The practices
Every practice exists because a different counterparty examines your security — an assessor, an agency, a prime, a board, an adversary. Each one hands the next a boundary, an architecture, or an evidence base it can build on. Start where you're being examined next.
Practice 01
Protect federal contract eligibility by making every cybersecurity assertion supportable.
CMMC · DFARS · NIST SP 800-171/172 · SPRS
DocumentationFor defense contractors, subcontractors, manufacturers, and dual-use technology firms that must determine their federal cybersecurity obligations, protect FCI and CUI, establish defensible boundaries, and back every compliance assertion with operating evidence — before an assessor, a prime, or a signed affirmation puts it to the test.
What we do
Representative deliverables
You call us when
A solicitation includes CMMC and your SPRS score is a guess · An executive must affirm compliance over generic documentation · A prime is asking for 800-171 evidence you don't have.
Practice 02
Turn commercially successful technology into a federally usable and continuously defensible service.
FedRAMP 20x · NIST SP 800-53 · FIPS 199/200 · RMF
DocumentationFor SaaS, cloud, AI, and data-platform providers deciding whether — and how — to pursue federal authorization. We size the opportunity honestly, define the boundary, and build the architecture, evidence, and governance that federal adoption requires, without stalling the commercial product.
What we do
Representative deliverables
You call us when
An agency asks if you're FedRAMP authorized · FedRAMP is in the revenue forecast without a realistic cost or schedule · Engineering can't say where the certification boundary is.
Practice 03
Architecture that supports authorization, modernization, and mission — not a separate compliance layer.
NIST RMF · SP 800-53 · SP 800-37 · CSF · Federal ZT models
DocumentationFor organizations operating complex federal, defense, cloud, and mission environments, where controls without a coherent architecture create authorization uncertainty. We design and evaluate the architecture first — boundaries, identity, segmentation, telemetry — so authorization and modernization move together instead of colliding.
What we do
Representative deliverables
You call us when
Controls exist but the architecture doesn't · Zero trust is a mandate with no executable plan · Every system change reopens authorization uncertainty.
Practice 04
Give leaders the evidence, context, and senior judgment required to make defensible cybersecurity decisions.
NIST CSF · Enterprise risk · Board governance
DocumentationFounder-led, senior-level cybersecurity judgment for boards, CEOs, CISOs, and investors who must translate technical security issues into business, mission, investment, and accountability decisions — in the language a boardroom acts on, not a vulnerability count.
What we do
Representative deliverables
You call us when
The board can't tell which cyber risks are material · Spending lacks prioritization and metrics lack business context · An executive must defend security representations personally.
Practice 05
Prepare the organization to make fast, defensible decisions when cybersecurity becomes an operational crisis.
NIST CSF Respond/Recover · CMMC IR requirements · SCRM
DocumentationFor organizations that must withstand cyber incidents, supplier failures, and high-consequence events without losing mission, revenue, or contract delivery. Plans that exist only on paper fail on contact — we rehearse the decisions, test the recovery assumptions, and map the dependencies before the bad weekend.
What we do
Representative deliverables
You call us when
The IR plan has never been rehearsed · Executives don't know their crisis roles · A subcontractor could jeopardize a federal program · Recovery assumptions are untested.
Practice 06
Secure the technology while it is still being designed — before requirements become a barrier to investment or deployment.
NIST AI RMF · CSF · SSDF · Post-quantum standards
DocumentationFor advanced-technology organizations protecting high-value research and building products that will one day face federal requirements, investor diligence, and production scale. Architectural change is cheap on the whiteboard and ruinous in production — we put security in before the cost curve turns.
What we do
Representative deliverables
You call us when
The product is being built before its security boundary is defined · AI is creating ungoverned data paths · Diligence found security debt late · A prototype can't scale securely into production.