Elevate your cyber and privacy resilience 

Every new digital platform, connected asset, AI capability and third-party dependency increases opportunity, but also risk. For organisations operating in highly regulated sectors, that challenge is amplified by fast-moving cyber threats, rising privacy expectations and an increasingly complex regulatory landscape.

Talan helps organisations cut through that complexity. We combine cyber security, privacy and resilience expertise to deliver practical, future-focused solutions that strengthen security, streamline compliance and support transformation with confidence.

Pain Points To Solve

• We map cyber-physical risk and close the gaps - fast, practical, regulation-aligned.
  
  
• We assess, evidence and accelerate your path to audit-ready maturity.
  
  
• We find the hidden exposure across substations, SCADA, remote access and supplier-managed assets.
  
  
• We deliver proportionate, evidence-based supplier assurance you can act on.
  
  
• We apply real-world threat intelligence and attack surface analysis to focus your spend where it matters.
  
  
• We bring direct smart metering governance and assurance experience - SEC, UK GDPR, sector-ready.
  
  
• We run realistic, digital augmented, exercises that build confidence and sharpen your response.
  
  
• We translate cyber and compliance complexity into clear priorities and executive assurance.

• Talan supported the Smart Energy Code to understand the potential impact of AI on smart metering system data. 
  
  
• The review assessed key Energy sector AI initiatives for smart metering data relevance, and considered the risks and opportunities from the perspective of the SEC and in particular the Sections relating to cyber and privacy governance. 
  
  
• This resulted in three levels of report, including versions for SECCo and the SEC Panel and versions for general issue.

AI strategic review

Smart metering ecosystem assurance

• Talan has supported security and resilience activities across the GB smart metering ecosystem, including cyber risk assessment, incident exercising, governance support and assurance linked to nationally important smart energy services. 
  
  
• Our work helps stakeholders understand risk, strengthen controls and maintain confidence in complex, multi-party environments.

OT and CNI risk assessment for network operators

• Talan has supported electricity network environments through complex cyber risk assessments across IT and OT systems, including operational sites, remote access, supplier dependencies and control environments. 
  
  
• Our work helps clients understand exposure, prioritise remediation and evidence risk reduction for senior leadership, regulators and assurance stakeholders.

• Talan has supported the design and delivery of major low-carbon and heat decarbonisation schemes, bringing programme, governance and stakeholder expertise to complex energy transition initiatives. 
  
  
• That experience gives us a practical understanding of how new energy programmes are implemented, and how cyber, privacy and resilience need to be built in from the outset.

Green Heat Network Fund (GHNF)

Cyber and Privacy strategy for Energy

• We help regulators, policy makers and organisations define and refine the strategy for Energy, including supporting Smart Data, Energy Digitalisation and Energy Code Reform. 
  
  
• Our cyber and privacy team brings practical, long term implementation experience and a clear vision for the future potential for the Energy sector. 

• We help Energy organisations assess and evidence cyber and privacy maturity against the frameworks and obligations that matter most, including CIO readiness, NIS CAF, ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials, UK GDPR, sector assurance requirements and internal governance standards.
   
• The result is a clearer view of risk, stronger assurance for leadership and a more confident response to regulatory scrutiny.

Energy CNI Cyber and Privacy Assurance

• Energy and renewables organisations rely on complex third-party ecosystems, from OT vendors and managed service providers to cloud platforms and specialist engineering partners. 
  
  
• We help clients assess, monitor and strengthen supplier security in a way that is proportionate, evidence-based and aligned to operational resilience.

Supply Chain and Third-Party Risk Assurance

• As experts in energy regulation and governance, we help energy and critical national infrastructure organisations prepare for CIO audit by testing control design, implementation and evidence against key obligations. 
  
  
• This includes smart metering and DCC user environments, with a focus on SEC Section G requirements, governance, risk management and audit-ready evidence. 
  
  
• We identify gaps early, strengthen remediation and help ensure a clear, defensible position in advance of CIO audit.

CIO Audit Readiness.

Smart Metering and Secure Energy Platforms

Threat Services for Energy

• Our Threat Services help the Energy and renewables sector to move from generic controls to threat-led resilience.
  
  
• We combine cyber threat intelligence, external attack surface management, threat modelling, supplier exposure analysis, vulnerability context, dark web monitoring and threat-led testing to focus attention on the risks most likely to disrupt operations.

Incident Readiness and Exercises

• We design and facilitate realistic cyber and privacy incident exercises for leadership, operational, security and crisis management teams. 
  
  
• Scenarios can include ransomware, OT disruption, smart metering incidents, supplier compromise, data breach, insider risk, cloud identity compromise and wider cyber-physical impacts.

OT, ICS and Cyber-Physical Risk Assessment

• We assess risk across operational environments where cybersecurity, safety and service continuity intersect. 
  
  
• This includes substations, control systems, remote access, telemetry, smart infrastructure, metering environments, grid-edge assets and supplier-managed operational platforms.