Turning Cybersecurity Into Business Advantage — From Strategy to Execution

Advising Boards, CEOs, and CTOs on architectures, governance, and transformation programs that deliver measurable resilience, compliance, and trust.

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About Cloudryption

Cloudryption is a boutique executive advisory that helps Boards, CEOs, CIOs and CISOs turn cybersecurity into business advantage. We blend strategy with execution—designing operating models, reference architectures, and governance that actually ship.

Founder: Ahmad Al Sheikh Ali — MSc in Cybersecurity; 18 years in telecom program leadership; 8 years in cybersecurity consulting across telecom, energy, public sector and financial services.

  • Executive communication: decision papers & board dashboards
  • Pragmatic controls with measurable outcomes
  • Alignment: NIST CSF 2.0, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, CIS v8, MITRE ATT&CK, NIS2; regional: NCA ECC, NORA 2.2
Executive workshop with architecture board
Executive discovery & architecture alignment.

Architecture & Advisory Capabilities

Fractional CISO / CTO

Board-grade leadership on a flexible basis. We embed into your cadence to drive cyber & tech strategy without the overhead of a permanent C-level hire.

  • Operating model & governance
  • OKRs, KPIs & board dashboards
  • Vendor portfolio rationalization
  • Executive decision papers

Cyber Strategy & Governance

Translate complex cyber risk into business language and decisions. Align with global standards while tailoring to your board’s risk appetite.

  • NIST CSF 2.0, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, CIS v8
  • Risk workshops and appetite statements
  • Policy suite and control catalogues
  • Board reporting and investment roadmaps

Security Reference Architecture

Blueprints that teams can build and auditors can trust—balancing speed, compliance, and real-world implementability.

  • Energy/OT segmentation & controls
  • Cloud landing zones, CNAPP/CSPM
  • Identity, Zero Trust, observability
  • Cross-domain integration patterns

Program Recovery & PMO

Rescue failing initiatives and re-establish delivery discipline. Make programs board-ready with transparent RAID and benefits tracking.

  • RAID & dependency mapping
  • Benefits tracking & KPI cascades
  • Vendor alignment & contract levers
  • Path-to-green decision papers

Zero Trust & Identity

Modern identity as the backbone of Zero Trust: simplify access, reduce lateral movement, and stay audit-ready.

  • SSO, MFA, passwordless rollout
  • Privileged access & secrets management
  • Service accounts, SoD, certificate auth
  • Policy-driven onboarding/offboarding

DevSecOps & Cloud Posture

Ship faster, safer. Build integrity into pipelines; ensure cloud foundations satisfy regulators and attackers alike.

  • SBOM & SLSA (artifact signing)
  • IaC guardrails & drift detection
  • CNAPP/CSPM integration
  • Runtime coverage & risk-based gates

Cybersecurity Current State & Target State

A TOGAF-aligned assessment of your entire cybersecurity landscape—mapping today’s baseline to a desired future architecture, with a pragmatic transition plan.

  • Current State (Baseline): governance, processes, tools, controls, and maturity
  • Target State (Future Architecture): aligned to NIS2, ISO 27001, NIST CSF
  • Gap & Transition Plan: phased roadmap with cost, benefits, risks
  • Board-ready heatmaps, maturity scores, and decision papers

Regulatory Readiness

Turn compliance into a lever, not a burden. Pragmatic alignment with global and regional regulations.

  • NIS2 readiness assessments
  • ISO 27001:2022 alignment
  • Regional overlays: NCA ECC, NORA 2.2
  • Evidence packs & control sampling

Research & Innovation

Real-world R&D with direct executive value. From AI-driven DDoS detection to GPU-accelerated cryptography, these projects turn advanced engineering into measurable resilience and performance.

Big Data DDoS Detection (Master’s)

Goal: Detect volumetric and application-layer DDoS patterns at scale using distributed analytics.

  • Approach: Streaming feature extraction (flow stats, entropy), ML classification on big-data pipelines
  • Stack: Spark/Flink (stream), Kafka (ingest), ML pipeline (e.g., RF/XGBoost)
  • Outputs: Precision/recall dashboards; rules export to WAF/IDS
Streaming Analytics Pipeline
Ingress (PCAP/NetFlow) Kafka Spark/Flink ML Classifier WAF/IDS

IoT DDoS Real-Time Detection

Goal: Detect/contain IoT-borne floods and anomaly bursts in near-real-time at the edge.

  • Approach: Lightweight feature extraction (rate, SYN/ACK ratio, TTL variance), edge inference, mitigation signals
  • Stack: eBPF/sFlow exporters, stream rules, on-device model (quantized)
  • Outputs: SOC alerts, auto-rate limiting, playbook hooks
Impact: Mean Time to Detect
MTTDMTTR

GPU Homomorphic Encryption (BFV)

Goal: A CUDA-only BFV library enabling encrypted compute on GPUs for privacy-preserving analytics.

  • Focus: NTT/INTT kernels, ciphertext ops, relinearization, memory pool & streams
  • Optimizations: poly_modulus_degree tuning, coeff modulus levels, P-modulus, noise budget tracking
  • Outcomes: Order-of-magnitude speedups vs CPU for core HE ops (add/mul/rotate) on target GPUs
BFV Pipeline on GPU (sketch)
Encode Encrypt NTT Mul/Relin INTT/Decrypt

Insights

NIS2: The 90-Day Plan

Scope, accountability, incident reporting, supplier risk. Get from “unknowns” to a board-owned plan with costed options.

Zero Trust in Telecom

Practical guardrails for 5G/core/edge without slowing delivery. Identity, segmentation, and pipeline integrity first.

SBOM & SLSA

Build provenance & artifact signing to prevent tampering. Target SLSA levels that fit your sector and budget.

Contact

Email: ahmad.alsheikhali@cloudryption.com