Integrated Enterprise Risk Management
Enterprise risk carries consequence.
We govern it.
Apogee Global RMS governs cyber, physical, and human risk as one discipline, for organizations where a failure in any of the three produces damage they cannot absorb quietly.
One consequence chain.
A cyber breach, a physical security failure, and an insider event are frequently the same event observed at different points in the chain.
Most organizations govern the three separately. That separation is where exposure accumulates.
Integrated enterprise risk management connects cyber, physical, and human risk consulting so leaders can govern the full consequence chain.
Explore the Nexus of Risk DiagnosticSystems, data, identity, and the technology estate. Framework assessment, program and control design, identity and AI governance, third-party risk, and compliance.
Facilities, operational environments, and the physical estate. Security assessment and program design, OT exposure at the plant, distributed operations, violence prevention.
The people an organization trusts. Executive due diligence and verification, vetting program governance, insider threat, succession risk, workforce assurance, and AI.
When leaders call us.
Senior leaders rarely call a risk firm in the abstract. They call when something is about to be tested.
You need an independent read your board can act on, before someone else asks the question.
Contain it, understand the consequence chain, and make sure the next one is governed differently.
Named leadership inside your program within weeks, carrying it until your permanent leader is seated.
Verification and due diligence on the people you are about to trust with the enterprise.
Guardrails your board and your customers can stand behind, without slowing the business.
Assessment and program design for the physical estate and the workforce inside it.
Engagements we can describe.
The most consequential work we do cannot be published. What follows are patterns of engagement across the domains we govern.
Critical Infrastructure Protection
A regional utility provider faced overlapping threats to both their OT networks and physical plant operations. We assessed the seams where systems and facilities met, designing a converged governance model that closed vulnerabilities before they were exploited.
Executive Verification Standard
Prior to a high-stakes merger, an enterprise required deep vetting of the incoming leadership team. Moving beyond standard background checks, we applied an investigative standard that uncovered unstated conflicts, allowing the board to navigate the transition cleanly.
Virtual CxO Deployment
A mid-market financial services firm lost its security leadership prior to a major compliance audit. We installed an Engagement Principal and hands-on engineers, carrying the program forward and passing the audit while the permanent leader was sourced and seated.
The practitioner in the briefing is the practitioner on the engagement.
Most advisory firms sell with senior partners and deliver with junior staff. Apogee is built the other way around. Every engagement is led and worked by named practitioners who have held the decision you are facing: run the investigation, owned the security program, commanded the operation, answered to the board. They do not supervise your program from a distance, and they do not learn on your time.
Senior FBI leadership in cybersecurity and intelligence, including a 34-year Bureau intelligence veteran who leads our analytic work.
U.S. Naval Academy, the Marine Corps, and a former U.S. Navy Captain and submarine officer. Leadership proven under pressure, not on paper.
Security leadership at Palo Alto Networks and Google Cloud, plus Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 security programs, translated into the language a board acts on.
Every engagement names an Engagement Principal and an Executive Sponsor before work begins. You know who answers for the outcome.
Meet the practitionersThe firm that prepares an organization should not be the firm that grades it.
We assess, remediate, prepare, and govern. We do not attest, certify, or audit a program we built. Remediating what we found is not a conflict. Grading what we built is.
Capabilities & Method
A viewer of capability lists learns what a firm knows. Read about what it is like to hire us, what we commit to, and how we are held to it.
The Apogee Podcasts
Every dimension of risk & leadership. Hosted by M.K. Palmore, exploring leadership excellence and the evolving risk landscape.
Our Values
Four standards govern every engagement. Clients can measure us against each of them.
Excellence
Work leaves this firm at one standard. If it is not right, it does not ship.
Accountability
Every engagement has a named owner who answers for the outcome, not the effort.
Integrity
We report what we find, including what a client would rather not hear.
Partnership
We work inside your constraints and your chain of command, not around them.
We run every engagement the way we ran missions, with discipline, ownership, and a standard we don't lower.
Client references available following the briefing.
Start with a risk briefing.
A Risk Briefing is forty-five minutes with a senior practitioner. You leave with a straight answer on the fastest path forward, whether or not it runs through us.
What happens in a Risk Briefing
- Who
- M.K. Palmore or the Principal Advisor for your domain. A senior practitioner, never a sales representative.
- Before
- A mutual NDA on request, signed before we discuss specifics. A short intake so the time goes to your situation.
- During
- Forty-five minutes on your exposure across cyber, physical, and human risk and the decisions in front of you.