From controls to confidence.
SPARK Plus is QKS Group's Cyber Resilience Transformation Advisory Platform — a six-stage, nine-domain system that takes security leaders from fragmented controls to engineered, board-defensible resilience. Built for CISOs who are done managing tools and ready to prove resilience.
Trusted by enterprise leaders across APAC
450+
Enterprises
18
Countries
10+
Years of Research
100+
Benchmarks
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 Maturity Report
Domain-level maturity scores across all 9 resilience domains, with a Regulatory Gap Register mapping every exposure to the obligations you selected.
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 Threat & Resilience 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
QKS benchmarks resilience maturity across 450+ enterprises in 18+ countries.
The Enterprise Reality
Resilience fails at predictable points — and rarely for lack of tools. SPARK Plus helps you close them systematically, not reactively.
of FS organisations can't quantify cyber risk in business terms to their board.
Every exposure mapped to the obligations your regulators actually examine
MAS TRM
APRA CPS 234 / CPS 230
RBI Cyber Framework
SEBI CSCRF
DORA
NIST CSF 2.0
ISO/IEC 27001
Dr. Andrew Aken
Associate Vice President & Principal Advisor
Zero Trust initiatives stall or fail when organizations treat them as a product purchase instead of a maturity journey. The technology matters, but the real work begins with an honest maturity assessment and continues through aligning leadership, identity, architecture, governance, environment, culture, and measurable risk reduction into a long-term prioritized roadmap that the business can actually execute.
Vijay Mohan Kamarthi
Associate Vice President & Principal Advisor
Cyber resilience does not fail because of missing tools. It fails because of weak governance, fragmented policies, and controls that exist on paper but are never operationalised. Organizations do not need a longer technology stack. They need security controls that satisfy regulators, withstand real-world threats, and create assurance that boards can confidently stand behind.
The Framework
Three phases. Six stages. Nine resilience domains. One intelligence layer powering every decision.
Illuminate
Stages 1-2 · Diagnose & Align — Resilience Baseline +
Transformation Charter
Design
Stages 3-4 · Architect & Govern — Resilience Architecture +
Governance Playbook
Ignite
Stages 5-6 · Execute & Scale — Execution Playbook + Resilience
Scorecard
SPARK Intelligence — fuels every stage
Market · Content · Benchmark · Decision
450+
SPARK Matrix
200+
APAC benchmarks
60+
Tech markets
Platform Capabilities
Not a dashboard reskin. Each engine solves a distinct CISO problem — and feeds the next.
See SPARK Plus in Action
Every stage of your resilience transformation, purpose-built and connected. Here's what your team actually works in.
Diagnose
Strategise
Architect
Govern
Execute
Sustain
Practitioners, Not Just Analysts
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Framework
QKS combines independent intelligence, regional benchmarks, and human expertise to help you make better resilience decisions — faster, and with confidence.
Vendor-Neutral Intelligence
SPARK Matrix provides analyst-grade vendor intelligence for objective security tooling and partner decisions.
APAC-Native Benchmarking
Benchmark resilience maturity against regional peers — not generalised global averages.
Resilience Assets Built for Execution
Operational playbooks, governance frameworks, control catalogues and maturity models accelerate enterprise adoption.
Analyst Access Throughout the Journey
Direct inquiry access and executive workshops provide human guidance at every stage of transformation.
Trusted by CISOs and CXOs across industries to reduce exposure, satisfy regulators, and prove resilience.
450+
SPARK Matrix reports
200+
APAC benchmarks
60+
Tech markets covered
500+
Enterprises served
Join 450+ enterprises across 18 countries using SPARK Plus to diagnose, architect, and prove cyber resilience with confidence.
