Technology risk & compliance for financial institutions

Stop renting compliance.
Start building capability.

We design and embed technology risk, GRC, DORA and third-party risk frameworks inside your organisation — built to adapt to regulatory change on their own, so you aren't calling a consultancy every time the rules move.

CISSP · PMP · 25+ years inside SMBC, AT&T and Citigroup · Engaged directly with PRA, FCA and BaFin

The Resilient Control lifecycle A circular lifecycle of five stages — Assess, Design, Embed, Evidence and Sustain — surrounding a self-sustaining control framework. SELF-SUSTAINING control framework 01ASSESS 02DESIGN 03EMBED 04EVIDENCE 05SUSTAIN Regulatory change absorbed Audit-ready evidence, on demand
Experience built inside
SMBCAT&TCitigroup PRAFCABaFinDORA
How we work

Assess. Embed. Sustain.

Every engagement is designed to end with your team owning the framework — not with a renewal.

ASSESS

See the real control environment

Rapid diagnostics against DORA, PRA/FCA expectations and your own risk appetite — what exists, what works, and where the evidence gaps are.

EMBED

Build it into how you operate

Controls, RCSA cycles, KRIs and evidence designed into your processes and tooling, owned by named people in your first line.

SUSTAIN

Adapt without calling us back

A framework built on principles, not checklists, so regulatory change is absorbed by your own team — the way a good driver adapts to a new speed limit.

25+years in regulated technology
3global institutions: SMBC, AT&T, Citigroup
40+critical legacy applications remediated
6 moweak → most-satisfactory risk rating turnaround
The pattern we're breaking

Your compliance budget shouldn't grow with every rule change.

You don't call your driving instructor every time the speed limit changes. You learned the system. You adapt. Compliance should work the same way.

  • Capability, governance and evidence stay inside your organisation
  • Frameworks designed to absorb new regulation, not be rebuilt for it
  • Fixed prices and defined outcomes — no open-ended day rates
Cumulative compliance spend over time Under the traditional model, cumulative spend steps up with every regulatory change. Under Resilient Control there is a one-time build cost, after which your own team absorbs change and spend stays nearly flat. Time → Cumulative compliance spend New ruleNew ruleNew ruleNew rule Avoided spend One-time build Re-hire every change
Traditional consultancy model Resilient Control: build once, own it
Lines of defence as a service

Run your first and second line properly — without building a team first.

Ideal for growing firms, new UK branches and entities preparing for regulatory scrutiny.

Independence by design: we provide either first-line or second-line support to a client, never both, so the challenge your second line provides stays genuinely independent.

Three lines of defence model Board and senior management sit above three lines: first line control ownership, second line independent oversight, and third line internal audit. Resilient Control can operate either the first or the second line for a client, never both. Board & Senior Management · Risk appetite 1st LINE Own & operate Risk registerRCSA cyclesControl testingRemediation 2nd LINE Oversee & challenge Policy settingEffective challengeKRI monitoringBoard reporting 3rd LINE Independent assurance Internal auditAudit-ready evidencesupplied by lines1 and 2 OR We operate one line per client, never both

First-Line Control Ownership

£15,000 /quarter

Ongoing first-line control ownership: maintaining your risk register, planning and executing RCSA cycles, and tracking remediation to closure.

Risk registerRCSAControl testingRemediation tracking

Independent Risk Oversight

£5,000–£8,000 /quarter

Independent oversight and effective challenge of your first-line control environment, with policy setting and board-level risk reporting.

PolicyEffective challengeKRIsBoard reporting
Services

Six disciplines. One coherent control system.

Each discipline is designed to connect to the others — one taxonomy, one evidence model, one view for the board.

Cybersecurity Governance

CISSP-led security governance: cyber risk assessments, control frameworks, policy and security metrics for senior management.

Governance, Risk & Compliance

End-to-end GRC: policy, risk appetite, control design and audit remediation, mapped to COBIT and COSO.

Technology Risk & Control

Risk frameworks, control design and testing, and KRI/KPI frameworks that are business-relevant, not check-box.

DORA & Operational Resilience

DORA and UK operational resilience (PRA SS1/21, FCA PS21/3): important business services, impact tolerances, ICT risk management, incident reporting and the register of information.

RCSA

Risk taxonomy, control mapping, inherent and residual risk assessment, and an RCSA cycle your teams can run themselves.

Third-Party Risk Management

TPRM frameworks, supplier criticality models, concentration risk and ongoing monitoring — built by a former vendor risk manager.

