Independent security leadership

Security that keeps pace.

We run security programs, review the code, and lead the incident. Built for regulated and public sector teams that have to ship.

Talk through your next move

What we do

Clarity for the parts nobody wants to own.

vCISO leadership

Someone who has sat in the seat, not a consultant reading you the framework. We run security programs the way an owner does: authorization work, auditor and assessor relationships, customer security reviews, contract and DPA negotiation, and the board conversation that follows. FedRAMP High, DoD IL5, CJIS, StateRAMP, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and 27701. Owned end to end, including the parts that stall deals and the parts that show up in a redline.

Roadmaps
Audit and authorization
Board-ready reporting

Security design and architecture

Make the secure path the obvious path. Authorization boundaries that hold up under 3PAO scrutiny, multi-tenant isolation your largest customer will actually accept, identity federation that provisions reliably instead of silently failing, and AI features that stay explainable when the output has to survive discovery. We design for the questions your customers are going to ask, because we have answered them from the other side of the table.

Cloud and boundary design
Threat modeling
Secure by design

IaC, DevSecOps and embedded AI

Move security to where the code is. Guardrails in CI/CD and infrastructure as code, policy as code that fails builds instead of filing tickets, and review coverage that scales with how fast your team ships. We have taken an engineering organization from a twelve week release cycle to three sprints while customer found defects dropped from seventy four percent to twenty six, so we know what holds up under delivery pressure and what just adds friction.

CI/CD
Policy as code
AI product security

Code and platform review

Teams are shipping faster than they can review. Functionality shows up in the repository that nobody can fully account for, pull request gates get skipped because the release cadence will not allow for them, and the gap between what got built and what anyone understands keeps widening. We assess that gap before your customer does. Provenance, dependency and license exposure, secrets across full commit history, and whether the implementation matches the architecture you already represented to them.

Handover readiness
AI-assisted code integrity
SBOM and license risk

Incident response and digital forensics

When it has already happened, you need someone who can run the incident and do the forensics, not one or the other. We work the artifacts directly. Detonating attachments and reversing the payload, tracing the command and control callout, pulling sign-in and audit logs before retention eats them, finding the accounts you did not know were compromised, and identifying the enterprise application quietly holding an administrative role. Then we write the version your board, your insurer, and law enforcement can all use.

Public safety is a different problem than enterprise IT, and we treat it that way. Your business systems can be down for a day. Dispatch, response, and patient care cannot. We scope containment so it never touches the emergency side, and we know what protected health information in an ePCR system means for your notification obligations before anyone asks.

A payroll deposit that never arrived.

An emergency services agency lost a payroll deposit. The employee had never touched their direct deposit settings, and had never had the email conversation that appeared to authorize the change.

What it actually was: a spearphishing campaign impersonating a document delivery service, using an HTML attachment that spawned a convincing cloud sign-in and multi-factor prompt, harvested the credentials and the session token, and shipped them to a command and control server. Tradecraft consistent with a known state-linked actor. From there the attacker reset the HR system password, hid the confirmation emails in a rule-created folder, and rerouted the deposit.

By the time the work was done, five additional compromised accounts had been found, an enterprise application was discovered holding a privileged cloud administrator role, legacy authentication protocols were identified as the path around multi-factor authentication, and one workstation had a modified certificate revocation list and had to be reimaged. Sign-in log retention was seven days, which is why the true initial access date could only be bounded rather than pinned. That gap is now closed.

Financial loss stayed under five thousand dollars. Internal systems were down about a day. Emergency response capability was never affected. The agency came out of it with endpoint detection and response in place, extended log retention, conditional access, and a written record that satisfied its board and the investigating agencies.

That last part matters more than it sounds. Most organizations survive the incident and then have nothing defensible to show for it.

Talk through the incident

The Red Buffalo approach

Security that survives contact with a delivery schedule.

Most security work fails for a boring reason. The findings were probably fine. Nobody could act on them. A report lands with four hundred items, half of it raw scanner output, nothing ranked by what it means to the business, and the engineering team quietly goes back to shipping.

We work the other way around. Security gets shaped into the product, the platform, and the delivery process from the beginning, and when we assess something you get a work list, not a wall of output.

Findings are material or they are not findings.

Every item ties to a security, licensing, contractual, or operability consequence. There are a lot of defensible ways to solve any given engineering problem, and we do not relitigate reasonable choices your team already made.

Severity reflects your risk, not the tool's score.

A high scanner score on an unreachable code path ranks below a modest finding that will stop a customer security review cold.

We have been the one getting audited.

Every recommendation comes from someone who has owned the evidence, the auditor relationship, and the finding that had to be closed before a deal could sign. That changes what we tell you is worth doing.

We have run the incident, not just written about it.

With a background in public safety and incident command, we understand how to lead when the information is incomplete, the clock is running, and the next decision cannot wait. Digital incidents are not different in kind. The tempo, the discipline, and the reporting obligations are the same.

Nothing urgent waits for the final deliverable.

If we find something in week one that represents live risk, you hear about it the day we confirm it.

That is what secure by design looks like once it stops being a slogan. Compliance becomes the natural output of engineering done well instead of a scramble for evidence at the end.

Start with the hard problem

Start here.

Let’s make the next decision clearer.

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