The challenge
Universities are among the most attacked organisations in the UK: sprawling estates, valuable research data, and thousands of users make defending them genuinely hard. Like many institutions, the University of Glasgow needed more than technical fixes. It needed a clear, credible case for sustained investment that senior leadership could stand behind.
What we did
Our work centred on the strategic core of the vCISO service: assessing the current security posture against recognised standards, defining a realistic target state, and building a prioritised cyber roadmap that translated technical risk into language a university court and executive could act on.
The outcome
The roadmap did exactly what a good one should: it made the case. The University secured a multi-million pound investment in its cyber security programme, turning a set of known risks into a funded, sequenced plan.
