Security you can prove. Accountability you can name.
Golonex delivers AI governance and security compliance readiness — ISO 42001, ISO 27001, EU AI Act, GDPR, and DPDP — backed by credentialed fractional leadership and 24×7 SOC operations. The accountable layer between your business and every obligation it carries.
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A fully staffed, 24×7 Security Operations Centre dedicated to your environment. Real analysts, real accountability — not a shared pool.
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Next-gen endpoint protection with behavioural AI, real-time threat detection, and automated containment. Analysts respond on your behalf around the clock.
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Immutable backups, rapid restore, and tested recovery plans to keep your business running when ransomware or outages strike.
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End-to-end BCP design, tabletop exercises, and live DR drills — so your team knows exactly what to do when it matters most.
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Pre-vetted engineers, QA engineers, DBAs, AI/ML engineers, and project managers integrated into your team within a week.
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You’re being asked to prove things you’ve never had to prove before.
The gap between deploying AI and governing it — between holding data and protecting it to the new standard — is widening fast. Most regulated firms are caught in the same three traps.
You don’t know where you stand.
New obligations land monthly — EU AI Act, ISO 42001, DPDP — and “are we even in scope?” has no clear answer. Without a baseline, every plan is a guess.
You have advice, but no proof.
Slide decks and policies don’t survive an audit, a vendor questionnaire, or a board challenge. What you need is evidence — current, organized, and defensible — not another PDF of recommendations.
AI and security are treated as two problems.
Your AI-governance advisor isn’t a real security practitioner. Your security vendor can’t govern AI. So the controls don’t connect, the work is duplicated, and the gaps hide in the seams.
Most can do AI governance, or security. We do both — and that’s the whole point.
The new standards converge: ISO 42001 is built on the same management-system logic as ISO 27001, and the EU AI Act and DPDP both turn on data protection, logging, and traceability. Treating them separately is how firms end up paying twice and still failing the audit.
Most vCISOs can’t govern AI. Most AI-governance advisors aren’t credentialed security people. We are both.
of collective enterprise compliance and risk-management experience across regulated industries — held by cybersecurity and privacy SMEs.
An AI can advise. Someone has to be accountable.
The cheap part of compliance — knowing the standard, drafting the policy, listing the controls — is already a solved problem; an AI agent does it in seconds. The expensive, irreplaceable part is accountability: a named, credentialed human who signs the Statement of Applicability, serves as your DPO of record, stands behind the evidence, and faces the auditor when it goes sideways.
Golonex is the accountable layer for AI & security compliance. AI does the knowing. We do the signing, the standing-behind, and the facing-the-auditor.
Accountability is scoped per engagement — we own the readiness program and the evidence, defined upfront. It’s real, and it’s bounded.
Three ways we get you ready — and keep you there.
Readiness & Audit Prep
We assess you against the standard, close the gaps, and assemble the evidence — so you walk into an ISO 42001, ISO 27001, EU AI Act, or DPDP audit prepared, not scrambling. You leave with a defensible evidence pack, not a wishlist.
Explore Readiness →vCAIO · vCISO · DPO
Rent the accountable executive you can’t yet justify hiring. We own and run your AI-governance, security, or data-protection function on a fractional basis — accountable for the program, reporting to your board, keeping you continuously compliant.
Explore CyberAI Leadership →Automation & Delivery
Readiness surfaces work that has to be built — controls, logging, evidence pipelines, secure workflows. Our delivery team builds it, at a cost the mid-market can actually carry, so the gaps don’t just get documented, they get closed.
Explore Delivery →One program. One framework family. Zero seams.
Security, privacy, and AI governance share the same management-system DNA. We cover the whole family from one connected program — anchored on the certifiable standards, extended where your environment demands it.
AI Readiness — ISO 42001, EU AI Act & NIST AI RMF
AI management systems, model and use-case inventory, risk classification, human-oversight controls, and logging/traceability — the conformity work the EU AI Act and ISO 42001 now demand, plus the NIST AI RMF for US-aligned buyers.
Security Readiness — ISO 27001 family + the full control landscape
A certifiable ISMS (ISO 27001) plus everything a regulated buyer actually faces: SOC 2 readiness, NIST RMF / CSF, CIS Controls v8, HIPAA Security Rule, PCI DSS, and the cloud extensions (ISO 27017/27018).
Privacy Readiness — ISO 27701 + DPDP & GDPR
ISO 27701 (PIMS) extends your ISMS into a certifiable privacy management system that maps directly to GDPR and DPDP — backed by Privacy-by-Design (ISO 31700) and the full India DPDP set: SDF scoping, DPIAs, the independent data audit, and DPO coverage before the 13 May 2027 deadline.
One control program, mapped across frameworks.
Most firms carry overlapping obligations — SOC 2 and ISO 27001 and PCI and HIPAA. We implement the controls once and crosswalk them across every framework you’re held to. Comply once, satisfy many.
Built for regulated, data-heavy environments.
BFSI — Banking, Financial Services & Insurance
The most data-sensitive, most-regulated sector there is. Likely Significant Data Fiduciaries under DPDP, under RBI/SEBI/IRDAI cyber mandates, and first in line for AI-governance scrutiny. We speak this buyer’s language — it’s where our team’s enterprise compliance and risk-management experience was built.
