INFORMATION SECURITY

Reduce Business Risks by Ensuring Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability, and Federal Security Compliance

WHAT WE DO

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Managed Security Services (MSS)

24/7 monitoring for on-prem, cloud, and hybrid; SIEM/XDR correlation; SOAR playbooks; incident response and forensics.

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Cybersecurity Consulting & RMF/ATO Support

NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 control tailoring/implementation, SSPs, POA&Ms, continuous monitoring strategy, FISMA/FedRAMP readiness.

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Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) & Identity

Least-privilege enforcement, identity lifecycle automation, MFA/PIV/CAC, federation, PAM, micro-segmentation, continuous verification.

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Vulnerability Assessment & Exposure Management

Continuous attack-surface discovery, authenticated scanning, secure configuration checks, ticketing integration with SLAs.

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Penetration Testing, Red/Purple Teaming

Network/app/API/cloud/container tests, social engineering, ATT&CK-aligned adversary emulation.

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Security Audits & Compliance Testing

Policy/procedure reviews, change/config management, logging/monitoring, physical/logical access, third-party controls, evidence collection.

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Secure SDLC & Code Reviews (DevSecOps)

Threat modeling, SAST/DAST/IAST, IaC/container/image scanning, SBOMs, OSS governance, pipeline gates, manual code review.

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Cloud & Data-Centric Security

Data discovery/classification (CUI/PII), encryption in transit/at rest, CSPM/CWPP, micro-segmentation, backup/restore, drift detection.

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Threat Intelligence, XDR & Resilience

TI feed integration, behavior analytics, threat hunting, ransomware readiness, tabletop exercises and recovery patterns.

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Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM)

Vendor due-diligence, contractual security clauses, third-party monitoring, SBOM/component risk tracking.

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Training, Awareness & Culture

Phishing simulations, role-based training (developers/admins/execs), IR playbooks and drills.

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Metrics & Executive Dashboards

KPIs/KRIs (patch SLAs, vuln age, control coverage), CSF maturity scoring, ELT/board reporting.

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Privacy Support (CPO, PTAs/PIAs, SORNs)

Act as/augment CPO; conduct PTAs/PIAs; maintain SORNs; keep privacy inventories current; integrate privacy with RMF artifacts and operations.

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Security Engineering & Architecture

Translate policy into enforceable guardrails; harden identity, endpoint, network, app, and cloud; implement PAM, conditional access, micro-segmentation, policy-as-code, and automated compliance checks.

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SOC Operations (Tier 1–3) & SIEM/XDR Tuning

Run 24×7 monitoring, use-case/runbook engineering, EDR coverage, cloud/on-prem correlation, SLA-driven triage→containment→recovery, and governed reporting.

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Incident Response & Resilience Exercises

Tabletop and live-fire drills, ransomware readiness patterns, after-action reviews with corrective actions and playbook updates.

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Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) Program Support

Establish inventories, label/handling rules, access governance, and monitoring/reporting specific to CUI.

Benefits

Faster detection and response

Reduce MTTD/MTTR, contain incidents quickly, and maintain continuous evidence that supports audits and ATO sustainment.

Smoother authorizations with less rework.

Achieve and sustain ATOs faster through risk-based prioritization and well-governed documentation.

Stop lateral movement at the source

Tight identity-centric controls reduce blast radius and strengthen access governance for users, devices, and workloads.

Measured risk reduction

Convert findings to owned, dated tasks; track closure against SLAs; and demonstrate steady posture improvement.

Real-world validation

Prove defenses against modern TTPs and produce executive-ready findings mapped to mission impact.

Audit-ready operations

Reduce findings with repeatable governance, defensible artifacts, and clear traceability.

Ship faster with fewer defects

Shift-left security eliminates high-risk issues earlier and improves software supply-chain assurance.

Protect what matters, data

Prevent leakage and misconfigurations while maintaining consistent posture across SaaS/PaaS/IaaS and multi-cloud.

