Cybersecurity Consulting and Information Security Services

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PS3G provides cybersecurity consulting and information security services for organizations of every size: an IT security assessment to find out where you stand, a prioritized plan to fix what matters, the policies and training that keep it fixed, and ongoing oversight if you want it. Whether you are a founder answering a customer’s security questionnaire for the first time, a growing company that has outgrown “the IT person handles it”, or a department that has to meet a corporate standard, the work starts the same way. We look at your systems, data and people, and tell you plainly what the risks are and what to do about them.

Security sized to your risk

Security spending should follow risk, not fear. A two-person consultancy with a laptop each and a few cloud apps needs multi-factor authentication, good backups, a password manager and a short set of rules. A fifty-person company with a customer database and a few integrations needs an assessment, a risk register, written policies and someone accountable for the findings. A division of a larger group needs to show that its systems meet the parent company’s framework and get through internal audit without surprises.

We work across that whole range with the same method: understand what you have, what could go wrong, and what it would cost you. Only the scope changes. Nobody will sell you a security operations center when you need a password policy and a backup test.

Who typically comes to us:

• Owners and operations leads holding a security questionnaire, a cyber-insurance application or a vendor due-diligence request that needs credible answers.
• IT managers who have never had an outside review and want an independent IT security audit before a customer or an incident forces one.
• Healthcare practices, health-tech vendors and other regulated businesses that need a HIPAA security risk analysis, SOC 2 readiness or CMMC preparation.

Start with an assessment

Every engagement begins with an IT security assessment. It is the fastest way to replace guesswork with a list, and the list is what you need to make decisions. It covers:

• Inventory. The systems, cloud services, devices, accounts and data stores you actually run, including the ones nobody remembers signing up for.
• Data flows. Where sensitive data (customer records, health information, payment data, source code) enters, where it is stored, who can reach it and where it leaves.
• Identity and access. Multi-factor authentication coverage, shared accounts, administrator rights, offboarding gaps and remote access.
• Infrastructure and cloud configuration. Patching, endpoint protection, email security, firewall rules, cloud tenant settings, backup and recovery.
• Policies and people. Which policies exist, whether anyone follows them, and what staff would do with a convincing phishing email.
• Vendors. The third parties that hold your data or can reach your systems, and the agreements in place with them.

What you get back is written for the people who will act on it:

• A findings report in plain language, each finding rated by likelihood and business impact.
• A risk register you can keep using. Our IT risk assessment template shows the format.
• A prioritized remediation plan: what to fix this month, this quarter and this year, with an owner for each item.
• A mapping of findings to the framework you are measured against (NIST CSF, HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001 or CMMC).

Ask for a scoped assessment and we will tell you what it would cover and what it would cost before you commit.

Cybersecurity consulting services: what we do

Risk assessment and IT audit

A cybersecurity risk assessment identifies the threats that matter to your business and scores them so you can act in order. An IT security audit tests whether your controls work as documented, which is what customers, insurers and regulators ask about. We do both, once or on a recurring cycle, against any control set a customer or auditor has handed you.

Policies and procedures

Policies are the part most organizations skip and the first thing an auditor or insurer asks for. We write the set you need, from an information security policy and acceptable use policy to access control, incident response, backup and vendor management, and keep them short enough that people read them. Our guide to IT policies and procedures lists the ten most companies need.

Security awareness training

Most incidents start with a person: a password reused on a breached site, an invoice paid to a changed bank account, a link clicked in a hurry. We run security awareness training built around the attacks your staff will actually see, with phishing simulations and role-specific sessions for finance, HR and administrators.

Vulnerability assessment and penetration testing coordination

Our testing center of excellence runs vulnerability assessments against your external footprint, internal network, cloud configuration and applications, and turns scanner output into a short list of what to fix first. When a customer or auditor requires an independent penetration test, we scope it, coordinate the testers, triage the results and plan the remediation.

vCISO services

A virtual CISO gives you a named security lead without a full-time hire. The vCISO owns the security roadmap, chairs a regular review, answers customer questionnaires, briefs leadership, manages vendors and auditors, and keeps the risk register current. It suits companies too small for a security team but large enough that security decisions arrive every week.

Secure development for the software we build

Security is part of how we build software, not a separate service. Projects we deliver through software development and maintenance include threat modeling, secure coding standards, dependency and secrets scanning, static and dynamic testing, and a security review before release. If your own team writes software, we can set up the same practices in your pipeline.

Compliance mapping: HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST CSF and CMMC

Most organizations are measured against more than one framework, and the controls overlap heavily. We map your findings once and report them in whichever language the audience needs, so one remediation plan serves customers, insurer and regulator.

