Consulting from operators, not observers.
The advisory arm of a firm that runs SOCs, breaks systems, and ships security products.
Most consulting ends in a deck. Ours ends in a decision — argued from evidence our own operations generate, priced as options, and sequenced so your team can deliver it.
9
Fixed-scope engagements, priced before start
4
Operating benches behind the advice — SOC · offensive · forensics · Labs
90 days
Adoption check-in after every engagement, included
The gap
The advice industry has an evidence problem.
Security decisions get made with vendor pitches on one side and audit findings on the other. What's missing is an architect who has run the operations.
The parachute team
Seniors sell the engagement. Juniors deliver it — learning your environment on your invoice.
The deck that dies
Forty findings, no owners, no sequence, no prices. Filed after the readout, cited at the next audit.
The vendor echo
Advice that lands suspiciously close to whoever pays the referral fee. The tooling recommendation was written before the assessment.
Working session · Zentara HQ
Advisory here is worked, not presented. Positions are argued against the live estate — and against the people who run our SOC and offensive benches.
The difference
Advice tested on our own operating floor
Four benches stand behind every recommendation. Each one is a business Zentara runs — not a slide it presents.
We run the watch
Zentara operates 24/7 SOCs for national banks and carriers. Advice on detection architecture comes from people who hold the pager — not people who read about it.
Managed SOC · ZX
We attack systems
A 137-type offensive catalog delivered by OSCP and GPEN certified testers. Architecture reviews are informed by how systems actually fall, not how diagrams say they should hold.
VAPT · Red Team
We work the cases
Incident response and court-grade forensics under ISO/IEC 17025 laboratory discipline. Resilience advice is shaped by what we find in the wreckage — repeatedly.
IR & Digital Forensics
We ship products
ZX, AVAS, and Agent ODYSSEY are built in-house under ISO 42001. We have made the build-versus-buy calls with our own budget — and lived with them.
Zentara Labs
Practice areas
Six practices. One bench.
Every practice is anchored to an operating capability inside Zentara — so the advice is never further than one desk from the people doing the work.
Security Strategy & Program Design
Operating models, organization and hiring plans, budget defense, and the board narrative that funds it all.
Grounded in vCISO practice
Security Architecture & Engineering
Reference architectures, segmentation and zero-trust design, identity architecture, and detection-coverage engineering.
Grounded in SOC + offensive operations
Cloud & Infrastructure Security
Landing zones, migration guardrails, hybrid and multi-cloud hardening — with data-sovereignty constraints designed in, not bolted on.
Grounded in managed cloud delivery
Regulatory & Compliance Advisory
OJK POJK, BSSN, UU PDP, MAS TRM, ISO 27001, SOC 2 — clause-level gap work with a closure plan someone can actually execute.
Grounded in regulator correspondence
Data & AI Security Governance
AI risk policy, ISO 42001 alignment, and security for model and data pipelines — advised by a firm certified for its own AI engineering.
Grounded in Zentara Labs
Resilience & Incident Readiness
IR plan engineering, executive tabletops, and post-incident rebuild architecture drawn from cases we have worked end to end.
Grounded in IR & forensics casework
The engagements
Consulting, productized.
Nine engagements. Each has a fixed scope, a fixed fee, a named deliverable — and a question it exists to answer. If your question isn't here, we scope it the same way.
Security Architecture Review
3–4 weeks“Would our architecture hold?”
Current-state map, gap analysis against a reference architecture, sequenced remediation design.
Scope this engagementCloud Security Assessment
3 weeks“Is our cloud estate configured the way we think it is?”
Configuration review across the estate, landing-zone redesign, and a guardrail set your team can enforce.
Scope this engagementRegulatory Gap Assessment
3–4 weeks“Where do we actually stand against OJK, UU PDP, or MAS TRM?”
Clause-level gap register per framework with a prioritized, costed closure plan.
Scope this engagementSecurity Tooling Rationalization
2–3 weeks“What are we paying for that isn't protecting us?”
Stack inventory, overlap and shelfware analysis, consolidation plan with a savings estimate.
Scope this engagementM&A Cyber Due Diligence
1–2 weeks per target“What risk are we buying?”
Target posture assessment, red-flag register, and a first-100-days integration security plan.
Scope this engagementZero Trust Roadmap
4 weeks“How do we move past the perimeter without breaking operations?”
Segmentation model, identity architecture, and a phased migration plan with rollback points.
Scope this engagementIncident Readiness Review
2–3 weeks“If it happened tonight, would the plan work?”
IR plan engineering, an executive tabletop run by responders, and the gap fixes in writing.
Scope this engagementPost-Incident Rebuild
Scoped per case“How do we make sure this never repeats?”
Root-cause-driven architecture redesign, hardening sequence, and a board-ready report.
Scope this engagementSecurity Program Design
4–6 weeks“What should our security function look like at our size?”
Operating model, organization and hiring plan, budget model, and a 12-month delivery plan.
Scope this engagementNot sure where to start?
Bring us the question. Framing it costs nothing.
A 45-minute working session with a senior practitioner — we name the decision, the evidence it needs, and the engagement that fits. If none does, we say so.
How we work
Frame. Evidence. Decide. Land.
The same four moves on every engagement — built so the work survives contact with your organization.
Frame
Every engagement opens by naming the decision it must enable, who owns that decision, and what evidence would change it. No decision, no engagement.
Evidence
Instruments alongside interviews — an AVAS baseline, SOC telemetry where present, offensive findings, and configuration review. Every claim in the memo traces to something observed.
Decide
Options with trade-offs priced — including the option to do nothing. We recommend one, in writing, and argue it in the room.
Land
Findings land with named owners and a sequence, not a wishlist. Ninety days later we come back and score adoption — that score is our report card.
Jurisdictions
Local weight. International standards.
One practice, two directions — Indonesian institutions answering to the world, and international firms answering to Indonesia.
For Indonesian institutions
International standards, without translation loss
Banks, SOEs, and enterprises answering to global partners, correspondent banks, or certification bodies — advised in the ISO, NIST, and SOC 2 language those counterparties expect, by a team that also sits across the table from OJK and BSSN.
For international firms entering Indonesia
Local regulatory weight, briefed in English
Regional headquarters and market entrants navigating OJK licensing, UU PDP, PSE registration, and data-residency rules — with working papers in English and Bahasa Indonesia, from a firm regulators already know.
Working papers in English and Bahasa Indonesia. Jakarta headquarters, Singapore regional office — one engagement lead across both.
Build the program
Pairs well with
vCISO — Virtual CISO
Findings need an owner. A named Zentara executive takes the memo and runs the program it defines — governance, board reporting, and a maturity score that moves.
VAPT — Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Testing
Architecture on paper is a hypothesis. Certified offensive testing proves the design holds — before an adversary runs the same experiment.
Managed SOC
If the review finds a detection gap, the fastest closure is a watch that is already staffed — 24/7, with a 15-minute critical SLA.
FAQ
Common questions
Straight answers. If yours isn't here, ask us directly.
Consulting answers a question; a vCISO owns a program. An engagement here is a fixed-scope project — weeks, not months — that ends in a decision memo with owners and a sequence. If those findings need standing executive ownership afterward, that's the vCISO service: a named leader, a governance cadence, and accountability quarter after quarter. Consulting is frequently how that relationship starts.
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The next decision is yours. Make it on evidence.
Nine fixed-scope engagements, senior practitioners only, and a memo that ends in a decision — not a deck. Start by framing the question.