Proactive defense, proven recovery

Hunt earlier-stage activity, reduce false negatives, and rehearse recoveries for continuity under stress.

Fewer third-party surprises

Gain transparency into dependencies and control shadow IT and supplier-originated risks.

People as a security multiplier

Reduce human-factor incidents and improve coordinated response when seconds matter.

Decisions driven by evidence

Provide leadership with clear visibility to prioritize investments and track maturity gains over time.

Build trust and meet Privacy Act expectations

Embed privacy-by-design, keep artifacts current, and integrate breach triage/training with security governance.

Make policy real and measurable

Reduce attack surface with defense-in-depth patterns that raise Zero Trust maturity and accelerate secure delivery.

Detect earlier, respond faster

Improve true-positive rates, cut dwell time and MTTR, and sustain audit-ready evidence with continuous reporting.

Practice before it’s real

Validate roles, comms, and recovery so continuity holds under stress and lessons learned feed back into controls.

Protect CUI consistently

Standardize handling and oversight so CUI obligations are visible, enforced, and auditable across systems and vendors.

Approach to Security in an Optimal Way

We institutionalize cybersecurity as a program, not a point-in-time project, aligned to NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5, the Risk Management Framework (RMF), and mission outcomes. We start with asset and data lifecycle governance (hardware, software, identities, and flows), then implement Zero Trust across users, devices, applications, and workloads with least-privilege enforcement, strong authentication (PIV/CAC/MFA), and micro-segmentation. We operationalize continuous monitoring with SIEM/XDR, SOAR-driven response, and ticketed remediation to cut MTTD/MTTR while generating continuous evidence for ATO sustainment.

Vulnerability, Patching, and Configuration Management
We run continuous attack-surface discovery and authenticated scanning with risk-based SLAs. Hardened baselines, secure configurations, and privileged-access controls reduce exploitability. Every finding is traceable to an owner, due date, and verification step, closing the loop and demonstrating measurable risk reduction.

Data-Centric Security & Cloud Posture
Because data is the target, we emphasize classification (including CUI/PII), encryption in transit/at rest, tokenization where feasible, and least-privilege access at the object/API level. In cloud, CSPM/CWPP maintain posture across SaaS/PaaS/IaaS and multi-cloud, with drift detection and guardrails. Backup, recovery, and resilience patterns (immutability, tested restores, segmentation) ensure mission continuity against ransomware and outages.

DevSecOps & Software Supply Chain
Security is embedded in delivery pipelines: threat modeling, SAST/DAST/IAST, SBOM production/validation, container/image/IaC scanning, signed artifacts, and enforceable pipeline gates. We validate open-source licensing and known vulnerabilities and perform manual secure code reviews for critical paths, delivering faster, safer releases with reduced rework.

Threat Intelligence, Red/Purple Teaming, and Readiness
We pair intel-driven hunting with ATT&CK-mapped adversary emulation to validate detective and response controls. Tabletop and live-fire exercises refine incident-response playbooks, roles, and communications. Ransomware readiness includes segmentation, egress controls, detection of early-stage behaviors, and tested recovery procedures.

Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM)
We evaluate vendors and components with contractual controls, continuous third-party monitoring, and SBOM-based transparency. This reduces exposure to upstream compromise, shadow IT, and SaaS sprawl while aligning to federal SCRM expectations.

Governance, Training, and Culture
Policies and procedures are operationalized via repeatable workflows and role-based training for developers, admins, and executives. Phishing simulations and insider-risk awareness lower human-factor risk. Dashboards provide mission-relevant KPIs/KRIs (vulnerability age, patch SLAs, coverage and control efficacy) to drive accountability and continuous improvement.

Compliance Without the Drag
We integrate FISMA/FedRAMP/RMF activities into daily operations, not as paperwork, but as automated evidence from your tooling mapped to controls. This keeps you audit-ready, with POA&Ms managed as living backlogs and authorizations maintained through continuous monitoring.