What We Do

Our Services

Every engagement is led by a senior practitioner with hands-on experience in production environments — not delegated to junior analysts or automated scanners.

Incident Response & Forensics

When minutes matter, you need a pre-engaged team — not a cold vendor reading your environment for the first time.

A breach does not wait for business hours. Our IR retainers give you guaranteed response SLAs, a dedicated lead responder who already knows your environment, and a documented playbook built before anything goes wrong.

What's Included

  • 24/7 on-call IR retainers with 4-, 8-, and 24-hour SLA tiers
  • Digital forensics — disk, memory, and network artifact analysis
  • Root cause analysis and attacker timeline reconstruction
  • Ransomware negotiation support and decryption triage
  • Regulatory breach notification guidance (HIPAA, PCI, state laws)
  • Post-incident remediation planning and validation
  • Litigation-ready forensic reporting

Why It Matters

The average cost of a data breach for SMBs exceeds $4.5M when factoring in downtime, recovery, and fines. An IR retainer reduces mean time to contain by an order of magnitude — and the pre-engagement means no clock ticking while a vendor gets context on who you are.

Compliance Consulting

Compliance is not a checkbox — it is the floor, not the ceiling. We build programs that actually reduce risk.

Regulatory audits are increasingly unforgiving. We deliver practical, evidence-ready compliance programs across the frameworks your business and your customers care about — built by practitioners who have been on both sides of the audit table.

What's Included

  • HIPAA Security Rule gap assessments and remediation roadmaps
  • PCI-DSS scoping, SAQ preparation, and QSA liaison support
  • NIST CSF and NIST SP 800-53 maturity assessments
  • CMMC Level 1, 2, and 3 readiness and SSP development
  • SOC 2 Type I/II readiness and control design
  • Policy and procedure library development
  • Evidence collection and audit support

Why It Matters

Non-compliance fines, contract loss, and reputational damage from a failed audit cost far more than getting ahead of it. We help you pass audits and win contracts — not just survive them.

Advisory & vCISO Services

Senior security leadership on demand — without the $400K salary.

Most SMBs can't justify a full-time CISO but face exactly the same threats as enterprise organizations. Our Virtual CISO packages embed a senior practitioner into your leadership team on a fractional basis — delivering strategic guidance, board-level reporting, and a continuous security roadmap.

What's Included

  • Dedicated vCISO with monthly and quarterly engagements
  • Security program design and maturity roadmapping
  • Risk register development and ongoing management
  • Board and executive security briefings
  • Vendor and third-party risk management
  • Security budget planning and tool rationalization
  • Escalation point for your internal IT team

Why It Matters

Cyber risk is business risk. Leadership teams without a security voice make decisions in a vacuum — and attackers exploit that blind spot. Retainers run $2,000–$4,000/month, a fraction of a full-time hire with no equity or benefits overhead.

Security Awareness Training

Your people are your largest attack surface — and your most overlooked defense.

Over 80% of breaches involve a human element. Generic annual training does not move the needle. Our programs are industry-tailored, role-specific, and built around behavioral change — not checkbox compliance.

What's Included

  • Customized phishing simulation campaigns with industry-relevant lures
  • Role-specific modules (executive, finance, clinical, developer)
  • Social engineering awareness: vishing, smishing, pretexting
  • Secure remote work and BYOD best practices
  • Password hygiene and MFA adoption programs
  • Incident reporting culture development
  • Post-campaign metrics and behavioral improvement tracking

Why It Matters

Technical controls stop technical attacks. Human-centric training stops the attacks that bypass every firewall — the ones where an employee clicks a link, wires money, or hands credentials to a convincing caller.

Emerging Practice

Space Cybersecurity

The orbital domain is the next contested frontier. We help you defend it.

Commercial space is expanding faster than security frameworks can follow. SATCOM ground segments, satellite operations, and space-adjacent ICS environments represent a new and largely unaudited attack surface. Defense In Orbit brings practitioner-level expertise to an industry that generic security firms cannot serve.

What's Included

  • SATCOM ground segment security assessments (teleport, modem banks, antenna control)
  • Space-segment threat modeling and link protection analysis
  • OT/ICS security for launch and satellite operations facilities
  • ITAR-compliant security program design
  • NIST IR 8401 (Satellite Ground Segment) alignment
  • Space situational awareness (SSA) data security
  • Firmware analysis for space-adjacent embedded systems

Why It Matters

A compromised satellite is not a server you can reimage. Attacks on space infrastructure have cascading effects — GPS spoofing, communications blackouts, physical orbital consequences. This domain demands specialists, not generalists.

Ready to Get Started?

Every engagement begins with a free 30-minute discovery call. No commitment, no sales pressure — just an honest conversation about your risk posture.

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