Protecting What Matters Most.

Wildcard Group is a Belgian security practice. We prepare organisations for incidents, lead the response when one happens, manage insider risk and protect executives' private digital lives.

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Our Services

Readiness &
Resilience

We write your incident response plan and playbooks with you, run tabletop exercises with your team and management, and test your defences against the attacks most likely to hit an organisation like yours.

  • IR Plan & Playbook development
  • Tabletop exercises (TTX)
  • Exposure & Defence Assessments
  • IR Readiness Reviews
  • Cyber resilience programmes

Insider Risk &
Investigations

Insider risk covers mistakes, compromised accounts and deliberate misuse by employees, contractors and partners. We design and mature insider risk programmes, from crown-jewels mapping to detection use cases and technical exit reviews. Everything is proportionate, documented and within Belgian and European employment law.

  • Insider Risk Programme Build & Quick-Scan
  • Technical Exit Reviews (systems, logs and devices)
  • Detection Use Cases
  • NIS2 Article 21 Insider Gap Check
  • Awareness and manager training

Digital Guardian
Executive & VIP Protection

Personal digital protection for executives, board members and VIPs: their private devices, accounts and home network, and what can be found about them online. Family members can be added separately.

  • Personal threat profiling and OSINT assessment
  • Digital footprint assessment and reduction
  • Exposure Management and tailored Digital Security Training
  • Pre-travel security briefs
  • Family extensions available separately

Digital Forensics &
Incident Response

When an incident hits, we act as incident commander alongside your team. Our forensic investigators work out what happened, how the attacker got in and what they reached, and help you close that gap.

  • IR² Retainer: incident command on call
  • Incident Handling & Executive/Board Communication
  • Root Cause Analysis & Digital Forensics
  • Compromise Assessment & Threat Hunting
  • Post-incident retrospective & lessons learned

Advisory &
Training

Security advice for management and boards, including NIS2 readiness, and courses in incident response, readiness, OSINT and OPSEC, taught by practitioners who use the material in their own casework. Courses can be tailored to your team.

  • Strategic security consulting
  • Regulatory readiness (NIS2)
  • Board Level Advisory
  • OSINT & OPSEC Masterclasses
  • Security awareness courses

Flagship Programmes

Our flagship programmes are longer engagements: a three-to-six-month build for insider risk, and ongoing agreements for incident readiness and executive protection. Each combines assessment, implementation and follow-up with your team.

Insider Risk Programme

End-to-End IRMP Build

Design and implementation of a working insider risk management programme: charter, governance, detection, response and training, delivered alongside your team rather than handed over as a document set. Built on the CERT/SEI methodology.

  • Programme charter with mandate, scope and crown-jewels risk assessment
  • Governance model: roles, decision rights, HR-legal-security handover
  • Detection use-case library with tuning and triage guidance
  • Response and escalation playbooks, mapped to NIS2 Article 21

Three to six months, depending on where you start. At the end, your own team runs the programme.

IR²

Incident Readiness × Response

One agreement for both sides of incident work: readiness work through the year, and an experienced incident commander at your side if an incident happens.

  • IR plan and playbooks, updated with what every exercise teaches
  • Tabletop exercises built around your real threat landscape
  • Exposure & defence assessment, to close the gaps before anyone uses them
  • Incident command and board communication if something does happen
  • Prepaid hours usable across readiness, advisory, and incident response, for the length of the agreement

Your prepaid hours go where they help most: exercises, keeping your plan current, or incident response when you need it.

Digital Guardian

Executive & VIP Digital Protection

We protect the private digital life that corporate security doesn't cover. Your organisation's security team secures the office; your home network, personal devices and your family's accounts are beyond their reach. Removing personal data from data brokers isn't a one-off job, because brokers list it again, so we keep monitoring and remove it again.

  • Executive threat profile & exposure assessment (open-source + breach corpus)
  • Continuous data broker removal and re-listing monitoring
  • Dark web, breach and exposure monitoring across the protected population
  • Account, device and household network hardening with periodic review

Every engagement starts with a tailored threat profile. Discreet by design and focused on your security, so you and your family have peace of mind.

How We Work

Six principles that shape every engagement.

Practitioner-led

Every engagement is led by analysts and consultants with years of hands-on investigation experience.

Fundamentals first

Most organisations do not need the latest tool. They need the basics done well, consistently. We ground our work in proven frameworks such as CyFun, the CIS Controls, CERT's insider risk guidance and MITRE ATT&CK, and in requirements such as NIS2.

Impact over deliverables

We measure success by what has changed six months after our work, not by the number of reports delivered, and by whether you still want to work with us.

Built with your team

We build plans, programmes and playbooks with your team, around how you actually work, so the people who run them after us can own them.

Independent & discreet

We advise on what you need, not what we sell. Our recommendations aren't tied to any vendor.

No nonsense

We tell you what you need to hear, not what you want to hear. If a measure won't help, we say so, even when that means less work for us.

About Wildcard

From Incident Response to Prevention

We've seen nation-state actors. We know what that threat looks like. And we'll be the first to tell you that most organisations don't need to protect themselves against it. What most need is solid, pragmatic security work at a level that genuinely matters, and there's more of that available than most people realise. For those who do operate at higher risk, we can advise at that level too. Either way, we'll be straight with you about which one actually applies.

A wildcard is the pattern that matches everything. The character that catches what others miss. That's not just where our name comes from, it's how we work.

We started our careers in the military, in combat troops and CIS Operations, and transitioned into cyber operations: digital forensics, cyber intelligence, espionage cases, counter-terror work, and hundreds of high-stakes incident response cases for organisations of every size across the globe. That experience became Wildcard Digital Forensics, and later grew into Wildcard Group.

Years of that work teaches you things. You learn how organisations actually fail, how threats behave once they're already inside, and where the gaps in even solid security programmes tend to be. More often than not, it comes down to implementing and maintaining basic cyber hygiene. That is why we work at the front end now. The gap that lets someone in is usually known, usually small, and usually nobody got round to it.

That experience shapes how we work at Wildcard Group.

Based in Belgium, working across Europe.

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