Approach
Security is a compounding discipline. Our engagement model reflects that — a consultative arc that ends where most consulting firms start: with a program that can run without us.
Phase 01
Discover
Phase 02
Diagnose
Phase 03
Direct
Phase 04
Defend
01 — Discover
We learn your environment before we form an opinion of it.
Interviews with engineering, ops, legal, and leadership. A read on data flows, third parties, identity fabric, and how your business actually makes money. No scans yet — context first.
Artifacts
02 — Diagnose
We benchmark you against the frameworks that matter for your industry.
NIST CSF for structure, CIS Controls for hygiene, ISO 27001 for governance, plus the sector-specific overlays you're accountable to. Findings are severity-ranked and mapped to blast radius.
Artifacts
03 — Direct
You get a sequenced plan — not a product catalog.
Every recommendation carries effort, dependency, and risk-reduction weight. Where a control genuinely needs software, we describe the capability, not the vendor. You choose from a shortlist we have no stake in.
Artifacts
04 — Defend
Optional ongoing advisory keeps the program honest over time.
Quarterly program reviews, incident stewardship, vendor-selection support, and continuous board reporting. A steady external check on drift, growth, and the assumptions security programs quietly accumulate.
Artifacts
Operating principles
We take no reseller margin, no referral fees, and no vendor sponsorships.
We describe capabilities, never mandate products. Selection is yours.
We publish our methodology. Clients can audit how we reached a finding.
We refuse engagements where our independence would be structurally compromised.
We size scope to your reality, not to our capacity.