A founder-led, research-driven cybersecurity consultancy
Brief the founderOur thesis
Audits pass while real risk remains. Certificates describe paperwork, not systems. We work from threat models and published vulnerability evidence — our cross-sector CVE/CWE analysis for The Alan Turing Institute mapped where controls actually fail across identity, government, healthcare and finance.
Security advice is dominated by product marketing. Our recommendations trace to peer-reviewed research and national-scale delivery, not a sales pipeline — 21 publications and public technical reports anyone can verify before engaging us.
AI agents, connected vehicles, and digital identity platforms are deployed faster than governance matures. We have spent a decade building threat and risk frameworks for exactly these systems — from national identity programmes to agentic-AI safety analysis for medical and pharmaceutical settings.
How we work
A retained partnership that adds DeTrust as an extension of your leadership team. Ongoing trusted-adviser support on cyber risk governance, digital trust, and security strategy — the same advisory model the founder provided to CISO-level stakeholders of a global automotive distributor operating in 40+ countries.
A focused, fixed-scope engagement for a specific need: threat modelling and risk assessment (TARA), GRC and standard-operating-procedure delivery, post-incident analysis, or framework alignment to ISO 27001, NIST CSF and NCSC guidance — client-ready deliverables, evidence first.
Track record
National digital identity Gates Foundation programme · The Alan Turing Institute
Security groundwork for identity platforms serving the Global South. Contribution to the threat-risk mitigation analysis presented to India's national identity architects helped secure £5M Phase 2 funding.
Blockchain traceability Everledger · critical-minerals platform
Led threat modelling of a Hyperledger Fabric traceability platform; identified vulnerabilities and delivered a security strategy directly to the project lead.
Executive advisory Global automotive distribution · 40+ countries
Trusted security adviser to CISO-level stakeholders on digital trust and cyber risk governance; enabled knowledge-transfer sessions between Google Mandiant and The Alan Turing Institute.
Research & insights
Every engagement draws on a body of peer-reviewed work — 21 publications, 170+ citations. A selection, translated into what it means for your business:
If you run identity or onboarding at scale, this is the map of what attackers target and which mitigations actually pay off.
Cross-sector CVE/CWE analysis showing where your sector's real exposure sits — in healthcare, SQL injection alone dominates with 150 CVEs, five times finance.
An in-depth threat analysis for anyone shipping connected products: what fails when vehicles, clouds and third parties share safety-critical data.
50+ open, reusable SOPs for operating identity infrastructure — the reproducibility layer most security programmes are missing.
Meet the founder
For the past decade, I have worked where cybersecurity research meets real systems — at The Alan Turing Institute on Gates Foundation-funded national identity infrastructure, at WMG, University of Warwick on connected vehicles and space missions, and through Cambridge Judge Business School on deep-tech commercialisation. Evidence over opinion. Systems over checklists. Research over marketing. I built DeTrust to give organisations direct access to that standard of assurance.
PhD in Cybersecurity Engineering (Warwick, EPSRC–JLR funded) · MSc (NCSC Certified) · 21 publications · 170+ citations · h-index 10 · Honorary Research Fellow, WMG · Academic expert to the UK Information Commissioner's Office
“Fresh energy and expertise … scientific ventures that continue to take him across the globe.”
— Global Talent Mentoring, The Hub #20 (Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation)
Tell the founder what you're working on. Every enquiry is read and answered personally.
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