Our services
Building digital resilience from strategy to operating capability.
Digital resilience is not delivered through a single technology, project or control.
It depends on the way governance, people, technology, information, critical services and institutional change work together.
Expede helps universities understand where resilience is weakest, determine what needs to improve and build the capability required to deliver sustainable, measurable change.
Our services span five interconnected areas, underpinned by the Expede Unified Digital Resilience Framework (UDRF).
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Understand risk. Strengthen control. Demonstrate improvement.
Establish an evidence-based view of digital resilience and cyber risk, identify material gaps and strengthen the governance, controls and assurance needed to manage them.
Our work can include:
digital resilience and cyber maturity assessment;
cyber security strategy;
governance, risk and control frameworks;
regulatory and standards alignment;
research and information protection;
control assurance and evidence;
security architecture and capability improvement; and
executive and board-level assurance.
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Turn risk and ambition into an achievable programme of change.
Translate institutional priorities, material risks and capability gaps into coherent strategies, investment cases, operating models and prioritised programmes.
Our work can include:
digital resilience strategy;
target operating models;
capability and gap analysis;
prioritised roadmaps;
investment and business cases;
programme architecture and mobilisation;
governance and benefits frameworks; and
complex transformation leadership.
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Strengthen the technology foundations on which the institution depends.
Improve visibility, security, reliability and recoverability across complex university technology estates.
Our work can include:
infrastructure and cloud resilience;
identity and access management;
network and endpoint security;
vulnerability and configuration management;
monitoring and detection;
backup, recovery and disaster recovery;
operational resilience and continuity; and
critical technology dependency analysis.
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Protect the services that keep the university operating.
Universities increasingly depend on interconnected enterprise applications, SaaS platforms, data and suppliers to deliver critical institutional services.
We help institutions understand those dependencies and strengthen the governance, security, lifecycle and recoverability of the services that matter most.
Our work can include:
critical service mapping;
application and SaaS resilience;
architecture and integration;
lifecycle and technical debt;
data dependencies;
supplier and third-party resilience;
service continuity and recovery; and
resilience requirements for new digital services.
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Make resilience part of how the institution operates.
Technology alone cannot create a resilient university.
Sustainable improvement requires clear accountability, capable people, effective information ownership and behaviours that support secure and resilient ways of working.
Our work can include:
governance and accountability;
information asset governance;
security culture and awareness;
organisational capability development;
policy adoption;
communications and engagement;
business change; and
knowledge transfer and skills development.
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The Unified Digital Resilience Framework
The Expede Unified Digital Resilience Framework (UDRF) provides the common methodology underpinning our services.
It connects institutional obligations and risk to capabilities, controls, evidence, maturity, improvement activity and measurable outcomes.
This means individual engagements do not need to become isolated pieces of consultancy.
Whether we start with an assessment, a specific technology challenge, a governance issue or a major transformation programme, the work can contribute to a consistent institutional view of resilience.
Start where the need is greatest
An engagement does not have to begin with a large transformation programme.
We can help an institution:
Assess - establish the current position and identify material risk.
Prioritise - determine which capability gaps matter most.
Design - define the strategy, roadmap, operating model or investment case.
Deliver - provide leadership and specialist capability to implement improvement.
Assure - reassess evidence, maturity and risk to demonstrate what has genuinely changed.
The starting point may differ. The objective remains the same: