Your IT provider runsthe technology.SpyGuards leadscybersecurity.
The leadership gap
When the question lands,
who owns the answer?
Know where you stand, what matters first, and what you can prove. Work with an independent advisor who understands your business.
Growing organizations often have IT support, but no one clearly owns the full cybersecurity picture.
Priorities, providers, insurance requirements, customer expectations, and leadership decisions can become disconnected.
SpyGuards brings those pieces together.
Why now
Security expectations now come from every direction.
Growing organizations are increasingly expected to show that cybersecurity is being managed, not simply that security tools exist. The specific requirement depends on the business.
Different requirements. Same leadership challenge.
- What do we actually have in place?
- What can we prove?
- What matters now?
- Who owns the next step?
55%
of breaches in Verizon's 2026 small and mid size business dataset involved a third party.
Growing organizations increasingly depend on MSPs, cloud providers, software vendors, and other outside partners.
$4.99M
global average total cost of a data breach, according to IBM's 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report.
The financial impact of a breach can include investigation, recovery, business interruption, lost customers, legal costs, regulatory consequences, and other expenses.
The cost of getting it wrong can be real.
Healthcare
HIPAA
Potential civil penalties and corrective action.
Financial services
GLBA / FTC Safeguards Rule
Regulatory enforcement and corrective obligations.
Government contractors
CMMC / contract requirements
Contract risk and possible False Claims Act exposure.
Payments
PCI DSS
Contractual penalties and processing consequences.
Enterprise sales
SOC 2 / customer security reviews
Lost deals and delayed procurement.
Massachusetts
201 CMR 17.00
State security obligations and enforcement exposure.
Exact exposure varies by regulator, contract, culpability, and inflation adjustment. We do not sell fear, and Foundation is not a certification.
The framework may change. The leadership question does not.
Do we know where we stand, what we can prove, and who owns what happens next?
SpyGuards helps leadership answer that question.
You may already have IT. That does not mean anyone is leading cybersecurity.
MSP, Microsoft 365, endpoint protection, backups and insurance, and still no one clearly responsible for the overall picture, the priorities and the next step.
Your IT provider
Runs and supports the technology.
SpyGuards
Shows you what matters, what can be supported with evidence, who owns the next step and what should happen next.
Your leadership
Gets the clarity to make informed business decisions.
We work alongside your IT provider, not instead of them.
How SpyGuards works
One clear path. Nothing to subscribe to in order to start.
- 01
Free Security Snapshot
Six short questions about how IT is managed and who owns security.
Free
- 02
Advisor conversation
Thirty minutes with the advisor who would lead the work.
Free
- 03
Verified Security Foundation
Your security picture, priorities and owners, established once.
$2,500 one-time
- 04Optional
SpyGuards Advisory
A named advisor keeps the picture current and the priorities moving.
$999/month
Foundation establishes the picture. Advisory keeps it current and moving.
The engagement
Verified Security Foundation
Know where you stand and what to do next.
SpyGuards turns scattered security information, providers, requirements and concerns into one clear, decision-ready security picture.
See what the Foundation includes- 01
Understand
Your business, systems, providers and the questions leadership is asking.
- 02
Review
Only the evidence needed to answer those questions.
- 03
Prioritize
What deserves attention, sorted into Now, Next and Later.
- 04
Advise
Clear actions, clear owners, clear decisions.
Verified
Evidence supports it.
Reported
You or your provider report it.
Unknown
Not enough information to confirm it.
No evidence does not automatically mean failure. It means the current state could not be verified.
Advisory · optional, month to month
Your cybersecurity advisor. On subscription.
Keep your security priorities moving with an advisor who already knows your business.
The Foundation establishes the picture. Advisory keeps it current and moving. You are buying continuity, not meetings.
See how Advisory works- Keep the picture current
- The Security Passport reflects meaningful changes.
- Keep priorities moving
- The 90-Day Board stays active.
- Help leadership decide
- When a security question appears, your advisor already understands the context.
- Coordinate the right people
- Leadership, IT, MSPs, vendors, customers and insurers, when appropriate.
SpyGuards provides security leadership and advisory, not managed IT, 24/7 SOC monitoring, penetration testing or unlimited engineering. Additional technical work is scoped separately when needed.
Independence
Independent, by design.
We sell advice and nothing else.
- No product commissions.
- No tool resale.
- No incentive to recommend technology because we profit from it.
Our recommendations have one job: to be right for the client.
Next step
You already have IT. Now make sure someone is leading cybersecurity.
Start the Security Snapshot, or talk directly with SpyGuards. We reply within one business day.
CISSP-led · Veteran-owned · No sales pressure