Healthcare & Health-Tech
Sensitive personal data, AI in clinical and administrative workflows, and overlapping privacy and security obligations.
SaaS & AI Product Companies
EU AI Act exposure as a provider or deployer, plus SOC 2 / ISO 27001 expectations from every enterprise buyer.
HR-Tech & Staffing Platforms
AI in hiring and evaluation — a high-risk category under the EU AI Act — with heavy personal-data processing.
Legal & Professional Services
Confidential data at scale, AI tooling in the workflow, and clients who increasingly demand proof of both.
Readiness you can defend — not advice you file away.
An accountable name, not a faceless tool.
A credentialed human signs your program, serves as your officer of record, and stands behind the evidence — the one thing an AI agent, however capable, structurally cannot do.
Evidence that lives in your infrastructure.
Most tools generate compliance artifacts and park your audit logs in their environment. We build the evidence so it lives in yours — defensible, owned, and audit-ready year-round.
Credentialed across both disciplines.
Not a security shop bluffing on AI, and not an AI consultancy bluffing on security. Real credentials in both — CISM, CISA, ISO 27001 & 42001 — held by cybersecurity and privacy SMEs.
Done-for-you for the mid-market.
The enterprise GRC platforms assume you have a team to run them. You don’t. We own and operate the readiness function for you — fractional leadership plus a delivery team that actually closes the gaps.
Simple, structured, evidence-first.
Scope & Assess
We establish what applies to you and benchmark you against it. You get a clear gap assessment and an SDF/risk classification — not a vague “you should improve.”
Close the Gaps
We remediate — policies, controls, security safeguards, logging, the build work — with our delivery team handling what has to be engineered.
Evidence & Attest
We assemble the defensible evidence pack and, where appropriate, issue the Golonex Ready attestation. You can now show your readiness to auditors, boards, and customers.
Maintain
Compliance isn’t a date, it’s a state. We keep you audit-ready year-round through fractional leadership and continuous evidence.
The proof the law doesn’t give you.
Significant Data Fiduciaries get a statutory audit as their proof of compliance. Everyone else gets nothing official — yet boards, partners, and customers increasingly demand evidence of AI and data-protection readiness in RFPs and vendor questionnaires. Golonex Ready fills that gap: an evidence-based readiness attestation against published criteria mapped to ISO 42001, ISO 27001, the EU AI Act, and DPDP.
Assessed
Gap assessment complete, scored against the rubric.
Ready
Gaps closed, evidence in place, audit-ready.
Maintained
Under active retainer, continuously evidenced, revalidated annually.
Golonex Ready is a readiness attestation against Golonex’s published criteria. It is not an accredited or statutory certification, and does not replace certification by an accredited body or a regulator-mandated audit.
Start with a sprint. Stay for the program.
The best readiness outcomes compound. Most engagements begin with a focused sprint to prove value fast, then move to an ongoing program where we become your embedded readiness function.
Readiness Sprint
A fixed-scope assessment and roadmap for one standard (ISO 42001, ISO 27001, or DPDP). You get a clear picture of where you stand, what you owe, and what it takes to get Ready.
Readiness Program
A monthly retainer: fractional vCAIO / vCISO / DPO, continuous evidence, maintenance, and priority access to the delivery team for build work. We keep you Ready, and expand coverage as new obligations land.
Every engagement is scoped upfront. No surprise costs — everything is defined before work begins.
Schedule a Scoping Call →AI & security compliance — your questions, answered
Is Golonex itself ISO 27001 or SOC 2 certified? +
No. Golonex holds no certifications or attestations of its own. We get our clients audit-ready, and all certification language on this site refers to the client’s journey. Our team holds individual credentials such as CISM and CISA.
What is the difference between readiness and certification? +
We deliver readiness — we assess you against a standard, close the gaps, and assemble the evidence. For SOC 2, PCI DSS, ISO certifications, and the DPDP independent audit, the report or certificate is issued by the accredited party (a licensed CPA firm, a QSA, an accredited certification body, or an independent auditor). We get you ready and coordinate; we do not issue the report.
What is a Significant Data Fiduciary under India’s DPDP Act? +
A Significant Data Fiduciary (SDF) is an organization the government designates based on volume and sensitivity of personal data and other risk factors. SDFs carry extra obligations: an India-resident Data Protection Officer, an annual Data Protection Impact Assessment, an annual independent data audit, and algorithmic due diligence. Most large BFSI firms are likely to be SDFs.
Why do AI governance and information security belong together? +
The standards converge. ISO 42001 is built on the same management-system logic as ISO 27001, and the EU AI Act and DPDP both turn on data protection, logging, and traceability. Treating them separately is how firms pay twice and still fail the audit. We implement one connected control program and crosswalk it across every framework you’re held to.
What does “accountable” actually mean — and is it unlimited? +
Accountability is bounded and scoped per engagement. A named, credentialed human owns the readiness program and the evidence — signing the Statement of Applicability, serving as your DPO of record where applicable, and standing behind the evidence — defined upfront. It is real, and it is bounded; we never imply unlimited liability for any breach.
A short readiness review tells you exactly what it takes to be ready before 2027.
We’ll tell you what you’re in scope for, whether you’re a Significant Data Fiduciary, and what it takes to get Ready — with a credentialed team accountable for the answer.