Framework	Who it applies to	What we do
HIPAA Security Rule	Covered entities and business associates that handle protected health information	Security risk analysis, remediation plan, policies, workforce training, business associate agreement review
SOC 2	Service organizations whose customers ask for an independent report on their controls	Scoping, readiness assessment, remediation, evidence collection, auditor coordination
ISO/IEC 27001	Organizations that want a certifiable information security management system	Gap analysis, risk treatment plan, Statement of Applicability, internal audit preparation
NIST Cybersecurity Framework	Any organization that wants a common-sense structure for its security program	Current and target profile, tier assessment, prioritized roadmap
CMMC	Defense suppliers that handle federal contract information or controlled unclassified information	Scoping, gap assessment, System Security Plan and remediation support

PS3G prepares you for these assessments and coordinates with your auditor, assessor or certification body; the audit, attestation or certificate itself is issued by them. For framework-specific help see IT compliance consulting, SOC 2 readiness and CMMC compliance. This is general information, not legal advice.

Our information risk framework

Findings are only useful if they lead to change that lasts. The framework behind our information security consulting has four stages, each producing something you keep.

1. Root-cause analysis. We look past the symptom (a phishing click, an exposed server, a failed restore) to the reason it was possible: no MFA, no owner, no process, no budget line.
2. Data-flow mapping. We document where sensitive data lives and moves. Most risk sits in the places people forgot: an export in a shared drive, a test database loaded with production data, a former contractor’s active account.
3. Solution design. For each risk we propose the smallest control that reduces it to a level you accept, sequenced so the highest risks go first and the cost is spread across quarters.
4. Stakeholder training. Leadership learns what the risks mean for the business, administrators learn the new controls, and staff learn the habits that keep them in place. The register is reviewed on a schedule.

The framework connects to the rest of what we do. If your biggest exposure is data sprawl, we bring in data governance. If staff are pasting customer data into public AI tools, AI governance is the fix. If the root cause is a cloud tenant configured in a hurry, our cloud team rebuilds it.

Engagement models

• Fixed-scope project. An assessment, a policy set, a SOC 2 readiness program or a HIPAA risk analysis, with a defined deliverable and a fixed-scope quote.
• Dedicated team or staff augmentation. A security engineer or analyst inside your team on a monthly basis, scaled up or down as the roadmap changes.
• Managed services. We run security operations under defined SLAs through managed professional services: patching, monitoring, vulnerability management, access reviews and reporting.
• Advisory. vCISO, leadership briefings, auditor and questionnaire support, and a roadmap you execute with your own people.

How we start: a first conversation, a short assessment, and a written proposal that states scope, deliverables and price.

Why PS3G

• Over a decade of IT services delivered from our headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, with an India delivery center for round-the-clock support.
• We build and run our own software products, including our HIPAA-compliant EHR and telehealth platform, DocVilla. Our security advice comes from operating a regulated platform, not from a slide deck.
• Engineers with Microsoft and open-source certifications, and a testing center of excellence that covers security, performance and automation testing.
• Consulting, building, testing, running and governing in one company, so the firm that finds a problem can also fix it.

Related services

• IT compliance consulting: preparation for HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001 and CMMC.
• HIPAA compliance consulting: risk analysis, policies and training for practices and health-tech vendors.
• Data governance: know what data you hold, who owns it and how long you keep it.
• AI governance: policies, risk assessment and controls for AI use.
• Cloud solutions: secure landing zones, migration and configuration on Azure and AWS.
• Managed professional services: operations, monitoring and patching under defined SLAs.

Guides on this topic

• NIST Cybersecurity Framework Explained for Smaller Companies
• Cybersecurity for Small Business: The 15 Controls That Matter Most
• IT Policies and Procedures: The 10 Every Company Needs
• IT Risk Assessment Template: How to Run One in a Week

Frequently asked questions

What does a cybersecurity consultant actually do?

A cybersecurity consultant finds out where your organization is exposed, explains the risk in business terms and helps you fix it in order of priority. That means assessments and audits, written policies, staff training, coordinating vulnerability and penetration testing, and preparing you for frameworks such as HIPAA, SOC 2 or CMMC. Some also act as a part-time security lead, which is what vCISO services provide.

How much does an IT security assessment cost?

It depends on the number of systems, locations and users in scope, whether cloud environments and applications are included, and whether you need the results mapped to a framework. We quote assessments as fixed-scope projects after a short call, so you know the price before work starts. A company with a few cloud services is a far smaller scope than a multi-site business with a data center.

Is a vulnerability assessment the same as a penetration test?

No. A vulnerability assessment uses scanning tools and review to list known weaknesses across your systems, broadly and regularly. A penetration test is a manual, goal-driven exercise in which a tester tries to exploit weaknesses the way an attacker would, within an agreed scope. Most organizations need regular vulnerability assessments and an occasional penetration test, often because a customer requires one.

Do I need a virtual CISO?

You probably need one if security decisions land on someone’s desk every week and nobody owns them: customer questionnaires, insurance renewals, vendor reviews, audit findings, incident questions. A virtual CISO gives you a named, accountable security lead without a full-time hire. If you already have a security team, you more likely need advisory help on specific projects.

Can you help a small business with cyber security, or only larger companies?

Both. Cyber security for small business is usually a short list of high-value controls: multi-factor authentication, tested backups, patching, email security, a password manager and a few clear policies. We scope the work to that list rather than selling tools you do not need. Larger organizations get the same method with a wider scope and a framework mapping for their auditors.