Apex Cyber Risk Advisory LLC provides independent, senior-level cybersecurity, governance, risk and compliance advisory and delivery support.
Apex is led by Ankur Batta, a cybersecurity and risk executive with 27+ years of experience guiding security strategy, governance, enterprise risk and technology transformation in complex, regulated environments.
His leadership experience spans CISO and Business Security Officer responsibilities, global control frameworks, transaction cybersecurity, information protection, and hands-on security engineering and operations.
At Apex, that experience translates into direct senior-level involvement, practical recommendations, clear accountability and outcomes clients can implement.
Connect with Ankur →Selected leadership achievements and measurable outcomes across complex, regulated global organizations.
Executive experience translated into measurable improvements, scalable security capabilities and business-aligned outcomes.
Held CISO, Business Security Officer (BSO), Global Head of Cyber Risk & Policy Oversight, Global Head of M&A & Divestiture Cybersecurity, and Cybersecurity Operations leadership roles. Directed cybersecurity across 23 countries supporting 22,000+ colleagues, built and led an 80+ professional security organization, and established scalable capabilities across security architecture, engineering, operations, risk management, and governance.
Modernized enterprise risk and control governance by consolidating 3,000+ requirements into 215+ harmonized controls. Established clear control ownership, self-assessment, remediation and executive reporting, improving consistency and reducing duplicated assurance effort.
Aligned cybersecurity priorities with business decisions and accountable risk ownership. Co-led enterprise risk governance and drove a 20-percentage-point improvement in security compliance to 92% through focused remediation, measurable oversight and executive engagement.
Guided cybersecurity risk strategy for multibillion-dollar M&A and divestiture transactions, enabling informed diligence, integration and separation decisions. Led a security infrastructure separation spanning nine sites and 35,000+ colleagues with zero downtime.
Built and transformed security architecture, engineering and operations capabilities across identity, infrastructure, applications and threat management. Improved security operations execution compliance from 82% to 96% while sustaining 99% security-tool availability.
Led international security assurance and certification initiatives, strengthened information protection through enterprise data-classification frameworks, and improved control assessment methods—reducing testing effort by approximately 40% in one transformation.
We help organizations identify and prioritize material cyber risks, strengthen governance and accountability, improve regulatory readiness, and translate cybersecurity priorities into practical outcomes.
Engagements emphasize proportional analysis, transparent recommendations, accountable owners and deliverables designed to remain useful long after the engagement ends.