Garzon Cyber Solutions operates across cybersecurity delivery, compliance frameworks, and specialist talent for organisations that can't afford to treat these as separate problems.
Security without the right people and the right framework isn't security. It's exposure with paperwork. These three disciplines are the same problem, solved together.
Information security, network controls, cloud posture, application risk, and incident response: connected, documented, and defensible. Not a collection of tools. An architecture built for the threat landscape you're actually facing, with clear ownership at every layer.
Discuss Your Security →Six Pillars of a Mature Security Architecture
Not a checkbox template. A framework your leadership can stand behind and your auditors can verify, mapped to how your business actually operates.
Specialist cybersecurity and technology recruitment for organisations that understand misalignment is its own risk. Permanent, contract, and interim, placed across UK, EU, and Americas.
Key Roles We Place
Comprehensive threat and vulnerability analysis that gives your board a clear, quantified view of exposure — not a spreadsheet of theoretical risks. We map your actual attack surface, prioritise by business impact, and deliver a remediation roadmap your teams can execute.
Multi-cloud posture management, identity governance, and workload protection designed around how your organisation actually uses AWS, Azure, and GCP — not a vendor checklist. We secure what you've built and architect what comes next.
Offensive security that mirrors real-world attack chains — not automated scan reports dressed up as pen tests. Our testers simulate adversary behaviour across your infrastructure, applications, and APIs to find exploitable weaknesses before threat actors do.
When a breach occurs, speed and precision determine the outcome. GSC delivers structured incident response — from initial containment through forensic investigation to full recovery — with clear communication to your board and regulators throughout.
Continuous threat detection, monitoring, and response delivered through a dedicated Security Operations Centre — without the cost of building one in-house. Real analysts, real-time visibility, and escalation protocols tailored to your risk profile.
Legacy perimeter security assumes trust once you're inside the network. Zero Trust eliminates that assumption. GSC designs and implements identity-centric, microsegmented architectures where every access request is verified — regardless of origin.
Actionable, sector-specific intelligence that informs defensive decisions — not a feed of IOCs your team can't process. GSC delivers curated threat briefings, dark web monitoring, and adversary profiling that connect directly to your security operations.
GSC works with a network of globally accredited audit and certification partners to deliver the full range of IT compliance programmes independently, credibly, and with multi-framework efficiency. One engagement. Many standards.
The global gold standard for Information Security Management Systems (ISMS). Three-year certification with two surveillance audits. Most widely recognised across enterprise and regulated sectors.
Business Continuity Management Systems. Three-year certification, complementary to ISO 27001. Demonstrates organisational resilience to disruption.
Cloud security add-on to ISO 27001. Provides additional controls for cloud service providers and customers. Requires existing ISO 27001 certification.
Protection of PII in public cloud environments. Add-on standard to ISO 27001, relevant for cloud processors handling personal data.
Privacy Information Management System (PIMS) add-on to ISO 27001. Maps directly to GDPR obligations. Requires ISO 27001 certification first.
AI Management Systems standard defining requirements for responsible development and use of AI. Critical for organisations building or deploying AI products under the EU AI Act framework.
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. Applies to all entities storing, processing, or transmitting cardholder data. Delivered by QSA-certified assessors.
3D Secure standard that adds an authentication layer to online card transactions. Reduces fraud risk for card-not-present transactions.
Point-to-Point Encryption standard. Protects cardholder data by encrypting it at point of interaction through to secure decryption endpoint.
Secure management, processing, and transmission of PINs for ATM and POS transactions. Assessed by Qualified PIN Assessors (QPA).
Self-Assessment Questionnaire for merchants and service providers. Multiple SAQ types covering different transaction scenarios and compliance levels.
Payment software security, secure software lifecycle, token service providers, and card production standards. Full PCI suite for specialised payment entities.
The most in-demand trust report for technology and service organisations. Evaluates Security, Confidentiality, Availability, Processing Integrity, and Privacy over a 12-month period.
