Risk Consulting

Improving business performance, turning risk and compliance into opportunities, developing strategies and enhancing value are at the core of what we do for leading organizations.

Gray Oak Global Risk Consulting Services

Cyber attacks and unauthorized data leakage are a threat to organizations globally. Gray Oak Global Cyber Security Services can help organizations apply appropriate information security measures by providing ongoing confidentiality, integrity, availability, and protection of their most sensitive data assets.

Have confidence in your operations and run bravely to new opportunities.
In today’s digital world, decision-makers can’t afford to be held back by cyber risks. They need to make bold decisions and feel confident that their cyber strategy, defences and recovery capabilities will protect their business and support their growth strategies. Across all sectors and in every geography, business executives are asking themselves the same questions:

Turn Cyber Risk into Opportunity

At Gray Oak Global, our global network of business-savvy cyber security member firm professionals understands that businesses cannot be held back by cyber risk. Gray Oak Global professionals recognize that cyber security is about risk management – not risk elimination.

No matter where you are on the cyber security journey, Gray Oak Global can help you reach the destination: a place of confidence that you can operate without crippling disruption from a cyber security event. Working shoulder-to-shoulder with you, Gray Oak Global professionals can help you work through strategy and governance, organizational transformation, cyber defence and
cyber response. And cyber security professionals don’t just recommend solutions — they also help implement them. From penetration testing and privacy strategy to access management and cultural change, Gray Oak Global member firms can help you every step of the way.

Services offered under our Cyber Security value chain comprise the following:

  • Cyber Response Services
  • Cyber Defence
  • Cyber Strategy & Governance
  • Security Transformation

Building an innovative compliance risk management program for tomorrow requires an investment today

At Gray Oak Global Consulting, we help organizations enhance compliance, integration and automation for a stronger risk management approach. In the future, compliance risk management will be more integrated and automated than ever before.

Compliance technology solutions are already morphing, seemingly overnight, offering compliance leaders in business, risk and internal audit functions more and more options for automating processes and controls. Regulators around the globe drum the beat for greater integration and operationalization of compliance into business processes and controls, and linkage back to regulatory obligations, as well as more comprehensive metrics to support better compliance risk management.

In addition, competition, market conditions and external stakeholders demand greater efficiencies in compliance. Compliance innovation is now an imperative across all industries, and the time to embark on the journey is now.

Gray Oak Global recommends a holistic view of compliance, rooted in governance and culture, and harmonized through eight key program elements

How Gray Oak Global can help

Through collaboration and coordination Gray Oak Global can help you realize a future compliance risk management approach that is right-sized for your business, operationally possible, agile, sustainable and effective.

Our professionals work with compliance, business, and operations stakeholders across the business, risk and internal audit functions to help firms build, design and implement enhancements to their compliance activities. We specialize in helping our clients boost the value of their compliance through greater integration and automation, including through technology and digital labour, in order to position them for success today and into tomorrow.

Our service offerings include the following:

  • Compliance program recommendations and target operating models
  • Compliance integration
  • Compliance controls
  • Compliance automation (data and technology enablement)
  • Compliance risk culture
  • Regulatory change management

To remain competitive, innovation in compliance is a necessity.
Organizations must strategically invest in the integration and automation of their compliance risk management activities to promote greater agility, sustainability, resiliency, and effectiveness.

Managing the risk of fraud and misconduct

Having a reputation for integrity is crucial to safeguarding market confidence and public trust. Unfortunately, fraud and misconduct can seriously undermine such efforts, exposing an organization to legal, regulatory, or reputational damage. That is why experienced business leaders work to ensure that they have effective approaches to identify, mitigate, and respond to these risks. This is especially important in an environment marked by intense scrutiny.

Gray Oak Global Forensic helps clients prevent, detect, and respond to misconduct risk in a way that reduces the impact on productivity and profits. Each project we undertake is as distinct as the clients we serve and is geared toward balancing risk and control to achieve performance with integrity. We are accustomed to working with clients in a variety of situations, particularly when the level of scrutiny is high.

Gray Oak Global’s capabilities in managing the risk of fraud & misconduct are in the following areas;

  • Investigations
  • Anti-bribery & Corruption
  • Litigation & Disputes
  • Corporate Intelligence
PROVIDING A STRATEGIC APPROACH TO GATHERING INFORMATION AND ASSESSING INTEGRITY AND BUSINESS RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH CUSTOMERS, SUPPLIERS, AGENTS, AND OTHER COUNTERPARTIES TO MAKE BETTER, MORE INFORMED BUSINESS DECISIONS.

What risks do your third party business relationships present to your organization? Should you initiate /continue your business with them? Are you getting out of the relationship what you signed up for or that was contracted? —

What you do not know about your business partners can hurt you. It can be difficult to comprehend the sheer size and scope of your third-party network. But even if you do not know exactly who or where they are, you know that those relationships are essential to your business. Increasing dependence on third-party relationships, coupled with increasing regulatory and public oversight, exposes organizations to a host of new and serious risk and compliance issues.

With this shift toward thirdparty driven business models, managing third-party risk has taken on a renewed sense of urgency. Because responsibility for the actions of your third-party affiliates falls on no one but you. So how can you minimize your exposure to financial, legal, regulatory, operational, reputational and governmental risk? Whatever the stage of your relationships, we will show you how to ensure third-party providers are a source of strength for your business – not a weak link.

Gray Oak Global Consulting Third Party Risk Capabilities include the following;

  • Supplier Risk & Performance Management
  • Cyber: IT Security Risk Management Services
  • Supplier Chain Risk & Performance Management
  • M&A – Transaction due diligence/ Advisory
  • Regulatory Readiness
  • Anti- Money Laundering Services
  • Contract/Management/Compliance