structured assessment, prioritisation and decision-making.
This service supports:
- ✓ Clear articulation of organisational cyber risk appetite
- ✓ Prioritised investment based on business impact and likelihood
- ✓ Stronger oversight of cyber risk at board and leadership level
Cyber Security Policy Framework
Development of clear, usable security policies aligned to how your organisation operates, ensuring governance is translated into practical, enforceable controls.
This service supports:
- ✓ Translation of governance intent into day-to-day practice
- ✓ Greater consistency in how controls are applied and enforced
- ✓ Clear ownership and accountability for risk and decision-making
AI Governance
Governance frameworks that define how AI is developed, used and controlled across the organisation, aligned to risk, regulation and standards such as ISO 42001.
This service supports:
- ✓ Clear control over how AI systems are used and governed
- ✓ Alignment with regulatory expectations and emerging standards
- ✓ Reduced risk of uncontrolled or non-compliant AI use
PCI-DSS
Structured assessment, validation and advisory support from a PCI QSA-certified practice, helping organisations achieve and maintain PCI DSS compliance, while protecting cardholder data across storage, processing and transmission.
This service supports:
- ✓ Clear understanding of PCI scope and control requirements across your environment
- ✓ Progress toward achieving and maintaining PCI DSS compliance
- ✓ Independent validation of controls and audit-ready evidence to support certification and regulatory scrutiny
THIRD-PARTY RISK MANAGEMENT
Gain control over cyber risk introduced through the supply chain
Our services include:
Standalone Third-party Risk Management
One-off design and implementation of a third-party risk management framework aligned to your organisation’s risk profile, governance requirements and operational model.
This can include:
- ✓ Definition of supplier risk tiering criteria and assessment methodology
- ✓ Development of governance structures, policy and reporting aligned to regulatory expectations
- ✓ Design of a repeatable framework for assessing, prioritising and managing supplier risk
Managed Third-party Risk
Continuous delivery of third-party risk management activities to maintain visibility, enforce standards and support governance over time.
This can include:
- ✓ Execution of supplier risk assessments and ongoing monitoring across the vendor estate
- ✓ Maintenance of tiering, reporting and risk registers to support governance and oversight
- ✓ Integration with internal teams to ensure consistent application of controls and ongoing risk management
What to expect from our Third-party Risk Management services:
Clear visibility of supplier risk across your organisation
With structured assessment and tiering applied across your supply chain, your organisation gains a consistent view of where third parties introduce risk and how that exposure aligns to business impact.
Improved ownership and accountability under increasing regulatory scrutiny
Support compliance, audit readiness and board-level oversight through a structured approach to third-party risk management that provides visibility of how risk is assessed, governed and monitored.
Risk prioritised and managed proportionately across your supply chain
By applying proportionate risk assessment frameworks, effort and investment are focused on the suppliers that represent the greatest exposure, rather than being spread evenly across the supply base.
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Nick Blake, GRC Principal Consultant
CSA Cyber
THIRD-PARTY RISK MANAGEMENT
Managing risk beyond
the perimeter
CYBER SECURITY AWARENESS & TRAINING
Embed security at the human layer
Human behaviour remains one of the most significant factors in cyber risk, particularly in areas such as phishing, social engineering and data handling. However, generic training programmes often fail to drive meaningful change or reflect how people actually work.
Our accredited consultants design and deliver awareness programmes tailored to your organisation’s threat landscape and operating context, supported by both in-person training and a cyber security awareness platform for ongoing reinforcement, simulation and measurement.
Our services include:
In-person Cyber Training
Targeted training delivered in the context of how your organisation operates and how risk materialises in practice.
This can include:
- ✓ Delivery of organisation-wide and role-specific training sessions aligned to your threat landscape
- ✓ Scenario-based learning designed to reflect real-world risks such as phishing, social engineering and data handling
- ✓ Alignment of training content to your policies, procedures and expected behaviours
Online Cyber Training
Structured, scalable delivery of awareness, simulation and behavioural insight across your workforce.
This can include:
- ✓ Phishing simulation campaigns to assess and reinforce user behaviour in realistic scenarios
- ✓ Targeted, short-form training modules aligned to common threat types and user risk profiles
- ✓ Behavioural reporting and insights to measure awareness, track improvement and identify areas of risk
What to expect from our Cyber Security & Awareness Training services:
Stronger alignment between policy and day-to-day behaviour
Training and awareness programmes are designed to reflect how your organisation operates, ensuring that security policies are understood, applied and reinforced in practice.
