Security Advisory
Fractional CISO and CIO Advisory
A fractional CISO gives you security program leadership without a full-time executive hire. APT reviews your network and your program together, maps every obligation you actually answer to, and closes the gaps in priority order rather than handing you a template.
Companies between roughly twenty five and two hundred and fifty people usually land in the same spot. Too big for security to be nobody’s job, too small to justify a full-time CISO, and answering to more obligations than anyone has written down in one place.
What the engagement covers
A real picture of what you have. Networks, systems, identities, data flows, and the places where the documented architecture and the running one disagree.
Obligation mapping. SOC 2, ISO 27001, SOX, HIPAA, ERISA, PCI DSS, NIST SP 800-171, state privacy law. Most companies answer to more than one and are tracking them in separate spreadsheets that contradict each other. One map, one set of controls, marked against every regime that needs them.
Gap closure in priority order. Not everything at once, and not alphabetically. What blocks a deal, what an assessor will fail you on, and what actually reduces risk, sequenced so the work is fundable.
Someone in the room. For the board conversation, the customer security review, the insurer’s questionnaire, the incident that has not happened yet.
We do not hand you a template
Downloadable policy packs are free and worth what you pay. Anyone can produce a document that says what a company ought to do.
The work is knowing which controls apply to your business, what evidence an assessor will actually accept, and what to do first. We build the template your business is asking for rather than shipping you someone else’s.
Cyber insurance readiness
Underwriting has become a security assessment with a premium attached. The questionnaire asks about MFA coverage, backup isolation, EDR deployment and privileged access, and answering optimiztically is a claim denial waiting to happen.
We work through it honestly, tell you which answers are currently wrong, and fix the ones worth fixing before renewal rather than after a claim.
Asset management
Every framework starts with knowing what you have, and it is the control most often marked complete on the strength of a spreadsheet from two years ago.
Asset governance here means an inventory that stays current, ownership that is assigned to people who know they own it, and a lifecycle that catches the thing someone spun up in a personal cloud account.
One control usually satisfies requirements in several regimes at once. Mapping it that way is the difference between one security program and four spreadsheets that disagree.