Cybersecurity consulting from people who run the network.
Architecture review, control-gap analysis, and incident readiness — paired with operators who understand the network the controls run on. We tell you which fixes are real and which are theater.
- architecture · controls · incident readiness
- HIPAA · SOC 2 · PCI-DSS aligned
- fixed-scope · advisory retainer
Cybersecurity Consulting, in plain terms.
We work the security questions that don't have a clean tool answer. Where does identity actually break down. Which network segments trust each other when they shouldn't. What happens at 3 a.m. when the on-call engineer gets paged and the runbook is three years old. We sit with your team, read the configs, and tell you what we'd fix first if it were our environment.
Most security consulting is policy review wearing a technical jacket. Ours starts at the packet and works up. We've operated AS54098 since 2011, so when we review your firewall rules, segmentation, or DDoS posture, we're reading them the way an attacker or an outage would. The recommendations are scoped to what your team can actually ship this quarter.
Engagements typically run as a fixed-scope assessment followed by an advisory retainer. We're comfortable presenting to a board, working alongside an internal security lead, or filling the gap until you hire one. We don't sell tools, so the advice isn't shaped by a vendor relationship.
Common triggers for this engagement.
- 01A customer, auditor, or insurer is asking harder security questions than you can answer right now
- 02You inherited an environment and need an honest read on what you actually have
- 03You're shipping fast and security has fallen behind the architecture
- 04You're between security leaders and need senior coverage without a full-time hire
Questions teams ask before signing.
Do you sell security tools or take referral fees from vendors?
No. We're independent. When we recommend a tool or a managed service, it's because we've used it and it fits your environment. If a vendor pays us a referral, we'll tell you before we name them.
Can you act as a fractional CISO?
Yes, for the right scope. We can run your security program, sit in on customer security reviews, and own remediation tracking. For pure compliance staffing or 24/7 SOC monitoring, we'll point you to partners who do that as their primary work.
What's the deliverable from an initial engagement?
A written assessment with prioritized findings, an architecture diagram of what you actually have (often different from what you think you have), and a 90-day remediation plan scoped to your team's capacity. We present it to whoever needs to hear it.
Frequently scoped alongside this work.
Security Architecture Review
A structured read of how identity, network, and data controls actually fit together — not how the policy says they should. We surface the gaps before a real attacker, or an auditor, does.
Penetration Testing
Hands-on adversarial testing of the systems your team relies on. We report what we found, how we got in, and what to fix first — in language an engineer can act on.
Compliance Readiness
Mapping your environment to the controls auditors actually check, and closing the gaps before the audit window opens. We've sat on both sides of that table.
Fractional CTO
Senior technology leadership for the quarters that matter most — architecture calls, hiring strategy, and the bets your team is too close to make. We embed with your leadership, not your tooling.