About Fidova
Advice that sees the whole change.
Fidova brings technology, cybersecurity, governance, ESG, and finance into one advisory conversation—so important decisions are made with their dependencies visible.
Build with intent.
Secure with rigour.
Govern with clarity.
Our story
A security firm that grew into one connected practice.
Fidova started as a cybersecurity practice. The founder’s background in security research, reverse engineering and vulnerability work meant the first engagements were about finding what was broken and proving it — penetration testing, technical analysis, and hardening the systems clients already relied on.
Those clients soon asked a harder question: help us build it properly in the first place. Securing software you did not design has limits, so we moved upstream — into development, architecture and delivery, with security decided at the outset rather than bolted on afterwards. SAP, ERP and AI work followed as the build practice matured.
As that work reached boards, auditors and regulators, the question changed again — not only “is it secure?” but “can we prove it, report it, and stand behind the decision?” Governance, risk and compliance, ESG and finance advisory grew out of answering exactly that for the same clients.
Today Fidova spans eight consulting domains across three connected spans — Build, Secure and Govern. The security instinct it began with still runs through everything: evidence over assertion, dependencies mapped before decisions, and work built to withstand scrutiny.
First — Secure
A cybersecurity practice
Penetration testing, technical analysis and hardening — rooted in security research, reverse engineering and vulnerability work.
Then — Build
Development, SAP, ERP & AI
Clients asked us to build what we were securing, so we moved upstream — with security designed in from the start, not bolted on.
Now — Govern
GRC, ESG & Finance
Boards and auditors needed proof and reporting they could stand behind, so governance, ESG and finance advisory followed.
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Consulting domains under one firm
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Connected spans — Build, Secure, Govern
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Regions served, from India to North America
Security-first
Origin, and still the operating instinct
Founder
Pancham Narang
Founder & Cybersecurity Researcher
Pancham founded Fidova as a security practice and grew it, engagement by engagement, into the connected advisory it is today — from cybersecurity into development, and on to the full set of eight consulting domains.
He is a cybersecurity researcher and reverse engineer with hands-on work across malware analysis, Android application security, and vulnerability research.
His published areas of focus include penetration testing, threat intelligence, OSINT, HUMINT, and the analysis of real-world security threats. He brings that investigative mindset to Fidova’s broader work: understand the system, expose the dependencies, and design change that can withstand scrutiny.
That approach shapes how every engagement runs — evidence over assertion, decisions named before delivery starts, and work built to be handed back to your teams.
Delhi, India
What Fidova is for
- Independent counsel. No product to sell you and no implementation quota to fill.
- Connected scope. Technology, security, governance, ESG and finance reasoned about together.
- Complex change. Programmes where the decisions are consequential and the dependencies are not obvious.
- Defensible outcomes. Work written to hold up in front of a board, an auditor or a regulator.
How we work
Six principles that shape every engagement.
Dependencies before decisions
Before recommending anything, we map what a choice touches — architecture, risk, controls, reporting, cost and the people who have to live with it. Most failed change was a reasonable decision made without its dependencies in view.
Decisions before delivery
Programmes rarely stall on engineering. They stall waiting for a decision nobody is clearly accountable for. We name the decisions, the owners and the dates first, then plan delivery around them.
Evidence that survives scrutiny
Findings, controls and claims are written so they hold up in front of an auditor, a regulator, a board or an acquirer — with severity, method, ownership and proof rather than assertion.
One advisory conversation
Technology, security, governance, ESG and finance are treated as one conversation instead of separate workstreams that reconcile late. You get a single view, not four opinions to arbitrate.
Designed for more than one jurisdiction
Obligations differ by market. We design controls, evidence and reporting to work across the jurisdictions you actually operate in, rather than assuming a single regulatory picture.
Built to be handed over
Every engagement ends with your teams able to run the work without us — documented decisions, named owners, working artefacts and the reasoning behind them.
What we do
Eight offerings, grouped by what they are for.
Build
Designing and delivering the systems the business runs on.
- DevelopmentProduct and platform design, architecture, delivery oversight and engineering quality — with security decided up front.
- SAPS/4HANA implementation and migration, module configuration, ABAP and Fiori development, integration, SAP security and GRC, and managed support.
- ERPERP selection, implementation and custom build across finance, procurement, inventory, manufacturing and people — with data, controls and adoption designed in.
- Artificial IntelligenceWhich AI use cases hold up, what your data allows, and the security, oversight and policy needed to run them.
Secure
Testing and hardening what has already been built.
Govern
Making accountability, evidence and reporting work.
- Governance, Risk & ComplianceOne rationalised control set, named owners and continuous evidence, mapped across ISO 27001, SOC 2 and data protection obligations.
- ESG ConsultingMateriality, metric definitions you can defend, reporting readiness, and claims tested against evidence before they are published.
- Finance ConsultingBusiness cases under independent challenge, finance process and control design, and reporting leadership can rely on.
Who we work with
The situations we are usually brought into.
Programmes under scrutiny
A large technology or ERP programme is behind, over budget, or losing confidence, and leadership needs an independent read on what is actually blocking it.
A first formal governance layer
Growth, funding, a large customer or a certification requirement means informal practice now has to become a documented, owned and evidenced control set.
Security hardening after a scare
An incident, a failed assessment or a customer security review has exposed gaps, and the response has to be prioritised rather than scattered.
Consolidation after growth or acquisition
Multiple systems, entities and ways of working need to become one operating model, with data, process and controls aligned.
AI adoption that has to hold up
Teams are already experimenting. The question is which use cases are defensible, what the data allows, and what oversight has to exist before anything reaches production.
Reporting leadership can rely on
Sustainability, financial or risk reporting needs defensible definitions, traceable numbers and claims that were tested before they were published.
Where we work
Based in Delhi, India. Working internationally.
Fidova Advisory is a consulting firm based in Delhi, India, advising organisations in India and across international markets on software development, SAP and ERP programmes, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, governance risk and compliance, ESG, and finance.
Our clients include organisations headquartered in India as well as teams in Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Europe, the United Kingdom, and North America. Most of the work is delivered remotely in English and scheduled around your time zone, with on-site time planned where a phase genuinely benefits from being in the room.
Because obligations differ by market, we design controls, reporting, and evidence to hold up in more than one jurisdiction at a time rather than assuming a single regulatory picture.
Our process
Structured enough to create clarity. Flexible enough for real change.
Discover
Understand the ambition, operating context, constraints, and decisions that matter before defining the work.
Assess
Examine the current state across technology, risk, governance, people, and financial dependencies.
Design
Create a practical path forward with clear priorities, ownership, controls, and measures of progress.
Deliver
Work alongside your teams to implement, assure, and improve the change as conditions evolve.
Engagement models
Four ways to work together.
Assessment and roadmap
Typically 3–8 weeksA bounded review of the current state across the areas in question, ending in a prioritised roadmap with owners, sequencing and the decisions that unblock it.
Suits an unclear starting point, a second opinion on a plan, or preparing for a board or investor conversation.
Defined-scope programme
Scoped per phaseA specific outcome delivered end to end — an implementation, a migration, a control set, a reporting framework — with agreed deliverables, checkpoints and acceptance.
Suits work with a clear destination where you want accountability for the result, not just advice.
Advisory retainer
Monthly, rollingOngoing access for decision support, design review, risk questions and escalation, with an agreed rhythm of sessions and written positions on the decisions that matter.
Suits leadership teams making frequent consequential calls without in-house depth in every area.
Embedded support
For the length of a phaseWe work inside your team for a defined phase — a cutover, an audit window, a remediation push — carrying real workload alongside your people.
Suits intense periods where capacity, not only direction, is the constraint.
Questions
Practical answers before you get in touch.
Get in touch
Tell us what you are deciding.
Share the situation and we will come back with a considered view on scope, sequencing and where the real dependencies sit.
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