Cyber Security & Assurance

Risk Management

Risk management only becomes meaningful when it influences real decisions, not just identifying risks, but shaping how programmes are designed, delivered, and operated.

Logiq supports organisations to establish and run risk management approaches that stand up under delivery and scrutiny in regulated environments. Our work is aligned to recognised industry standards and frameworks, ensuring that risk decisions are structured, defensible, and consistent with regulatory expectations.

That alignment is applied in a way that reflects how the organisation operates in practice. We focus on defining risk appetite and using it to guide decision-making, ensuring that security measures, investment, and delivery choices are proportionate to the level of risk being managed.

Our work spans the full lifecycle. Early-stage programmes where security needs to be built in from the outset, through to live environments where risk must be continually monitored, reassessed, and adapted as systems evolve.

We apply a range of techniques depending on the context, from structured risk assessments and cloud security reviews through to enterprise-wide methodologies that bring consistency across systems, services, and teams. This includes strengthening security architecture at source, aligning policies and procedures, and ensuring that controls are not only defined, but implemented and operating effectively.

Delivered through Logiq’s NCSC-assured Risk Management service and supported by specialists in information assurance and risk, the outcome is a risk management approach that is proportionate, embedded into delivery, and capable of standing up to regulatory and audit requirements.

Our Approach

• Defining and embedding risk appetite to inform programme and investment decisions
• Conducting risk assessments across systems, services, and cloud environments
• Applying consistent, enterprise-wide risk management approaches
• Identifying and implementing appropriate security controls and mitigation strategies
• Aligning to CAF, ISO/IEC 27001, and relevant regulatory requirements
• Strengthening security architecture to reduce risk at source
• Developing and refining security policies, standards, and procedures
• Establishing governance, reporting, and accountability structures
• Ongoing risk monitoring, review, and continuous improvement

Audit and Review

Organisations often know that audits are necessary. What they need to know is whether security is actually working, not just whether it can be described on paper.

Logiq delivers independent cyber and information security audits that assess risk, governance, controls, and exposure in real operating environments. Our work is aligned to recognised UK and international frameworks including ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 62443, the NIS Regulations, and the Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF), ensuring outputs are credible under regulatory and audit scrutiny.

The focus is not just on whether controls exist, but whether they are effective, appropriate, and aligned to the organisation’s operating context. Assessments are conducted independently, providing an impartial view that can be relied upon internally and externally.

Our approach is tailored to the environment. This may involve compliance-led audits against specific standards, or risk-based reviews designed to identify gaps, weaknesses, and areas of exposure across systems, processes, and behaviours. We apply both qualitative and quantitative techniques, building a view that reflects not just what is in place, but how well it is performing.

We assess across governance, ISMS documentation, technical controls, infrastructure, and user activity, ensuring that findings reflect how the organisation actually operates rather than how it is described on paper.

As an NCSC-assured service, our audits support both internal decision-making and external assurance. This includes preparation for formal certification, validation against regulatory requirements, and independent assessment of security controls within live programmes.

Outputs are direct and usable: a clear picture of where things stand, what the gaps are, and what should be addressed first.

Our Approach

• Independent security audits aligned to regulatory, contractual, or organisational requirements
• Compliance-led and risk-based reviews tailored to the environment
• Qualitative and quantitative assessment of controls and their effectiveness
• Evaluation of governance, ISMS documentation, and operating procedures
• Assessment of technical controls, infrastructure, and user practices
• Threat and vulnerability analysis in the context of the organisation’s environment
• Preparation and support for formal certification and compliance activities
• Clear reporting with prioritised, actionable recommendations

Security Architecture

Security that is added after a system is designed tends to be patchy, expensive, and difficult to assure. Getting the architecture right from the outset changes the economics of everything that follows.

Logiq designs security architectures that translate business and operational requirements into secure, workable solutions. Our approach is grounded in Secure by Design principles, ensuring that security is integrated from the outset and carried through delivery, rather than applied retrospectively.