Point-in-time SOC 2 report that confirms controls are suitably designed at a specific date. Often used as a first step before achieving Type 2.
Covers financial reporting controls. Particularly relevant for service providers where operations affect clients' financial reporting environments.
Public-facing version of SOC 2 Type 2 with the same assurance, suitable for marketing and commercial use. Cannot be standalone.
EU and UK General Data Protection Regulation. Includes Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA) and data discovery to locate and classify personal data of EU/UK citizens.
California Consumer Privacy Act. Enhances privacy rights for California residents. Required for organisations with significant US consumer data exposure.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Protects individuals' medical records and applies to health plans, clearinghouses, and providers processing electronic health transactions.
Three-tier HITRUST framework. e1 covers basic cybersecurity hygiene; i1 is comparable to SOC 2; r2 is the Gold Standard. All validated by approved HITRUST CSF external assessors.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Acceptable Risk Safeguards. Minimum security and privacy controls standard for CMS and its contractors.
Minimum Acceptable Risk Standards for Exchanges. Sets minimum security standards to ensure compliance with FISMA, HIPAA, HITECH, and ACA requirements.
Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification. DoD requirement for the Defense Industrial Base protecting sensitive unclassified information. Assessed by certified C3PAO assessors.
Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Standardised security framework for cloud services used by US federal government agencies. Assessed by 3PAO assessors.
EU Network and Information Systems Directive 2. Mandatory for essential and important entities across sectors. Full application from January 2025.
Comprehensive security control catalogues for federal agencies and DoD supply chains. 800-53 for government information systems; 800-171 for protecting CUI in defence contracts.
Voluntary framework of standards and best practices for managing cybersecurity risk. Widely adopted as a benchmark across public and private sectors globally.
Federal Information Security Modernization Act. Requires all US federal agencies to develop and implement agency-wide information security programmes.
Standardised cybersecurity framework for cloud services supplied to US state and local governments. Assessed by 3PAO-authorised organisations.
EU Digital Operational Resilience Act. Mandatory for 20+ types of financial entities and their ICT third-party providers. Standardises ICT risk management, incident reporting, and resilience testing.
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. Mandates US financial institutions to protect consumer financial data and clearly outline information-sharing practices.
SWIFT Customer Security Controls Framework. Mandatory security controls for SWIFT network users. Continuously updated to address emerging threats.
Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council standards. Establishes uniform principles for examination of US financial institutions across federal agencies.
Cloud Security Alliance STAR certification. Targeted at cloud service providers. Requires ISO 27001 (Level 2 certification) or SOC 2 Type 2 (attestation). Assessed by approved Level 2 assessors.
Supplier Security & Privacy Assurance. Self-assessment confirmed by a third-party auditor. Can leverage ISO 27001/27701 and/or PCI DSS credentials.
Full-scope penetration testing: Application (APT), External Application, Internal Network (INPT), External Network (ENPT), Network Segmentation, Mobile, and Red Team Assessments. Automated and continuous options available.
PCI DSS-approved external vulnerability scanning (ASV) and Internal Vulnerability Assessments (IVA). Identifies exposures in systems, networks, and payment environments.
Network Security Architecture Review, Firewall Ruleset Review, Configuration Security Audit, Wireless Security Audit, and Application Security Audit, for a full assessment of your defensive posture.
Systematic identification and classification of sensitive data (PII, PCI, IP) across file systems, databases, and shared drives. Plus managed logging and alerting for continuous compliance monitoring.
Source code security review, secure code training, and social engineering assessments targeting the human and code-level vulnerabilities that technical controls can't catch.
Measure your current compliance posture against a specific framework: PCI DSS, ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST 800-171, CMMC, and more. Delivers a clear remediation roadmap and prioritised action plan.
Pre-assessment readiness programmes and hands-on remediation support. Designed to get your organisation audit-ready efficiently, reducing time, cost, and surprises during formal certification.
