Strategic Advisory
Fractional security leadership for executives and boards. Risk you can explain, priorities you can fund, and a roadmap that holds up under scrutiny.
Expert Solutions for Cyber Complications
Twenty years on the offensive side of cyber, from government operations to the boardroom. When something serious is happening, you get the person who has done this before. Discreet, direct, and wherever you are.
Services
Every engagement is scoped to the problem in front of you. These are the places we most often help.
Deal Due Diligence
Know what you are buying before the price is set. Independent cyber diligence on targets and portfolio companies, reported in terms a deal team can act on.
Think Like the Attacker
See your environment the way an adversary would. Assessments built to find what matters and tell you plainly how to close it.
Readiness & Response
Preparation before the bad day, and a steady hand during it. Planning, tabletop exercises, and guidance when it counts.
CMMC Diligence
Buying a defense contractor? Find out before close whether CMMC obligations come with the deal, and whether the readiness you were promised is real or only on paper.
White-Glove Support
A direct line to a trusted advisor for principals, families, and leadership teams. Personal, private, and reachable wherever you are.
Sectors served Finance · Healthcare · Legal · Manufacturing · Energy · Defense · Government
Approach
Security is a posture, not a product.
- Discretion by default. What you share stays between us. Engagements are handled under NDA on request.
- The operator, not the account manager. Every engagement is run by Brandon McCrillis personally, from the first call to the final briefing.
- A bench on call. Some problems need more hands or a rarer specialty. Brandon keeps a network of senior specialists he has worked alongside for years, and can field a team within hours, under the same NDA and the same single point of contact.
- Practical over theoretical. Recommendations sized to your organization, your budget, and your risk.
- Global reach. Remote-first, with on-site support available where the work requires it.
About
Did the work. Taught the class. Wrote the course.
Brandon McCrillis joined the Navy as a cook. He was not just a cook.
A decade in U.S. government service followed, the last five in cyber operations, where he helped lead more than a hundred operators through thousands of operations worldwide and taught the courses that trained the next ones.
He then led Rendition Infosec as CEO to three straight Inc. 5000 honors and an acquisition, and taught for SANS for seven years. Today he runs Qualified Cyber, an independent boutique consultancy. He takes the calls himself, and fields a team when the job needs one.
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