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BirdSec CYBERSECURITY CONSULTING & ADVISORY
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How We Work

A security program you can run—built from threat reality, mapped to controls, and expressed as executive decisions.

How it works

Our operating model is the pattern we use to turn “cybersecurity” into operational traction: we maintain a living risk register, map threats to the controls that matter, and provide a cadence of briefings, backlog updates, and readiness validation.

This model is designed to create momentum without locking organizations into long-term tooling or headcount decisions.


1 • Frame

Define the environment

Business systems, data classes, trust boundaries, and “what breaks the business.”

2 • Measure

Baseline controls

Identity, endpoints, logging, backups, email, vendor access, cloud configuration.

3 • Map

Threat → Mitigation

Translate current tradecraft into prioritized mitigations and detections.

4 • Operate

Cadence + accountability

Monthly exec briefs, risk register updates, and shipped backlog items.

Outputs you can use immediately

Each cycle produces artifacts you can bring to leadership, auditors, and ops teams.

Executive

CEO / Board Brief

What changed, what matters, what we’re doing next. No noise.

Program

Living Risk Register

Risks, owners, due dates, evidence. Built to drive decisions and funding.

Ops/IT

Security Leadership

Advise on-site IT teams/

personnel and security staff

Operating principles

These principles keep the program crisp and defensible:

Pragmatism

Do fewer things, better

Identity hardening beats 30 half-configured tools.

Reality

Assume intrusion

Detect and contain quickly—minimize blast radius.

Evidence

Prove it works

Tabletops, restore tests, and validation runs.

Governance

AI with guardrails

Automation with auditability and clear boundaries.