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In consulting firms, a client deliverable version circulates in three inboxes, utilisation is guessed rather than known, and a proposal's pricing leaks before it is sent. The useful question is not whether the business could be attacked, but which attack would hurt most: the one that stops proposals and statements of work, or the one that quietly copies client strategy documents, pricing, staff rates, and engagement contracts.

The engagement works through proposals and statements of work and engagement staffing and utilisation in turn, checking who can do what, what is logged, and where a single compromised account could reach. a shared drive exposing a client's strategy work, a compromised consultant mailbox used for invoice fraud, and a lost laptop with client files is the scenario the defences are tested against, not a generic checklist.

A sensible first engagement is a scoped review of proposals and statements of work: accounts, access, backups, and the one incident scenario the business fears most, with fixes ordered by damage, not by ease. Discuss that first workflow directly; wider scope follows only if the first piece earns it.

The systems in play are CRM, proposal documents, time-tracking tools, document sharing, and invoicing. Nothing here assumes a greenfield rebuild; the engagement works with the tools already in daily use.

The work is done on the systems the business already runs: CRM, proposal documents, time-tracking tools, document sharing, and invoicing. New tooling is recommended only where an existing gap cannot be closed by configuration, because a tool nobody maintains is worse than no tool.

Compliance is a floor, not a result: meeting a requirement does not mean the business is safe, and being safe in practice matters more than a certificate on the wall.

What changes is the incident conversation: instead of discovering during a crisis that nobody knows who decides, the business has walked through a shared drive exposing a client's strategy work, a compromised consultant mailbox used for invoice fraud, and a lost laptop with client files once already and knows the first three moves.

That is the standard this engagement is measured against: not a launch announcement, but a workflow the business still uses months later, maintained by its own team with documentation handed over at the end. Browse all hire engagements or discuss your workflow directly.