Discovery, lifecycle mapping, dependency and ranked exposure.
Capabilities ยท Enterprise Audits and Advisory
Find the exposure before it finds the operation.
End of life and end of support assessment across the estate, risk ranked by what actually falls over first, and standing advisory for executives who need a straight answer before a board meeting.
EOL and EOSL assessmentEstate inventoryRisk rankingCompliance exposureRemediation planningAdvisory retainer
What this actually means
An accurate inventory is thecheapest risk reductionavailable to most organisations.
- Discovery
- Physical and logical, including the equipment installed during a fit-out and never entered into any register.
- Lifecycle
- Every asset mapped to its vendor support position, with the dates that matter rather than the ones on the invoice.
- Dependency
- What depends on what, which is the part that turns a list of assets into a risk assessment.
- Ranking
- Ordered by business impact, because remediating by age spends the budget in the wrong sequence.
- Costing
- Remediation priced and dated against the budget cycle the organisation actually runs on.
- Advisory
- Standing access to the technical position, including review of proposals from other vendors.
The instrument
What a first audit usually returns
Each square is an asset. The colour is its vendor support position at the moment of discovery, before any remediation.
Estate classification at discoveryIllustrative distribution
Supported
Past end of sale
Past end of support
25%Supported
24%Past end of sale
51%Past end of support
The point of the exercise is not the count. It is the ranking that follows, because remediating by asset age spends the budget in the wrong order. We rank by what the business actually stops doing if it fails.
Where it sits in an engagement
Owns stage one, and returns in stage four
The audit is where every engagement starts, because nothing downstream is trustworthy if the picture is wrong. It comes back as standing advisory once the estate is running.
The register becomes the input that sequences the target architecture.
Remediation tracked against the register as phases complete.
Lifecycle monitored and advisory retained so exposure does not rebuild.
Signals you need this
If more than one is true, the register is already out of date
The asset register was last verified by someone who has since left.
Nobody can produce a list of what is currently past end of support.
Remediation is being planned by asset age rather than by business impact.
A vendor proposal has arrived and there is no independent view to check it against.
An audit or examination is scheduled and the evidence is being assembled reactively.
Equipment exists on sites nobody has physically attended in several years.
What you are left holding
A register a board can act on
Verified inventoryPhysical and logical, including what was never recorded
Exposure registerEvery asset against its vendor support position
Dependency mapSigned off by the people who own the systems
Ranked remediationOrdered by business impact, priced and dated
Compliance viewExposure expressed in terms an examiner uses
Advisory accessStanding review of proposals and technical decisions
Remediating by asset age spends the budget in the wrong order. Rank by what stops.