Cybersecurity & Advisory Services
Every organization faces cybersecurity pressure from multiple directions at once — customers asking about your security program, investors asking if you can withstand an attack, regulators expecting documentation you haven’t built yet, and vendors promising magic bullets that don’t exist. CipherNorth works beside you as a trusted partner to right-size your program based on your actual needs. We help you make risk-informed decisions about what’s necessary now, what can wait, and what’s not worth the money.
Advisory & Strategy
Fractional CISO & Security Advisory
Not every organization needs a full-time Chief Information Security Officer — but most need the judgment and experience of one. Our fractional CISO service embeds experienced security leadership into your team on an ongoing, part-time basis. We attend board meetings, handle customer security questionnaires, guide vendor decisions, develop policies, and build a security program that fits your risk profile and budget. This isn’t project-based consulting — it’s a working partnership that grows with your business.
Enterprise Security Program Services
For organizations with complex environments, we provide strategic leadership across the full security landscape. This includes M&A and cloud security assessments (AWS and Azure), GenAI security planning and policy development, tool rationalization to eliminate redundant or underperforming security products, MSP accountability frameworks to ensure your service providers meet security and compliance obligations, data security program design, and compliance roadmapping. We align security investments with business priorities and ensure accountability across partners, platforms, and technologies.
Operations & Response
Incident Response Planning & Preparedness
Every organization will face a cyber incident — the difference between a minor disruption and a major crisis comes down to preparation. We help you build a tested, repeatable incident response program that includes detection and monitoring capabilities tuned to reduce noise and surface real threats, response playbooks with clear escalation procedures, third-party coordination plans for legal counsel, forensics firms, insurance carriers, and law enforcement, executive communication frameworks so leadership knows their role during a crisis, and regulatory notification workflows aligned with your industry’s requirements.
We don’t just build documents — we build the muscle memory your team needs to act decisively under pressure.
Cybersecurity Tabletop Exercises
Our tabletop exercises are facilitated, scenario-based sessions where your team walks through a simulated cyber incident — ransomware, data breach, business email compromise, insider threat, or a scenario custom-designed for your environment. There’s no live technical testing; the focus is on decision-making, communication, and coordination under pressure.
We offer exercises at multiple scales: focused sessions targeting a specific section of your response plan, team-level exercises evaluating internal coordination, and large-scale exercises involving multiple departments and external vendors. Each can be tailored for technical responders, executive leadership, or both. Every exercise concludes with an after-action report identifying specific gaps and actionable recommendations.
Security Testing & Readiness
Penetration Testing & Red Team Engagements
Through our partnership with STACKTITAN, we deliver expert-led penetration testing and advanced red team operations. This isn’t high-volume, automated scan-and-report testing — it’s crafted offensive security performed by practitioners who think like real attackers. Engagements are designed to expose genuine vulnerabilities in your environment, test your detection and response capabilities, and provide findings that drive meaningful security improvements. STACKTITAN’s team brings depth and creativity that commodity testing vendors simply don’t offer.
AI & GenAI Governance
As organizations adopt generative AI tools, new risks emerge around data leakage, intellectual property exposure, model misuse, and regulatory compliance. We help you develop practical governance frameworks that let your organization use AI productively while managing risk. Our approach draws on NIST AI RMF, OWASP Top 10 for LLMs, and ISO/IEC 42001 — but we focus on what’s implementable at your maturity level, not theoretical perfection. Deliverables include acceptable use policies, risk assessments, vendor evaluation frameworks for AI tools, and security controls tailored to how your teams actually use AI.
Audit & Compliance Readiness
Whether you’re preparing for SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS, FFIEC, GLBA, NIST CSF, or CMMC, we help you get ready without the scramble. Our approach includes gap assessments against your target framework, policy and procedure development, evidence gathering and documentation, remediation roadmapping with realistic timelines, and preparation for auditor or examiner conversations. We’ve led organizations through audits and regulatory exams across financial services, healthcare, and technology — and we’ve published a comprehensive guide on our blog: “How to Pass Every Audit: A Practitioner’s Guide.”