Cybersecurity advisory & risk management

Executive security leadership, without the internal department.

Lausey Technology is a cybersecurity advisory and risk management firm — not a general IT shop. We give nonprofits, healthcare organizations, educational institutions, government contractors, and growing businesses board-level security guidance on a fractional basis.

Virtual CISO · Fractional leadership

The seat at the table, without the six-figure salary.

Get executive-level cybersecurity leadership on a fractional basis — strategy, board reporting, and risk oversight from a practitioner who's done this before, not a generalist learning on your dime.

Vulnerability management · Signature offering

Vulnerabilities found, prioritized, and actually tracked to resolution.

Enterprise-grade vulnerability assessments and remediation tracking — built for organizations that need more than a scan and a PDF once a year.

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Our approach
We don't sell generic IT support. We give organizations that need board-level security guidance a way to get it — without hiring a full department to do it.

Every engagement is led by practitioners with real hands-on experience — not account managers reading from a template. Fixed scope, fixed pricing, and a plan built around your actual risk.

2017
Founded
8 service lines
From GRC to FedRAMP
Fractional
Executive-level access
Board-level
Guidance, not just IT support
What we do

Eight service lines, one standard of practice

Every line is led by practitioners with real hands-on experience in the area — not a generalist covering ground they read about last week.

01
GRC
Governance, Risk & Compliance
Building the programs, policies, and governance structures your risk actually requires.
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02
VCISO
Virtual CISO
Executive-level cybersecurity leadership on a fractional basis — for organizations that need the seat, not the salary.
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03
SIGNATURE OFFERING
Vulnerability Management
Our flagship practice — from enterprise assessments through remediation tracking.
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04
AWS · AZURE · GCP
Cloud Security
Securing the cloud environments your operations already run on.
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05
FEDERAL
FedRAMP & Government Compliance
A strong differentiator, led by practitioners with hands-on ISSO and RMF experience.
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06
PREPAREDNESS
Incident Response Readiness
Focused on being ready — not on selling you emergency response after the fact.
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07
EDUCATION
Security Awareness & Training
Built on real academic and instructional experience, not a stock slide deck.
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08
RECURRING IP
Products
Reusable intellectual property that complements every consulting engagement.
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Why it matters
43%
of cyberattacks are aimed at small businesses — organizations that assume no one is watching.
60%close within 6 months of a breach
24/7threats actively probing networks
How we work

A clear path from risk to resolution

No jargon, no surprise invoices — just a straightforward process you can follow at your own pace.

01
Assess
We identify vulnerabilities and gaps across your systems and prioritize by real business risk, not just severity scores.
02
Remediate
A clear report and a remediation plan you can act on at your own pace, with our team guiding each step.
03
Sustain
Ongoing advisory, monitoring, or training so the work holds up over time — not a one-time report on a shelf.
Why Lausey Technology

Security expertise, without the enterprise overhead

We built Lausey specifically for organizations that need real protection but don't have a Fortune 500 budget.

Senior team, no outsourcing
You work directly with certified consultants, never a rotating cast of junior analysts.
Fast response times
Critical findings get flagged immediately, not buried until a final report weeks later.
Certified expertise
CISM, CCSK, and compliance-specific credentials behind every engagement.
Built for SMBs & nonprofits
Every recommendation is scoped to budgets and teams your size.
Transparent, fixed pricing
You know the scope and cost upfront, no surprise invoices mid-engagement.
Compliance-first approach
Every engagement maps back to the frameworks your audits require.
Who we serve

Built for organizations that need the expertise, not the overhead

Most of our clients share the same problem: real security risk, and no realistic path to hiring a full internal security department to manage it. We work across a range of industries, but the pattern is consistent — organizations that need practitioner-level guidance without practitioner-level headcount.

Primary markets
Government contractors
Navigating FedRAMP, RMF, and federal security requirements from day one.
Healthcare providers
Meeting HIPAA obligations without slowing down patient care.
Educational institutions
Protecting student data and research systems on education-sized budgets.
Nonprofits
Enterprise-grade protection scoped to nonprofit resources, not enterprise pricing.
Small & medium-sized businesses
Real security leadership without hiring a full internal team.
Secondary markets
Financial services
Supporting risk and compliance programs in a heavily regulated industry.
Professional services firms
Protecting client data and firm reputation alike.
Technology startups
Building security in early, before it becomes a blocker to growth or funding.
Faith-based organizations
Practical protection for congregations and the data they hold.

Government contractors

Government contracts come with security requirements that can stall a deal before it starts. We work with contractors pursuing or maintaining FedRAMP authorization, building out System Security Plans, managing POA&Ms, and implementing the Risk Management Framework end to end.

Our team includes practitioners with hands-on ISSO and RMF experience — not consultants learning federal compliance on your contract. We help you understand what's actually required, build the documentation auditors expect to see, and keep continuous monitoring running so authorization doesn't lapse.

Whether you're pursuing your first ATO or maintaining an existing one, we scope engagements around your contract timeline, not a generic template.

Healthcare providers

Healthcare organizations carry some of the highest-stakes data there is, and HIPAA compliance isn't optional. We help providers build the risk assessments, policies, and technical safeguards HIPAA requires, without turning your clinical staff into part-time compliance officers.

Our engagements typically start with a HIPAA security risk assessment, mapping where PHI lives and how it moves through your systems. From there, we prioritize the gaps that carry real breach risk, not just checklist items, and build a remediation plan your team can actually execute alongside patient care responsibilities.

