Independent audit, certification, and governance for AI, blockchain, and critical infrastructure. We certify, map, assure, and quantify — so your board can sign with confidence.
Trusted by teams building the decentralized economy
Every engagement is independent and senior-led. From governance and certification to resilience and AI, we translate technical integrity into the standards your directors, auditors, and regulators trust.
Governance & Advisory
Senior security leadership on demand — setting strategy, owning the assurance roadmap, and speaking to your board in their language.
A right-sized review and advisory programme for small and mid-sized organisations — pragmatic, prioritised, and free of enterprise overhead.
Designing resilience in from the start — reference architectures and design reviews that make the secure path the default path.
A clear-eyed identity strategy — joining up authentication, authorisation, and lifecycle into one governable model.
Independent advice on detection and monitoring — so your SOC and SIEM investment delivers signal, not noise.
Risk & Assessment
A measured, evidence-based read on where your programme stands today — and a prioritised path to where it needs to be.
Knowing — and governing — the risk your suppliers carry on your behalf, from onboarding through to exit.
Bringing assurance to the operational technology behind connected buildings — where IT, OT, and physical systems converge.
A focused review of your Google Workspace tenant — configuration, identity, sharing, and data controls hardened to best practice.
Resilience & Continuity
Continuity playbooks that hold up under pressure — built around what your business actually needs to keep running.
Realistic, scenario-led exercises that pressure-test your response — before a real event does it for you.
A clear route to DORA compliance for financial entities and their critical providers — resilience, testing, and third-party oversight.
Certification & Standards
Knowing exactly what stands between you and ISO/IEC 27001 certification — and the shortest credible route there.
Preparing your AI management system for ISO/IEC 42001 — the international standard for trustworthy, accountable AI.
Independent internal audit for your information security and AI management systems — satisfying the standard and keeping it healthy.
A straightforward route to Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus — the UK baseline that opens doors and contracts.
Practical advisory and assessment for PCI DSS — scoping smartly, reducing burden, and evidencing compliance.
AI & Data Governance
We map your architecture, governance, and exposure profile before any review begins. Every engagement opens with a model tailored to your protocol's risk and your board's obligations.
Automated tooling catches the obvious. Our senior reviewers spend the majority of every engagement examining logic and controls by hand — the depth that high-value decentralized systems demand.
No 300-page document dumps. You receive a prioritized findings report with severity, evidence, and concrete hardening guidance your engineering team can act on immediately.
We re-review every material finding after your team completes hardening. The engagement isn't closed until the result is verified, not assumed — then certified.
Most firms bolt governance on as an afterthought. We built our practice around it. Our reviewers are former protocol engineers and governance leads who translate technical integrity into the standards your directors, auditors, and regulators trust.
ISO/IEC 42001, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, NIST CSF, NORS
Ethereum, Solana, Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, Polygon, Cosmos, Aptos
AI management systems, protocol audits, validator assurance, governance
"Vectral's audit gave our board the assurance it needed to proceed. Quiet, precise, and exact — their depth in decentralized systems is unmatched."
"The reporting is what sets them apart. Every finding came with evidence and a clear hardening path. Our engineers could act on it the same day."
"We needed a partner who understood both the protocol layer and our governance obligations. Vectral was the only firm that didn't treat them as separate engagements."
Vectral Assurance is a governance-and-assurance firm for the decentralized economy, headquartered on the US West Coast. We focus on AI, blockchain, and critical infrastructure — not because it's trendy, but because certifying decentralized systems demands a fundamentally different discipline.
Every reviewer holds senior assurance credentials alongside hands-on protocol experience. When you engage Vectral, you work directly with senior assurance leads — never junior analysts cycling through a checklist.
Our team holds the assurance profession's most rigorous credentials. Every engagement is led by professionals whose competence is independently verified — not self-assessed.
Vectral is an accredited provider for ISO/IEC 42001 — the international standard for AI management systems. Accreditation requires rigorous review of our methodology, evidence handling, personnel competence, and quality assurance. Our lead auditors hold individual certifications, re-validated on a fixed cycle through independent assessment.
The international standard for governing AI systems responsibly. We certify management, oversight, and accountability controls — giving boards and regulators independent assurance over your AI.
Independent attestation over security, availability, and confidentiality controls observed across a period — the assurance enterprise counterparties expect before they commit.
Certification of a complete information security management system. We map controls to your operating model and evidence them for certification, renewal, and stakeholder review.
Structured alignment to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework — identify, protect, detect, respond, recover — translated into a governance posture your directors and auditors can read at a glance.
Node Operator Risk Standards quantify validator uptime, slashing exposure, and operational resilience — the benchmark for staking infrastructure your delegators and partners can rely on.
ISC² and ISACA credentials held by our engagement leads, ensuring every review is contextualized within the broader governance, risk, and compliance frameworks your board cares about.
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