Decision-first scoping
Before a single test runs, we agree the decision the output will change — invest, divest, accept, fix. Canary Wharf engagements without a named decision-maker don't get past scoping. That discipline keeps work focused.
Compliance Consulting in Canary Wharf — built for the finance sector that drives the region. Compliance work that does not bury your engineering team — ISO 27001, SOC 2, Essential Eight and NIST CSF mapped to controls you actually run, not parallel paperwork.
The finance, fintech, banking HQs concentration around Canary Wharf sees wire-transfer fraud, instant-payment abuse and identity-driven account takeover. Our compliance consulting work in London is scoped against this real threat profile, not a generic checklist.
Every finding ships with a control reference against NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework and UK GDPR, with NCSC UK guidance cited where it changes the remediation priority. Board reporting follows the FCA SYSC operational resilience expectation set.
Basalt delivers compliance consulting to organisations across Canary Wharf and the wider London region (population ~17k). The finance, fintech, banking HQs sectors that anchor the region face a distinct threat profile — wire-transfer fraud, instant-payment abuse and identity-driven account takeover — and our engagements are scoped to that, not a generic playbook. Reporting maps cleanly to the NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework and UK GDPR that British boards already use, with regulator context (NCSC UK) called out where it changes a remediation priority.
Before a single test runs, we agree the decision the output will change — invest, divest, accept, fix. Canary Wharf engagements without a named decision-maker don't get past scoping. That discipline keeps work focused.
Every finding is tagged against NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework and UK GDPR controls with NCSC UK guidance cited where it shifts a remediation priority. Your compliance team stops re-mapping our reports.
Compliance Consulting doesn't end at the report. Basalt's Canary Wharf clients run retainer reviews on a quarterly cadence so the security posture compounds rather than drifting back six months after the engagement.
Cyber security in United Kingdom can't be done with last year's threat models. The Basalt practice runs against current attacker tradecraft — agentic AI abuse, MCP and AI-tool supply chain, post-quantum readiness — alongside the legacy infrastructure work that still keeps most organisations awake at night.
Most Canary Wharf engagements scope inside one week and start within two. Retainer clients can trigger work the same day. We do not pipeline British clients through junior teams — a senior consultant scopes and runs the work end-to-end.
Both. Sensitive work — classified-adjacent environments, live incident response, OT walkthroughs — gets on-site time in Canary Wharf and the wider London region. Routine assessments and detection engineering run remote with a tight feedback loop.
Every finding ships with a control reference against the NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework and UK GDPR so your compliance team is not re-mapping our report. Where NCSC UK guidance exists for the specific finding, we cite it inline. Board-level reporting follows the FCA SYSC operational resilience expectation set.
The finance sector concentration in Canary Wharf drives a different threat model than a generic British engagement — wire-transfer fraud, instant-payment abuse and identity-driven account takeover. Our scoping reflects that, and so does the test library we bring to the work.
Yes — this is core to how we work. Basalt actively researches and tests against agentic AI tool-abuse and indirect prompt injection at scale, MCP server and AI-tool supply chain compromise and identity-first attack chains across federated SaaS. Most regional providers haven't mapped these attack paths; we run them in production against client systems with explicit scope.
Strategic cyber security consulting
Adversarial testing for LLMs and AI systems
CREST-aligned penetration testing
Source code review and SAST/DAST integration