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Know your gaps. Close them in order.

Prove it with evidence.

Quantified risk, regulator-mapped gap registers, and time-boxed uplift sprints — grounded in SPARK Matrix™ research, delivered with your team, evidenced at every gate.

I have a regulator and a deadline

Get audit-ready — against your regulator

DORA

NIS2

NYDFS 500

SEC

FCA / PRA

APRA CPS 234 + CPS 230

MAS TRM

RBI

SEBI

EU Digital Operational Resilience Act

Evidence pack for entities in scope: ICT risk management, incident reporting, third-party register, resilience testing.

EUROPEAN UNION · READINESS SPRINT S-01

I want resilience beyond the audit

Engineer resilience across the estate

The six-stage journey: quantified diagnostic, prioritised strategy, target architecture, control governance, implementation, and continuous proof — nine domains, one spine.

Step 1 output — domain maturity and gap register

Illustrative Sample*

The Cyber Resilience Intelligence Platform

Not a consulting engagement with a report at the end — a platform that quantifies, ranks, and evidences your resilience decisions continuously. Six surfaces, one spine.

Risk Quantification

Exposure in dollars, traced per domain

Gap Intelligence

Obligation-level registers that update as regulations do

Decision Intelligence

Computed next-dollar investment ranking

Sprint Library

Exposure in dollars, traced per domain

Vendor Intelligence

Landscapes resolved from live SPARK research

Continuous Evidence

Evidence freshness, maturity milestones, attestation timelines

Cyber never stops — neither does the intelligence. Maturity re-scores, registers track regulatory change, evidence ages visibly, and the next-dollar ranking recomputes as your estate moves. Continuous decision intelligence — your tooling does the monitoring.

Resilience Sprint Library

Time-boxed uplifts. Evidence at the end of every one.

Eleven outcome-named sprints — each a five-gate co-build with your security team, each ending in an artifact you can hand a regulator, a board, or an auditor. Durations computed from risk and scope, never promised flat.

S-01

Regulatory Readiness

Audit-ready against your regulator — gap register closed, evidence packaged, attestation signed

Gap Register

Evidence Pack

Attestation Memo

90-Day Close Roadmap

RISK M

S-02

Ransomware & Recovery Readiness

Know you can take the hit: recovery tested, RTO/RPO evidenced, crown jewels covered

Recovery Test Report

RTO/RPO Evidence

Crown-Jewel Coverage Map

RISK M

S-03

Incident Response Playbook + Tabletop

A tested playbook, not a shelf document — tabletop run, gaps dispositioned

IR Playbook

Tabletop Report

RISK M

S-04

SOC Visibility Uplift

See what you're missing: telemetry coverage mapped, detection gaps closed in priority order

Coverage Map

Gap Register

Tool Rationalisation (In-Platform)

90-Day Roadmap

RISK M

S-05

Zero Trust Identity — Phase 1

Identity as the new perimeter: privileged access controlled, phase-1 architecture live

Identity Architecture Blueprint

PAM Evidence

Phase Plan

RISK M

S-06

Third-Party Risk Uplift

Your suppliers, evidenced: tiered register, assessed criticals, monitoring stood up

Supplier Register

Monitoring Runbook

RISK M

S-07

Cloud Posture Uplift

Cloud misconfigurations found, fixed and kept fixed — baseline to managed state

Posture Baseline

Remediation Register

Guardrail Policies

90-Day Roadmap

RISK M

S-08

Data Protection Uplift

Know where the sensitive data is and prove it's controlled

Data Map

Control Coverage

RISK M

S-09

Cyber Risk Quantification

Cyber risk in dollars the board can act on — quantified, traced, defensible

Quantified Risk Pack

Investment Options

Board Deck

RISK L

S-10

AI Security & GenAI Governance Readiness

Your AI estate governed: shadow AI discovered, LLM guardrails set, model risk registered

Shadow-AI Inventory

LLM Guardrail Set

Model Risk Register

GenAI Usage Policy

RISK M

S-11

Threat Intelligence Uplift

Intelligence your SOC actually uses: PIRs defined, sources rationalised, wired into detection and response

PIR Set

Source Rationalisation

Detection/IR Integration Runbook

RISK M

Domain Transformations

Beyond the sprint: transform the whole domain.

Every transformation starts as a sprint and expands through the six stages, scoped to one domain. The sprint proves it in weeks; the program engineers it to stay.

