Manage product risk in your environment.

Give product security a clear owner and a repeatable operating model.

Product risk often sits between procurement, IT, security, engineering, operations, safety, privacy, compliance, and the business owner. When no one owns the whole decision, supplier questions go unanswered, exceptions accumulate, and urgent advisories turn into email archaeology.

We help define how product-security decisions are made, documented, escalated, and reviewed. The result is a program built around the products your organization uses, not a generic policy library.

NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 can provide an organization-wide structure for risk governance and communication. For industrial automation and control systems, IEC 62443-2-1:2024 addresses security-program requirements for IACS asset owners and operators. The applicable framework depends on the environment and the decisions the program must support.

Need to establish ownership or make the program consistent across sites, teams, or product types? Start with the decisions that currently fall between functions.

What we deliver

• Product-security governance model, roles, responsibilities, and escalation paths.
• Product classification, criticality, and risk-tiering framework.
• Minimum security requirements, lifecycle procedures, and exception criteria.
• Current-state assessment, target-state roadmap, priorities, and implementation plan.
• Portfolio metrics, risk reporting, and management-review materials.
• Process-specific training and implementation support.

Ask for evidence before the product becomes an operational dependency.

Security questionnaires are useful for screening. They are not substitutes for architecture, test evidence, vulnerability-handling practices, support commitments, or a clear account of how the product will fit your environment.

We help procurement, security, engineering, operations, privacy, and counsel define what matters for the purchase. The review can scale from a focused product-risk assessment to a reusable procurement standard for an entire product category.

Evaluating a product, replacing a supplier, or rebuilding the procurement standard? Tell us what is being purchased and what the organization needs to protect.

What we deliver

• Security requirements for RFPs, purchasing standards, and product-category baselines.
• Supplier evidence requests covering architecture, data flows, threat and risk analysis, software bill of materials (SBOM), Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange (VEX), security testing, secure update mechanisms, coordinated vulnerability disclosure, and support periods.
• Technical review of supplier responses, documentation, testing summaries, and stated controls.
• Product risk assessments and comparative security evaluations.
• Technical requirements for vulnerability notification, remediation, remote access, software support, SBOM updates, and end of life, prepared for procurement and counsel to incorporate into the agreement.
• Approval, exception, and residual-risk records for the accountable decision-maker.

Make the deployment match the environment, not the sales diagram.

A product can pass its own security testing and still be deployed with excessive trust, weak remote access, unmanaged service accounts, missing logs, or no workable recovery path. We review the product as part of the system that will depend on it.

For industrial environments, that may include zones and conduits, target security levels, and system requirements informed by IEC 62443-3-3. For healthcare, laboratory, gaming, enterprise, or cloud-connected products, the same principle applies: define the trust boundaries, operating assumptions, and evidence required before go-live.

Planning a deployment, connecting a new product category, or trying to standardize installations across sites? Bring us the architecture and the operating constraints.

What we deliver

• Predeployment product-security assessment and integration risk review.
• Hardened configuration baseline and documented deviations.
• Network segmentation, connectivity, protocol, and communications review.
• Identity, privilege, service-account, certificate, key, and remote-access requirements.
• Data-flow, privacy, cloud-service, logging, monitoring, backup, and recovery review.
• Security acceptance test plan, findings, remediation priorities, and go-live readiness report.

Know what is operating, who owns it, and how it is secured.

An inventory that stops at manufacturer and model is not enough to answer a security advisory. Teams need to know the deployed version, software and component context, location, connectivity, business or safety criticality, accountable owner, support status, and approved configuration.

We help establish the product records and operating controls needed to make that information usable. The goal is not another inventory that becomes stale. It is a product-management process tied to provisioning, review, maintenance, change, and retirement.

If an advisory arrived today, could you identify every affected product and owner? We can help make the answer repeatable.

What we deliver

• Product, device, software, component, version, owner, location, connectivity, criticality, and support-status inventory model.
• SBOM intake, storage, association, and maintenance workflow where supplier data is available.
• Provisioning, enrollment, transfer, replacement, and decommissioning procedures.
• Account, privilege, certificate, key, credential, and emergency-access management.
• Configuration monitoring, drift review, exception handling, and compensating controls.
• Periodic access, connectivity, configuration, ownership, and control reviews.

Decide what applies, what matters, and what happens next.

A CVE match is not a complete product-risk assessment. Teams still need to establish whether the vulnerable component and code path are present, whether the product is exposed, whether exploitation is credible, and what patching or containment means for safety, validation, availability, and operations.

We bring together manufacturer advisories, SBOM data, VEX statements, deployed versions, CVSS, EPSS, known exploitation, architecture, and operating context. The result is a documented decision, not a vulnerability queue with no product owner.

Have an advisory, a vulnerable component, a stalled patch, or a product the supplier no longer supports? Start with the affected environment and the decision that must be made.

What we deliver

• Manufacturer advisory, security-signal, and vulnerability-monitoring workflow.
• SBOM-supported component matching and applicability analysis.
• Exploitability, exposure, safety, privacy, operational, and business-impact assessment.
• Patch validation, pilot, scheduling, deployment, and verification plans.
• Compensating controls, exceptions, risk acceptance, and manufacturer escalation.
• Unsupported-product, replacement, retirement, data-removal, and disposal planning.

Respond with product context, then prove the product is ready to return.

General incident-response plans rarely answer the product-specific questions. Can the device be isolated safely? Which logs exist? What evidence will survive a restart? Who can authorize a configuration change? When must the manufacturer be involved? What must be tested before the product returns to service?

We develop and exercise response plans around the products and environments that cannot simply be shut down, wiped, or replaced. During an incident, we can support investigation, impact assessment, containment, coordination, recovery, and corrective action.

For in-scope essential and important entities in the EU, NIS2, Directive (EU) 2022/2555, establishes cybersecurity risk-management and significant-incident reporting obligations through national law. Applicability, reporting routes, and sector-specific requirements must be confirmed for the organization and Member State.

Need a plan before the incident, support during one, or confidence before return to service? Tell us which products and operations are in scope.

What we deliver

• Product-specific incident-response plan, playbooks, roles, triggers, and escalation criteria.
• Evidence, logging, communication, and manufacturer-coordination requirements.
• Tabletop exercises using credible product, supplier, and operational scenarios.
• Technical investigation, scoping, product-risk assessment, and decision support.
• Safety- and availability-aware containment, continuity, and recovery planning.
• Recovery validation, return-to-service criteria, lessons learned, and corrective-action support.