Be hard to compromise.
By design. By default. By the people who built it.
Hands-on security work backed by deep service across the U.S. Army Reserve (Cyber Defense Warrant Officer), California public safety, and corporate enterprise. From login security for executives to Zero Trust architectures for entire organizations.
Trust
A complete program — or just the part you're missing.
Account and login security, online privacy, public-data exposure monitoring, and programs designed for executives and family offices.
Modern security architectures that verify every user and device — across cloud, SaaS, and on-premises systems. Built for the way your business actually works.
Cloud security setup, fixing misconfigurations, and keeping you compliant — for AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Cloudflare.
Custom alerts, monitoring, and response playbooks tuned to your environment — not generic vendor defaults.
Be ready before something happens: incident retainers, practice drills, and hands-on help when you need it — including proper evidence handling and executive communications.
Reviews for teams using AI: testing for prompt-injection and jailbreaks, model and AI-agent security testing, AI supply-chain review, and governance for safe rollouts.
Security as a practice, not a checklist.
For most teams, “security” means a stack of tools and an annual audit. That works until it doesn’t — and by then the problem is usually how accounts and logins are set up, not the infrastructure. Modern security is a discipline: architecture, accounts, monitoring, and response built around how your organization actually operates.
Llab’s Security & IT practice is led by a Principal Architect with deep service across the U.S. Army Reserve (Cyber Defense Warrant Officer), California public safety, and corporate enterprise. The work spans Zero Trust architecture, login security for executives and high-value users, threat monitoring tuned to your environment, and the AI security reviews newer engineering teams need but don’t yet have a vocabulary for.
We work with founders without a CISO, CISOs who need a senior partner, family offices protecting principals, and government-adjacent firms that need DoD-fluent help without the Beltway markup. Every engagement is delivered by the same senior team — no offshored handoffs, no junior consultants billing senior rates. The software side of those programs is delivered by our Web & App Design practice, by the same people.
- You raised a round, signed a marquee customer, or won a federal contract — and the security questionnaire just got serious.
- An executive’s personal data showed up in a breach corpus, a deepfake voice attempt landed in finance, or someone phished a board member’s calendar.
- You’re shipping an LLM-powered feature and need to know whether the prompt-injection surface is closed before launch.
- Your IT-to-security ratio is 0:1, and senior-grade decisions are due before a SOC 2 audit, a CMMC assessment, or a board review.
- Your detection coverage is whatever your SIEM came with, and you don’t know which alerts to take seriously.
Recognized frameworks, used the way they were meant to be used.
Frameworks make engagements measurable and defensible. We pick the ones that fit your business and your obligations — and we use them to drive outcomes, not paperwork.
The six-function map (Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover) we use as the high-level scorecard every engagement reports against.
Source-of-truth control catalog for federal, DoD-adjacent, and FedRAMP-relevant work. We tailor the baseline to your impact level — not a blanket Moderate or High.
Our default starting point for SMB and mid-market — actionable, measurable, and mapped back to most other frameworks for free.
Control documentation, evidence collection, and pre-audit gap closure for Type I and Type II readiness — ready for a Big-4 or boutique auditor.
Risk analysis, technical safeguards, and Business Associate Agreement reviews for healthcare and HIPAA-adjacent clients.
Information Security Management System (ISMS) build-out and Statement of Applicability tailored to scope, with a roadmap through certification.
Detection coverage is measured against techniques relevant to your sector — not whatever vendor-default alerts your SIEM shipped with.
Scope reduction (segmentation, tokenization) and v4.0 readiness for retail, hospitality, and any environment that touches cardholder data.
Application security verification baseline used during the build practice’s security reviews — Level 1, 2, or 3 per risk tier.
Discovery, design, build, operate — by the same hands.
Every engagement follows the same four-phase rhythm. The depth varies by scope; the discipline does not.
