Nation-state expertise. Private sector precision. Cybersecurity advisory for organizations that cannot afford to be wrong.

The Problem

Most organizations discover their incident response plan does not work during an actual incident. Playbooks sit untested. Executives have never practiced making decisions with incomplete information under time pressure. Communication chains break down. Legal, PR, and technical teams operate in silos. The result: a containable incident becomes a front-page crisis.

Our Approach

We design exercises based on threat scenarios specific to your industry, attack surface, and regulatory environment. Not generic ransomware walkthroughs. We build scenarios from real intrusion patterns we have observed: supply chain compromises, insider threats, coordinated extortion campaigns. Exercises include realistic injects that force difficult decisions, conflicting information streams, and the time compression that characterizes real incidents. Your team practices the hard calls before they matter.

What You Receive

• Threat-informed scenario design based on your specific risk profile and attack surface
• Full-day executive tabletop with realistic injects, media simulation, and regulatory pressure
• Technical team exercises that test detection, containment, and eradication procedures
• Board-level simulation focused on fiduciary decision-making and disclosure obligations
• Detailed after-action report with prioritized remediation roadmap
• Crisis communication templates tested and refined during the exercise

Outcomes

Teams that train under realistic conditions respond faster and with less confusion during real incidents. Executives who have practiced difficult decisions make better ones under pressure. Organizations that test their plans identify gaps before adversaries exploit them. You will know whether your response capability is real or theoretical.

The Problem

Security programs often grow organically, accumulating tools without strategy and controls without coherence. The result is expensive complexity: overlapping capabilities, unaddressed gaps, and no clear line between investment and risk reduction. Boards ask reasonable questions about security spending and receive answers that do not connect to business outcomes.

Our Approach

We architect security programs the way we built them at Fortune 100 companies and government agencies. Start with threat reality, not vendor marketing. Map controls to actual attack paths. Build governance that creates accountability without bureaucracy. The goal is a security program that executives can explain to a board and defenders can actually operate. We have designed programs that passed regulatory scrutiny and survived real adversaries. We bring that experience to organizations that need senior-level thinking without permanent headcount.

What You Receive

• Current-state assessment: control inventory, gap analysis, and threat exposure mapping
• Target architecture aligned with your risk appetite, regulatory requirements, and growth trajectory
• Three-year roadmap with sequenced initiatives, dependencies, and resource requirements
• Budget model with defensible rationale for board and executive presentations
• Governance framework: roles, responsibilities, escalation paths, and metrics that matter
• Technology stack recommendations based on operational requirements, not vendor relationships

Outcomes

A security program that makes sense on paper and works in practice. Clear investment priorities that connect spending to risk reduction. Governance that creates accountability without creating bottlenecks. Board reporting that answers the questions directors actually ask. You will know what you have, what you need, and how to get there.

The Stakes

The first 72 hours of an incident determine whether you contain the damage or watch it compound. Attackers move laterally while defenders scramble to understand scope. Evidence degrades. Regulatory clocks start ticking. Decisions made under pressure with incomplete information shape outcomes for months or years. Most organizations do not have the expertise to handle sophisticated intrusions. Most incident response firms send junior analysts.

Our Approach

When you engage TRIFIDENT, you get senior operators who have led incident response at scale. We have contained nation-state intrusions, coordinated responses across global enterprises, and navigated the intersection of technical response and regulatory obligation. We do not send a sales team and follow up with junior consultants. The people who scope the engagement are the people who execute it. We work alongside your team or operate independently, depending on your internal capability and the demands of the situation.

What You Receive

• Rapid containment: isolate compromised systems, cut attacker access, stop lateral movement
• Forensic investigation: determine scope, timeline, data exposure, and attacker TTPs
• Evidence preservation: maintain chain of custody for potential litigation or law enforcement
• Regulatory coordination: notification timeline management, regulator communication support
• Recovery oversight: system restoration, credential rotation, control hardening
• Root cause analysis: detailed findings report with specific remediation requirements

Engagement Models

Retainer clients receive guaranteed response times and pre-negotiated rates. When an incident occurs, we mobilize immediately because the scoping work is already done. For organizations without retainers, we provide emergency response on availability. Either way, you get the same senior team and the same operational discipline.

The Gap

Organizations that need senior security leadership often cannot justify a $400K+ CISO salary, or they need expertise that exceeds what a single hire can provide. The result: security decisions made by executives without security backgrounds, boards without credible security reporting, and regulatory engagements handled by people who have never navigated them before. Fractional arrangements filled by consultants who have never actually been a CISO do not solve the problem.

Our Approach

TRIFIDENT provides executive security leadership from practitioners who have held the role at significant scale. Our advisors have built security programs at Fortune 100 companies, testified before regulators, negotiated with auditors, and presented to boards that ask hard questions. This is not advisory from the sidelines. We operate as your security executive: attending board meetings, leading your security team, engaging with regulators, and making the decisions that the role requires. Part-time commitment, full accountability.

What You Receive

• Dedicated senior advisor operating as your CISO on a fractional basis
• Board and audit committee presentations with executive-grade communication
• Regulatory engagement: examinations, audits, and compliance discussions
• Security team leadership: hiring, performance management, capability development
• Vendor management: technology evaluation, contract negotiation, relationship oversight
• Strategic planning: roadmap development, budget defense, risk prioritization

Engagement Structure

Typical engagements range from two to four days per month, scaled to your organization's complexity and the intensity of current initiatives. Interim arrangements during CISO transitions can be structured for higher involvement. We integrate with your leadership team and operate with the access and authority the role requires.

Overview

TRIFIDENT helps organizations achieve compliance with CMMC, NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53, NIST CSF, and CIS Controls. We build compliance frameworks that satisfy regulators while strengthening actual security posture. No checkbox exercises.

What We Deliver

• Gap assessments against target compliance frameworks
• Remediation roadmaps with realistic timelines
• Policy and procedure development
• Pre-audit readiness assessments
• Ongoing compliance monitoring and advisory

Accreditations

TRIFIDENT is an accredited CMMC Registered Provider Organization (RPO), qualified to prepare defense contractors for certification assessments.

Overview

TRIFIDENT's cybersecurity assessments evaluate governance, risk, operations, and compliance to drive smarter security investments and inform executive decisions. We identify material risks, quantify remediation costs, and provide board-ready findings that inform deal valuation.

Private Equity & Portfolio Companies

Cyber risk is deal risk. We provide pre-acquisition due diligence that surfaces material vulnerabilities before they become your problem, and post-acquisition roadmaps that align security investments with value creation timelines. Our assessments are built for deal teams and investment committees, not IT departments.

What We Deliver

• Comprehensive technical assessment of target company security posture
• Identification of material cyber risks and potential deal-breakers
• Quantified remediation cost estimates for investment committee consideration
• 100-day post-acquisition security roadmap aligned with value creation thesis
• Executive summary designed for deal teams, not IT departments

Ideal For

Private equity firms conducting pre-acquisition due diligence, institutional investors evaluating target companies, and boards seeking independent assessment of portfolio company cyber risk.