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What we do

Three ways we work with leadership

Each engagement answers a different question: where should security go, who helps you steer it, and how do you prove it to the market. Specialist capabilities like architecture, privacy, AI governance, SOC 2, ISO 27001, CMMC, and FedRAMP are brought in underneath these, as the work requires.

01

Security Strategy & Transformation

Decide where security needs to go, then build the plan to get there.

Fixed-scope engagement, typically 6–12 weeks.

A structured engagement that establishes the target state for your security program and the sequenced path to reach it. We start from business priorities rather than a control catalog, so the roadmap survives contact with your budget, your headcount, and your actual operating model.

What you get

  • Current-state capability and maturity assessment
  • Risk narrative framed in business terms, ready for the board
  • Defined target-state security program
  • Sequenced, costed multi-phase investment roadmap
  • Executive readout and funding narrative

Capabilities we bring

  • Security architecture and control design
  • Program maturity assessment
  • Risk quantification and prioritization
  • Cloud and identity strategy
  • Security organization and operating-model design
02

Executive Security Advisory

Experienced security leadership, without adding another executive.

Monthly retainer, minimum six-month term.

A continuing advisory relationship: we sit alongside your leadership team, own the security narrative to the board and to customers, and make the calls that need someone who has made them before. This is judgment and accountability, not staff augmentation.

What you get

  • Standing executive advisory cadence
  • Board and audit-committee reporting
  • Security input on architecture, vendor, and hiring decisions
  • Customer and prospect security escalation support
  • Annual strategy refresh and roadmap re-sequencing

Capabilities we bring

  • Virtual CISO leadership
  • Board and investor reporting
  • Cyber-insurance and contractual risk review
  • Incident response readiness and executive tabletop
  • Security hiring and team design
03

Trust & Assurance Transformation

Turn certification into a durable commercial advantage.

Fixed-scope engagement or phased program.

Most firms treat a framework as the deliverable. We treat it as evidence of a program that already works. The engagement builds the underlying capability once, then maps it across every framework and customer questionnaire you face, so the second certification costs a fraction of the first and security stops being a deal blocker.

What you get

  • Framework strategy and sequencing decision
  • Unified control set mapped across frameworks
  • Audit-ready evidence and policy foundation
  • Customer security questionnaire and trust-center response kit
  • Auditor selection and readiness support

Capabilities we bring

  • SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, CMMC readiness
  • FedRAMP 20x readiness and Key Security Indicator validation
  • Privacy program design (GDPR, CCPA, DPIA)
  • AI governance and NIST AI RMF alignment
  • Third-party and vendor risk
  • Policy architecture and control mapping
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How we work

From business priorities to a funded roadmap

The same line of reasoning runs through every engagement, whether it lasts eight weeks or three years.

  1. 01

    Business priorities

    What the company is trying to do over the next 24 months, and what it has committed to customers, regulators, and the board.

  2. 02

    Risk

    Which of those priorities security can actually threaten or enable, expressed as business exposure rather than a findings list.

  3. 03

    Capability maturity

    An honest read of what your program does well today and where it is thinner than the business assumes.

  4. 04

    Target state

    The program the business will need, defined concretely enough to build toward and to say no to things that don't serve it.

  5. 05

    Investment roadmap

    Sequenced, costed, and owned. What to fund now, what to defer, and what each phase buys you.

FAQ

Common questions

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How is this different from hiring a security consultant?

Most consulting engagements start with a framework and produce a gap list. We start with your business plan and produce a decision: what your security program needs to become, what it costs, and in what order to build it. The framework work follows from that, rather than defining it.

What does an engagement cost?

Strategy and transformation engagements are fixed-scope and priced to the complexity of the environment and the decisions in front of you. Executive advisory is a monthly retainer with a minimum term. You will have a firm number before any work begins.

Do you actually implement, or only advise?

We build the strategy, the roadmap, and the control and policy architecture, and we stay alongside your team as it gets executed. Where specialist implementation is needed, we scope it, bring in the right capability, and hold it to the plan.

What does FedRAMP 20x change for us?

FedRAMP 20x replaces control-by-control narrative documentation with Key Security Indicators that are validated continuously and automatically. The practical consequence is that federal authorization becomes an engineering problem before it becomes a paperwork problem: if your environment can produce evidence on demand, the path is far shorter than the old process. We help you decide whether the federal market is worth entering at all, which authorization path fits your system, and what has to be true about your architecture before you start.

We just need SOC 2. Is that a fit?

Sometimes. If you need a certificate as fast as possible and nothing else, a compliance automation vendor is likely a better use of your money. If the certification is the first of several, or it is arriving because your customers have changed, then it is worth building the program properly once.

Can you work with our existing team and tools?

Yes, and that is the usual case. Part of the value is deciding what to keep. We assess what you already have before recommending anything new, and most roadmaps retire or consolidate more than they add.

What happens in the first 30 days?

We establish business priorities with leadership, assess current capability, and frame the risk picture. By the end of the first month you have a defensible view of where you actually are and a draft of where you need to go.