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Security Consulting

Strategy, architecture, and program builds for high-stakes environments.

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Overview

Most consulting is theatre. We focus on what moves risk.

Versus consulting is built around a small set of facts that actually move organizational risk: identity hygiene, detection coverage, network and cloud segmentation, recovery-time discipline, and third-party exposure. Everything else flows from those.

Our consultants are senior practitioners — former CISOs, principal architects, and program leaders who have built and defended security programs at banks, sovereign agencies, and global enterprises. We benchmark, plan, and ship. We do not deliver 80-page reports that nobody reads.

For organizations operating under modern regulatory regimes — DORA, NIS2, NYDFS Part 500, SEC cyber disclosure, CMMC — we map control posture, gap-close pragmatically, and produce regulator-ready evidence trails.

Fig. 04 · CONSULT workflow RISK SURFACES Identity Detection Segmentation Recovery 3rd party PROGRAM CONTROLS Strategy · Architecture · vCISO · Regulatory · M&A diligence OUTCOME · Lower MTTD · Lower MTTR · Audit-ready evidence · Board-grade reporting
Capabilities

How we engage

Each engagement is led by senior operators. Scope is shaped to your environment, not pulled from a template.

01

vCISO & program leadership

Embedded senior leadership for organizations between CISOs, scaling, or rebuilding after a major incident.

02

Cloud & zero-trust architecture

Reference architectures and migration plans for AWS, Azure, GCP, and identity-led zero-trust deployments.

03

M&A cyber diligence

Pre-deal target assessment, post-close integration risk, and carve-out security planning under deal timelines.

04

Regulatory readiness

DORA, NIS2, NYDFS Part 500, SEC cyber disclosure, CMMC, and ISO 27001 program builds and audit support.

05

Third-party risk

Vendor security assessment, supply-chain risk modeling, and continuous monitoring for critical providers.

06

Resilience & recovery

Recovery-time engineering: backup architecture, segmentation, and ransomware-survivable infrastructure design.

Engagement flow

How we run it.

A consistent rhythm whether the engagement is a single audit or a multi-quarter program.

PHASE 01

Diagnose

Honest assessment of where the program is — measured against threat model, not generic frameworks.

PHASE 02

Prioritize

A short list of decisions that move the most risk per dollar. Sequenced for executive sponsorship and delivery capacity.

PHASE 03

Deliver

Hands-on architecture, build, and rollout. We implement alongside your team, not from a slide deck.

PHASE 04

Operate

Operational handover, metrics, and a living roadmap. We leave when the program runs without us.

FAQ

Common questions.

If yours isn’t here, the hotline and engagement intake both reach a senior partner.

Do you do compliance audits?

We do not provide attestation. We do prepare you for audit, run gap assessments, and provide the engineering work that closes findings. Many clients pair us with a Big Four auditor for the formal sign-off.

What does "vCISO" actually mean for you?

A senior consultant embedded as your security leader for a defined engagement — typically 6 to 18 months. They sit in your leadership meetings, own the strategy, and recruit your permanent CISO if that is the goal.

Can you scale to a global program?

Yes. Our largest active programs span 30+ countries with localized regulatory work — the European Union under DORA and NIS2, the United States under SEC and NYDFS, and APAC under MAS, APRA, and equivalents.

How do you measure success?

Specific metrics agreed at engagement start: time to detect, time to contain, control coverage against ATT&CK, recovery-time objectives, and audit findings closed. We report on them monthly.

Related capabilities

Often paired with.

Consult engagements frequently sit alongside these capabilities. The same operating doctrine, the same partners.

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Ready to scope a consult engagement?

Most engagements begin with a 30-minute scoping call. We’ll tell you within that call whether we’re the right fit.

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