Improved protection against phishing and social engineering
By combining simulation and targeted training, user susceptibility to common attack vectors is reduced, strengthening the organisation’s overall security posture.
More informed and consistent decision-making across the workforce
Staff are equipped to recognise and respond to potential threats, supporting consistent, secure decision-making in day-to-day activities.
CYBER RISK MANAGEMENT
Understand, prioritise and manage cyber risk in line with business impact
A defensible cyber risk position requires more than a static register or periodic review. Without a clear understanding of risk appetite, exposure and impact, organisations struggle to prioritise investment, demonstrate control and make informed decisions.
By defining, assessing and managing cyber risk in the context of your organisation’s objectives and operating environment, our services ensure risk is clearly understood, consistently prioritised and aligned to governance and decision-making.
Our services include:
Cyber Risk Assessment & Prioritisation
Establish a structured view of cyber risk aligned to business impact and organisational priorities.
This can include:
- ✓ Identification and assessment of cyber risks across systems, processes and third parties
- ✓ Evaluation of likelihood and impact to support structured risk scoring and prioritisation
- ✓ Development of a prioritised risk register aligned to business and operational exposure
Risk Appetite & Governance Definition
Define how cyber risk is understood, owned and governed across the organisation.
This can include:
- ✓ Definition of risk appetite aligned to business objectives and regulatory expectations
- ✓ Design of governance structures and reporting aligned to leadership oversight
- ✓ Integration of cyber risk into broader enterprise risk management frameworks
Ongoing Risk Management & Reporting
Maintain visibility and control over cyber risk as threats, systems and priorities evolve.
This can include:
- ✓ Ongoing review and update of risk registers to reflect changing exposure
- ✓ Development of reporting to support board-level oversight and informed decision-making
- ✓ Alignment of risk management activities with regulatory, audit and compliance requirements
What to expect from our Cyber Risk Management services:
Clear articulation of organisational cyber risk posture
You gain a structured understanding of where cyber risk exists, how it is expressed and how it relates to your organisation’s systems, suppliers and operations.
More effective prioritisation of security investment
Risk is assessed and ranked based on business impact and likelihood, ensuring time and resources are focused on the areas of greatest exposure.
Stronger oversight and decision-making at leadership level
Cyber risk is presented in a way that supports governance, board-level oversight and informed decision-making, rather than remaining a technical or operational concern.
CYBER SECURITY POLICY FRAMEWORK
Translate governance into clear, enforceable security controls
Effective security governance depends on policies that can be understood, applied and enforced in practice. However, many organisations rely on documentation that is disconnected from how teams operate, making it difficult to drive consistent behaviour or demonstrate control.
We work with organisations to develop and refine security policy frameworks aligned to your operating model, ensuring governance intent is translated into practical, usable controls that support day-to-day decision-making and stand up to audit and regulatory scrutiny.
Our services include:
Policy Framework Design & Development
Establish a clear and structured policy framework aligned to organisational risk and governance requirements.
This can include:
- ✓ Development of core security policies covering areas such as access, data handling and incident response
- ✓ Structuring policy sets to ensure clarity, consistency and alignment across the organisation
- ✓ Alignment of policies to regulatory expectations and recognised standards
Policy Review & Alignment
Assess and refine existing policies to ensure they remain relevant, usable and effective.
This can include:
- ✓ Review of current policy documentation to identify gaps, duplication or inconsistency
- ✓ Alignment of policies with how your organisation operates in practice
- ✓ Updating and consolidating policies to reflect evolving risks, technologies and requirements
Policy Implementation & Governance Support
Support the rollout and ongoing management of policies to ensure they are applied consistently.
This can include:
- ✓ Definition of ownership and accountability for policy implementation and enforcement
- ✓ Development of governance processes to support policy adoption and oversight
- ✓ Integration of policies into wider risk management, training and operational processes
What to expect from our Cyber Security Policy Framework services:
Governance translated into day-to-day practice
Policies are developed in the context of how your organisation operates, ensuring that governance intent is applied consistently in real-world decision-making and behaviour.
Greater consistency in how security controls are applied
Clear, structured policies provide a unified approach to how controls are implemented and enforced across teams, reducing ambiguity and variation.
Clear ownership and accountability for risk and decisions
Well-defined roles and governance structures ensure responsibility for policy adherence, risk management and decision-making is understood and consistently applied.
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AI GOVERNANCE
Establish control over how AI is developed, used and governed
As organisations adopt AI across systems, processes and decision-making, the associated risks extend beyond traditional security models. Without structured governance, it becomes difficult to understand how AI is used, manage data and model behaviour, or demonstrate control in line with emerging regulatory expectations.
