Responsible Cyber
Singapore-based cyber risk and third-party risk management vendor offering CISO-as-a-service consulting alongside its RiskImmune vendor-risk platform.
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Responsible Cyber sells cyber risk management as both a service and a platform. Its CISO-as-a-Service offering puts a fractional, on-demand CISO in front of organizations across Asia-Pacific that can’t justify a full-time hire, covering governance, policy, access control, patch and vulnerability management, and incident response planning. Alongside that consulting arm, the company built RiskImmune, an AI-assisted third-party and vendor risk management platform aimed at automating the supply-chain risk assessments that CISOs and procurement teams otherwise handle manually.
Founded in Singapore in 2016 by Magda Chelly and Mikko Laaksonen, Responsible Cyber counts NUS Enterprise (the entrepreneurial arm of the National University of Singapore) and Singtel Innov8 (Singtel’s venture arm) among its shareholders, giving it institutional backing and a foothold in Singapore’s government-linked innovation ecosystem. The company has since expanded services and partnerships into the UK, France, Poland, and Tunisia.
Responsible Cyber’s model sits at the intersection of advisory services and software: the RiskImmune platform is what keeps it from being a pure boutique consultancy, but the company is still small relative to enterprise GRC and TPRM incumbents like OneTrust or ProcessUnity, and its visibility outside the APAC market remains limited.
Innovation Matrix Assessment
The company has layered a platform (RiskImmune) onto its original consulting business, but public information on release cadence or major feature milestones for that platform is sparse.
Institutional shareholders (NUS Enterprise, Singtel Innov8) and expansion into the UK, France, Poland, and Tunisia point to real operational reach for a company of its size, though it remains small relative to enterprise GRC vendors.
Limited independent evidence of recent growth was found beyond geographic service expansion and the founder's continued public visibility as a cybersecurity commentator; no recent funding round or customer count disclosures surfaced.
Pairing fractional CISO consulting with a vendor-risk platform is a sensible bundle for under-resourced buyers, but both CISO-as-a-Service and TPRM software are established, crowded categories.
No named enterprise customers, independent audits, or third-party efficacy validation of the RiskImmune platform were found; evidence here is limited to the vendor's own marketing.
Third-party and supply-chain risk, plus the shortage of affordable CISO expertise for SMBs across Asia-Pacific, are real and growing problems this offering is built to address.
Why CISOs Should Care
Gives resource-constrained organizations, particularly SMBs across Asia-Pacific, access to fractional CISO expertise and an automated way to track vendor and third-party risk without building either function in-house.
What Makes It Different
Combines advisory (CISO-as-a-Service) with software (RiskImmune) rather than being a pure consultancy or a pure GRC platform, differentiating it from both boutique advisory firms and enterprise TPRM software vendors.
The Matrix Verdict
47/100 — EMERGING / UNRANKED
A credible, institutionally-backed small player serving an underserved SMB and APAC market; real evidence of scale, named customers, or platform efficacy beyond its own claims is thin.
Editorial Note: Claims vs. Verified Findings
Responsible Cyber's marketing describes RiskImmune as 'AI-powered' and highlights institutional shareholders (NUS Enterprise, Singtel Innov8), which are independently confirmed; specific customer results, efficacy metrics, and revenue figures were not found and should be treated as unverified vendor claims where cited.
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