We maintain deep technical expertise across the full breadth of the enterprise security market — not to sell you platforms, but to give you objective, informed advice about the tools already in your stack and any you are evaluating. Our independence is structural, not aspirational.
Our advisory remains independent. Where we hold technology partnerships, they are structured to give our clients better access to technical resources and vendor support — not to drive purchase decisions.
When we evaluate a client's security stack — or assess options for a new capability requirement — we draw on hands-on technical experience across 300+ platforms, not on vendor-supplied marketing material or the commercial pressure of a quota-bearing sales relationship.
We recommend consolidation when it saves you money — even when that means recommending the removal of a platform we have a partnership with. That is what genuine independence looks like in practice, and it is the only model that earns the trust of a CISO who has been burned by conflicted advice before.
How Our Partnership Model Works
Partnerships give our advisors early access to product roadmaps, technical documentation and engineering teams — so our platform knowledge stays current and deep, not dependent on public-facing marketing materials.
Our advisors hold current, vendor-specific certifications across the platforms we evaluate — so when we make a recommendation, it is grounded in hands-on operational knowledge, not feature comparison spreadsheets.
Where a client is experiencing a technical issue with a platform we have a partnership with, we can escalate directly to engineering — bypassing standard support queues and accelerating resolution.
Every platform listed below has been evaluated by our advisory team — either through direct client engagement, formal certification, or structured technical assessment. This is not a vendor directory. It is the knowledge base our advisors draw on.
Showing a representative selection. Our full evaluated ecosystem spans 300+ platforms across all security categories.
Our advisory coverage spans every layer of the enterprise security stack. When we evaluate a client's environment, no technology category is outside our assessment scope.
Security information, event management and security orchestration platforms
15+ platformsEndpoint and extended detection and response across workstations, servers and cloud workloads
10+ platformsCSPM, CNAPP, container security and cloud workload protection across AWS, Azure and GCP
12+ platformsIAM, PAM and IGA platforms covering privileged access, identity governance and SSO
10+ platformsNGFW, microsegmentation, zero trust network access and SASE platforms
10+ platformsVulnerability scanning, asset inventory, risk-based VM and automated penetration testing
10+ platformsThreat intelligence platforms, dark web monitoring, DRPS and intelligence feed aggregation
10+ platformsEmail gateway security, BEC prevention, phishing simulation and security awareness training
10+ platformsGovernance, risk and compliance platforms and automated compliance attestation tools
10+ platformsDLP, DSPM, data classification and data access governance across structured and unstructured data
8+ platformsOperational technology and industrial control system security monitoring and anomaly detection
6+ platformsSAST, DAST, SCA, API security and DevSecOps toolchain integration and assessment
8+ platformsOur ecosystem knowledge is not a product catalogue. It is the technical foundation that allows us to give clients genuinely informed advice about the tools they already have and the ones they are considering.
When we conduct a vendor rationalisation, our ecosystem knowledge lets us evaluate every tool in your stack against its alternatives — scoring capability overlap, utilisation rate and cost-effectiveness against platforms we have direct experience with. This is what makes our rationalisation recommendations defensible, not just directional.
Detection engineering requires deep, platform-specific knowledge. Writing effective KQL for Sentinel requires different expertise from writing SPL for Splunk or YARA-L for Chronicle. Our platform coverage means we can deliver detection engineering engagements in your native SIEM — not a generic ruleset that needs to be ported and tuned after delivery.
When a client needs to add a capability or replace a failing platform, our ecosystem knowledge means we can benchmark options objectively. We produce vendor comparison frameworks that reflect real-world performance in environments similar to yours — not vendor-supplied feature comparison tables dressed up as independent analysis.
Our vendor rationalisation service evaluates every platform in your security stack against measurable outcomes — and builds the business case for what stays, what goes and what you are overpaying for. Most engagements recover their cost in the first year.
Independent advice. No vendor commissions. No conflicts of interest.