AI governance frameworks define the policies, controls and oversight required to manage AI systems in practice, ensuring they are used consistently, responsibly and in line with organisational risk.
Our services include:
AI Governance Framework Design
Define how AI is governed across the organisation, aligned to risk, regulation and operational use.
This can include:
- ✓ Design of governance frameworks covering data, model behaviour and decision-making
- ✓ Definition of policies and controls to manage AI use across systems and functions
- ✓ Alignment of AI governance with organisational risk management and existing security frameworks
AI Risk & Oversight Definition
Establish clear visibility, accountability and control over how AI is used and managed.
This can include:
- ✓ Identification and assessment of risks associated with AI systems, data and outputs
- ✓ Definition of ownership, accountability and oversight structures for AI use
- ✓ Integration of AI risk into governance, reporting and decision-making processes
ISO 42001 Implementation Support
Adopt a recognised standard for governing AI systems in a way that can be demonstrated and assured.
This can include:
- ✓ Aligning AI governance frameworks to ISO/IEC 42001 requirements
- ✓ Supporting implementation of policies, controls and oversight structures
- ✓ Preparing for internal assurance, certification or regulatory validation
What to expect from our AI Governance services:
Clear control over how AI systems are used and governed
AI usage across the organisation is understood, structured and consistently managed, ensuring that systems operate within defined boundaries and expectations.
Alignment with emerging regulatory expectations and standards
Governance frameworks are designed to meet evolving regulatory requirements and standards such as ISO/IEC 42001, supporting compliance and demonstrable control.
Reduced risk of uncontrolled or non-compliant AI use
Policies, controls and oversight ensure that AI systems are used responsibly, minimizing the risk of unintended outcomes or unmanaged exposure.
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PCI DSS
Achieve and maintain compliance while fortifying cardholder data security
Organisations that store, process or transmit cardholder data are required to demonstrate robust, auditable security controls. However, defining scope, interpreting requirements and evidencing compliance can be complex, particularly where systems, suppliers and processes are distributed across the organisation.
Delivered by our PCI QSA-certified consultants, these services provide structured assessment, validation and advisory support to ensure controls are correctly implemented, evidence is audit-ready and compliance can be demonstrated with confidence.
Our services include:
PCI DSS Scope Validation & Gap Analysis
Establish an accurate view of scope and identify areas of non-compliance ahead of formal assessment.
This can include:
- ✓ Identification and validation of cardholder data environments and scope boundaries
- ✓ Assessment of existing controls to identify gaps against PCI DSS requirements
- ✓ Definition of remediation priorities to address non-compliant or incomplete controls
PCI DSS Assessment & Compliance Validation
This can include:
- ✓ Execution of Report on Compliance (ROC) or Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) in line with PCI DSS standards
- ✓ Verification of control effectiveness across areas such as access control, logging and encryption
- ✓ Validation of environments, configurations and processes required to meet PCI DSS requirements
QSA Advisory & Ongoing Compliance Support
This can include:
- ✓ Interpretation of PCI DSS requirements and application within your operating environment
- ✓ Review and validation of evidence, documentation and audit artefacts
- ✓ Support with ongoing compliance, remediation planning and evidence management
What to expect from our PCI DSS services:
Stronger protection of cardholder data across your environment
Security controls are assessed and validated across storage, processing and transmission of payment data, ensuring risks are identified and addressed in line with PCI DSS requirements.
Clear, defensible path to achieving and maintaining compliance
Through structured assessment and remediation planning, your organisation gains a defined route from initial scoping through to certification and ongoing compliance.
Independent validation and audit-ready evidence
Assessment and evidence review provide objective assurance of your compliance position, with documentation and artefacts structured to support audit and regulatory scrutiny
WHY CSA CYBER?
Your organisation’s trusted partner in layered cyber resilience
With proven experience across critical sectors and a complete suite of accredited cyber services, CSA Cyber offers a single, trusted partner for protection, validation and continuous improvement.
One partner, multi-layered cyber resilience
A premium suite of accredited services shaped by deep heritage in securing critical sectors and high-profile clients.
Leading the UK for cyber excellence
Our UK-based, security-cleared teams are trusted by clients and validated by recognised industry bodies across the globe.
Engineered for high-security delivery
Our practice is deliberately scaled to combine major-provider capability with specialist-level precision and trust.
Complete cyber assurance starts here
Talk to a specialist about how our ASSURE-accredited, PCI SCC-approved consultancy services can help manage your risk exposure and gain a clear view of your security and compliance position.