A senior bench, built for the questions that carry real accountability.
Sekena Solutions is a boutique AI governance and cybersecurity advisory. We exist because the firms shipping AI fastest are often the least able to prove it is governed when it counts, and the usual answer is an oversized program that looks like assurance without being it.
02 · WHY SEKENA
Governance is a judgment problem, not a checklist.
AI risk does not sit still. Regulations move, models change, and the gap between what a business has written down and what it actually does is where the exposure lives. Closing that gap takes people who have operated inside these programs, not just read the standards.
That is the whole design of the firm: a senior bench, fluent across US and GCC frameworks, who build governance that runs and hands it over when it holds on its own.
“Checkbox compliance is the villain. The goal is governance you could defend in front of a regulator, a client, and your own board on the same day.”
THE SEKENA OPERATING BELIEF
03 · WHAT WE STAND FOR
Four commitments.
The same four hold whether your regulator sits in Washington or Riyadh.
01
Senior-only delivery
You work with principals. The experience you buy is the experience that shows up.
02
Dual-market fluency
US and GCC frameworks in one program. We advise the same way whether your regulator sits in Washington or Riyadh.
03
Evidence over theatre
Controls that produce a real trail, so your position holds up to scrutiny instead of folding under it.
04
Advisory, not dependency
We build your team’s capability, not a reason to keep paying us. Success is you running it without us.
04 · LEADERSHIP
The people behind the work.
Sekena is a team of practitioners. This is the leadership bench.
FOUNDER
Aliyana Isom
Founder & Principal Advisor · Privacy, AI Governance, Risk & Compliance
Leads Sekena’s AI governance and cybersecurity practice. Background across enterprise cybersecurity program leadership and regulated financial environments.
AIGP
CISM
Marketing and client coordination handled by the Sekena team. Engagements themselves are always principal-led.
05 · WHAT WE BUILD AROUND
The standards we hold clients to.
NIST AI RMF
ISO/IEC 42001
EU AI ACT
NIST CSF
SOC 2
NCA (SAUDI)
UAE IA
DIFC · ADGM
UAE AI CHARTER
WORK WITH US
If you carry the accountability, we should talk.
Start with the free readiness check, or book time with a principal.