Strategic Adversarial Review

An independent challenge of critical technology, transformation and business decisions.

Major initiatives are frequently assessed against delivery plans, governance requirements and architecture standards, but not against how a determined adversary might exploit their assumptions. Rath Meridian provides an attacker-minded review of high-consequence programmes before weaknesses become embedded.

What you could review

• Cloud migrations
• Enterprise architecture decisions
• Major outsourcing or managed-service arrangements
• Digital transformation programmes
• AI and generative AI deployments
• Identity and access strategies
• Business continuity and operational resilience plans
• Acquisitions, integrations and technology separations

Typical engagement

A focused two- to four-week review involving documentation analysis, interviews and structured challenge sessions with programme, security and executive stakeholders.

This is not a detailed audit or penetration test. It asks:

• What assumptions is the programme making?
• How could an attacker exploit the proposed design or operating model?
• Where are control dependencies concentrated?
• What could create systemic or business-wide consequences?
• What decisions should leadership revisit before proceeding?