Helping Strategic Industries Make Better Risk Decisions

Helping executive teams and boards manage risk, operational resilience in strategically important industries.

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Risk advisory can feel hard to purchase because the need is often clear before the scope is.

Sturnella makes the first step simple.

Our engagements are designed for executives, boards, legal teams, investors, and operators who need focused support around cyber governance, operational resilience, supplier risk, and defense cybersecurity expectations — without hiring a full-time CISO or launching an open-ended consulting project.

Each engagement is built around a specific leadership decision: preparing for disruption, strengthening board oversight, understanding vendor exposure, or responding to customer and defense supply-chain requirements.

Select the engagement that best matches the decision in front of you.

Executive Tabletop Exercise

1-day engagement

A focused executive exercise designed to test how leadership would respond to a cybersecurity incident, operational disruption, vendor compromise, ransomware event, OT disruption, or disclosure-triggering scenario.

This engagement is designed for CEOs, CFOs, general counsel, CISOs, CIOs, operations leaders, investor-facing executives, and board members who need to understand how decisions will be made under pressure.

Best for:

• Incident response preparation

• Board and executive readiness

• Ransomware and operational disruption scenarios

• OT or production-impacting cyber events

• Disclosure, escalation, and customer notification testing

• Pre-IPO, public company, or transaction preparedness

Deliverables may include:

• Scenario design

• Facilitated executive tabletop session

• Decision and escalation log

• Observed gaps and recommendations

• Follow-up governance memo

• Practical next-step roadmap

Board Cyber Governance Review

30-day engagement

A structured review of how cyber and operational risk are governed, documented, escalated, and reported at the executive and board level.

This engagement is designed for companies that need to strengthen cyber oversight before investor diligence, SEC disclosure review, IPO preparation, audit committee review, customer scrutiny, insurance renewal, or a major transaction.

Best for:

• Board cyber oversight

• Audit committee readiness

• SEC Item 106 alignment

• Cyber risk governance documentation

• Executive reporting structure review

• Investor, lender, or transaction diligence preparation

Deliverables may include:

• Governance model review

• Board reporting assessment

• Cyber risk register review

• Committee and escalation mapping

• Disclosure and oversight gap review

• Cyber governance recommendations

Third-Party Risk Assessment

Vendor and supplier risk evaluation

A focused assessment of cybersecurity and operational risk exposure created by key vendors, suppliers, service providers, technology partners, and outsourced security or IT providers.

This engagement is designed for companies that rely on third parties for security operations, cloud services, financial systems, OT access, managed IT, critical infrastructure, logistics, data processing, or business-critical platforms.

Best for:

• Vendor assurance

• Critical supplier cyber risk

• Managed service provider oversight

• SOC 1 and SOC 2 review

• Cloud, IT, and OT vendor exposure

• Pre-transaction vendor diligence

• Customer or investor questions about supplier resilience

Deliverables may include:

• Vendor risk review

• Key vendor inventory

• Control documentation review

• SOC report review

• Supplier risk observations

• Executive vendor risk summary

• Recommended oversight actions

Defense Cyber Readiness Assessment

Defense supplier, NIST 800-171, and customer requirement preparation

A focused readiness assessment for companies navigating evolving defense cybersecurity expectations, supplier security requirements, prime contractor reviews, and federal contract cybersecurity obligations.

This engagement is designed for defense suppliers, dual-use companies, manufacturers, technology providers, critical mineral companies, and organizations entering or expanding within the defense industrial base.

Rather than focusing on a single compliance program, Sturnella helps leadership teams understand the broader cybersecurity and governance expectations that may apply to defense suppliers, including NIST SP 800-171, NIST SP 800-171 Rev. 3 transition planning, DFARS obligations, FCI and CUI governance, prime contractor expectations, customer security questionnaires, and CMMC where applicable.

Best for:

• Defense supplier cyber readiness

• NIST SP 800-171 readiness

• NIST SP 800-171 Rev. 3 transition planning

• FCI and CUI scoping questions

• Prime contractor expectations

• Customer security questionnaires

• DFARS cybersecurity obligations

• Executive understanding of defense cyber requirements

• Preparing for future CMMC applicability, if required

Deliverables may include:

• Readiness gap review

• Control documentation assessment

• FCI/CUI governance observations

• NIST 800-171 alignment review

• Executive readiness summary

• Remediation roadmap

• Accountability and governance recommendations

• Evidence readiness guidance

• Customer or prime contractor response preparation

Strategic Risk Advisory Session

Focused executive advisory

A targeted advisory session for leaders who need independent perspective on a cyber, operational resilience, supplier, governance, or national security-related business decision.

This engagement is designed for executives, investors, legal teams, and operators who may not need a full assessment yet, but do need experienced judgment on the decision in front of them.

Best for:

• Evaluating cyber or operational risk before a transaction

• Preparing for a board, investor, lender, or customer conversation

• Understanding a new defense, regulatory, or supply-chain requirement

• Reviewing a cyber governance concern before it becomes urgent

• Translating technical risk into business implications

• Pressure-testing a strategic decision

Deliverables may include:

• Executive advisory session

• Decision framing memo

• Key risk questions

• Recommended next steps

• Optional follow-up support

Not Sure What to Choose?

Start with the decision you need to support.

If leadership needs to prepare for a real incident, start with an Executive Tabletop Exercise.

If the board needs confidence in cyber oversight, start with a Board Cyber Governance Review.

If vendor or supplier exposure is the concern, start with a Third-Party Risk Assessment.

If defense contracts, prime contractor expectations, NIST 800-171 requirements, customer security reviews, or federal cybersecurity obligations are driving the need, start with a Defense Cyber Readiness Assessment.

If you need independent judgment before committing to a larger project, start with a Strategic Risk Advisory Session.

Sturnella’s role is to make cyber and operational risk easier to govern, easier to explain, and easier to defend when boards, investors, customers, regulators, insurers, lenders, or transaction counterparties start asking harder questions.

Executive Risk and Cyber Governance for Critical Minerals, Energy Infrastructure, and Defense Supply Chains