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Industries

Same discipline. Different pressure.

What needs monitoring, how fast you must respond and what evidence you have to produce all change by sector. We scope against your reality rather than a generic template.

Sectors

Where the risk actually concentrates.

For each sector below: the pressure that defines it, and where our work usually focuses as a result.

Banking & Microfinance

SBP

State Bank expectations on technology governance and information security, sustained targeting of digital channels, and inspection cycles that require evidence rather than intent.

Where we focus

  • SBP ETGRM control gap assessment
  • Privileged access and identity monitoring
  • Detection tuned to account-takeover and fraud patterns
  • Board and audit-committee reporting

Fintech & Payments

SBP · PSO/PSP

Authorisation conditions, rapid product release cycles, and payment flows where a security failure is immediately a financial one.

Where we focus

  • Application and API penetration testing
  • Payment flow and digital channel review
  • Automated-abuse and fraud detection
  • Security evidence for partner banks and regulators

Telecom & ISPs

PTA · CTDISR

CTDISR obligations covering information security management, incident response capability, third-party audits and data localisation — with licence standing attached to compliance.

Where we focus

  • CTDISR readiness and gap assessment
  • Incident response capability build-out
  • Evidence preparation ahead of the approved-auditor engagement
  • Continuous monitoring of critical infrastructure

Technology & IT Exports

Customer due diligence

Overseas clients making security questionnaires and ISO 27001 a condition of contract, alongside cloud estates that change faster than documentation.

Where we focus

  • ISO 27001 readiness support
  • Cloud and identity monitoring
  • Application and API security testing
  • Security evidence packs for enterprise procurement

E-commerce & Retail

PCI DSS · Payment partners

Credential stuffing at scale, payment integrations under scrutiny, and revenue that stops the moment the platform does.

Where we focus

  • Web application and API testing
  • Account-takeover and automated-abuse detection
  • Cardholder environment control assessment
  • Availability-aware response planning

Manufacturing & Textile

Buyer requirements

Production downtime as the dominant risk, converging IT and operational technology networks, and international buyers increasingly auditing supplier security.

Where we focus

  • IT/OT boundary and segmentation review
  • Availability-aware response playbooks
  • Supply-chain and vendor access assessment
  • Ransomware readiness

Healthcare

Patient data

Sensitive patient records, clinical systems that cannot simply be taken offline, and mixed estates with long-lived legacy equipment.

Where we focus

  • Monitoring that respects clinical availability constraints
  • Access control and data-exposure review
  • Ransomware readiness and response planning
  • Segmentation of clinical and administrative networks

Education & Universities

Research & student data

Open networks, large transient user populations, research data of genuine value, and security budgets that rarely match the attack surface.

Where we focus

  • Identity and credential-abuse detection
  • Segmentation and internal attack-path testing
  • Cost-proportionate monitoring coverage
  • Student and research data protection review

Government & Public Sector

NCERT · Sector CERTs

Targeted threat activity, national incident-reporting expectations, and procurement rules that require demonstrable security control.

Where we focus

  • Continuous monitoring against targeted activity
  • Independent security assessment
  • Incident reporting workflow aligned to sector CERT expectations
  • Documented control evidence

Regulatory context is described only as the environment organisations in a sector commonly operate under. We do not certify, attest to, or guarantee any regulatory outcome, and nothing here should be read as a claim about specific customers.

Next step

Tell us what your sector demands of you.

Customer questionnaires, a regulator, a board, an insurer or an incident — whatever is driving the requirement, we'll scope the work that satisfies it.

  • 1Tell us about your environment
  • 2We scope what's actually needed
  • 3You get a written assessment plan