Services

Practitioner-led cybersecurity services for growing organizations

vCISO leadership, CMMC and SOC 2 readiness, audit prep, and incident response — delivered by senior security leaders, not junior consultants.

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What We Do

Service Offerings

Engagements scoped to your stage, your industry, and your regulators.

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vCISO & Fractional CISO

Executive security leadership without a full-time hire.

  • Build and run your security program
  • Board reporting and risk communication
  • Cyber insurance and customer security reviews
  • Vendor selection and tooling strategy
From $4,500 / moInquire
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CMMC Readiness

Get certified for DoD contracts — 800-171 to Level 2.

  • Gap assessment against all 110 NIST 800-171 controls
  • System Security Plan (SSP) and POA&M development
  • Pre-assessment with a CMMC RP
  • Remediation roadmap with realistic timelines
Fixed-fee from $12,000Inquire

SOC 2 Readiness

Win enterprise deals with a clean Type I or Type II report.

  • Trust Services Criteria scoping
  • Policy and control implementation
  • Auditor selection and audit project management
  • Drata / Vanta / Secureframe integration support
Fixed-fee from $9,500Inquire

Audit Readiness & Gap Assessment

Know exactly where you stand before the auditor arrives.

  • HIPAA, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, NIST CSF assessments
  • Control mapping across multiple frameworks
  • M&A security due diligence support
  • Remediation prioritization by risk and effort
From $6,000Inquire

Incident Response

Tabletop exercises today — surge support when it matters.

  • IR plan development and testing
  • Tabletop exercises tailored to your industry
  • On-call retainer for active incidents
  • Post-incident review and lessons learned
Retainers from $2,500 / moInquire

Cloud Security Architecture

Reference architectures for AWS, Azure, and GCP.

  • Identity and access management design
  • Network segmentation and zero-trust patterns
  • Logging, monitoring, and detection coverage
  • Cost-aware control selection
Project-basedInquire

Third-Party Risk Management

Vendor reviews and questionnaire response — done for you.

  • Vendor security assessments and tiering
  • Respond to customer security questionnaires
  • TPRM program design and tooling
  • Ongoing vendor monitoring
Per-vendor or retainerInquire

Security Awareness Training

Programs your employees actually finish.

  • Role-based training paths
  • Phishing simulation programs
  • Acceptable use, data privacy, and policy training
  • Tailored to your industry and regulators
From $2,500 per programInquire

1099 / Staff Augmentation

Experienced security talent for vacation, surge, or projects.

  • Vacation and parental-leave coverage
  • Project-based augmentation
  • GRC analyst, engineer, and architect skill sets
  • Hourly, daily, or monthly engagements
Hourly rates availableInquire

Why Phaethon

A different kind of security firm

Practitioner-led — every engagement is run by a senior security leader, not a junior consultant
Fixed-fee scoping where it makes sense, with transparent assumptions
Framework-fluent: NIST 800-53, 800-171, CMMC, SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, CSF
Vendor-neutral — we recommend the right tool for your stage and budget
We hand off the program, not the dependency

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