CYBERSECURITY ADVISORY AND MANAGED SERVICES

Cybersecurity decisions that hold up under scrutiny.

Secalyx helps growing technology companies understand exposure, meet customer expectations, and build security controls their teams can sustain.

Decision structure linking risk, controls, evidence, action, and assurance.
Decision structure linking risk, controls, evidence, action, and assurance.

OUR WORKING PRINCIPLES

EVIDENCEExamined directly

SCOPEResponsibilities agreed first

RECOMMENDATIONSAppropriate to the business

HANDOVERKnowledge retained by the client

WHERE THE WORK BEGINS

Your security pressure rarely arrives alone.

A customer request, a control gap, and a regulatory obligation often land on the same small team in the same month. The work is to separate urgency from importance, and to establish what evidence is actually required before committing to anything.

01EXTERNAL DEMAND

A customer needs assurance

A questionnaire arrives, or a contract clause does. Both ask for evidence of controls you may well run, but have never had to document in the shape being asked for.

02VISIBILITY GAP

Exposure is not clearly understood

Systems, responsibilities, and existing safeguards are each known in parts, by different people. Nobody has assembled the whole picture, so priority follows whoever asked most recently.

03OWNERSHIP GAP

Controls need continuing ownership

The assessment ends and the findings are real, but nobody owns the controls afterward. Reviews slip, evidence goes stale, and the next customer request starts the cycle again.

Frameworks, standards and regulations

  • ISO 27001
  • NIST 800-53
  • SOC 2
  • ISO 27002
  • DPDP
  • CERT-In
  • GDPR
  • PCI-DSS
  • NIST CSF
  • CIS
  • OWASP
  • ISO 31000
  • NIST RMF
  • ISO 27701
  • ISO 27017/27018
  • NIST AI RMF
  • ISO 42001
  • EU AI Act
  • DORA

FOCUSED ADVISORY SERVICES

Depth where the decision requires it.

Choose a focused engagement, or combine related disciplines around one business outcome. Scope is defined before the work begins.

Layered security architecture connecting evidence, controls, and operating responsibilities.

CONTINUITY AFTER THE PROJECT

Security controls that keep working after the assessment.

Secalyx can help build the capability, share responsibility with your team, or operate agreed security controls. These are operating models, not fixed packages.

Build & Transfer

We establish the controls, documentation, routines, and skills, then transfer operation to your team.

Best if you are building internal capability.

Co-Managed Cybersecurity

Responsibility is divided deliberately: your team keeps context and access, Secalyx carries specific direction and operating discipline.

Best if you have a capable team with selected gaps.

Managed Security Controls

Secalyx operates the agreed controls within the client’s stated business decisions, approvals, and internal accountability.

Best if defined controls need running continuity.

HOW AN ENGAGEMENT WORKS

Reduce uncertainty without creating dependency.

The sequence is simple to understand and disciplined enough to audit. The exact evidence, responsibilities, and outputs are agreed for each engagement.

01

Frame the decision

Clarify the business trigger, boundaries, and success criteria.

02

Examine the evidence

Review what exists, test key assumptions, and distinguish fact from assertion.

03

Set the priorities

Sequence actions around material risk, customer need, and operating capacity.

04

Build or operate

Transfer a sustainable capability, or run the agreed security-control scope.

Vikas Khandelwal, Founder & Principal Consultant

The Experience Behind Secalyx

Vikas Khandelwal

Founder & Principal Consultant

He holds CISSP (since 2009), CISM, CRISC, CISA, C|CISO, and CEH, and is a BSI-certified ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Lead Auditor and Lead Implementer.

Across a career spanning 25+ years, he has personally designed, built, and run cybersecurity and IT infrastructure from single-site environments to multi-city operations spanning Bengaluru, Mumbai, Delhi NCR, Pune, Indore, and international sites, supporting 5,000+ users.

He led security and technology programs that supported customer assurance assessments for Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 organizations across BFSI, healthcare, aviation, and other regulated environments. His current advisory work also includes data protection, security framework implementation, AI governance, and Fractional CISO leadership.

READY TO DISCUSS THE DECISION?

Bring the security decision you need to make.

Share the pressure, requirement, or control question you are working through. A completed brief is not required.