RedCell Advisory · Cyber & GRC
Cyber and GRC programs that operate, not just attest
We help organizations turn cyber and GRC programs into operating systems for risk reduction, not annual spreadsheet archaeology. Practical, executive-ready, and tied to the operational risk your leadership actually carries.
Philosophy
Compliance is the floor. Risk reduction is the job.
Frameworks matter — auditors, customers, and regulators run on them. But a program built only to pass assessments will pass assessments and still get breached. We design controls that reduce real exposure first, then map the evidence to every framework that needs it. One control map, many attestations, no parallel bureaucracies.
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Leadership and Program
Security leadership and program direction, delivered by practitioners who have run programs — not just assessed them.
vCISO Advisory
Fractional security leadership with enterprise standards: strategy, board reporting, program oversight, and decision support — without the executive-search timeline.
Cybersecurity Program Assessment
A clear-eyed evaluation of your security program against current threats and recognized frameworks, ending in a prioritized plan rather than a maturity heat map that changes nothing.
Board Cyber Risk Briefings
Briefings that give directors decision-grade visibility into cyber exposure, program performance, and the questions to ask management.
Security Metrics and Reporting
A metrics architecture that tells leadership whether risk is going up or down — and can defend the answer.
Executive Cyber Risk Dashboards
Reporting views for executives and boards that connect program activity to exposure, in language that survives the boardroom.
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Framework and Compliance Readiness
Framework alignment treated as an outcome of good controls — with evidence mapped once and reused across frameworks.
NIST CSF Assessment
Structured assessment against the NIST Cybersecurity Framework with evidence-based scoring and a remediation roadmap tied to operational risk.
CIS Controls Assessment
Prioritized safeguard assessment against the CIS Controls — where you stand, what to fix first, and why.
ISO 27001 Readiness
Gap assessment and remediation planning for ISO/IEC 27001 certification, including ISMS design that fits how your organization actually operates.
ISO 42001 AI Governance Readiness
Readiness assessment for the AI management system standard: scoping, gap analysis, and a control roadmap that shares evidence with your existing ISMS.
SOC 2 Readiness
Preparation for SOC 2 examination: control design, evidence workflows, and auditor coordination — built to survive year two, not just year one.
CMMC Readiness
Gap assessment and remediation planning for defense industrial base requirements, mapped to your actual contract obligations.
FedRAMP Readiness Advisory
Advisory support for organizations pursuing federal cloud authorization: scoping, control interpretation, and documentation strategy.
HIPAA Security Risk Assessment
The risk analysis the Security Rule requires, performed with clinical-workflow awareness and findings your leadership can act on.
PCI DSS Readiness
Scoping, gap assessment, and remediation planning for payment environments — including scope-reduction strategies that shrink the problem before you solve it.
GDPR and Privacy Security Support
Security measures supporting GDPR and state privacy law obligations: technical controls, data mapping support, and incident readiness.
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Technical Assessment
Evidence-based review of the environments attackers actually target.
Cloud Security Assessment
Configuration, identity, and architecture review across your cloud estate, prioritized by blast radius.
Microsoft 365 and Identity Security Review
Hardening review of the tenant most attacks now start in: identity, mail flow, conditional access, and privileged roles.
Third-Party Risk Management
A vendor risk program sized to your real exposure — tiering, assessment depth, and continuous monitoring where it matters, not questionnaires for everyone.
Vendor Security Review
Deep-dive security reviews of critical vendors and platforms, including AI vendors whose data handling deserves more scrutiny than the sales deck received.
Attack Surface Management
Continuous visibility into what you expose to the internet — and a process that shrinks it faster than it grows.
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Response and Resilience
Assume the bad day. Build the organization that handles it well.
Incident Response Planning
Response plans, escalation criteria, and communication templates built for your organization and tested before they are needed.
Tabletop Exercises
Facilitated incident scenarios — including AI-specific scenarios — that test decisions and coordination, not just documentation.
Vulnerability Management Program Design
A remediation-focused program: discovery coverage, risk-based prioritization, ownership, and metrics that measure exposure reduction.
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Engineering and Operations
Security built into how software is developed and how the program runs day to day.
Application Security Program Design
AppSec programs proportionate to your engineering organization: tooling, review gates, champions, and metrics.
Secure SDLC
Security integrated into how software actually gets built at your organization — including AI-assisted development workflows.
Security Awareness Program Design
Awareness built around your real threat profile and measured by behavior change, not completion rates.
Audit Support
Preparation and evidence support for internal and external audits, so your team spends audit season operating instead of scrambling.
Policy and Standards Development
Policies people can follow and auditors can verify — short, specific, and mapped to controls that exist.
AI-era GRC
Your AI governance and cyber governance should share one control map
ISO/IEC 42001 and NIST AI RMF did not arrive to give you a second GRC program. We integrate AI governance into the risk and compliance machinery you already run — shared inventories, shared evidence, shared reporting — so the AI estate is governed with the same discipline as everything else.
- OWASP GenAI
- OWASP LLM Top 10
- NIST AI RMF
- NIST GenAI Profile
- ISO/IEC 42001
- MITRE ATLAS
- NIST CSF
- CIS Controls
- ISO 27001
- SOC 2
- CMMC
- HIPAA
- PCI DSS
- GDPR
- EU AI Act
- FedRAMP
Framework references describe alignment only — no certification, endorsement, or partnership with any framework owner is implied.
Request cyber and GRC advisory
Whether it is a looming audit, a board question, or a program that needs modernizing — email us what you are facing and we will scope a practical path.