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The systems you run have to be right. We start by proving whether they are, then build, secure and hold the ground underneath.
Orvix delivers AI assurance, cybersecurity, applied AI and infrastructure for banks, governments and enterprises across the GCC, wider MENA and the United States.
Everything in your estate (every system, model and interface you run) is either accounted for, or it isn’t. We solve for X.
Orvix does two things.
Owned. Observed. Evidenced. Something inside the circle has a name against it, a signal you can watch, and a record that still stands up when someone asks.
Untapped technology. Unmeasured risk. A variable, not a constant. It changes value every time the estate does.
Compute, storage and connectivity stopped living in one place, and so did your data. We design for that on purpose: network provisioned as a service, data coherent across regions, residency enforced where it lands.
InterfacesOpened for a project, never closed. We find every one, classify it, and put it under policy that is enforced rather than filed.
IdentityVoice and video now clear the bar your approvals were built on. We put liveness and authenticity checks where money moves.
Agentic AIAgents that act are worth far more than agents that answer, and far harder to authorize. We build them scoped, with narrow write access and a human gate at every point where something changes state.
DataReachable by the wrong systems, invisible to the right ones. We classify it, assign it, and scope what any model may see.
AssuranceThe hard part of AI governance is evidence, not policy. We build the register and the audit record behind it.
Four links, each one moving a different kind of X inside the boundary. Each is only as credible as the one beneath it, and the fourth closes back to the first.
Assurance closes the circle. Proof of the estate is what justifies the next investment in it.
Most organizations start with us at 04, because it is the link they are being asked about. What we find there usually explains why 01 through 03 matter.
This board is solved: every position has a known move and a known counter, all of it written down decades ago. Play perfectly and the best result is a draw.
Technology is not that simple. When someone asks you to prove your estate is sound, there is no solved position to look up. There is only what was written down, and what was left undone.
The distance between those two is where uncomfortable meetings happen. It is rarely a failure of competence. It is what scale does to visibility.
You can’t freeze your estate. You can always be ready to answer for it.
Weeks, not quarters. Scoped work with a stated duration and a written output, so you know what you are buying before you buy it and a decision does not wait on a procurement cycle.
Independent assessment of the controls around your AI systems against ISO/IEC 42001, the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and the local requirements that apply. Each obligation is marked held, partial or absent.
Find every AI system in use, including features built into purchased software, and record who owns it, what data it touches and whether it decides or only drafts.
Adversarial testing of an AI application for prompt injection, data leakage and agent misuse, paired with evaluation against its stated purpose. It runs in a controlled test environment, or in production under limits agreed in writing.
A review of the approval steps that rely on recognizing a person: payment release, vendor bank-detail changes, executive requests, onboarding and helpdesk resets. Each is tested under controlled deepfake and impersonation conditions.
Every interface actually running is found, classified by data sensitivity, assessed against the OWASP API Security Top 10 and given an owner and a lifecycle.
Azure, AWS, Microsoft 365 or your primary cloud, assessed across identity, configuration, exposure, data protection, logging and resilience. Zero Trust gaps named, remediation ranked.
A proposed or existing architecture tested for data residency, resilience, AI-readiness and cryptographic posture at every layer, before the design is committed.
24/7 monitoring, investigation and agreed containment, run on an in-region or a global track chosen per workload. What analysts may do in your environment is agreed in writing before go-live.
The broad entry point: your security program measured against NIST CSF 2.0, C2M2 and the CIS Controls, mapped to the regional requirements that apply, and scored so progress can be shown rather than asserted.
For oil and gas, energy, manufacturing and critical infrastructure: asset visibility, IT/OT segmentation, remote and privileged access, legacy exposure and incident readiness, assessed against IEC 62443.
Very few organizations will do both, and fewer still will stay long enough to build it. That gap is where we work.
Deep relationships with audit, risk and the board. Real authority on what a defensible program looks like, and the standing to say so in the room.
The trade: cost, pace, and limited hands-on technology depth once the report is delivered.
We assess, design and implement, with the same people and one evidence standard from the first engagement through to the running estate. When a system we built needs an assurance opinion, an independent party gives it, so the opinion stays credible.
No product of our own to defend.
Real engineering, real capability, and people who know one platform better than anyone else in the market can.
The trade: the assessment and the product come from the same place.
We do not sell a platform of our own, so nothing rides on which technology you choose. When we tell you something fits, the only thing behind that is the reasoning. That is why we show it to you.
It matters more than it used to. New categories appear, get funded, and either mature or disappear inside eighteen months. No enterprise team can evaluate that flow and run an estate at the same time. The vendor landscape is itself a variable.
Tracking emerging categories is standing work for us. By the time a requirement reaches you, the shortlist already exists.
Technical proof-of-concept against your actual constraints (residency, latency, existing estate, operating model) before anyone signs anything.
You get the short list with the trade-offs attached, including when the best answer is to keep what you already run.
Most of our engagements begin inside an established estate with significant prior investment. Continuity with the platforms you already operate is a design constraint we work to. We build on what is working and replace only what the evidence says must go.
Three commitments behind every engagement, from the first scoping call to the system in operation.
Named account ownership across the GCC, wider MENA and the United States. One accountable relationship from start to finish.
We work to the standards our clients are measured against: UAE Information Assurance Standard, DESC ISR, SAMA Cyber Security Framework, NCA ECC, and the CBUAE guidance that applies to regulated financial institutions.
Our engineering capability is distributed across regions, with senior engineers on every engagement. That is what allows a scoped assessment at a price a large consultancy cannot match.
Implementation is executed with named technology partners and, where a jurisdiction requires it, through licensed local providers, so the work happens inside the local framework rather than around it.
Where our work maps to a framework, we show the mapping control by control, so your auditors and your regulator can verify it themselves. Where a jurisdiction requires a licensed local provider, we deliver through one, inside the local framework. Every engagement is built to stand up in due diligence.
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A fixed-scope assurance review of your AI estate: inventory, control mapping against the frameworks that apply to you, and a written evidence package your board and your regulator can read. Fixed fee, six weeks, no obligation beyond it.
The people who bring us in are usually the ones who saw it coming.
