The financial services practice came next — vendor assurance, regulatory readiness, and the advisory work that became central to programs like the National Creditors Bar Association's Committed to Security framework. Convergent's role spans framework stewardship, assessment delivery, and continuous client support.
Sanctum, the firm's platform, is the third piece. Built to make the work continuous, Sanctum is where assessments, offensive findings, advisory engagements, and evidence converge into a single source of truth — the technological backbone of the continuous coverage model.
Today, those three heritages operate under one name: Convergent. A trade name used by the Convergent group of companies — Convergent Risks, Inc. (US), Convergent Professional Services Ltd. (UK & EMEA), and Convergent Risks India Pvt. Ltd. (India & APAC) — headquartered in Los Angeles with global delivery from London and Mumbai.
Convergent's roots go back two decades. The earliest of those roots is in media and entertainment assurance — specifically, the assessor practice that helped shape what became the Motion Picture Association's Trusted Partner Network program. That practice grew into a global content security firm assessing studios, post-production facilities, and the technology vendors serving the supply chain.