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AI security and governance readiness

Independent AI Security & Governance Review before launch.

Fixed-scope review for AI apps, agents, vendors, and regulated teams.

For CISOs, CTOs, Heads of Platform, Product Security leaders, founders, and risk owners facing AI or regulated review pressure.

Availability Available for focused advisory, AI security reviews, evidence sprints, and fractional leadership.

What to send me

Launch / review deadlineAI system / vendorCurrent ownerMain blockerPreferred call window

Three concrete ways to buy the work.

Useful when the team needs a security answer, a governance pack, or fractional ownership without hiring a full-time AI risk lead.

Assessment

AI Security Assessment

Independent review before a chatbot, agent, AI feature, or vendor workflow goes live.
Checks
Prompt injection, data leakage, model abuse, agent tools, MCP exposure, access control, logging, and supply chain.
Output
Risk-ranked findings, control backlog, and executive summary.

Starter Pack

AI Governance Starter Pack

A concrete operating pack for teams that need AI governance without a long consulting programme.
Checks
AI policy, use inventory, risk register, vendor assessment, incident process, and owner attestation.
Output
Board-ready AI governance pack and reusable evidence templates.

Fractional Lead

Fractional AI Governance Lead

Part-time senior security and governance leadership while the programme is forming.
Checks
Intake cadence, risk decisions, underwriter answers, control validation, and engineering handover.
Output
Monthly operating rhythm with named owners and decision records.

Audience

Who this helps

Best for UK regulated SaaS, fintech, payments, insuretech, insurance, and AI-enabled product teams preparing for insurer, customer, audit, board, or EU AI Act readiness review.

Trigger

Pressure point

AI chatbot or agent launch, prompt-injection concern, sensitive-data leakage risk, AI inventory gaps, AI vendor rollout, insurance renewal, board questions, underwriting Q&A, and unclear model ownership.
  • AI use inventory
  • AI threat model
  • Security assessment report
  • Vendor diligence workflow
  • Risk register
  • Board-ready control summary
  • AI security risks become visible before external review.
  • Insurer, customer, and board questions get cleaner answers.
  • Governance moves from policy text into operating cadence.
  • Advisory session
  • Focused sprint
  • Fractional leadership
  • Build-and-handover

Typical output

Threat model, risk-ranked findings, control backlog, vendor notes, and executive summary.

Typical scope

One AI app, agent, vendor workflow, regulated review question, or launch decision.

How scope is set

The review starts from the customer's live risk question, not from a generic control checklist.

Best fit

  • Regulated SaaS, fintech, insuretech, payments, or insurance teams
  • AI-enabled products preparing for launch, renewal, audit, board, or customer review
  • Teams that need security evidence, owner decisions, and remediation actions

Not a fit

  • Generic AI strategy decks
  • Model training, prompt copywriting, or growth hacking
  • Policy-only work detached from architecture, controls, or delivery

AI review backed by practical security delivery.

This is not a policy-only exercise. The review connects AI risk to architecture, threat modeling, cloud controls, engineering workflow, and audit evidence.

Application security depth

  • Principal Application Security Engineer
  • Threat modeling with STRIDE and OWASP ASVS
  • Security architecture reviews for product and platform teams

Cloud and engineering governance

  • AWS and Kubernetes security review
  • Secure SDLC design and rollout
  • Security tooling and CI/CD guardrails

Risk, assurance, and enablement

  • Risk assessment and vulnerability management
  • Compliance and audit evidence support
  • Mentoring and operating-model support for hundreds of developers

Public company track record

Experience across payments, enterprise SaaS, ecommerce, vulnerability management, financial-services data, and banking environments.
TeyaAnaplanASOSPaddy Power BetfairQualysMSCI BarraCiti

AI security and governance evidence pack

A structured evidence pack for insurer, customer, board, and audit questions about AI use, security controls, vendor risk, and control ownership.

Inventory AI use, owner, data path

Threat Prompt injection / data leakage / tool abuse

Decision Approve, restrict, or remediate

Evidence Underwriting Q&A pack

Next action Owner attestation cadence

  1. AI use inventory and owners
  2. Threat model and abuse-case notes
  3. Vendor, model, and tool-risk review
  4. Control backlog and open decisions
  5. Underwriting Q&A and board summary

Common questions for this starting point.

Can this cover both AI security and AI governance?

Yes. The useful line between them is evidence: what the AI system can do, how it can fail, who owns it, which controls exist, and which risks still need a decision.

Does this guarantee insurance cover?

No. It improves readiness and answers; insurers still decide coverage, exclusions, pricing, and conditions.

Can you review agents, tools, or MCP-style integrations?

Yes. The assessment looks at tool permissions, indirect prompt injection, data exfiltration paths, logging, approval boundaries, and operational ownership.

Start with a 30-minute fit call.

If an insurer, customer, board, regulator, or security reviewer is asking harder AI questions, send me the deadline, AI system, owner, blocker, and preferred call window.
Start with a 30-minute fit call

What to send me

Launch / review deadlineAI system / vendorCurrent ownerMain blockerPreferred call window

Send the fit-call brief.

Have an AI launch, vendor, or regulated review question?

London / remote. Available for AI security assessments, AI governance starter packs, insurance evidence, product and platform security, PCI/HSM work, and fractional security leadership. Full career history and public track record on LinkedIn

What to send me

Launch / review deadlineAI system / vendorCurrent ownerMain blockerPreferred call window

Reviewer-ready artifacts PCI, product, cloud, HSM, vendor, AI, audit, and client assurance materials.

Regulated payment delivery PCI DSS, PCI PIN, PCI MPoC, ISO 27001, HSM, and payment-system execution.

Engineering depth Cloud, Kubernetes, Rust-heavy tooling, cryptography, and platform security.

AI / security fit call brief