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Serving financial institutions since 2007

Cybersecurity education, compliance, and risk management built for financial institutions.

Banks, credit unions, and fintechs shouldn't have to assemble a half dozen vendors to build an effective security program. One partner; from penetration testing and regulatory readiness to the training of your staff and members that they will actually remember.

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Security analyst reviewing a threat monitoring dashboard, with a Certified Ethical Hacker certificate on the desk
Phishing simulation
What used to be a risk becomes a reflex.
2007
Serving financial institutions since
200+
Years of collective security, compliance & governance experience
10
Service lines under one roof, no vendor stack to assemble
1
Partner accountable for your whole program
What we do

Three things every examiner asks about and we handle all three.

Find the gaps, document the program, and change the behavior. Everything else we do supports those three.

Threat-detection dashboard: a shield over a world map, a 0.003% vulnerability readout, and a magnifier scanning for exploits
01 — Assess

Penetration testing & security assessments

Find your weaknesses before someone else does. We test your network, applications, and systems the way an attacker would, then hand you an exploitable-gap list in priority order.

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02 — Comply

Compliance & program management

See where you stand and know what to do next. Governance, documentation, and ongoing management that hold up in an exam regardless of asset size.

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03 — Educate

Employee training & phishing simulation

Make security part of how your team thinks. Practical training paired with safe simulations of real attacks, so recognizing a threat becomes reflex.

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Also under one roof

All products & services →
Advisory Services Risk assessments, IT audits, and gap analysis. Business Continuity (BCP/BCM) Plans and tabletop exercises that hold up. Employee EDU Customizable training with full LMS support. BadPhish Realistic phishing simulation with auto follow-up. SoS Advisor Branded member and customer security education. Domain Assure Lookalike domain detection and takedown.
Team reviewing security program in a boardroom
How we work

A program, not a project.

Most institutions don't need another point solution. They need a security program that stays current between exams and a partner who knows which findings actually matter.

01
Establish the baseline
Risk assessment, IT audit, and penetration testing tell you exactly where you stand today.
02
Close the gaps that matter
Prioritized remediation, documented decisions, and vulnerability management that keeps pace.
03
Change the behavior
Continuous staff training, phishing simulation, and member education that reduces real incidents.
04
Stay exam ready
Program management, board reporting, and resiliency testing between examination cycles.
Regulatory alignment

Mapped to the frameworks your examiners use.

Every assessment, policy, and training program we deliver is tied back to the guidance you're measured against so findings translate directly into examiner ready evidence.

NCUA FFIEC CAT NIST CSF GLBA PCI DSS FISMA
Certified practitioners on every engagement
CISSP
CISM
CISA
CEH
CISSP, CISM, CISA, and CEH certified assessors: the same people who wrote the report walk your team and your board through it.

"Financial institutions shouldn't have to assemble a half dozen vendors to build an effective cybersecurity program. Our vision is to provide a single trusted partner that helps credit unions navigate today's complex security landscape."

Why institutions trust us

Accountability you can put in front of a board.

The assessor presents the findings CISSP, CISM, CISA, and CEH certified practitioners — the same people who wrote the report walk your team and your board through it.
One partner, one accountable owner Ten service lines under one roof, so there is no vendor stack to coordinate and no gap between who tested and who trains.
Financial institutions, exclusively Since 2007 we have worked with credit unions, banks, and fintechs — and nothing else. We know what your examiners ask.
A Stickley on Security assessor presenting security assessment findings to a boardroom of executives, with a slide showing attack surface, identity, network, and data protection ratings alongside key findings and next steps
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