Why independence is enforced contractually

The standard objection to independent assessment is the same one accountancy faced thirty years ago: the firm doing the review is also the firm doing the build. We refuse that shape. On every engagement, the red-team lead and the build lead are different people, named in your contract. Both are subject to revenue caps the contract spells out.

This is in writing because we won’t sell anything we wouldn’t sign our name to in a regulator’s submission.

Where we draw the line

We turn down red-team work that we can’t ship a report for. If a client wants a confidential review we can’t sign and publish a redacted version of, we refuse. The signed report is the product. Without it, what we’d be selling is a private opinion — and we don’t sell those.