Advisory
Aequora partners with CISOs, executives, and boards in financial services and other regulated industries, across cybersecurity, emerging technology, and business transformation. From advisory engagements, to board and leadership briefings, to keynotes and panels, we empower leaders to act with confidence in a rapidly changing world.
Why Aequora
No software to resell, no vendor commissions, no audit relationship to protect. Where others steer you toward what they sell, our only stake is your outcome.
Strategy firms leave you a deck; integrators leave you a bill. We move from board-level strategy to working implementation because the same hands have briefed the G7 and BIS, shipped AI-driven code, and led a $370M holistic business transformation.
Most advisors interpret the guidance. We co-authored sector-defining best practices on AI risk, cryptographic agility, and cloud security, adopted across the global Financial Services sector. You get the source, not a secondhand reading.
The result: senior, independent counsel you can act on, from the boardroom down to the products and services you deliver.
What we do
Regulated firms can't sit out AI, post-quantum cryptography, and the cloud. The hard part isn't the technology; it's adopting it without compromising security, and getting the whole organization to change with it. We do it end to end: the technology itself, the security and governance lenses we see it through, and the transformation that makes it stick.
Put AI to work across the whole organization, not just one function, and without putting the firm at risk. We help you govern it, use it responsibly, and turn it on the threats that AI itself is accelerating, from deepfakes to faster attacks.
Capabilities Governance · responsible use & ethics · enterprise-wide adoption · AI to counter AI-driven threats · across security and business use cases
Get ahead of the threats to cryptography. We take you from cryptographic discovery and inventory through remediation and automation, building the crypto-agility to adapt as standards evolve, across your architecture, development, customers, and ecosystem.
Capabilities Discovery · inventory · remediation · automation · crypto-agility · readiness for shorter TLS certificate lifespans
Cloud that meets the bar for regulated industries: secure, resilient, and governed by clear and automatable policy.
Capabilities Secure by design · resilient and recoverable · policy and governance · built for regulated industries
Aequora is here to help across your organization: from Leadership Teams, to Information Security, to Technology, to Risk and Compliance, and more.
About
Aequora is Latin for calm, level seas. Security threats, technological upheaval, and organizational change rarely arrive in isolation; they converge. That confluence is where complexity and risk converge, and where clear guidance matters most.
Our mark says the same thing. A shield over layered waves: defense in depth, settling into calm, level water.
We're a senior advisory firm built for that exact intersection. We translate among the developers, the security operations center, and the boardroom. We help you develop an emerging-technology roadmap and the transformation it demands, so the decisions you make hold up under pressure.
In practice
Across his career, Mike has helped companies transform and grow the bottom line, from small organizations to mission-critical financial-services firms:
Contact
Tell us what you're facing: an AI ambition, a post-quantum mandate, a cloud migration, or a security program under pressure. We'll give you a candid view of whether and how we can help, with no pitch.
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