You bought the security platform. We operationalize it.

Turn your cloud security platform into the compliance evidence your next audit needs.

CyberMuse is the operator layer behind your cloud security platform — the CNAPP you just bought. SMBs hire us to take the platform they just bought — the dashboard that's red on day one — and turn it into closed findings, signed policies, and the evidence auditors actually accept — mapped to whichever framework your buyers ask for. Scaling teams hire us for the same engine, extended to AI governance.

15+
Years securing cloud platforms at scale
Free
Complimentary discovery — every first engagement
Audit
ready
Evidence mapped to the framework your buyers require
Scale
From first cloud platform install to AI governance at scale
Complimentary Discovery CNAPP Operationalization & Workflow Build FedRAMP & FedRAMP 20x Fractional CISO Cloud-Native Security at Scale Agentic AI Governance NIST 800-53 · 800-171 SOC 2 · ISO 27001 · FedRAMP 20x AI Security & Governance Coaching Over Gatekeeping Toronto · Canada Kubernetes Security MCP Server Architecture Agentic Pipeline Security You Bought The Tool · We Operationalize It
What makes us different

Security that speaks engineering — and the boardroom.

Most security shops sell you another tool or hand you a report. We work inside the platform you already bought — closing the findings, fixing the over-privileged service account three layers deep, and shipping the guardrails and evidence your next SOC 2 or ISO 27001 audit will ask for.

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We finish what your cloud security platform started
You just bought a cloud security platform. Now the dashboard is red and the backlog isn't moving. We operationalize the tool you already paid for, close the findings, and turn the output into audit-ready evidence — not another quarterly review.
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Built for SMBs without a security team
No CISO, no GRC analyst, an engineering team already at capacity — and an enterprise deal blocked on SOC 2 or ISO 27001. We slot in as the operator who actually does the work, at the speed cloud-native teams ship.
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AI security fluency before it was mainstream
MCP server architecture, agentic pipeline security, model supply chain integrity — we've designed, shipped, and run these systems in production.
04
Coaching over gatekeeping
Security gets built into how your teams already work — not as a policy document dropped from outside. We ship alongside engineering, not over the top of it.
How every engagement begins

Start with a complimentary
scoped discovery.

Before any paid work begins, we run a complimentary first engagement — hands-on time inside your environment that surfaces real risks and gives us both a clear picture of what happens next. No obligation. No pitch until the findings speak for themselves.

ENTRY POINT 01 Complimentary
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Cloud Security Posture Discovery
Scoped discovery · complimentary first engagement

A hands-on walkthrough of your cloud security posture — identity risks, configuration exposures, network and trust-boundary gaps, and AI pipeline vulnerabilities. We map what we find, prioritize by actual exploitability, and present findings clearly. What happens next is your call.

  • Cloud configuration and IAM review
  • Network boundary and segmentation analysis
  • Identity risk and privilege escalation paths
  • Prioritized findings with business impact context
  • Live debrief with your team — no report drop-and-run
ENTRY POINT 02 Complimentary
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AI Security Posture Discovery
Scoped discovery · complimentary first engagement

A hands-on walkthrough of your AI adoption posture — agent inventory, governance gaps, data pipeline exposure, and oversight maturity. We map what you have, where the real exposure is, and what good would look like.

  • AI and agent system inventory and risk classification
  • Governance and oversight framework gap analysis
  • Data pipeline and model supply chain exposure review
  • AI readiness score across 5 dimensions
  • Live debrief with findings and the next moves we'd ship
Want a quick self-assessment first? Take our free AI Maturity tool →

Complimentary discoveries are scoped with you before we begin — we define the boundary together so both sides know what's covered.

Paid engagements

Three services.
Operators on your team.

Once discovery is done, paid work follows what we found. Most SMBs start with us operationalizing the cloud security platform they just bought and closing the SOC 2 or ISO 27001 evidence gap. Scaling teams take the same engine into FedRAMP 20x. AI security and governance is a dedicated practice — see the section below. Every engagement is scoped, deliverable-driven, and priced on enquiry.

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CNAPP Operationalization & Workflow Build
Follows discovery · scoped to environment

You bought the cloud security platform. We make it do what the sales deck promised. We stand it up, tune the noise out, close the findings that are actually exploitable, and wire the alerts into the channels engineering already lives in. Day-one red dashboard, day-thirty working program.

