Unisphere Solutions Limited

Unisphere was born to provide world class advisory services to small and medium sized organisations who otherwise couldn’t afford a fulltime CIO or CISO but needed specialist help to grow and maintain efficient and secure operations. Unisphere operates across three main pillars; Artificial Intelligence, Technology Excellence, Cyber Security. I’ll outline below what we offer across each of these three pillars.
1. Artificial Intelligence
– AI training for employees, offering courses from beginner/intro right through to developer/expert level. Aiming to help organisations lift their use of AI for the betterment of the Company.
– AI readiness assessments to help organisations understand how well prepared they are to adopt the benefits of AI. We look at company goals and strategies, IT systems and infrastructure, data quality and accessibility and internal skills and capabilities.
– AI roadmap to develop actionable plans to achieve company goals and strategies through the adoption of AI platforms and capabilities.

2. Technology Excellence
– Virtual/Fractional CIO (Chief Information Officer) advisory services to help organisations to develop strong IT strategies aligned to business objectives, streamline IT operations to achieve best practice & develop IT budgets to ensure cost effective operations.
– IT Roadmap development to ensure that there is a plan, resource and budget to replace or upgrade technology in order to ensure it remains compliant and meeting business objectives.
– IT budget development and cost saving outcomes from rationalising duplicate or underutilised services.
– Technology Vendor Management to ensure good business and commercial outcomes are being derived from the spend. This often means evaluating vendors and running vendor selection processes to replace vendors.
– IT Operations management to ensure internal SLA’s are developed and the needs of the organisation are being met by the IT function or outsourced partners.
– Mentoring and professional development for IT Managers aspiring to be a CIO or for new CIO’s wanting to elevate their capabilities and competencies.
– M-Files Data and Document management system implementation to lift organisations internal capability and operational efficiency through the introduction of internal document driven workflows and rules based document management

4. Cyber Security
– Cyber Risk Appetite assessment to ensure the board of directors and senior leadership have meaningfully articulated their risk appetite in a way that allow the IT team to ensure the spend on cyber will meet the required level of security
– Cyber assessments to ensure there is a strong understanding of the organisations current cyber posture as measured against common standards and good practice
– Cyber Remediation Plans to align spend and resource efficiently in order to lift the cyber posture to an agreed and appropriate level, i.e. to meet or exceed the risk appetite score articulated by the exec team.
– Penetration tests or Pen Tests to assess the security of websites, web apps and APIs
– Vulnerability scanning to assess an organisations external attack-surface and internal vulnerabilities that exist across all IT assets. This also provides a detailed list of vulnerabilities needing to be patched or remediated in order to keep the organisation secure.