What boutique means

Small by design. Senior by default.

Compliance documents are easy to write and hard to defend. We work backwards from the moment of examination — the assessor, the prime, the board, the incident — and build what survives it.

Senior on every engagement

The person in your boundary workshop has broken commercial cryptography and written security plans for military commands — not a slide template.

Fluent in business and security

Security decisions framed as ROI, materiality, and contract eligibility — language boards and investors can act on.

Evidence first

Nothing is asserted — to an assessor, a prime, a board, or SPRS — that operating evidence cannot support.

G. Mark Hardy, Founder and President of National Security Corporation

G. Mark Hardy Founder & President · National Security Corporation

The founder

Fluent in security. Fluent in the business it protects.

G. Mark Hardy closes the gap between security issues and return on investment because he is fluent in both. He was hand-picked to address the top executives of Fortune 1000 firms across the country in small-group settings on an enterprise-wide accountability approach to security — and he is as comfortable in front of a large audience of technologists as he is at home with C-level executives.

Mark has provided information security expertise to government, military, and commercial clients for more than 35 years. An internationally recognized expert who has spoken at over 300 events worldwide, he directs the efforts of National Security Corporation — the information security consulting firm he founded in 1988.

Professional background

Security planning & policy development Security assessment & penetration teams Encryption & authentication — including breaking commercial cryptographic algorithms Software development & e-commerce strategic planning Commercial risk-assessment software Security plans for four U.S. military commands COMSEC encryption requirements for an experimental military satellite program

Service & decorations

Retired U.S. Navy Captain — entrusted with command nine times, including leadership training for 70,000 Sailors Wartime Director, Joint Operations Center, U.S. Pacific Command Assistant Director of Technology & Information Management for Naval Logistics in the Pentagon — INFOSEC, PKI, and internet security Defense Superior Service Medal · Legion of Merit · five Meritorious Service Medals · 24 other medals and decorations

Credentials & current voice

Northwestern University — BS Computer Science & BA Mathematics MBA · Master's in Strategic Studies CISSP · CISM · CISA · GSLC SANS Principal Instructor — security leadership & strategic planning Co-host of the CISO Tradecraft® podcast 300+ speaking events worldwide · ISACA annual training for 14 years

Repeat clients and audiences have included Cisco — which called on him repeatedly to headline a cross-country tour on protecting enterprise assets — ISACA, Procter & Gamble, General Electric, and IBM. He has been quoted in Forbes on cryptocurrency and Internet-of-Things risk.

Mark is a founding member and Advisory Board member of the National CyberWatch Center.

Whether the room holds a thousand technologists or three directors, the message lands — because it is the same person who did the work.

A boutique firm, built for the moment of examination.

Small by design. Senior by default.

Fluent in security. Fluent in the business it protects.

Talk to the person who does the work.