You bring the problem. We build and run the team.
We are not a consultancy with a bench to sell. Musketeers assesses your posture, assembles the right member firms around what the assessment finds, and project-manages the whole programme to verified closure — while you contract each specialist directly, or under one Musketeers overarching contract.
Case log — how an engagement actually runs.
When a mid-market lender came to us with a DORA deadline, an untested perimeter and an MSSP nobody trusted, they expected a proposal for more services. They got an assessment instead — and then a team: the consortium's GRC practice on the framework, the offensive practice validating the perimeter, and Musketeers holding all of it to one plan.
The engagement lifecycle.
The old way made you the referee: five suppliers, no shared plan, and you chasing all of them at 9pm. Our six-step lifecycle is the new way of working — every step carries its own commitment.
Expert intro
A senior specialist, not a salesperson. Is the assessment even your right next step? We’ll tell you either way.
Posture assessment
Your estate assessed across all six capabilities: exposure quantified, ranked, and mapped to the capabilities that fix it.
Findings & focus report
Which areas need intervention, in what order, and why — board-readable, and yours to act on with anyone.
We assemble your team
For each focus area, we assign the Musketeers consortium member firm that owns that capability.
Joint kick-off
Every specialist receives your findings report and a draft project & implementation plan: who delivers what, when, and where the dependencies sit. One team against one picture, no silos.
Run to verified closure
Musketeers becomes the point of connection, project-managing every supplier workstream: tracking each firm against what it committed, surfacing slippage early, keeping the whole remediation on schedule until it’s verified as done.
The capability atlas.
Each capability is delivered by a vetted member practice and coordinated by Musketeers. Engage only the ones your assessment says you need.
Incident response & cyber insurance
The people you call at 2am, and the paperwork that makes your policy actually pay. Certified responders, forensically sound from the first action, aligned to what your insurer, the ICO and your board will demand afterwards.
- 24/7/365 emergency response — ransomware, BEC, breach, intrusion
- Digital forensics with evidence chains that hold
- Retainer tiers with contractual SLAs from 1 hour
Cyber & AI GRC
Someone senior owning the rules you're judged against — and proving, on paper, that you meet them. One control set covering every applicable regime, each control with an owner, an evidence artefact and a review date.
- Regime scoping — NIS2, DORA, CS&R, ISO 27001 / SOC 2, EU AI Act
- One evidence base serving board, regulator, customer and insurer
- Reporting drills practised before an incident, not during one
Attack simulation
We attack you first, properly, and show you what actually breaks — not what might. Findings proved by doing, not inferred from a version number, and detection gaps become the SOC's homework.
- Penetration testing scoped to your actual threat model
- Red team operations — objective-based campaigns
- Fix, retest, and a dated report good for twelve months
Managed security
Eyes on your estate around the clock — plus someone independent marking the SOC's homework. Musketeers sample-checks closed alerts, tests SLA compliance and validates detection coverage against live attack-simulation results.
- 24/7 monitoring with human investigation and escalation
- MXDR across endpoint, cloud, identity and email
- Independent monthly verification: coverage measured, not asserted
Cloud, identity, AI & DevSecOps
Securing where your data actually lives — the cloud, logins, and the pipeline that ships your code. Phishing-resistant MFA everywhere, exceptions signed and dated, AI tools on a governed path.
- Secure baselines, drift detection, least privilege on a cycle
- Pipeline security — secrets scanning, signed artefacts, gated deploys
- AI governance for staff tools and product AI alike
Third-party risk & due diligence
Watching the suppliers who can breach you, and the company you're about to buy. Evidence reviewed rather than questionnaires taken at face value; your fourth and fifth parties mapped; continuous monitoring between reviews.
- Supplier tiering, real assurance and contract conditions
- Continuous breach intelligence between reviews
- Pre-deal M&A: findings priced into the offer, then a 100-day plan
Ways to engage.
Assessment only, a fixed-term project, or a managed consortium — the commercial route can change without splitting ownership of the delivery plan.
Know exactly where you stand.
The Security Posture Assessment as a product: fixed scope, fixed fee, no obligation to act with us.
- Six-capability posture assessment
- Findings & focus report, yours to keep
- Prioritised remediation roadmap
- Quarterly advisory check-in
Your programme, run as one team.
Everything in Watch, plus the full management layer — from team assembly to verified closure.
- Specialist pairing & alignment calls
- Draft implementation plan + joint kick-off
- Programme management across all workstreams
- Milestone tracking, monthly board report, handover
- (Optional) training to run independently
A standing force.
Watch and Secure simplified into a multi-year, bespoke, cross-expertise outsourced service — the consortium permanently at your back. A loyalty programme lowers your total cost of cyber controls, insurance and safe AI over time.
- 24/7 incident response as a service
- SOC / MXDR as a service
- Cloud and AI technical services
- Governance, risk & compliance as a service
The contract route.
Direct specialist agreements
Each member practice contracts with you on its own paper and rates. Musketeers still coordinates scope, dependencies, reporting and closure.
One Musketeers agreement
One umbrella commercial route when simplicity matters, with specialist coordination handled inside the programme.
One programme plan
Named owners, dependencies, decisions and evidence remain visible whichever contract route you choose.
Ready to talk, or still gathering evidence?
Book a senior introduction when there is a live decision. If you are not ready, use the four-minute Incident Readiness Test to sharpen the questions first.
How this capability actually runs.
What actually happens from the moment something looks wrong: including the two decisions that most often cost people money: whether it is notifiable, and whether the insurer was told in time.
Two clocks run at once: the technical one and the contractual one. Most organisations only staff the first, then discover at claim stage that nobody was running the second.
How this capability actually runs.
How scope becomes a control set, and a control set becomes evidence you can hand to a regulator, an auditor, a customer or an underwriter without rebuilding it each time.
Most compliance cost is duplication: answering the same question in four formats. Map once, evidence continuously, and each new demand becomes an export rather than a project.
How this capability actually runs.
From scope to proof to fix, and the question almost nobody asks afterwards: did anyone notice us doing it?
A test that produces a PDF is assurance theatre. A test that produces fixes, plus a measured answer to "would we have seen it?", is a control.
How this capability actually runs.
Where the MSSP or SOC sits, exactly what they handle themselves, when it becomes an incident, and who checks their work.
Buying an MSSP transfers the work, not the risk. The oversight layer is what turns "we have a SOC" into "we know our SOC works".
How this capability actually runs.
The four places control actually sits: identity, cloud configuration, the delivery pipeline and AI, and the exception process that decides whether your claim gets paid.
Nearly every expensive incident traces back to an identity or a configuration nobody owned. This capability is dull, and it is where the money is saved.
How this capability actually runs.
Before you sign, while you're live, and when they get breached: plus the M&A version, where the risk you inherit is priced into the deal or it isn't.
Third-party risk is now the most likely route into your business and the least likely to be monitored. Point-in-time assurance cannot manage a continuous exposure.
The cyber hub briefing
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