Fixed-price offers

Defined scope. Defined outcome. Defined price.

Start with a diagnostic, or go straight to the build. No VAT is charged, so the price you see is the price you pay.

Diagnostic

Operational Resilience Health CheckStart here

£2,500

You built it for the deadline. Will it survive supervisory review? A rapid, independent check of your DORA or PRA/FCA operational resilience framework (important business services, impact tolerances, ICT risk, incident reporting, testing and third parties) with a prioritised remediation roadmap.

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Diagnostic

Technology Risk Health Check

£4,500

An independent view of your technology risk framework, control environment and evidence quality, benchmarked against regulator expectations.

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Review

TPRM Control Review

£5,000

Review of supplier criticality, due diligence, contractual controls, concentration risk and ongoing monitoring.

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Sprint

Audit Remediation Sprint

£5,000

Focused closure of open audit or regulatory findings, with evidence packs that stand up to re-testing.

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Build

RCSA Accelerator

£7,500

Risk taxonomy, control library and a first full RCSA cycle, run with your team so they can repeat it without us.

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Build

DORA Operating Model

£15k–£30k

Design and embedding of a complete DORA operating model: governance, ICT risk framework, incident process, testing programme and register of information.

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Ongoing

Fractional Technology Risk Officer

Senior technology risk leadership a few days a month — regulator engagement, board reporting and framework ownership, without a full-time hire.

£4,000–£8,000 /month
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A typical engagement Four phases: Diagnose in weeks 1 to 2, Design in weeks 3 to 5, Embed in weeks 6 to 10, and Handover from week 11, after which your team owns the framework. A TYPICAL ENGAGEMENT 1 Diagnose Weeks 1–2 · gaps & priorities 2 Design Weeks 3–5 · framework & controls 3 Embed Weeks 6–10 · run it with your team Handover Week 11+ · you own it No renewal needed
Selected results

Proof, not promises.

Three examples of the work behind the method, delivered in senior in-house roles at global financial institutions. Names are withheld to respect confidentiality.

Control turnaround · Global bank, Japan

From “weak” to “most-satisfactory” in six months

Situation
A technology infrastructure function supporting branches, data centres, trading floors and card operations carried a “weak” technology risk rating.
What we did
Designed and embedded a new control framework grounded in COBIT and COSO, with business-relevant KRIs, and represented the function at the bank's business risk review committee.
Result
Risk rating raised from weak to most-satisfactory within six months, with controls owned by the function itself.
Privileged access · International bank, EMEA

40+ critical legacy applications brought under control

Situation
Dozens of critical legacy applications lacked privileged access management integration. Deep interdependencies meant the work had been avoided for years.
What we did
Led the integration of privileged access management across the estate's databases and applications, and coordinated vulnerability remediation as the single point of contact for engineering teams.
Result
40+ critical applications remediated and long-standing legacy exposures closed without disrupting the interconnected production estate.
Resilience & integration · Global bank, post-acquisition

One accountable structure, tested by a real disruption

Situation
After a securities acquisition, network and telecom ownership was fragmented across separate teams, and suppliers lacked consistent oversight.
What we did
Consolidated ownership into one accountable function, redesigned the core network, and extended third-party governance to critical network, data centre and telecom suppliers.
Result
$10M annual run-rate savings, and operations kept running through a real undersea-earthquake disruption, not a tabletop exercise.
Career timeline From Bell Labs engineering to Citigroup technology infrastructure, AT&T global technology leadership, and SMBC technology risk control. Engineering foundations Bell Labs · Colt · hardware to systems Citigroup Risk rating weak → most-satisfactory in 6 months Vendor risk manager for critical suppliers AT&T Global Director · $100M+ technology budget Built the APAC North region from zero SMBC Technology risk control framework for hybrid infrastructure · PRA, FCA, BaFin engagement
About

Twenty-five years inside the institutions you're securing.

Resilient Control is led by Sainul Hossain, a technology risk and control leader who has built control functions from nothing — and then made them run without him.

CISSP · PMPSecurity and delivery credentials
COBIT · COSO · ISO 27001Control frameworks applied in practice
PRA · FCA · BaFinDirect regulatory engagement
UK · EU · Japan · USMulti-jurisdiction experience
Free resource

Operational Resilience Self-Assessment

Ten questions a supervisor is likely to ask about your DORA or PRA/FCA operational resilience framework, with a simple score that shows where your gaps are. A two-page PDF with no sign-up required.

Download the PDF ↓
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