Executive Cybersecurity & Risk Advisory
Helping organizations understand cyber risk, strengthen security strategy, achieve compliance, and build sustainable cyber resilience — at the level where the decisions actually get made.
Four domains of capability
Organized by what I can take responsibility for, rather than by tool familiarity. Most engagements draw on more than one.
Setting direction and owning risk at executive and board level — including fractional security leadership where an organization needs the function before it can justify the hire.
Subject-matter expertise in risk-based certification and accreditation. Compliance treated as a structure for governing risk continuously, not a hurdle cleared once a year.
The technical substance beneath the advice — architecture, exposure management, and readiness for the day prevention fails.
Sectors where the consequences of failure are borne by people rather than balance sheets — health data, nonprofit operations, and the digital systems institutions increasingly depend on.
Where the writing meets the work
Each service corresponds to a published title. The books are not marketing material — they are the method, written down.
Executive & vCISO Advisory
Cybersecurity strategy and risk management at board level — establishing what is genuinely material, where investment should go first, and how oversight holds together over time. Also available as fractional security leadership.
Federal Compliance Advisory
FISMA, RMF and FedRAMP navigated as a practical sequence rather than a documentation exercise — authorization, control selection, evidence, and the reporting that survives audit.
Zero Trust Advisory
Zero Trust as an architecture and a sequencing problem, not a product purchase — identity, segmentation, and verification designed for what a federal or enterprise environment can realistically absorb.
Security Architecture Services
Designing and reviewing the control points that determine whether security holds under pressure — across on‑premises, cloud and hybrid environments, including the seams between them.
Vulnerability Management Advisory
Turning scan output into a defensible programme: finding real exposure, prioritising by consequence rather than severity score, tracking remediation, and proving improvement over time.
Security Operations Advisory
Practical guidance for security officers and operations teams — incident handling, monitoring, documentation and the day-to-day authorization work that keeps systems defensible.
Emerging Technology Risk Advisory
Looking further ahead than the last incident — which cyber, AI and technology risks are likely to become material over the next one to three years, and what is worth starting now.
Awareness & Executive Education
Challenging the assumptions leaders inherit about cyber risk. Delivered as executive briefings, workshops and keynotes for audiences who need clarity rather than alarm.
From conversation to measurable change
No two organizations arrive at the same point, but the shape of the work is usually consistent.
The standards I work within
Knowing a framework is not the same as knowing how to make an institution genuinely defensible under it.
Delivered through Lausey Technology
Lausey Technology is the commercial cybersecurity advisory and risk management firm I founded. Where an engagement needs a delivery organization — assessments, implementation, GRC programmes, vulnerability management or sustained capability building — the work is carried out through Lausey.
Let's discuss your cybersecurity challenge
Most conversations start with one problem and quickly surface three others. Tell me where things stand and we can work out what needs attention first.