// SECURITY_ARCHITECTURE_PRACTICE
Security Architecture & Fractional CISO Services
Senior security architecture and leadership for government agencies, prime contractors, fintech lenders, brokerages, and mid-market teams. Each engagement is a scoped work package with acceptance criteria and deliverables traceable to your requirements, whether the driver is a statement of work, a customer review, or an audit.
// CAPABILITY_MAP
Security services for the decision in front of you
Every engagement has a published commercial starting point, a defined timeline, and named deliverables. Scope depends on systems, complexity, compliance target, and access readiness.
Compliance Readiness Sprint
A focused control and evidence review for commercial audits and agency or prime-contractor requirements, mapping gaps to owners, proof, and practical next steps without promising certification.
Security Architecture Assessment
A review of cloud, network, and application design that surfaces systemic risk and creates usable boundary and system diagrams for commercial platforms and scoped agency or prime-contractor environments.
Fractional Security Architect Retainer
Recurring security design guidance for engineering teams, including scoped technical task-order support, documented decisions, and implementation handoffs for both commercial delivery and government programs.
Fractional CISO Advisory
Part-time security leadership that establishes governance, accountable risk owners, and decision-ready reporting for commercial organizations and agency or prime-contractor programs.
Vulnerability Assessment
An authorized, bounded review of selected external and internal assets, producing prioritized findings and acceptance evidence for commercial environments or explicitly scoped agency and prime-contractor systems.
IAM & Identity Review
A focused review of identity controls across staff, contractors, and administrators, including SSO, roles, privileged access, onboarding, and offboarding in commercial or scoped government environments.
Secure API & Third-Party Integration
Architecture and implementation guidance for APIs and partner integrations, including interagency and contractor boundaries where scoped, with documented identity, data, and acceptance controls.
Threat Modeling
A structured analysis of threats to a commercial or mission workflow, connecting data flows and trust boundaries to practical mitigations, owners, and build-time decisions.
Secure SDLC Guidance
Practical security controls across software delivery, including release evidence and traceability suitable for commercial engineering and contract-defined agency or prime workflows.
Remediation Roadmap
A prioritized plan for closing assessment findings, with owners, dependencies, milestones, and verification evidence for commercial and contract-scoped government work.
Executive-Ready Risk Reporting
Clear reporting that turns technical risk into decisions and program-level status for business leaders, agency stakeholders, and prime-contractor teams.
// ENGAGEMENT_SELECTOR
Which engagement do I need?
A customer questionnaire, agency security review, or failed audit
Start with the Compliance Readiness Sprint to map requirements to owners and evidence.
A new contract, solicitation response, or major cloud change
Use a Security Architecture Assessment to expose trust boundaries and structural risk.
Growing access, onboarding, or privileged roles
Choose the IAM & Identity Review for a practical access-control baseline.
A product launch or sensitive workflow
Threat Modeling and Secure API Integration Review catch design risks before release.
Too many findings and no clear owner
A Remediation Roadmap turns audit, assessment, or incident findings into sequenced work.
Leadership needs a security decision, not more noise
Fractional CISO Advisory and Executive-Ready Risk Reporting create an actionable operating view.
// COMMERCIAL_STARTING_ESTIMATES
Published commercial pricing
| Security service | Timeline | Starting price |
|---|---|---|
| Compliance Readiness Sprint | 2 weeks | $3,500 |
| Security Architecture Assessment | 2–3 weeks | $4,500 |
| Fractional Security Architect Retainer | 3-month initial term | $3,500/month |
| Fractional CISO Advisory | Monthly advisory | $3,000/month |
| Vulnerability Assessment | 1–2 weeks | $2,500 |
| IAM & Identity Review | 2 weeks | $3,000 |
| Secure API & Third-Party Integration | 1–3 weeks | $2,500 |
| Threat Modeling | 1 week per system/workflow | $2,000 |
| Secure SDLC Guidance | 2–4 weeks | $3,500 |
| Remediation Roadmap | 1 week | $2,000 |
| Executive-Ready Risk Reporting | 3–5 business days | $1,500 |