Fractional CISO, privacy, and IT advisory for growth-stage companies. Strategy plus hands-on deployment that gets you investor-ready, enterprise-ready, and IPO-ready with technology that actually does the job.
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"stage": "Seed → IPO",
"frameworks": ["SOC 2", "ISO 27001"],
"controls_evidence": "automated",
"vendor_due_diligence": "audit-ready",
"incident_response": "playbook + tabletop",
"board_reporting": "quarterly"
}We work as a strategic extension of your team, combining executive-level oversight with hands-on engineering. The goal isn't a clean policy binder. It's a security and IT posture that wins enterprise deals, passes investor diligence, and scales to IPO.
Executive cybersecurity leadership without the full-time hire. Calibrated to your stage, board, and customers.
Build a privacy program that survives audits and unlocks regulated markets across Canada, the EU, and the US.
From seed diligence to IPO. Pass enterprise security questionnaires and survive VC technical due diligence.
We don't just recommend tools. We deploy and operationalize them so they actually generate evidence on day one.
Zero-trust identity foundations with SSO, MFA, and least-privilege baked into the SDLC.
Modernize the IT stack while raising the security floor. Hands-on deployment, not slideware.
A repeatable, outcome-driven engagement model. No frameworks-for-frameworks-sake. Every deliverable maps to revenue, fundraising, or risk reduction.
We baseline your current security posture, IT operations, and privacy exposure against the frameworks and customer expectations that matter for your stage.
A prioritized 90-day to 12-month roadmap calibrated to your investor timelines, enterprise pipeline, and regulatory obligations, with clear owners, costs, and outcomes.
We deploy the tools, write the policies, and operationalize the controls. Hands-on, not handed-off. Your team owns the outcome. We accelerate it.
Ongoing fractional leadership, board reporting, vendor reviews, audit support, and incident response, calibrated to your runway and growth.
Baseline Security is led by a CISSP-certified senior practitioner with deep, multi-disciplinary experience across IT management, cybersecurity, and privacy. The work spans cloud and identity architecture, GRC program design, board-level security reporting, and incident response.
Engagements span the full company lifecycle. We partner with serious investors and founders to secure tech startups with technology that actually does the job, helping them survive fundraising rounds, enterprise security reviews, and ultimately public IPO. Recent work includes scaling security programs from Series A through pre-IPO, building privacy programs aligned to GDPR, Quebec Law 25, and PIPEDA, and modernizing IT and identity stacks for fast-growing hybrid teams.
Beyond the CISSP credential, the practice is grounded in hands-on experience with the tools and frameworks that auditors, customers, and investors expect: SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST CSF, Drata, Vanta, OneTrust, Okta, Cloudflare, and the rest of the modern security stack.
Strategy, governance, and tooling all under one roof. No handoffs to a third-party implementer. No 80-page deck without a deployed control. The deliverable is a measurable security and IT posture, not paperwork.
The advisory model is built for organizations that need enterprise-ready operations and security maturity without carrying full-time executive headcount before they're ready.
Every engagement starts with a 30-minute discovery call. We'll map your current posture against the milestone you're chasing (first enterprise customer, Series B, audit, IPO) and tell you candidly whether we're a fit.