All of us at Cyber Management Alliance are truly excited about the dawn of a new era in citizen-privacy. An age where, underpinned by regulation, organisations will be forced to rethink and relinquish hundreds, if not thousands of years of a commercial, profit-first mindset.
We are recognised for our impartial, pragmatic and expert advice on GDPR and data privacy and we support our clients with their GDPR compliance in the following ways:
Our Primary Goal
“Our goal is to help your business be GDPR ready, in practice and in the spirit of GDPR; that of transparency, accountability and where the rights of the data subject are at the heart of your GDPR strategy.
We maintain our high standards by keeping your best interests in mind and strive to serve as an extension of your business.”
Amar Singh, CEO, Cyber Management Alliance Ltd.
Top 3 reasons our clients select us
As an extension of your business, our objective is to ensure your organisation is GDPR ready by:
Our clients list the following six reasons why they selected our virtual Data Protection Officer's GDPR expertise. They:
Our virtual services are specifically designed for those organisations that require access to experienced information security and data privacy professionals but are unable to hire one themselves, either due to business and financial constraints or the acute shortage of skilled executives.
Some of the benefits of partnering with Cyber Management Alliance Ltd include:
Put simply, our V-CISO can help with planning and support, communicating and influencing, assessing and maintaining, and taking a lead on all things related to cyber security and information security.
“The relentless pursuit for continuous profit and growth at any cost is, simply put, at odds with what the GDPR mandates.”
Amar Singh, CEO, Cyber Management Alliance Ltd.
Once you are on-boarded as a V-CISO customer, you have access to the following list of services:
If you are not sure where to begin, we suggest you start with an assessment. We offer our clients a light-touch assessment against the key focus areas of GDPR along with a mix of accepted Information Security Management standards like the ISO 27001:2013. Our approach focuses on using your business drivers to guide activities and we take into consideration relevant threats and risks as part of your organization’s risk management processes.
“Amar and the team at Cyber Management Alliance have been a huge help in getting our firm positioned to deal with cyber security risk. Having opened our eyes to the variety and scale of challenges we face, and the potential financial consequences, they worked closely with us to improve our infrastructure, processes and understanding to embed cyber awareness into the firm.”
James C, CEO - UK Hedge Fund
In the complex world of GDPR, Cyber Management Alliance is the bastion of pragmatic, honest and expert advice on all things related to GDPR. Our common sense approach to providing our clients with V-DPO (or virtual Data Protection Officer) services means that clients can tap into our pool of experts without extending your current budgets.
Our services include but are not limited to:
Operating & Pricing Model
At Cyber Management Alliance we believe that the best trainers are practitioners, experts who constantly use their skills and expertise to help real clients with real problems. To that extent, our GDPR trainers are practitioners who will share their day to day experience with clients during the training and GDPR workshops.
Having an incident response plan does not make you breach ready. Our GDPR breach readiness workshops are based on our globally recognised, UK GCHQ certified Cyber Incident Planning & Response workshops and provide you with the strategies, techniques and procedures to ensure you are ready to comply with GDPR’s notification requirements.
A simple two day a month Virtual CISO plan with Cyber Management Alliance would cost you in the region of £24,000 per annum where as a full time, experienced CISO, on average, would set you back approximately £120,000 per year (not including hiring costs, sick pay, holiday pay and training costs and possibly redundancy payments).
We offer a number of flexible solutions in terms of accessing our V-CISO service:
This service is not limited to the UK and is available internationally.
Our clients include various hedge funds, boutique wealth management firms, publishing companies and polices forces. For more details about our customers feel free to get in touch with us.
Amar Singh has a long hisotry and experience in data privacy and Information Security and has served as CISO for various companies, including News International (now News UK), SABMiller, Gala Coral, Euromoney and Elsevier. Amar, amongst various other activities, is a Global Chief Information Security Officer and Trusted Advisor to a number of organisations including a FTSE 100 Firms and is Chair of the ISACA UK Security Advisory Groups.
