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Independent cyber risk assurance · United Kingdom

We de-risk the systems society depends on.Independent. Evidence‑led. Founder‑delivered.

Research-grade threat modelling and risk assurance for connected vehicles, space systems, digital identity and agentic AI — so you can show your systems are trustworthy, not just say it.

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21publications across security, vehicles, space and identity

170+citations of the founder's research

50+security SOPs for national digital identity systems

20+governments engaged through published threat research

Published in IEEE·Elsevier·MDPI·Springer·Frontiers

Why DeTrust

Systems are shipping faster than assurance can keep up.

Connected vehicles, national identity platforms and autonomous AI are being deployed into safety-critical settings — often before anyone can show they are trustworthy.

DeTrust closes that gap with research-grade methods, delivered directly by the founder: no sales tier, no junior bench, and every recommendation traceable to published evidence.

Independent. No product to sell — only an honest view of your risk.
Evidence-led. Methods drawn from peer-reviewed research you can verify.
Founder-delivered. The person you brief is the person who does the work.

How we work

Four steps from uncertainty to evidence

01
Scope
A focused conversation about your system, your obligations and what “trustworthy” has to mean for your stakeholders.
02
Model
We map assets, trust domains and adversaries into a structured threat model — STRIDE, TARA and MITRE ATT&CK.
03
Assess
Risks are rated by impact and likelihood and tied to the standards you answer to — ISO 27001/27005, ISO/SAE 21434, NIST CSF.
04
Assure
You receive a prioritised mitigation plan and evidence your board, auditors or regulator can check for themselves.

Expertise

Where we go deep

Six domains where the founder has published, delivered and been cited — each with its own methods and evidence.

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Connected & autonomous vehicles

Threat analysis and risk assessment for V2X and cloud-assisted vehicle functions, aligned with ISO/SAE 21434.

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Space & critical infrastructure

Threat catalogues and teleoperation security for missions where failure is not an option.

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Digital identity & public infrastructure

Evidence that citizen-scale registration and authentication layers are safe to rely on.

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Agentic AI safety

Loss-of-control, oversight and decision-authority risks assessed before autonomous AI goes live.

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Threat intelligence & risk

Sector vulnerability patterns turned into priorities your board can act on.

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Blockchain traceability

Threat modelling for permissioned ledgers that trace critical minerals through the supply chain.

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What you get

Five ways we de-risk your systems

01
De-risking cyber threat
Threat modelling and risk assessment (TARA) that turn attacker models into concrete, prioritised mitigations.
02
Secure innovation
Security for what is new — connected vehicles, agentic AI and digital identity — assessed before you ship.
03
Research you can verify
Advice traceable to 21 publications and public reports, with 170+ citations you can check.
04
Closing the assurance gap
Governance that catches up with the systems you have already deployed.
05
Standards, audit & compliance
Alignment to ISO 27001/27005, NIST CSF, NCSC guidance and DORA — obligations turned into evidence.

Research impact

Proven on national-scale systems

Three stories from the founder's research career — the methods DeTrust now brings to your organisation.

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Research Associate · The Alan Turing Institute

Securing national digital identity

On a Gates Foundation-funded programme, authored 50+ standard operating procedures and a public threat, risk and mitigation taxonomy for national digital identity systems. The published analysis drew 20+ governments from the Global South to security workshops.

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Research Assistant & PhD · WMG, University of Warwick

Assuring automated driving

Co-authored TARA+, a controllability-aware threat analysis method for Level-3 automated driving on the EU L3Pilot programme, then an EPSRC–Jaguar Land Rover funded PhD on detecting adversarial vehicle-to-vehicle messages.

TARA+ · 30 citationsIEEE Intelligent Vehicles 2019Read more

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Research Assistant · WMG, University of Warwick

Threat modelling for space missions

Developed a threat catalogue for European Space Agency missions and analysed the security of teleoperated robots — published in Advances in Space Research.

ESA SSE4SPACE22 citationsRead more

Delivered in the founder's prior roles; the organisations named are not DeTrust clients and do not endorse DeTrust.

Insights & recognition

Latest

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April 2026 · The Hub #20

Featured as a Distinguished STEMM Expert Mentor

Global Talent Mentoring, Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation (under UNESCO).

Read the feature April 2025 · The Alan Turing Institute

Vulnerability patterns across identity, government, healthcare and finance

A cross-sector CVE/CWE analysis — healthcare is dominated by SQL injection.

Read the report December 2024 · The Alan Turing Institute

Threat, risk and mitigation taxonomy for digital identity systems

What attackers target in national identity systems, and which mitigations pay off.

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Dr Al Tariq Sheik, founder of DeTrust CyberTech & Solutions

The founder

Led by Dr Al Tariq Sheik

A practitioner-researcher with a decade of security work on national-scale systems. Every engagement is scoped and delivered by the founder.

The Alan Turing InstituteResearch Associate, 2022–2025 — led the Turing Cyber Threat Observatory on a Gates Foundation-funded digital public infrastructure programme.
WMG, University of WarwickHonorary Research Fellow and MSc Project Supervisor. Previously Research Assistant, 2016–2022 — threat modelling on projects with Jaguar Land Rover and the European Space Agency.
University of Warwick · EPSRC · Jaguar Land RoverPhD in Cybersecurity Engineering, funded by EPSRC and Jaguar Land Rover (CARMA).
UKRIBid author and Co-Investigator, UKRI SPRITE+ SMOOTH project on the digital identity threat landscape (2023).
Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum FoundationGlobal Talent Mentor (under UNESCO) — one-to-one STEMM mentoring for exceptional students.
Cambridge Judge Business SchoolEnterpriseTECH Candidate and Buddy — deep-tech commercialisation.