SECURITY LEADERSHIP · ON DEMAND

Enterprise-grade defense for teams that can't hire a CISO.

Cyber Armor Advisors gives mid-market operators the security leadership, governance, and hands-on hardening usually reserved for companies ten times their size — without the headcount.

CISSP certified
Built on NIST CSF
CIS Controls
15+ yrs in the field
WHAT WE DO

Four ways we cover your flank.

Engagements scope to where you actually are — not a checklist you'll never finish. Start with one, layer in the rest.

Virtual CISO

A fractional security executive in the room for the decisions that matter — board reporting, vendor risk, roadmap, and the hard calls when something goes wrong.

RETAINER · MONTHLY

Risk & Gap Assessment

Where you're exposed, ranked by what it would actually cost you. A prioritized remediation plan your team can run — mapped to NIST CSF and CIS Controls.

FIXED SCOPE · 3–4 WKS

AI Governance

Policy, guardrails, and a governance model for teams putting AI into production — so you get the productivity without shipping data and liability out the door.

ADVISORY · PROJECT

Security Operations

Hardening, monitoring, and incident readiness stood up and tuned. The unglamorous work that decides whether an alert becomes a headline.

BUILD · ONGOING
HOW WE THINK

Defense in depth, minus the theater.

  • Operator-first. Built by someone who has run security across live, 24/7 environments — not a slide deck from a career auditor.
  • Right-sized. Controls a small team can actually run and maintain. If it won't survive contact with your Monday, we don't recommend it.
  • Framework-anchored. Everything maps back to NIST CSF and CIS Controls, so your posture is defensible to auditors, insurers, and your board.
  • No lock-in. We leave you with documentation and capability, not a dependency. Success means you need us less.
01Governance & policyThe rules of engagement
02Identity & accessWho gets in, and how far
03Endpoint & networkThe perimeter that still matters
04Detection & responseWhen something gets through
THE ENGAGEMENT

From first call to covered.

1

Assess

A focused look at where you stand today — assets, exposure, and the gaps that would hurt most.

2

Prioritize

A ranked plan tied to real business risk, so you fix what matters before what's merely loud.

3

Harden

We implement — or steer your team through — the controls, tuned to how you actually operate.

4

Sustain

Ongoing leadership and monitoring so posture holds as you grow, hire, and adopt new tools.

25+
COMBINED YEARS IN SECURITY & IT
CISSP
CERTIFIED LEADERSHIP
100%
FRAMEWORK-MAPPED
1:1
DIRECT OPERATOR ACCESS
WHO YOU'RE WORKING WITH

You get the operator, not an account manager.

Cyber Armor Advisors is led by a CISSP-certified security leader who has spent years running IT and cybersecurity across demanding, always-on environments — the kind where downtime and breaches aren't abstractions.

That's the difference. The advice you get is shaped by having lived with the consequences of it. No hand-off to a junior, no generic playbook — just senior judgment applied to your specific risk.

// Richard Rance — Founder & Principal Advisor
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Find out where you're exposed.

A short, no-pressure call. We'll tell you the two or three things worth doing first — whether or not you hire us.