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References from real engagements

Selected mandates from real projects, from security leadership through ISMS to recovery. Out of confidentiality we name no clients; the tasks and results are real.

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Mandates from practice

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Fractional CISO · Industry CISO mandate for an international industrial company From cybersecurity strategy through governance to incident coordination: senior leadership without creating a full-time position. View case → Ransomware recovery · Industry Ransomware recovery after full encryption After full encryption, secure the rebuild, connect an external SOC and harden the infrastructure for the long term. View case → ISMS · Energy / Critical infrastructure ISMS and supplier management for a critical-infrastructure energy provider Asset inventory, protection needs, risk analysis, data protection and third-party risk management, aligned with the ICT minimum standard. View case → Program · Industry Zero-Trust cybersecurity program across all of IT Identities, endpoints, applications, network and data under one shared target picture, with concepts and management reporting. View case → Assessment · Industry Gap assessment against CIS Controls with an implementation roadmap Measure maturity against CIS Controls, benchmark against other companies and derive a prioritized roadmap that actually gets implemented. View case → IAM · Industry Privileged Identity & Access Management with Entra ID A clean role model, just-in-time access and complete logging for privileged accounts with Microsoft Entra ID. View case → Strategy & Governance · Industry Cybersecurity strategy and governance from a maturity assessment Turn a maturity assessment into a load-bearing strategy and a governance that holds in daily operations. View case → Program coordination · Retail Coordinating a group-wide IT security program Guide product teams through a security program, from policy to measurable implementation. View case → Microsoft 365 · Training Hardening a Microsoft 365 tenant including MacOS device management Secure an M365 tenant to the CIS benchmark and manage MacOS devices under control. View case → IT project leadership · Higher education Email migration for a university with 12,000 mailboxes A migration from IBM Notes to Outlook, planned and led without downtime for operations. View case → Automation · Retail Process automation with Power Apps and Power Automate Automate recurring workflows instead of doing them by hand. View case →

Experience in numbers

Breadth across industries and sizes

21+

mandates and projects delivered, from SME to enterprise

10 to 160,000

employees in the organizations we have supported

8

industries: manufacturing, energy and critical infrastructure, insurance, retail, public sector, higher education and more

Collaboration in a modern office setting

More work in practice

Not every mandate becomes a case study

We deliver these services repeatedly across industries and company sizes.

  • Microsoft 365 security reviewsTenant review and hardening at more than ten companies: licenses, identities, Conditional Access and Defender configuration.
  • Security Operations CenterBuilt with Microsoft Sentinel and Defender XDR: 24/7 monitoring, KQL detection to MITRE, RBAC and incident response.
  • Cloud security requirementsCloud security requirements at companies up to 25,000 employees, iterative and with know-how transfer to the team.
  • Zero-Trust trainingTrainer at five German institutes on transforming companies towards Zero-Trust security.
Working together on a security question

Network & extended team

For larger programs, an established network

At our core we work lean. For larger programs and peak load, a fixed network of experienced consultants extends the team. An anonymized selection from their projects:

Cloud transformation

Program lead of an Azure cloud migration

Modernizing and migrating the infrastructure to Azure, agile with SAFe.

Industry · ~2,600 employees
Change & adoption

Global rollout across 36 countries

Migrating more than 22,000 distribution lists, coordinating over 36 service desks.

Retail · ~400,000 employees
M365 & governance

Global M365 licensing strategy and automation

License consolidation and automated assignment across the entire public cloud estate.

Retail · ~500,000 employees
FinOps & cost optimization

Building a FinOps team

Transparency over cloud cost, a tagging strategy and KPI models, coaching IT and finance.

~1,800 employees
Incident response

Cyber incident response and recovery

Initial containment, leading a task force, a recovery plan and communication coordination.

~1,800 employees
Network security

Global SASE rollout

Introducing a standardized, secure network service, integrated into existing IT.

~1,800 employees
"ODCUS supports us as a partner on questions and challenges around IT and ensures that the digital and technological resources in use are secure and protected."
Samir Aliyev, CEO, Swiss Cyber Institute

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