Amar has managed all types of Security Assessments and readiness projects in preparation for all types of accreditations including PCI, SOX, IS0 27001, COBIT and risk management, audit, business continuity, while being aware of TCP/IP, network security, secure software development, VPNs, mobile security, hacking techniques, database security, log management, access and authorization, email security and awareness of encryption algorithms. He has the ability and experience in dealing with auditors, both internal and external.
Amar is an industry-acknowledged expert and public speaker and is regularly invited to speak and share his insights by some of the largest and most respected organisations in the world.
"I would recommend Cyber Management Alliance’s tabletop workshops to anyone genuinely interested in being on top of their cyber incident response strategies. The format and style of conducting the entire workshop is what I found a lot of value in. Most importantly, the scenarios on which the workshop was based were relevant to the business, making the exercise a great investment of time and resources."
Chief Information Officer - Director - Investment Management, London
"The CCTE and corresponding audit conducted by Cyber Management Alliance Ltd was expertly delivered and has given us insights to reinforce our cyber strategy by continuing to help build the picture of where we were, where we are now and our next focussed steps. We will be engaging CM-Alliance on an annual basis."
Strategic Technology Leader
Aster Group UK
"Amar is a unique individual, able to look at the minute detail of a security issue whilst holding onto a commercially aware "bigger picture". His largest impact was the design, procurement and implementation of a new firewall solution for the Trust which was a remarkably smooth project."
Tony Ball
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trus
"I worked with Amar on a complex requirement that he was trying to fulfil. He is a proficient communicator and was able to dissect the request down into smaller, measurable pieces of work."
Senior IT Security Consultant
"Amar brings a unique mix of business strategy, technical and managerial experience. He is a thought leader on a large number of cyber related topics including response planning in event of a major cyber incident, responding to cyber attacks, training for senior executives and setting the correct agenda at board level."
CITI BANK
"Amar is marvelous in his knowledge and experience on cyber security and data protection. He comes with a vast experience and knowledge bank. I have not seen many professionals like him in the industry, as he has a deep technical understanding and a very good commercial and business focused mindset."
Head-Business Operations @ Enterprise Security Risk Managment
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
"Amar is a knowledge leader in the domain of IT Security, Privacy, GRC and I have benefitted from his Cyber Business Executive Programme at Shrivenham, U.K. Now it is a life long connection and an opportunity to discuss Cyber with a reliable friend as and when I need."
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICE
"I've enjoyed sharing information with Amar, meeting over coffee's to discuss emerging trends in Cyber and learning about the challenges faced by a CISO within a large organisation. I continue to look forward to Amars publications on Information Security and find him a very interesting person to work with."
News International
"Amar is unique; A great person with a very creative and fresh approach to information security & risk management. He is very experienced professional, a very good influencer and finds always the right way to communicate."
Cyberr Security Manager KPMG
"Amar was a keynote speaker as well as a panelist on the Hackers versus CISOs debate at the 2012 Global CISO Forum. He brought a lot of expertise and insight to the event and was a major contributor to the overall success. He was great to work with and extremely generous with his time and knowledge."
EC-Council
"Amar was a keynote speaker as well as a panelist on the Hackers versus CISOs debate at the 2012 Global CISO Forum. He brought a lot of expertise and insight to the event and was a major contributor to the overall success. He was great to work with and extremely generous with his time and knowledge."
EC-Council
"Amar is unique; A thorough professional he is both technically sound and experienced in engaging and winning over executive leadership and has the acumen to drive the Information Security message throughout the organisation."
Manager, Solutions Architecture
"I like Amar's unique and fresh approach to information security & risk management. Very business-like with a constant focus on practical Information security I am greatly impressed with the way he deals with all level of management including Senior C level executives to the super techies and of course us project managers. A true professional in every sense."
Senior Project Manager at National Grid
Atos International