Policy and procedure formulation and review, security awareness training (CBT), custom training programmes, vendor management frameworks, and third-party audit services.
Can't see what you need? We cover 100+ compliance programmes across all major frameworks.
Discuss Your Requirements →A vulnerability scan won't tell you that your compliance function doesn't understand your security architecture. Your ISO 27001 programme won't flag that your CISO can't translate risk into language your board acts on. And no managed service will tell you that the talent you placed six months ago lacks the regulatory context to build what your auditors will assess next year.
Security, compliance, and talent aren't three separate engagements. They're one problem, and most organisations are still paying three different suppliers to solve it in isolation. The gaps between those suppliers are where breaches happen, where audits fail, and where good people leave.
GSC was built on a different premise. Organisations that treat these three disciplines as a single, connected system consistently outperform those that don't, on risk posture, on audit outcomes, and on the ability to attract and retain the people who hold it all together.
Source: DSIT Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2025 · IBM Cost of a Data Breach 2024
The EU AI Act is in force. ISO 27001:2022 introduced new AI and cloud controls. DORA is live for financial services. Most UK organisations haven't fully mapped their obligations yet.
Map your security posture, compliance position, and talent gaps against your business objectives and real risk appetite.
A prioritised roadmap, not a wish list. Sequenced by risk reduction value, regulatory urgency, and commercial impact.
Hands-on execution across security, compliance, and talent. One relationship, no handoff gaps between workstreams.
Ongoing review, board-level reporting, and adaptation as your threat landscape and regulatory environment evolve.
Select a sector to see the sub-sectors, frameworks, and services GSC delivers within it.
Retail banking · Investment banking · Fintech · Insurance · Asset management · Payments & e-money · Wealth management
Operating across UK, EU, and Americas with deep DORA and FCA regulatory context.
Discuss Financial Services →NHS Trusts & ICBs · Private health providers · MedTech & medical devices · Pharma & life sciences · Digital health & patient data platforms
Understanding the operational constraints of clinical environments, with security that works alongside care delivery.
Discuss Healthcare →Energy & utilities · Water · Transport & logistics · Telecoms · Nuclear · Manufacturing
OT environments require a different approach. We understand the operational constraints and regulatory obligations.
Discuss Critical Infrastructure →Law firms (Magic Circle to boutique) · Accountancy practices · Management consulting · Barristers' chambers · Architecture & engineering
Professional services firms hold some of the most sensitive data in any economy. The security architecture needs to match that responsibility.
Discuss Legal & Professional →Retail chains · Pure-play e-commerce · Hospitality & leisure · FMCG · Luxury goods · Marketplace platforms
Retail security spans payment systems, customer data, and complex supply chains, all simultaneously.
Discuss Retail & E-commerce →Central government departments · Local authorities · NHS bodies · Higher education · Defence supply chain · Emergency services
Public sector security requires navigating complex procurement, clearance requirements, and stringent data handling obligations.
Discuss Public Sector →SaaS platforms · AI / ML vendors · Series A–C scale-ups · Developer tools · Cybersecurity vendors · InsurTech & RegTech
AI companies face a unique dual obligation: securing their own systems and demonstrating to clients that their AI is safe to use.
Discuss Technology & AI →PE-backed businesses · FTSE 250 & multinationals · M&A targets and acquirers · Series C+ and pre-IPO · Cross-jurisdiction programmes
Larger organisations face the compounded challenge of scale, legacy systems, regulatory complexity, and board scrutiny, all simultaneously.
Discuss Enterprise & Scale-up →Perspectives on cybersecurity, compliance, talent, and AI governance — written for decision-makers, not just practitioners.
Whether you're managing an active risk, preparing for an audit, building your security function, or hiring your next CISO. The conversation starts here.
📧 jonathan@garzoncybersolutions.com · 🌐 UK · EU · Americas