🛡️ Cyber Consulting

Strategy → Controls → Proof — Tailored to Your Risk & Roadmap

Cyber Consulting with SolveForce blends executive strategy and hands-on engineering.
We don’t stop at slideware—we design and ship controls, wire them to evidence, and leave you with runbooks + metrics that hold up in audits and real incidents.

Related pages:
🔐 Security Ops → /cybersecurity • 📊 Evidence → /siem-soar • 🚨 IR → /incident-response • 🧪 Exercises → /tabletop
👤 Identity → /iam • 🔐 Privileged → /pam • 🚪 Access → /ztna / /nac / /sase
🔑 Custody → /key-management • /secrets-management • /encryption
🧱 Segmentation → /microsegmentation • 🌐 Edge → /waf • /ddos
☁️ Cloud → /cloud • 🧭 Governance → /data-governance • 🔏 Privacy → /dlp
💾 Continuity → /cloud-backup • /backup-immutability • /draas
🔧 Delivery → /infrastructure-as-code • /devops • 💸 Spend → /finops

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🎯 Outcomes (Why SolveForce Cyber Consulting)

• A plan you can execute— 12–18 month roadmap prioritized by risk & ROI.
• Controls that work— Zero-Trust, detection, continuity, and data safeguards implemented as code.
• Readiness for bad days— IR playbooks, TTX cadence, and clean-point recovery for ransomware.
• Audit-grade evidence— logs, approvals, configs, and drills exportable to auditors.
• Cost control— right-size security stack, automate toil, and measure value with SLOs.

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🧭 Scope (What We Do)

• Strategy & Risk — control framework mapping (NIST/ISO/SOC2/PCI/HIPAA/CMMC/FedRAMP), risk register & POA&M.
• Zero-Trust Architecture — ZTNA/SASE for users; NAC at ports; microsegmentation for workloads; policy-as-code. → /ztna • /nac • /microsegmentation
• Identity & Privilege — SSO/MFA, RBAC/ABAC, JIT/PIM + PAM with session recording; workload identity (no long-lived keys). → /iam • /pam
• Keys & Secrets — KMS/HSM CMKs; envelope encryption; vault; rotation and dual control. → /key-management • /secrets-management • /encryption
• Detection & Automation — SIEM rules, use-cases, and SOAR playbooks (isolate, revoke, rekey, patch). → /siem-soar
• Boundary & API Security — WAF/Bot, DDoS stance, quotas/rate, HMAC/JWS signing, schema validation. → /waf • /ddos
• Data & Privacy — labeling, DLP, tokenization, retention/residency, lineage & contracts. → /data-governance • /dlp
• Continuity — immutable backups (WORM), DR tiers & drills, comms runbooks. → /cloud-backup • /backup-immutability • /draas

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🧱 Building Blocks (Spelled Out)

• Policy-as-Code— enforce encryption/tags/deny-public in CI; IaC diffs in Git with approvals. → /infrastructure-as-code
• Least-Privilege by Default— RBAC/ABAC, SoD, JIT elevation; short-lived cloud roles; remove standing admin.
• Secretless by Design— OIDC/SPIFFE for workloads; detect & revoke static keys; rotate on mover/leaver.
• Guarded RAG for Security— SOC runbook copilot with cite-or-refuse; pre-filtered retrieval (labels/ACLs).
• Evidence Pipeline— all grants/revokes, changes, playbook actions, and drills stream to SIEM with WORM options. → /siem-soar

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🧩 Reference Engagements (Pick Your Fit)

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📐 SLO Guardrails (How We Measure Impact)

Domain	SLO / KPI	Target (Recommended)
Identity	Joiner → productive access	≤ 15–60 min
	Leaver full revoke (human/priv)	≤ 5–15 / ≤ 1–5 min
Detection	MTTD (Sev-1 via SIEM correlation)	≤ 5–10 min
Containment	MTTC (EDR/NAC/Zero-Trust action)	≤ 15–30 min
Backups	Immutability coverage (Tier-1)	= 100%
DR	RTO / RPO (Tier-1)	≤ 5–60 min / ≤ 0–15 min
Boundary	WAF added latency	≤ 5–20 ms
Governance	Quarterly access certifications	≥ 95–100%
Evidence	Completeness (audits/incidents)	= 100%

SLO breaches create tickets and trigger SOAR (rollback, rekey, revoke, reroute) with approvals. → /siem-soar

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🛠️ Implementation Blueprint (No-Surprise Delivery)

1) Assess & map — risks, controls, data classes, identity posture, backup/DR status.
2) Roadmap — 12–18 month plan; quick wins vs strategic projects; budget.
3) Build — landing zones, ZTNA/NAC/microseg, keys/secrets, SIEM/SOAR use-cases, WAF/DLP.
4) Prove — TTX & DR drills; collect artifacts; fix gaps; publish SLO boards.
5) Operate — monthly posture reviews; quarterly certifications; annual audit rehearsal; optimization backlog.

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✅ Pre-Engagement Checklist

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🔄 Where Cyber Consulting Fits (Recursive View)

1) Grammar — controls ride /connectivity & /networks-and-data-centers.
2) Syntax — delivered on /cloud / /private-cloud with /infrastructure-as-code.
3) Semantics — /cybersecurity preserves truth; /siem-soar proves it; /incident-response responds.
4) Pragmatics — /solveforce-ai surfaces risk/cost tradeoffs & recommends safe changes.

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📞 Turn Strategy into Shippable Security — with Proof

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Key terms in plain language

Open a term for a concise explanation of language used on this page.

⏱️Latency

The time it takes data to travel between two points. Lower latency improves voice, video meetings, cloud applications, gaming, and other real-time services.

♻️Disaster Recovery (DRaaS)

A plan and service for restoring applications, data, and operations after an outage or disruption. DRaaS provides recovery infrastructure through a managed cloud service.

🛡️Cybersecurity

The practices and controls used to protect identities, devices, networks, applications, and data from unauthorized access, disruption, or manipulation.

🚫Zero Trust

A security model that does not automatically trust a user or device because of its location. Access is continuously verified and limited to what is necessary.

🧭SASE

Secure Access Service Edge combines networking and security capabilities in a cloud-delivered architecture so users and locations can receive consistent policy wherever they connect.

🪪Identity and Access Management (IAM)

The systems and policies that determine who a user is, what resources they may access, and how that access is authenticated and reviewed.

✅Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

A login control requiring more than one form of verification, such as a password plus an authenticator app, security key, or biometric factor.

🔗API

An application programming interface is a defined way for software systems to exchange data or request functions from one another.