ISS Consulting & Expert Services
Trust Lifecycle Security for Products, Systems, and Enterprises
Securing products and systems. Hardening operations. Advancing resilience.
ISS Consulting & Expert Services helps organizations design, validate, and operationalize trust across the full security lifecycle – from embedded devices and connected systems to enterprise identity, cryptography, and compliance.
With decades of hands-on experience securing mission-critical environments, ISS supports customers from architecture and risk assessment through deployment, operations, and long-term lifecycle assurance.
How we help clients
ISS consulting engagements focus on establishing defensible, enforceable trust across products, platforms, and organizations
Design secure architectures
Embedded-first discipline: starting at the physical edge.
Validate and enforce securitys
Through architecture reviews, threat modeling, cryptographic validation, and compliance assessments
Integrate lifecycle controls
Identity, keys, certificates, signing, updates, and decommissioning - designed as a continuous system
Accelerate compliance readiness
Ensuring long-lifecycle systems meet regulatory, audit, and mission requirements from day one
Consulting & Expert Services
Architecture & Risk Studies
- Security Architecture Study (SAS)
- Architecture reviews and trust roadmaps
- Threat modeling and asset profiling
- Identity, cryptographic, and trust architecture assessments
- Regulatory alignment and compliance mapping
- Standards alignment: ISO 27001/2, IEC 62443, SAE J3061, NIST SP 800-53, FIPS 140-2, SOC, PCI, and more
Security Engineering & Validation
- Secure protocol and cryptographic design
- PKI, certificate, key, and identity engineering
- Code, firmware, and update signing workflows
- CI/CD and DevSecOps trust integration
- Vulnerability assessments and penetration testing
- Post-quantum cryptography planning and migration
- Cryptographic discovery (keys, certificates, secrets, SBOM/CBOM)
Lifecycle Support & Operationalization
- Secure boot, OTA, and firmware update strategy
- Key and certificate lifecycle management
- Secrets management and encryption strategy
- Supply chain, factory, and manufacturing security audits
- Identity sprawl mitigation (human and machine)
- Trust governance, policy, and lifecycle controls
- Continuous compliance and secure operations readiness
What is SAS?
ISS’s Security Architecture Study (SAS) is a structured, standards-aligned evaluation that defines a defensible, resilient security and trust architecture across devices, software, identities, cryptography, and operational systems.
An SAS helps organizations understand current risk, identify gaps, and define a prioritized roadmap aligned to both technical and regulatory requirements.
What You Get?
Threat and risk assessment tailored to embedded and enterprise environments
Architecture gap analysis and design recommendations
Defined security goals and prioritized roadmap
Executive summary + technical recommendations
Device, machine, and workload identity
Key, certificate, and secrets lifecycle management
Protocol and cryptographic subsystem reviews
Secure boot and firmware integrity
Domains We Support
ISS consulting engagements span critical trust domains across embedded and enterprise environments:
Cryptographic discovery and post-quantum readiness
OTA and update validation
Supply chain and factory security
Enterprise PKI and trust services
How We Work
ISS follows a clear, phased consulting methodology designed to deliver actionable outcomes: