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Strategy, engineering and governance — under one roof.

United Strategic Planning Centre is a UK consultancy and managed-service partner for AI, cyber security and data. We identify business problems worth solving, then take them from idea to production with the highest level of security assurance and data protection — meeting compliance and regulatory requirements across the globe.

20+
Years in IT, cloud, security & AI
3
Expert practices
21
Specialist services
Dr Asaad Moosa, CEO of USPC Dr Asaad MoosaChief Executive Officer · USPC
PhD, Computer Science
Former CISO · Head of AI & Security Governance

From defence CISO to AI governance at global scale.

Dr Asaad Moosa is an AI and cyber security industry leader with more than twenty years of experience across IT, cloud computing, cyber security and artificial intelligence. He founded USPC to bring together the three disciplines an AI-first enterprise depends on — AI transformation, security assurance and data — under a single, accountable partner.

Most recently he served as Head of AI and Security Governance at Telenor Group, the global telecommunications company headquartered in Oslo, Norway — building an enterprise AI Management System aligned to ISO 42001 and the EU AI Act, and deploying agentic automation that cut manual GRC effort by around 80%. Before that he was Chief Information Security Officer in the British defence sector in London, where he held UK defence security clearance, built a global Security Operations Centre and achieved ISO 27001 certification across a worldwide scope at the first attempt. He is also a Global Advisory Board member for EC-Council’s Incident Handling programme.

Dr Asaad holds a PhD in Computer Science from the UK (2007–2010), specialising in AI and cyber security. He lectured in Computer Science at the University of Reading for several years and is a visiting lecturer at the University of Cambridge, where he teaches and trains the next generation of cyber security leaders.

His mission is to identify business problems with global impact that can be solved with agentic AI and advanced, innovative technologies. With the support of global senior advisors and technical teams across industries, he and USPC deliver tailor-made solutions — from idea to production — with the highest level of security assurance and data protection, satisfying compliance and regulatory requirements across the globe.

Held UK defence security clearance Telenor · Head of AI & Security Governance UK Defence · CISO University of Cambridge · Visiting Lecturer University of Reading · Lecturer PhD Computer Science · AI & Cyber Security
Career2003 — PRESENT
2022 — Present Head of AI & Security GovernanceTelenor Group · Oslo, Norway
2019 — 2022 Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)British Forces Broadcasting Service · UK defence sector, London
2018 — 2019 Information Security ManagerOneAdvanced · London
2017 — 2018 Security ArchitectCore Technology Systems · London (central government & CNI clients)
2016 — 2017 Cyber Security ManagerMazars LLP · London
2012 — 2015 IT & Security ManagerPublic sector · London
2007 — 2011 Lecturer & PhD researcher, Computer ScienceUniversity of Reading · UK
2004 — 2005 IT ManagerBritish Embassy Office (FCO & DFID) · Basra
Certifications

Credentials across security, AI, data and privacy.

Independently certified by the bodies whose frameworks your auditors and regulators use.

Microsoft Azure AI Engineer Associate AI-102
Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate DP-600
Microsoft Security Operations Analyst SC-200
Microsoft Identity & Access Administrator SC-300
Microsoft Information Protection Administrator SC-400
Microsoft M365 Security Administrator MS-500
ISC2 CISSP Certified Information Systems Security Professional
EC-Council C|CISO Certified Chief Information Security Officer
OffSec OSCP Offensive Security Certified Professional
PECB ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Implementer ISMS
PECB ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor ISMS
PECB NIS 2 Directive Lead Implementer EU NIS2
The Open Group TOGAF 9 Certified Enterprise architecture
IAPP CIPP/E Certified Information Privacy Professional – Europe
IAPP CIPM Certified Information Privacy Manager
APMG International EU GDPR Practitioner & Foundation GDPR-P · GDPR-F
OneTrust OneTrust Certified Privacy Professional OTCP
PeopleCert ITIL 4 Foundation Service management
Expertise

Hands-on and board-level.

ISO 27001/27005/42001, NIST CSF & AI RMF, MITRE ATT&CK, TOGAF, PCI-DSS, SOC 2, GDPR, EU AI Act and OWASP for web, API, mobile and LLMs.

AI governance & engineeringAIMS to ISO 42001 and the EU AI Act; LLMOps with Azure AI Foundry, Vertex AI and Bedrock; RAG, MCP and vector-store risk assessment; Content Safety and Prompt Shield; multi-agent automation with n8n, Semantic Kernel, LangChain and AutoGen.
Security leadership & GRCCISO practice, ISO 27001 programmes certified first time, unified ISMS/PIMS/AIMS compliance frameworks, FAIR-style risk reporting and board KPI/KRI dashboards, NIS2, PCI-DSS, SOC 2, Cyber Essentials Plus.
SOC & detectionMITRE ATT&CK-aligned SOC architecture; Microsoft Sentinel (KQL/ASIM), Splunk and Darktrace; SIEM/SOAR playbooks, threat-intelligence pipelines and 24/7 incident response in high-regulation contexts.
Offensive securityOSCP-certified penetration testing across infrastructure, cloud, wireless, web, API and mobile; red-team and social-engineering campaigns; Kali, Burp Suite, Metasploit, Nessus, Qualys.
Architecture & cloudTOGAF enterprise architecture, zero-trust and hybrid designs across Microsoft 365, Azure, AWS and Google Cloud; secure CI/CD with SAST/DAST/IaC gates and AI-generated-code assurance.
Data platforms & governanceMicrosoft Fabric and lakehouse design, data mesh and Data-as-a-Product, Microsoft Purview classification, DLP and lineage; Power Platform automation and executive analytics.
Our teams

World-class experts in three domains.

Our teams span AI, cyber security and data management, supported by a network of global senior advisors. Collectively we design custom, tailor-made solutions and consultancy grounded in each client’s business demands — not in a product we need to sell.

AI team AI architects, LLMOps and agent engineers, and AI governance specialists — from readiness assessment and blueprint through agentic automation to ISO 42001-aligned management systems. AI services Cyber security team Security architects, penetration testers and red teamers, SOC analysts and detection engineers, identity specialists and GRC practitioners — protecting systems and evidencing compliance. Security services Data team Data architects and engineers, analytics and BI specialists, data scientists and governance leads — building lakehouse platforms, data products and the insight layer on top. Data services
Connected technology across cloud, devices and data
How we work

Tailor-made, from idea to production.

Problem first. We start from the business problem and its measurable value — never from a technology looking for a use case.
Security assurance built in. Every solution ships with the controls, evidence and data protection that regulators and customers expect — ISO 27001, ISO 42001, GDPR, the EU AI Act and beyond.
Technology-agnostic, globally connected. Microsoft, AWS and Google Cloud; Anthropic, OpenAI and Gemini; and a network of senior advisors across industries.
Flexible engagement. Business partner, consultancy or managed service — whichever your programme needs.

Let’s talk about the problem worth solving.

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