Five capabilities. One integrated view of resilience.
Cybersecurity cannot be addressed through a single technology, assessment or service. COR5 brings together five interconnected capabilities so you can see your exposure, prioritise what matters and improve continuously.
Cyber Operational Resilience
Resilience assessments, incident response playbooks and escalation paths, continuity and recovery reviews, and crisis exercises for leadership teams.
Explore capabilityFraud
Fraud risk assessments across products and customer journeys, detection and monitoring reviews, payment and account takeover exposure, and investigation support.
Explore capabilityIntelligence
Threat landscape assessments, dark web and credential exposure monitoring, threat actor profiling, and concise intelligence reporting for executives and boards.
Explore capabilityVulnerability
Penetration testing, external attack surface reviews, cloud and application security assessments, and risk-based remediation planning.
Explore capabilityEnhancement
Cyber maturity assessments against recognised frameworks, security strategy and roadmaps, governance and operating model uplift, and regulatory alignment.
Explore capabilityNot sure where to start?
Most engagements begin with a short, structured conversation about what you are trying to protect and what would hurt most if it stopped working. We will tell you which capability to lead with.
Named services that draw on all five.
The five capabilities describe how we think. These are the engagements organisations most often ask for by name — each one cutting across several capabilities rather than sitting inside a single pillar.
Virtual CISO
Senior security leadership on a fractional basis — strategy, governance, board reporting and risk ownership, with genuine accountability rather than advice at a distance.
Explore serviceIncident Response Retainer
Terms, contacts, playbooks and onboarding agreed in advance, an annual exercise to prove they work, and support through the incident and its aftermath.
Explore serviceRegulatory Readiness
UK operational resilience, DORA, NIS2, Cyber Essentials and ISO 27001 — gap analysis, remediation, and the evidence to demonstrate it rather than assert it.
Explore serviceAI Security & Governance
Find what is already in use, test what is deployed, and put a governance model around it that lets adoption continue rather than driving it underground.
Explore serviceWhat each capability answers, and how long it takes.
Most engagements start with one focused assessment rather than a programme. This is the shape of a typical first piece of work in each area.
| Capability | The question it answers | A typical first engagement | Indicative duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cyber Operational Resilience | Could we keep operating? |
Resilience assessment and incident response readiness review |
3–5 weeks |
| Fraud | Where are we losing money and trust? |
Fraud risk and control assessment across key customer journeys |
3–4 weeks |
| Intelligence | What is coming for us? |
Threat landscape assessment and external exposure review |
2–3 weeks |
| Vulnerability | Where are we exposed? |
External attack surface review or targeted penetration test |
1–3 weeks |
| Enhancement | Are we getting better? |
Cyber maturity assessment against a recognised framework, with a prioritised roadmap |
4–6 weeks |
Durations are indicative and depend on the size and complexity of your estate. Scope, deliverables and cost are agreed in writing before any engagement begins.
Prepare. Protect. Detect. Respond. Recover. Enhance.
Each capability strengthens the others. Intelligence directs where vulnerability work should focus. Vulnerability findings shape resilience planning. Fraud exposure informs control design. Enhancement turns all of it into sustained maturity.
Delivered as standalone engagements
A single assessment, penetration test, tabletop exercise or maturity review — scoped tightly, delivered quickly, with findings you can act on immediately.
Or as an integrated programme
Multiple capabilities combined into a continuous cycle of understanding, prioritising, strengthening, testing and enhancing your security and resilience posture.
Start with the outcome you are worried about.
Describe what would hurt most if it stopped working, or what your auditors keep asking about, and we will tell you which capability to lead with.