SOC Transformation

ENTRY: S-04 SOC VISIBILITY UPLIFT

EXPANDS: ARCHITECT → EXECUTE → SUSTAIN

Identity Security Transformation

ENTRY: S-05 ZERO TRUST IDENTITY PH.1

EXPANDS: ARCHITECT → GOVERN → EXECUTE

Cloud Security Transformation

ENTRY: S-07 CLOUD POSTURE UPLIFT

EXPANDS: ARCHITECT → GOVERN → SUSTAIN

Data Protection Transformation

ENTRY: S-08 DATA PROTECTION UPLIFT

EXPANDS: GOVERN → EXECUTE → SUSTAIN

Incident Response Transformation

ENTRY: S-03 IR PLAYBOOK + TABLETOP

EXPANDS: EXECUTE → SUSTAIN

Cyber Recovery Transformation

ENTRY: S-02 RANSOMWARE & RECOVERY

EXPANDS: EXECUTE → SUSTAIN

Threat Intelligence Transformation

ENTRY: S-11 THREAT INTEL UPLIFT

EXPANDS: EXECUTE → SUSTAIN

Don't see your domain?

One engine underneath: a transformation is its entry sprint plus the six-stage journey scoped to the domain — same gates, same evidence discipline, program-length horizon.

We Help You Implement

Not a deck. A gated build — with your team, evidence at every gate.

Every sprint runs the same five gates. QKS authors the designs and holds the gates; your security team builds; nothing passes without evidence. Gate weeks are computed from risk tier — they always sum to the sprint's timeline.

G-1

Scope + evidence access

Scope definition, domain map, evidence-source checklist, success criteria.

SIGNED: SPRINT OWNER

G-2

Control & architecture design

Target control set, regulator mapping, risk-acceptance notes — designed by QKS.

SIGNED: YOUR CISO

G-3

Implement — co-build

Your team builds to the design; QKS gates conformance and dispositions every deviation.

GATED: DEVIATION LOG CLEAN

G-4

Validate & evidence

Test or tabletop executed; evidence pack assembled and verified against scope.

SIGNED: SPRINT OWNER + CISO

G-5

Attest / handover

Attestation memo or handover runbook — and the expansion path into the domain journey.

SIGNED: YOUR CISO

What We Do

Design the controls and architecture, hold the gates, validate the evidence, and stand behind the technical calls — practitioners in the build, not a deck at the end.

What We Don't

We are not an MSSP and not a systems integrator — we don't run your SOC or resell tools. Your team keeps the capability; when you need managed services, we'll say so and point you to people who do them well.

Security Decision Intelligence

Where should the next security dollar go? Computed, not opined.

The diagnostic quantifies your exposure in dollars, scores maturity across nine domains, and traces architectural dependencies — then ranks where investment moves risk the most. Not another maturity PDF: an investment order you can defend.

Identity

Cloud Security

DSPM

AI Security

Recovery

SOC / Detection

CNAPP

Exposure Mgmt

Third-Party Risk

Next-Dollar Ranking

01

Recovery

Largest traced exposure share vs lowest domain maturity — recovery testing gap compounds every other risk

02

SOC / Detection

Telemetry coverage gaps block validation of downstream controls — architectural dependency

03

Identity

High exposure share; prerequisite for Zero Trust phase sequencing

Security Vendor Intelligence

Forty tools is not a strategy.
Here's how the stack gets decided.

Every sprint's tooling resolves through the research, not a reseller margin. Follow one through:

SPRINT

SOC Visibility Uplift

See What You're Missing

→

CAPABILITIES

Detection · Response · Threat Intel · Exposure

Scoped To Your Gaps

→

SPRINT

SOC Visibility Uplift

See What You're Missing

→

VENDOR LANDSCAPE

Leaders & Emerging Challengers, Per Category

Resolves In-Platform · Refreshed Every Matrix Cycle

The firm that runs your assessment shouldn't be selling you the remediation. We don't. Independent selection is structural — QKS holds no reseller margin on any tool it recommends.

Where Resilience Breaks Down

The failure points are predictable. The fixes are sequenced.

Six places security programs stall — each mapped to the stage that closes it.

01

Risk nobody can quantify

Maturity scores without dollar exposure — so security competes for budget with adjectives.

Closed by

Diagnose — quantified ALE, traced to scenarios

02

Priorities set by the loudest vendor

Investment follows the last briefing, not the largest exposure or the dependency order.

Closed by

Strategise — computed next-dollar ranking

03

Forty tools, no architecture

Overlapping controls nobody rationalised; coverage gaps hiding between products.

Closed by

Architect — target architecture + tool rationalisation

04

Controls that exist on paper

Implemented ≠ operationalised. The audit finds the difference before you do.

Closed by

Govern — control operationalisation + ownership

05

Advice with a margin attached

The same firm that runs the assessment sells the remediation — and the tools.

