The best handover is the one that makes ARLLYX optional.

Capability Transfer helps security leaders build a team that owns its own judgment. ARLLYX advises, deploys the tooling and documents the handover. A named ARLLYX person leads each engagement and stays accountable until the client team runs it alone.

Tools arrive. The team that can run them often does not.

A security lead is asked to build capability and is handed software. A platform goes in, half of it is configured, and the reasoning behind each setting stays in the integrator's head. A consultant leaves a deck that describes the ideal and a team that cannot reach it.

Twelve months later the platform is still running and nobody can say why it was set up that way, which findings are ignored on purpose, or who has the authority to change it. The client has bought a dependency, not a capability.

Capability is not what was installed. It is what the team can decide, explain and change without the person who installed it.

Three pillars

Consultancy

Advice that builds capability. ARLLYX designs the operating model for a small security team: what to run in-house, what to buy, who holds decision rights, how escalation works. ARLLYX writes the playbooks and then reviews the team's first real decisions against them.

Deployment

ARLLYX stands up and tunes cloud-native application protection (CNAPP) and application security posture management (ASPM) tooling in the client environment. Every setting is documented with the reason it was chosen.

Handover

A documented transfer with exit criteria agreed at the start. Runbooks, configuration records and a decision log move to the client. The client team then makes the calls while ARLLYX reviews until the criteria are met.

Consultancy and Deployment in detail

Consultancy

advice the team can act on without ARLLYX in the room.

• Security operating model for a lean team: roles, decision rights, escalation paths

• Build-or-buy decisions, with the reasoning written down

• Playbooks for the incidents and decisions the team will actually meet

• Review of the first decisions the client team makes, with written feedback

Deployment

CNAPP and ASPM, set up to be run by the client team.

Two terms, defined plainly. A CNAPP is a single platform that watches cloud workloads, configurations, and identities, from code through to runtime. ASPM brings findings from application code, build pipelines and dependencies into one ranked view, so developers and security see the same list.

• Design and deployment of CNAPP and ASPM against the client's cloud and delivery pipelines

• Tuning to the client's risk profile so the first week is not a flood of unranked findings

• Configuration record: what was set, why, and who approved it

• Integration with the client's existing ticketing and escalation routes

How an engagement runs

Four phases. The exit is defined before the work starts.

Phase

What happens

What the client holds at the end

1. Define

Scope, decision rights and the exit criteria are agreed in writing. A named ARLLYX lead is assigned.

A written scope and a list of exit criteria

2. Build

Operating model is drafted. CNAPP and ASPM are deployed and tuned in the client environment.

Working tooling and a configuration record

3. Run alongside

ARLLYX and the client team work the first live cycles together, with the client team increasingly taking the lead.

A decision log with reasoning for each call

4. Hand over

Access, runbooks and records transfer. The client team decides unaided while ARLLYX reviews against the exit criteria.

Full ownership, with named owners for each area

Who does what

ARLLYX builds with the client team, not in front of it.

Activity

ARLLYX

Client team

Tool vendor

Operating model, decision rights, playbooks

Drafts and advises

Approves and adopts

Deploying and tuning CNAPP and ASPM

Yes

Approves and adopts

Supplies the platform

Configuration record and runbooks

Writes

Reviews and accepts

First live decisions

Reviews

Decides

Ongoing operation after handover

Yes

Platform licences and support

Holds the agreement

Yes

A named ARLLYX lead signs the handover record. The client owns every decision made after it.

Changes in a client environment

The same authority discipline as the managed service.

Deployment means touching a client's cloud and delivery pipelines. Every change is approved in writing by a named client owner, logged, and carries a rollback plan. ARLLYX holds no standing administrative access once the handover is signed. Access is granted for the engagement and returned at the end.

Limits, stated plainly

What Capability Transfer is, and where it stops.

Capability Transfer builds a team's ability to run its own security decisions. It does not guarantee any security outcome, and it does not make the client team responsible for the platform vendor's own failures. Scope is agreed upon in writing for each engagement.

Platform licences are separate from ARLLYX services. Where ARLLYX is also engaged for ongoing review after handover, that is a separate, optional agreement, and the client decides whether to take it.

Fit

Built for security leads who are building a team, not renting one.

Strong fit

Poor fit

Security leads at mid-market firms standing up an in-house function for the first time

Organisations that want security run entirely outside the company

Teams adopting CNAPP or ASPM that need it set up so the team can own it

Buyers who want a deployment with no documentation or handover

Leaders who want advice written down so it outlasts the engagement

Buyers seeking a guarantee of security outcomes

Someone has to stand behind the judgment. That is the service.

Talk to the team, Alex@arllyx.com

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