Governance, Risk & Compliance · Govern
Policy sets copied from a template read well and fail in practice, because they describe an organisation that is not yours. We select a control framework proportionate to your obligations and size, then write a policy set, technical standards and procedures that reflect how your organisation actually works. Standards are made specific enough to be testable, so a control can be checked rather than merely asserted. Each document has an owner, a review date and a route for making staff aware of changes, so the set is followed rather than filed.
In short
Security policy and framework development produces documentation short enough to read and specific enough to follow. It gives each policy a real obligation behind it and an owner in front of it, so the set stays current instead of ageing in a shared drive.
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We help you choose a control framework proportionate to your obligations and size, and advise against adopting several at once. The framework that fits is usually the one your customers or regulators are asking about, not the most comprehensive available. Choosing deliberately at the outset avoids the common waste of rework when an ill-fitting framework is abandoned.
We write a policy set that covers your real obligations without duplication or filler. Shorter policies that people read protect the organisation better than exhaustive ones that go unopened. Each policy traces back to an obligation, so there is nothing in the set that cannot be justified when an auditor asks why it exists.
We produce technical standards and procedures specific enough to be tested against. A standard that says "use strong encryption" cannot be checked; one that names the algorithm and key length can. This specificity is what lets control testing later produce evidence rather than opinion.
We set ownership, review dates and the route by which staff learn of changes. Documentation that is not maintained drifts out of line with practice and becomes a liability at audit. A defined cycle keeps the set current, and a simple awareness mechanism means people actually know what the rules are.
What you receive
Documented output your teams keep and can act on without us in the room.
When this work helps
How an engagement runs
Establish the obligations, decision rights, and risks that genuinely matter to this organisation. We separate the requirements that truly apply from those assumed to, so effort is not spent governing risks you do not carry.
Review existing controls, policy, evidence, and how the work is actually performed. We compare the control on paper with the control in practice, because the gap between the two is usually where the real risk sits.
Design a proportionate control set with named ownership, evidence, and review cadence. Every control has an owner who can operate it and a defined source of evidence, so nothing depends on memory or heroics.
Embed the changes with the teams doing the work, and test that the controls operate. We hand over controls the process owners can run themselves, rather than a framework only we understand.
Where we work
Fidova provides governance, risk and compliance consulting from Delhi, India, and works with organisations operating in several jurisdictions at once, mapping obligations across regions to one coherent control set.
Engagements run in English, are scheduled around your time zone, and can be delivered remotely end to end, with on-site time planned where a phase genuinely benefits from being in the room.
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