As organisations accelerate AI adoption, ensuring these capabilities deliver strategic value without compromising security, privacy, quality, or safety has never been more critical. Our Architecting Secure and Responsible AI Services, aligned with ISO 42001 and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and grounded in Enterprise Security Architecture principles, are designed to help you harness AI’s potential while confidently protecting data and managing risk.
Security embedded into every stage of AI use, product development, and operations
Secure & Responsible AI
AI Project Success factors
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Strategic Security Alignment
Ensure AI initiatives are tightly aligned with enterprise goals and ISO 42001 requirements, transforming AI from isolated experimentation into a secure, responsible, and strategic business asset.
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Consistency & Scalability for AI
Establish cohesive frameworks, reusable patterns, and operating models that ensure AI security and governance are applied consistently across the enterprise, delivering both scalability and efficiency.
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Proactive AI Risk Mitigation & ROI Assurance
Embed AI governance to manage risks from both threat and opportunity perspectives, while establishing clear accountability and measurable return on investment through value-chain alignment.
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Trusted Data & Information Architecture
Develop a logical information architecture and design patterns that guarantee the right data sources, integrity, and protection are in place — addressing a leading cause of AI project failure and enabling effective, fair, and explainable outcomes.
Comprehensive, Business-Aligned AI Frameworks
AI Security Architecture, Agentic and Product Architectures, through to AI Guardrails and Governance, all grounded in Enterprise Security Architecture Principles with SABSA.
Cohesive, Consistent & Trusted AI Architecture
By embedding security into every stage of AI use, product development, and operations, we enable your organisation to accelerate strategic objectives, strengthen trust, improve efficiency, and deliver secure and responsible AI products and services with confidence.
Secure & Responsible AI Services
Overview
The AI Architecture Accelerator is a fast-track engagement designed to rapidly establish the foundations of secure and responsible AI. DLC consultants work alongside enterprise representatives and key stakeholders to create a business-aligned AI security architecture, directly connecting AI initiatives to strategic objectives and risk context.
Outcomes
- Build stakeholder trust early
- Improve efficiency and productivity
- Anticipate risks and opportunities with confidence
- Accelerate development of secure and responsible AI products and services
- Reduce the risk of AI project failure at inception
Overview
The AI Architecture & ISO 42001 AI Management System (ISO AIMS) builds on the Accelerator or is delivered as a standalone service, providing the full architecture, governance, and operating model needed to embed secure, responsible, and business-aligned AI across the enterprise.
Outcomes
- Demonstrate leadership in Responsible AI
- Strengthen trust with customers, regulators, and investors
- Improve operational efficiency and resource utilisation
- Align with global regulations (e.g., EU AI Act)
- Reduce risks of AI project failure by embedding governance, ROI monitoring, and strong data integrity controls
Simplify AI
Decision Making
QNOUS
Our AI advisory services are powered by Qnous: A SaaS solution that shifts the cybersecurity paradigm by challenging core beliefs and driving better decision making.
- Model the security posture of your organisation and create a single source of truth
- Leverage a dynamic visualisation engine to render information more accessible to stakeholders across the enterprise
- Take advantage of automated insights to query the data and create valuable viewpoints to simplify security decisions
- Create what-if scenarios to identify the optimum way to act on risk and opportunities in the face of uncertainty
- Use dashboards and bespoke reporting mechanisms to communicate the readiness of operational resilience to all possible audiences
- Out-of-the-box compatibility with ISO 42001
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SABSA Certification
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Insights &
Resources
Webinar: Turbo-charge your SABSA Proficiency Through Modelling 28 August 2025
Are you enthused by the SABSA methodology but wish you had a faster, clearer, more insightful way to visualise and analyse your security landscape? Discover how Enterprise Architecture modelling techniques can revolutionise your approach to SABSA.
R101 – The SABSA Matrices 2018 Release Notes
An update to the SABSA Matrix™ and the SABSA Management Matrix™ in 2018 and an analysis of the changes made in that update.