Our work is aligned to recognised architectural and security frameworks, including TOGAF, MODAF, DODAF, and SABSA, alongside UK government guidance and NIST principles where appropriate. This provides structure and traceability, while allowing architectures to be shaped around the specific demands of the environment.

We work across organisational, system, and application levels. At an enterprise level, this includes defining roles, governance, and information flows that integrate with existing operating models. At a system level, it involves designing architectures that address the risks that matter, while still enabling delivery and usability. For applications and platforms, this extends into cloud-native, DevOps, and containerised environments where security must operate at pace.

The focus is always on clarity and practicality. Architectures are designed to be implemented and sustained in live environments, not just documented for assurance. This includes producing clear architectural models, patterns, and roadmaps that guide delivery and support assurance activities.

Delivered as an NCSC-assured service, our security architecture work is built for the environments where the stakes are highest, defence, government, and critical national infrastructure.

Our Approach

• Translating business and programme requirements into secure architectural designs
• Developing enterprise and system-level security architecture models and principles
• Designing cloud-ready, scalable architectures for complex digital environments
• Integrating security into DevOps pipelines and containerised platforms
• Aligning architecture to frameworks such as TOGAF, MODAF, DODAF, and SABSA
• Defining architectural roadmaps and implementation patterns
• Ensuring traceability between security controls and business objectives
• Supporting integration with existing and third-party systems

Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF)

The Cyber Assessment Framework gives organisations a structured way to examine their cyber security posture. Used well, it goes beyond readiness for review, it produces a clearer, more honest picture of how cyber risk is actually managed.

Logiq delivers CAF-aligned risk management, internal audit, and structured gap analysis across all principles and contributing outcomes. Our approach helps organisations define scope, identify evidence, map existing controls, and understand how current practice stands up against the expectations set out by the framework.

This is not treated as a tick-box exercise. We use CAF to build a defensible view of cyber maturity, highlight material weaknesses, and prioritise practical remediation. Where organisations already hold certifications or operate against other standards, we align that existing evidence so that effort is not duplicated unnecessarily.

The result is a clearer view of cyber risk maturity, stronger readiness for assurance reviews, and an improvement plan that is proportionate, practical, and capable of being sustained beyond a single assessment cycle.

Our Approach

• CAF-aligned risk management design and implementation
• Internal CAF audits and structured gap analysis
• Support across all CAF principles and contributing outcomes
• Scope definition, profile selection, and evidence mapping
• Integration of existing standards and certifications
• Targeted improvement planning and remediation support
• Preparation for GovAssure and other assurance reviews
• Practical recommendations that support sustained cyber maturity improvement

GovAssure

GovAssure readiness depends on more than knowing the framework. It depends on being able to connect risk, evidence, and organisational practice in a way that stands up under independent review.

Logiq supports departments and public sector organisations with CAF-aligned risk management, internal audit, and gap analysis that underpin GovAssure activity. We help define scope, assess maturity, identify evidence, and link findings back to organisational objectives, security risks, and improvement priorities.

Our approach is shaped around assurance as it is experienced in practice. That means supporting targeted remediation, reviewing evidence quality, and helping organisations move from broad intent to defensible outcomes. Where needed, this includes lessons identified activity and follow-on support to strengthen governance, documentation, and operating processes.

Departments leave the process with clearer insight into where risk actually sits and a practical path to improving it, not just a stronger position ahead of review.

Our Approach

• CAF-aligned risk assessments and internal audits to support GovAssure readiness
• Evidence mapping, scope definition, and organisational profile alignment
• Tailored information assurance reporting linked to organisational outcomes
• Targeted remediation planning following identified gaps
• Post-review support and lessons identified workshops
• Alignment with the Government Cyber Strategy and wider departmental objectives
• Practical recommendations that improve assurance confidence
• Sustained support beyond point-in-time review activity