One firm, two practices, one kind of client. Audit Readiness Group prepares your quality system for the audits your customers and your registrar run. Adversarial Risk Group tests your security the way an adversary would: on-site first, then continuously.
A certification audit and an adversary test the same thing: whether your system holds when someone from outside works through it.
Someone arrives, checks, writes a report, and leaves. The report starts aging the moment the door closes. People are hired, vendors change, processes drift. The next audit, or the next attacker, meets a different company than the one in the report.
We run your system the way the outsider will: clause by clause, evidence first, from the floor up. Findings come with a remediation plan you can actually work, and the gaps close before they cost you a certificate, a customer, or a wire transfer.
We get you ready before they arrive. Three engagement types, sold separately or in sequence. Every one is a defined project with a defined deliverable.
An on-site review of your quality management system against ISO 9001, run the way a registrar runs it: clause by clause, evidence first. We interview the people who do the work and read the records they actually keep, not the ones in the binder.
Fixed-scope projects against named gaps: documentation that matches the floor, process design, an internal audit program that runs without you chasing it, corrective action discipline that survives the next surveillance visit.
Preparation ahead of your Stage 1, Stage 2, surveillance, recertification, or customer audit. We run it under the conditions the auditor will, so your team has already answered the hard questions once.
Breaches don’t happen to organizations. They happen to people. The same employee who clicks a malicious link is the one who holds the door for an unknown visitor. We test both, as one program.
We observe operations, test physical access controls, and run initial adversarial simulation across every relevant vector: physical access, social engineering, phishing, vishing. You get a documented baseline: what’s exposed, why it matters, what fixing it requires.
After the audit, an AI-driven layer runs between engagements. Automated OSINT. Adaptive spear phishing. Vishing using current attack techniques. Tests iterate on what actually gets through, to which people, in which departments. The system never runs the same test twice.
Digital review years and on-site audit years alternate. Findings from the automated layer inform where we look next. The relationship is a managed service, not a project followed by silence.
The owner who sweats the registrar audit is the owner who buys the security audit. One relationship, two things that have to hold when an outsider works through them.
ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 are built on the same management-system skeleton: context, leadership, planning, support, operation, performance evaluation, improvement. Audit preparation transfers across them. Quality audit readiness today, security management audit readiness next.
Every certified manufacturer already has customer and registrar audits on the calendar. The only question is whether you show up prepared or scramble for two weeks. The adversary keeps a calendar too. You just don’t get to see it.
A quality review surfaces the process gaps an attacker walks through. A security engagement surfaces the controls a QMS should have formalized. Either door leads to the same building.
Companies with physical facilities, distributed workforces, real audit calendars, and environments where the human layer is the least protected surface. Fabricated metal, electrical and electronic equipment, machinery, aerospace and defense suppliers, and the shops that feed them.
If your audit prep consists of the two weeks before the registrar arrives, you already know how that feels. If your security program consists of annual training and a perimeter firewall, you are defended against attacks from several years ago.
Three founders. All three came up on the floor of a working manufacturer: quality, compliance, IT, and the customer audits that decide whether the work keeps coming.
Runs the internal audit program and hosts the customer and third-party audits at a working manufacturer of utility-scale electrical equipment. Leads every Audit Readiness Group engagement.
Quality, safety, and compliance background at the same manufacturer: physical audits, ISO 9001 mapped checklists, corrective action. Top 3 creator on n8n.io. Builds the continuous simulation layer directly.
Quality Engineer. Background in IT infrastructure, hands-on networking implementation, and social engineering. Ex-Amazon, with supply chain experience. Operates across systems-of-systems.
Each practice is onboarding three founding clients: one relationship, one warm referral, one direct. The quality trio is open now. The security trio is tracked on adversarialrisk.com.