MANAGED CYBERSECURITY SERVICES

Security controls that keep working after the assessment.

Secalyx helps growing, technology-dependent organizations establish and operate a defined set of cybersecurity controls, without requiring every capability to be maintained internally. The scope can be transferred to your team, shared with it, or operated by Secalyx under clearly assigned responsibilities.

WHY CONTINUING CONTROL MATTERS

Security exposure grows when ownership, operation, and evidence fall out of step.

A policy, platform, or assessment does not keep an organization secure by itself. Controls need owners, operating routines, evidence, escalation, and periodic challenge.

01

Control drift

Access, configurations, exceptions, and responsibilities change as the business grows. Without regular review, the control described in policy becomes different from the control operating in practice.

02

Unresolved exposure

Vulnerabilities, excessive access, insecure configurations, and recovery weaknesses remain business risks until someone is responsible for resolving or formally accepting them.

03

Assurance under pressure

Customer questionnaires, audits, and compliance reviews take longer when evidence has to be reconstructed after the request arrives. Maintained evidence makes the position easier to explain and defend.

04

Concentrated capability

Security knowledge held by too few people creates dependency and inconsistent decisions. Defined responsibilities, documented procedures, and access to specialist depth make the function more resilient.

Proportionate by design. Sized to the business, without weakening the controls that matter.

THE CONTROL ENVIRONMENT

A connected view of the controls that protect the organization and support assurance.

The final control set depends on the organization risks, technology, customer commitments, and internal capability. The following disciplines define the available scope; they are not a fixed package. Secalyx governs and operates assigned security controls. It does not operate the underlying technology environment.

01

Governance, risk, and accountability

Maintain the security priorities, risk register, control ownership, exceptions, and management decisions needed to direct the program. Open risks remain visible rather than disappearing into operational activity.

02

Identity and access security

Govern joiner, mover, and leaver controls; privileged access; authentication requirements; access reviews; and material exceptions. Routine user administration remains with the client or its IT provider unless a specific security-control activity is assigned to Secalyx.

03

Secure configuration and control hygiene

Define and review security baselines across agreed cloud services, SaaS platforms, endpoints, email, firewalls, and other in-scope systems. This may include patching oversight, configuration review, remediation tracking, and validation that agreed security requirements have been applied.

04

Vulnerability and exposure management

Coordinate agreed vulnerability assessments, prioritize findings in business context, agree remediation ownership, track action, validate closure, and record accepted exposure. Specialist testing is performed only under written authorization and an agreed scope.

05

Resilience and incident readiness

Maintain the security aspects of backup and restoration assurance, incident roles, escalation paths, response playbooks, and recovery exercises. The purpose is to establish whether recovery and response arrangements can be relied upon, not merely whether they have been documented.

06

Assurance and evidence

Maintain evidence for management review, customer security questionnaires, audits, and compliance activity. Evidence is linked to the control and period examined, with limitations and unresolved gaps stated plainly.

THREE WAYS TO ASSIGN RESPONSIBILITY

Choose how the capability should be established, shared, or operated.

These are operating models, not predetermined packages. Responsibilities, control coverage, service arrangements, and transition expectations are agreed for each engagement.

Model 01

Build & Transfer

Secalyx establishes or strengthens the cybersecurity capability, then transfers it to your team.

Best fit

Organizations that intend to own and operate cybersecurity internally but need experienced help building a sustainable foundation.

Model 02

Co-Managed Cybersecurity

Defined cybersecurity responsibilities are shared, documented, and operated together.

Best fit

Organizations with internal IT or security capability that need continuing security leadership, additional capacity, or specialist depth.

Model 03

Managed Security Controls

Secalyx operates the cybersecurity controls assigned to it within the agreed scope. Managed describes assigned responsibility; it does not imply that every aspect of cybersecurity has been transferred.

Best fit

Organizations that want Secalyx to operate a defined security scope while their internal team or IT provider continues to run the underlying technology environment.

In every model, management retains business authority, approvals, and risk acceptance.

Specialist Projects & Critical Change — available within any operating model or as a standalone engagement.

WHEN THE NEED IS SPECIFIC

Specialist capability for a defined security requirement or material change.

Specialist projects can be delivered independently or alongside any operating model.

  • Security posture and control-maturity assessment
  • Cybersecurity program design or remediation
  • Identity and privileged-access improvement
  • Cloud, SaaS, email, endpoint, or firewall security hardening
  • Vulnerability-remediation and patch-governance improvement
  • Backup restoration validation and ransomware readiness
  • Incident-response planning and tabletop exercises
  • Customer security questionnaires and assurance preparation
  • Cloud and application security architecture review
  • Security requirements for a major platform or business change

Certification readiness, VAPT, data protection, and AI governance are available as separate advisory engagements and can operate alongside any managed model.

HOW THE SERVICE IS GOVERNED

Defined responsibility. Direct evidence. Documented operations.

Requests and reporting

Service requests are received by email, with a monthly written report covering work completed, material risks, and recommendations. Ticketing tooling may be introduced where service volume justifies it.

Privileged access

Privileged access uses a client-owned credential vault and named individual accounts rather than shared logins. Material changes require client approval.

Escalation

A documented escalation path is agreed for each engagement. Coverage hours, response expectations, and escalation timings are defined in the engagement agreement.

Transition and exit

At transition or exit, credentials, runbooks, inventories, and relevant operating records are returned through a documented handover.

Vikas Khandelwal leads engagements. Where specialist expertise is required, appropriately qualified associates may support defined parts of the work.

DEFINED RESPONSIBILITY

Clear ownership is part of the control.

Every engagement begins with an agreed control boundary, responsibility matrix, decision rights, dependencies, access model, escalation path, and expected evidence.

Secalyx's agreed responsibilities

  • Operating or reviewing assigned cybersecurity controls
  • Maintaining control procedures and evidence
  • Identifying deviations and escalating material exposure
  • Tracking agreed remediation and validating closure
  • Reporting control status, unresolved risk, and required decisions
  • Coordinating defined security activities with your team and appointed providers
  • Maintaining the documentation required for continuity, review, and eventual transition

Your organization's retained responsibilities

  • Business objectives and operational priorities
  • Policy approval, budgets, and resource decisions
  • Legal interpretation and regulatory accountability
  • Risk acceptance and decisions on unresolved exposure
  • Ownership of your systems, data, accounts, and provider relationships
  • Timely access to the people, systems, and evidence needed to perform the agreed work
  • General IT operations and activities outside the assigned security scope

Work your teams and providers continue to run

  • Workplace support and device administration
  • Routine user, mailbox, and SaaS administration
  • Day-to-day network, Wi-Fi, and firewall administration
  • Cloud migrations and routine cloud operations
  • Technology procurement and vendor management
  • Infrastructure projects outside the agreed security scope
  • Legal advice and regulatory accountability

Work that continues with your teams stays with your internal functions or appointed providers. Where an agreed security control depends on it, Secalyx defines or reviews the requirement, coordinates the evidence, and tracks the agreed action without assuming day-to-day administration.

The agreed scope records responsibilities, exclusions, dependencies, timelines, and expected outputs, and names the responsible party or separately appointed provider where continuous monitoring, managed detection and response, digital forensics, malware analysis, legal support, privacy counsel, or crisis communications are required.

Which operating model fits your current capability and the way your business is growing?

Tell us the requirement, deadline, or pressure you are dealing with.

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