Security augmentation · Compliance backup
Behind the team you already have. CyberBackstop supplies the specialist depth, the fractional leadership, and the review layer your people need to run security work they already own.
The position
An IT director. A devops lead. A CTO who owns risk on the org chart. Maybe an office manager who inherited the SOC 2 questionnaire because nobody else opened it. They are capable and they are already doing the work.
What they don't have is a second specialist to check them, a spare forty hours a month, or someone who has run this exact program before. CyberBackstop stands behind them — the depth and the second read, without taking the work off their desk.
Two ways we cover
Two practices. Both of them start with your people keeping the work.
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Staff & leadership augmentation
Supplemental security force for a team that already exists. Fractional leadership, specialist hours, and escalation cover — sitting alongside the people who own the work, not above them.
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Compliance & audit backup
For teams driving their own SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, or CMMC effort. You keep the program. We are the review layer that finds the gap before the auditor does.
How it works
Four steps. No discovery phase that bills for six weeks and ends in a slide deck.
45 minutes. You describe what you own, what's late, and what's keeping you up. We tell you plainly whether this is something we're useful for. Sometimes the honest answer is no, and you'll get that on the call rather than in a proposal.
One to two weeks. We look at the program you're already running — policies, controls, tooling, whatever the auditor last asked for. We are reading your work, not grading your team. You get a written summary either way, and it's yours whether or not we continue.
Days. A short document: what we cover, what your team keeps, who does which piece, how many hours, what it costs, and how you end it. One page of scope beats thirty pages of statement of work.
Ongoing. A standing weekly session, a shared channel between sessions, and a named person to escalate to. Your team keeps running the program. We're behind them.
Who's on the field
If security is your whole job, or a fraction of it, or a thing that arrived on your desk by accident — one of these is you.
You run infrastructure, help desk, vendors, and now security. You know what good looks like. You do not have the hours to build a program from nothing while the tickets keep arriving. You need depth on tap, not another headcount request that gets deferred.
Someone has to get the company through SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI, or CMMC, and that someone is you — usually alongside a finance, ops, or legal job you were already doing. You need to know what the auditor will push on before the auditor pushes on it.
Your name is on the risk register. The board asks a security question every quarter and you'd like the answer to be a program, not a paragraph. You need executive-level security judgment without adding an executive.
You are the whole function. You are good at your specialty and honest about the rest. You need a peer to check your work, cover the specialties you don't hold, and pick up the phone at hour eleven.
Foul territory
Most of what makes a security engagement go badly is scope nobody agreed to. Here is the scope we refuse, in writing, before you ask.
We do not take over your security function, and we won't quote you a price to. If an engagement is going well, your people are more capable at the end of it than at the start, and our hours are going down, not up.
Not from vendors, not from platforms, not from auditors, not from an MSP. When we tell you a tool is right or wrong for you, our revenue is identical either way. Ask us to put that in the engagement letter and we will.
There is no CyberBackstop dashboard, no seat licence, no portal your team has to keep current. Your program lives in your systems, in your document store, under your control. When we leave, nothing switches off.
No standing admin credentials by default. We work with the access your team decides to grant, scoped to the engagement, and we'd rather read a config export than hold a key to production. If we do need access, we ask for it specifically, in writing, per task.
We prepare you for the audit. We do not issue the opinion, sign the report, or certify anything — those are separate roles for good reason, and a firm that offers you both is selling you a conflict. We are not a CPA firm and not a CMMC C3PAO.
We do not do managed detection, alert triage at 3 a.m., or eyes-on-glass monitoring. If that is what you need, we'll say so on the first call and help your team choose a provider we get nothing for recommending.
No multi-year minimum, no auto-renew, no exit fee. Engagements are month to month after the initial term, and the documentation is written for your team to keep running without us. That's the point of a backstop — you can walk away from it.
Ready when you are
Tell us what your team already owns and where it's thin. Forty-five minutes, no deck, and a straight answer about whether we're useful.