Obscurity Consulting

Our Mission

To our clients, we offer:

• clarity of thought and purpose in cutting through complexity;
• assurance that your security concerns understood and being brought under control;
• optimisation of available resources proportionate to mitigation of risk;
• make measurable progress towards a better security posture;

To the community of security practitioners, we offer:

• advancement the 'state-of-the-art';
• creativity, vision and thought-leadership;
• guidance, exploration and innovation;

Our Vision

That Security should neither be derived via a ‘Dark Art’ nor a formulaic, pre-packaged solution.
Instead we offer architected solutions: considered, tailored and adaptable to the needs of the client, delivered via transparently coherent processes.

Our Approach

We believe that security must be established as an integral part of Enterprise Architecture:

• adaptable to business needs;
• focussed on delivering business value;
• secure by design & default;
• effective, consistent, reliable;
• agile, efficient, scalable & maintainable;
• supported by standards, frameworks and models;
• unobtrusive;

Our Offering

Extensive consultancy experience in all aspects of defining, designing, planning & integrating security into enterprise architecture programmes.
Motivated towards helping people with critical missions where serious security issues are at stake and success hinges on a mixture of clarity of analysis, communication skills, organisational ability, technical expertise are all essential to success.

Our Values

• Honesty, integrity & discretion;
• Openness, engagement and communication;
• Creativity, independence, intellectual rigour – rejection of ‘lazy thinking’;
• Enhancing client & inter-personal relationships:
  - serious & meaningful yet delivered with encouragement, good humour and fun;
• Pride, satisfaction and enjoyment in our work.