DECLARATION OF INTERESTS
Why this document exists
Security architecture advice is only worth something if the client can assess what is influencing it. We publish our commercial relationships rather than waiting to be asked.
Declared Technology Partnerships
Individual Enablement Credentials Held
Illumio Sales Certification · Illumio Pre-Sales Certification · BigID Core Foundations
These are technology partner enablement credentials. They are listed separately from professional certifications (CISSP, CISM, CCZT, Associate C|CISO, CEH) because they demonstrate different things.
How We Manage the Conflict
1. Two service lines, structurally separated.
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PRAECEPTA Advisory — assessment, architecture, regulatory assurance, risk quantification. Delivered with no product economics. Our fee is identical regardless of what the client subsequently buys, including if they buy nothing.
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PRAECEPTA Delivery — implementation and enablement on our declared partner platforms. Priced separately. Never bundled into an advisory engagement without written client acknowledgement.
2. Disclosure precedes recommendation. This declaration is provided in writing before any engagement in which a product recommendation may arise — not on request, as standard.
3. We will recommend outside our stack, and we will say so. Where a client's requirements are better met by a platform we hold no relationship with, we will say so in writing and name it.
4. Where full independence is required, we will decline and refer. If a client requires a competitive selection process with no declared interest in any candidate, we will say that PRAECEPTA is not the right firm for that specific engagement and recommend alternatives. We would rather lose the engagement than compromise the advice.
5. Selection processes we run are criteria-first. Requirements are defined and weighted with the client, and signed off, before any product is evaluated. Where a declared partner is a candidate, that is disclosed in the evaluation document and the client is offered an independent chair.
6. Published research discloses interests. Any PRAECEPTA article, white paper or presentation touching a domain where we hold a partnership carries a declaration of interest on its face.
Questions we invite you to ask us
Do you receive margin, commission, referral fees or rebates on anything you might recommend? · Are you contractually restricted from criticising competing products? · Will you recommend something you cannot deliver? · Is your fee affected by what we buy? · Who chairs the evaluation?
We will answer all of these in writing.
Contact: ops@praecepta.ae · Current version always at: praecepta.co/declaration