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01 · 1–2 weeksDiscovery
First conversation. We learn your systems, who has access to what, what data you handle, what regulations apply, and the threats you’re actually worried about.
You walk away withA one-page situation brief and a scoped engagement plan.
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02 · 2–4 weeksDesign
Architecture, control selection, and a decision document with rationale. Where we choose differently than vendor defaults, we say why.
You walk away withTarget architecture, control map, and a sequenced rollout plan.
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03 · 4–12+ weeksBuild
Senior engineers do the work directly — login policies, access rules, monitoring, security setup, and incident playbooks. Weekly delivery, no offshored work.
You walk away withProduction controls and runbooks tested in your environment.
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04 · ongoingOperate
Quarterly reviews, on-call help during incidents and migrations, and practice drills calibrated to what matters most for your business.
You walk away withA documented, measurable security posture that improves over time.
Right-sized for where you are.
Bounded engagement to understand your current posture — exposure, gaps, and what to do next.
- ›Posture & risk assessment
- ›OSINT exposure report
- ›Prioritized remediation plan
Multi-quarter program to architect, implement, and operate the controls that matter most.
- ›Zero Trust rollout
- ›Account & access security
- ›Threat-monitoring build-out
Trusted security advisor on call — for the executive team, the CISO, or the founder.
- ›Architectural reviews
- ›Vendor & M&A due diligence
- ›Incident-ready relationship
What you walk away with.
Engagements ship artifacts — not slides. Below is the typical deliverable set from a Program engagement; Assessment and Retainer engagements deliver a focused subset.
- →A documented target architecture and a 90-day rollout plan you can hand to your board.
- →First account-security controls live: rules about who can access what from where, multi-factor login required, admin-account separation.
- →Security monitoring tuned to the threats that matter for your industry, with custom alerts and response playbooks.
- →A current report on what’s exposed publicly about your executives and the company.
- →Third-party vendor and SaaS security review with a clear plan for the risks that actually matter.
- →Tested incident response playbooks, escalation contacts, and proper evidence handling — ready for a real event.
- →Framework artifacts (CIS, NIST CSF, SOC 2, ISO 27001, CMMC) appropriate to your obligations — not paperwork for paperwork’s sake.
- →A single named senior owner on our side — same person from intake to operate. No handoffs.
Things buyers ask us before the first call.
Do you work with companies that don’t have a CISO? +
Yes — that’s the most common case. We often serve as the senior security partner for founder-led companies, family offices, and mid-market firms whose IT lead doesn’t have a dedicated security counterpart. Engagements are scoped so a single owner on your side can make decisions and we handle implementation.
How long does a Zero Trust rollout take for a 50-person firm? +
First identity controls live in 30–45 days; full reference architecture in production typically lands at 90 days. We sequence the rollout around the systems you actually use rather than a generic playbook, so the disruption stays narrow.
Is an AI security audit different from a regular pen test? +
Yes — the threat surface is different. Beyond infrastructure, we test prompt-injection resistance, jailbreak paths, agent-to-tool privilege boundaries, training-data exposure, and supply-chain risk on the model and its dependencies. A standard pen test covers the app; an AI audit covers the model and the agent’s authority within it.
Can you help with CMMC or FedRAMP readiness? +
We support readiness assessments and remediation for CMMC Level 2 and FedRAMP Moderate environments. Formal C3PAO or 3PAO certification still requires an accredited assessor — we get you ready and ride along through the audit.
What does an engagement cost — ballpark? +
Assessments typically run $15k–$45k. Multi-quarter Program engagements run $60k–$250k depending on scope. Retainers are sized to the executive being protected or the architecture being reviewed. Exact numbers come on the first call once scope is clear.
Do you provide ongoing monitoring after the engagement ends? +
Continued operational support is available through the Retainer engagement — typically a quarterly cadence for advisory work, with on-call coverage during incidents and architecture changes. Pure 24/7 SOC operations are a separate engagement.
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