SECURITY · COMPLIANCE · IT ADVISORY
Cybersecurity, compliance and IT advisory.
Apex BSA Group

Services

Retained and packaged engagements. Each has a defined outcome and a defined end, or a defined recurring scope where it is ongoing.

A program is the packaged form of the capabilities below it, run as one engagement under one executive. Any capability can also be engaged on its own.

Programs
RETAINED AND PACKAGED

Security Architecture Review

A review of network, identity, cloud and application architecture against the controls the organization is held to. Ends in a prioritized design-change list with the cost and the sequence of each change, covering zero-trust maturity, privileged access, segmentation and the data boundary.

Zero Trust and Cloud Migration

Design and delivery of a cloud-first, zero-trust environment, or the migration of an existing estate into one: identity as the perimeter, applications behind single sign-on, segmentation for sensitive data, and the government cloud tier where one applies. Delivered with the client's own team, in phases tied to its change windows.

Governance, Risk & Compliance Readiness

Readiness against the frameworks you are held to: CMMC 2.0 and NIST SP 800-171 for defense suppliers, SOC 2 and ISO 27001 for commercial businesses, and the control frameworks behind cyber insurance. The boundary and segmentation decision, a scored assessment, the system security plan and policy set, a remediation plan with owners, and the evidence package, run as one engagement under one executive so nothing falls between the assessment and the audit.

Security Investment Review

An inventory of what is owned against what is switched on, a coverage map against the risk the business carries, and a renewal calendar naming consolidation candidates by contract end date. Ends in a decision list the CFO can act on.

Fractional CISO / CIO

Program governance, risk reporting, policy ownership, vendor oversight, budget planning, roadmap ownership and board communication. One seat or both, with reporting the board reads.

Managed Remediation & Evidence

Continuous ownership of the remediation plan and the artifacts behind it: findings opened and closed on schedule, evidence kept current, and an assessment that becomes a reporting exercise rather than a scramble.

Managed Enterprise AI

The governance layer around the AI your people are already using: shadow-usage discovery, gateway and routing, data-loss guardrails, audit logging, cost attribution and vendor risk. A usage and risk report, and a named executive accountable for it.

Practice areas

Readiness, assessment, evidence and remediation against the frameworks the organization is held to.

CAPABILITIES
CMMC 2.0 Gap Assessment
CMMC 2.0 Readiness Engagement
CMMC Scoping & Boundary Strategy
DFARS 252.204-7012 Compliance Review
RMF / ATO Support
FedRAMP Readiness Advisory
Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM)
STIG / CIS Benchmark Hardening Advisory
Assessment Scoring & Submission Support
Commercial Regulatory Readiness
OT Regulatory Mapping & Evidence Program

Adoption, architecture, governance and controls for organizations bringing AI into daily work faster than their policy can keep up.

CAPABILITIES
AI Shadow Usage Discovery
Enterprise AI Architecture Design
AI Gateway Deployment
Claude for Work / Enterprise Deployment
AI Cost Governance & Model Routing
AI Data Loss Prevention & Guardrails
AI Audit Logging & Observability
Self-Hosted AI Interface Deployment
Managed Enterprise AI Program
AI Vendor Risk Assessment

Fractional IT leadership, cloud and data strategy, enterprise AI adoption, budget and vendor oversight, and the integration work that follows an acquisition.

CAPABILITIES
Fractional CIO
IT Health & Maturity Assessment
Technology Roadmap Development
IT Budget Optimization
Cloud & Data Strategy and Migration Advisory
M&A IT & Security Integration
IT Vendor & MSSP Evaluation

Architecture, identity and privileged access, network and application security, data protection, hardening, and operational technology.

CAPABILITIES
Zero Trust Maturity Assessment
Security Architecture Review
Network Security Design & Review
IAM / PAM Architecture Review
Privileged Access Management (PAM) Implementation Advisory
Cloud Security Posture Assessment
Federal Cloud Environment Advisory
Data Security Governance Assessment
Data Classification & DLP Program Design
Application Security & DevSecOps Advisory
OT / ICS Security Assessment
OT Incident Notification Readiness

Risk assessment, policy, incident response planning, awareness, and the retained programs that keep security operations owned rather than advised on.

CAPABILITIES
Cybersecurity Risk Assessment
Fractional CISO
Security Policy & Procedure Library
Incident Response Plan & Playbooks
Security Awareness Program Design
Continuous Compliance Monitoring
Managed Remediation & Evidence Program
Detection & Response Evaluation and Tuning