We understand the operational reality of healthcare — security has to work around clinical workflows, not against them.

Educational institutions

Schools, districts, and universities manage sensitive student records, research data, and increasingly complex IT environments — often with a fraction of the security budget available to comparable private-sector organizations.

We help educational institutions assess their actual exposure, from student information systems to research infrastructure, and build a security program that fits realistic education-sector budgets and staffing. That includes policy development, vulnerability assessments, and security awareness training tailored to a mixed audience of faculty, staff, and students.

Every recommendation accounts for the reality that most educational institutions can't hire a dedicated security team — the plan has to work with the staff you already have.

Nonprofits

Nonprofits handle donor data, beneficiary records, and often sensitive program information, while operating on lean budgets with limited technical staff. We built Lausey specifically with organizations like this in mind.

Engagements are scoped to what a nonprofit can realistically fund and maintain — fixed-price assessments, plain-language reporting your board can actually understand, and remediation plans that respect your timeline and resources. We're not selling you an enterprise security program you can't sustain.

Many of our nonprofit clients start with a single risk assessment and grow into ongoing monitoring as their organization and funding allow.

Small & medium-sized businesses

Most small and mid-sized businesses face the same cyber risk as large enterprises, without anything close to the same resources to manage it. We give growing businesses access to senior-level security expertise on a fractional or project basis, so you're not choosing between going without protection and hiring a full internal team.

Whether you need a one-time vulnerability assessment, ongoing virtual CISO support, or help meeting a client's security requirements to close a deal, we scope the engagement to your actual risk and budget — not a generic package.

As your business grows, the engagement grows with you, from a single assessment to an ongoing advisory relationship.

Financial services

Financial services organizations operate under some of the most demanding regulatory scrutiny of any industry. We support risk and compliance programs with practical, audit-ready documentation and vulnerability management that holds up under examination.

Our work typically includes risk assessments mapped to relevant regulatory frameworks, third-party risk reviews, and ongoing vulnerability management to keep pace with an environment that regulators expect to see actively monitored, not assessed once a year.

We work alongside your existing compliance and IT teams rather than replacing them, filling the specialized security expertise gap most mid-sized financial firms don't have in-house.

Professional services firms

Law firms, accounting practices, consultancies, and other professional services firms hold sensitive client information that makes them an attractive target — and a breach can damage client trust as much as it damages operations.

We help professional services firms assess where client data lives, close the access control and data handling gaps that create the most risk, and build the kind of security posture clients increasingly ask about before signing an engagement.

Many of our professional services clients come to us specifically because a client or partner firm requested proof of a security program — we help you build one that's genuinely defensible, not just a page on your website.

Technology startups

Security due diligence increasingly shows up in funding rounds and enterprise sales cycles, and retrofitting a security program under deadline pressure is far harder than building it in from the start.

We help early and growth-stage startups establish foundational security practices — policies, cloud security configuration, and a defensible risk posture — scoped to a startup's actual size and stage, not an enterprise framework that doesn't fit yet.

The goal is to get ahead of the security questions that come up in due diligence, so they're a quick confirmation instead of a scramble.

Faith-based organizations

Churches, ministries, and other faith-based organizations manage member records, donation data, and often counseling or pastoral care information that deserves real protection — usually with a volunteer-heavy staff and limited technical resources.

We help faith-based organizations understand their actual risk, put practical safeguards in place around member and financial data, and build policies that a largely volunteer team can realistically follow and maintain.

Engagements are scoped modestly and explained in plain language, recognizing that most faith-based organizations are working with limited budgets and no dedicated IT staff.

Frameworks we work within

Compliance you can point to

HIPAA
PCI DSS
GDPR
FedRAMP · RMF
Client reviews

Trusted by the teams who can't afford downtime

A few words from organizations we've worked with.

★★★★★
"They went truly above and beyond. We now regard security as a core part of everything we do."
MR
Maria R.
VP of IT, healthcare network
★★★★★
"Finally a security partner that explains things in plain language instead of burying us in jargon."
DT
David T.
Executive Director, nonprofit
★★★★★
"Our compliance audit went smoother than it ever has, entirely thanks to the documentation Lausey helped us build."
JK
Jordan K.
Operations Manager, financial services
★★★★★
"Responsive, thorough, and never made us feel talked down to. Exactly what a small team needs."
AL
Amara L.
Office Manager, dental practice group
★★★★★
"They found issues our previous vendor missed entirely, in the first week."
RN
Rebecca N.
IT Director, school district
FAQ

Questions we hear most

Can't find what you're looking for? Reach out directly.

What size businesses do you work with?
We focus on small and mid-sized businesses, nonprofits, healthcare organizations, educational institutions, and government contractors — organizations that need real protection but don't have an in-house security team.
What's the difference between a virtual CISO and a consultant?
A virtual CISO is an ongoing executive relationship — strategy, board reporting, and risk oversight over time. A consulting engagement is typically scoped to a specific project, like an assessment or a FedRAMP readiness review.
Do you work with government contractors on FedRAMP?
Yes — this is one of our strongest differentiators, led by practitioners with hands-on ISSO and RMF experience, from readiness assessments through continuous monitoring.
Which compliance frameworks do you support?
We regularly work within HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, and FedRAMP/RMF. If you're working toward a specific certification not listed here, let us know — we can usually still help.
How much does a typical engagement cost?
It depends on scope and service line. We provide a fixed quote upfront after a short discovery call, so there are no surprises.
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