Closed by

Independent selection — no reseller margin, ever

06

Improvement nobody can prove

Spend goes up; evidence of risk reduction doesn't. Renewal conversations get harder every year.

Closed by

Sustain — measured maturity + evidenced outcomes

What's Included In Your Free Assessment · No Cost

Three things land in your inbox

A complete picture — not a teaser PDF. Calibrated to the domains you selected.

01 · REPORT

Your Cyber Resilience Report

Pillar-level maturity scores across all 7 ETF pillars, with a Gap Register that maps directly to the initiatives you picked above.

9-domain assessment · Board-ready

02 · BENCHMARK

APAC Peer Benchmark

See where you sit against 200+ APAC enterprises by domain and sector — what separates the top quartile in your market from the rest.

SG · AU · IN · HK cohorts

03 · WORKSHOP

Free Deep-Dive Workshop

A QKS principal analyst walks your team through your top exposures, prioritises the next 90-day moves, and bridges you to the relevant stage.

Live · With our advisors

Where does your enterprise stand on the cyber resilience maturity curve?

QKS benchmarks resilience maturity across 450+ enterprises in 18+ countries.

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From Diagnose to Scale —
Inside the Platform

Every stage of your resilience transformation, purpose-built and connected. Here's what your team actually works in.

Diagnose

Strategise

Architect

Govern

Execute

Sustain

Diagnose

Practitioners, Not Just Analysts

People who've done this before.

QKS advisors are former CISOs, security architects, and resilience leads — not junior researchers. They bring delivery credibility to every engagement, every stage, every conversation.

Former C-suite operators

25+ years avg experience

APAC-native coverage

Andrew Aken

AVP – Research

Dr. Andrew Aken is a seasoned cybersecurity and technology leader with over two decades of experience spanning software engineering, enterprise security architecture, academia, and executive leadership. With Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science from Southern Illinois University (SIU) and a PhD in Business Administration specializing in Management Information Systems, he brings a rare blend of deep technical expertise and business-aligned security leadership.

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Vijay Mohan Kamarthi

Associate Vice President - Information Security

Vijay Mohan Kamarthi serves as Associate Vice President – Information Security at QKS Group, leading cybersecurity advisory, governance, and enterprise security transformation initiatives across global enterprise and regulated industry environments. With deep expertise spanning cybersecurity strategy, security architecture, governance, risk and compliance (GRC), cyber resilience, and cloud security transformation, he works closely with CISOs, enterprise technology leaders, and security vendors to support strategic security modernization, operational resilience, and governance-driven transformation programs.

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Anandh Ramaswamy

Practice Director

Anandh Ramaswamy is a Practice Director at QKS Group, leading research and advisory engagements across enterprise technology markets. He works closely with technology vendors and enterprise leaders to deliver market intelligence, competitive analysis, and strategic guidance that inform technology investment and growth decisions.

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Sanjeevi C Ramachandran

AVP / Lead Analyst – Enterprise Research, Advisory & Consulting

Sanjeevi Cuddalore Ramachandran leads enterprise research, advisory, and consulting initiatives at QKS Group across digital transformation, enterprise applications, and governance-driven execution frameworks. With over 25 years of experience spanning ERP, SaaS, cloud platforms, and enterprise portfolio transformation, he works with enterprise IT leaders, product vendors, and consulting partners to assess enterprise technology platforms, define execution maturity benchmarks, and inform platform selection, implementation governance, and value realization across manufacturing, energy, oil & gas, BFSI, education, government, public sector, and technology ecosystems.

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Divya Baranawal

Vice President & Principal Analyst

Divya Baranawal is part of the global research and consulting team at QKS Group. As Vice President and Principal Analyst she heads the BFSI and Financial Crime & Compliance domains and is responsible for leading global strategic market outlook, competitive intelligence, market intelligence, and user intelligence. In this role, she leads multiple engagements with technology vendors in the areas of- technology consulting and growth advisory. She is also responsible for leading various custom advisory projects- including go-to-market strategies, value propositions, thought leadership assets, in-depth analysis of market trends, competitive landscape, market share & market forecast analysis and end-user insights.

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Narayan Gokhale

Vice President & Principal Analyst

Narayan Gokhale is working as an ‘Vice President & Principal Analyst – Research and User Consulting with QKS Group. He leads research, sales and marketing of various domains, such as, IoT & Digitalization, Procurement, Supply Chain Management, Retail and HR Tech. He leads a large team of analysts and guides them in various research, consulting and advisory assignments. He is also responsible for maintaining client relations and leads subscription sales & custom consulting projects. He front-ends client-facing activities through face-to-face as well as virtual meetings.

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