Exposure
Which obligations and business dependencies matter?
Transformation architecture / founder-led advisory
Turn regulation into a working system.
ZETO turns scattered obligations into decisions, owners, controls and evidence - without manufacturing another layer of bureaucracy.
Decide
Assign
Operate
Prove
01 / Role locked
Accountability enters the system before work begins.
Andreas ZenderFounder
The architect is accountable
Senior judgment, directly in the work.
ZETO is deliberately founder-led. Andreas Zender brings enterprise cyber risk, governance and regulatory transformation experience into the room where responsibilities, tradeoffs and implementation routes are decided.
01Leadership of a global cyber security risk management function across IT and OT.
02C-level advisory across cyber risk, compliance, supplier governance and mitigation strategy.
03Experience translating ISO 27001, NIST, GDPR, NIS2 and EU AI Act expectations into enterprise governance.
Professional background includes current and previous roles within BASF companies. This is CV context only and does not imply BASF endorsement of ZETO Advisory.
Operating-model layers
Map. Assign. Run. Prove.
Each layer has a dependency. A control without an owner cannot operate; an action without evidence cannot be defended.
Decision rights
Who decides, challenges, accepts and escalates?
Controls
What repeatable operating action changes the risk?
Evidence
Which record proves the control and decision operated?
Assurance
Who tests freshness, quality and residual risk?
DemonstrationGeneric sample data
Advisory artifact lab
Inspect the operating logic.
Move one sample obligation through accountability, control, evidence and assurance. Then inspect two adjacent instruments that keep implementation coherent.
Accountability / RACI
CISO / risk ownerAccountable for risk position and escalation.
ACISO
RProcurement lead
CLegal + business owner
IRisk committee
Operating control
Criticality gateRisk tier and required review are set before contracting.
FMonthly control forum
EException escalated
Evidence record
Review recordTier, decision, rationale, approver and review date.
90Freshness threshold
VVersion controlled
Assurance
Second-line challengeSamples gate operation, evidence quality and overdue reviews.
QQuarterly sample
↑Residual risk to board
NIS2
Scope checked separately
DORA
Sector context retained
ISO 27001
Control mapping only
Decide
- Confirm exposure and assumptions
- Name accountable executives
- Set escalation thresholds
Build
- Design controls and forums
- Assign evidence producers
- Pilot one critical workflow
Operate
- Test control performance
- Challenge residual risk
- Report decision-ready status
All instruments above are demonstrations using generic sample data. They are not client work, legal advice, audit evidence or an applicability determination.
Outcome-led advisory
Architecture built around the decision.
Three focused service families, delivered through direct senior involvement and adapted to the organization's actual risk and governance context.
Regulatory Clarity and Exposure Mapping
Clarify which obligation themes matter, where uncertainty remains and which executive decisions should follow.
Exposure mapDecision briefPriority route
Governance and Operating Model Design
Define roles, forums, decision rights, controls, evidence flows and implementation cadence that can operate beyond a one-off assessment.
RACIControl modelEvidence plan
Independent Executive Challenge
Challenge programs, risk positions and board narratives before leadership commits capital, accepts residual risk or reports readiness.
Challenge memoBoard narrativeResidual-risk view
Product laboratory
Advisory judgment becomes a traceable workflow.
DirectiveIQ is a separate product in development exploring structured regulatory intelligence and implementation workflow. It does not replace legal interpretation or executive accountability.
TRACE 01 / SOURCE SIGNALA generic external signal is captured with source and review status.Illustration only - no live product data
Founder-led consultation
Bring one regulatory decision. Leave with a clearer route.
Use an initial conversation with Andreas Zender to test exposure, ownership gaps and the operating-model decisions that matter now.
Andreas Zender
Temporary prototype contact. Professional contact infrastructure is planned.
Request an initial consultation