  • Stand up the platform you boughtCNAPP/CSPM configured, scoped, and tuned — not left in default-policy purgatory
  • Close the findings backlogWe work the queue with engineering — fix, suppress with justification, or ship a guardrail so it never comes back
  • Wire it into how you shipTriage, ticketing, CI/CD, and on-call paths — security shows up in the tools engineers already use
  • Audit evidence captured as a byproduct — not a Q4 scramble
  • Stack rationalization — kill the overlapping tools you stopped opening
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Compliance Readiness
Phased engagement · SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / FedRAMP 20x

Compliance is the deal blocker — SOC 2 and ISO 27001 for the SMB enterprise contract, FedRAMP 20x for the public-sector deal. We've built these programs from the inside, including first-generation FedRAMP 20x with machine-readable controls and continuous validation. We know what auditors actually accept, not just what the documentation says.

  • SOC 2 & ISO 27001 readinessGap close-out, policies that match how you actually operate, and evidence pulled straight from your CNAPP and cloud accounts
  • Auditor & 3PAO liaisonWe sit in the audit calls — translate between auditors, engineering, and agency sponsors so you ship answers, not delays
  • FedRAMP 20x compliance readinessMachine-readable controls, automated evidence pipelines, and continuous validation infrastructure
  • SSP, POA&M, and artifact library development
  • C-SCRM and software supply chain security controls
Why FedRAMP 20x matters now FedRAMP 20x shifts authorization from point-in-time assessments to continuous validation. Organizations that build for 20x from the start avoid costly rework. We can help you architect for both simultaneously.
03 / 03 Limited availability
Fractional CISO
Following completed engagement · select clients only

Embedded practitioner, not advisory — a fractional CISO who stays on the keyboard. For SMBs that need security ownership without a full-time hire, and scaling teams bridging to their first security exec. Available exclusively to clients who have completed an engagement with CyberMuse — so the relationship, environment, and trust are already in place before the retainer begins.

  • Monthly strategy sessions with IT/OT and leadership teams
  • Quarterly board-ready risk and posture review
  • Security program oversight — priorities, KPIs, vendor governance
  • Incident response — hands on the keyboard during active events
  • Compliance posture tracking and audit readiness
  • Policy, procurement, and third-party risk review
Why we structure it this way A fractional CISO relationship only works when there's already mutual understanding of your environment, your team, and your risk profile. We build that in every initial engagement.
Dedicated practice

AI security & governance.
Ship agents without shipping the risk.

For teams shipping AI into production — agents, MCP servers, RAG pipelines, model supply chain. We secure what your AI stack actually does in production, and stand up the governance evidence your customers — and soon your auditors — will ask for.

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Agentic & Runtime AI Security
Engagement · agents, MCP, model supply chain

Secure what your AI stack actually does in production. We threat-model the agent loop, lock down the MCP surface, and close the prompt-injection, over-permissioned-tool, and data-exfiltration paths before they ship.

  • Agentic & MCP security reviewThreat model the agent loop, tool permissions, and MCP server surface — not just the model
  • Model supply chain controlsProvenance, integrity, and access across model weights, fine-tuning data, vector stores, and inference endpoints
  • Guardrail engineering — input/output filtering, tool allow-lists, evaluator pipelines
  • Red-team and adversarial evaluation of the agent, model, and tool surface
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AI Governance Program Build
Engagement · governance program build

Stand up the governance evidence your enterprise customers — and soon your auditors — will ask for. Inventory, risk classification, policy, oversight, and reporting — built to map cleanly onto whichever AI framework your buyers eventually ask for.

  • AI & agent inventory + risk classificationDiscover what’s shipping, classify by risk, and assign ownership
  • Policy, oversight, and lifecycle controlsRisk-tiered guardrails, human review gates, and lifecycle accountability across AI systems
  • Framework-ready evidenceStructured so it maps cleanly onto formal AI assurance frameworks as your customers and auditors start asking for them
  • Board- and customer-ready AI risk reporting
Talk to us about AI security →
How we work

Precision, clarity,
and no surprises.

Same operator playbook for the SMB closing a SOC 2 gap and the scaling team rolling out AI governance. Built for environments where a bad call means a broken deploy, a stalled roadmap, or a dropped enterprise deal — not just a failed audit.

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Discovery

We map your environment before we operate in it — cloud accounts, trust boundaries, AI systems, identity posture, and team structure. No assumptions, no templates applied blindly.

Interviews · Asset mapping · Threat intel briefing
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Assessment

Hands-on technical work against the frameworks that matter for your environment. We flag what's exploitable, not just what's technically non-compliant.

Configuration review · IAM audit · OT boundary analysis
3
Workflow enablement

We operationalize the cloud security platform you already bought, close the open findings with engineering, and wire alerts into the tools your team already uses. Pilots graduate. Backlogs shrink.

Tool audit · Operationalization · Workflow engineering
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Remediation roadmap

We prioritize findings by actual risk and operational feasibility. You get a 30/60/90-day plan that accounts for your engineering constraints — because "patch immediately" isn't always viable.

Risk-tiered priorities · Effort estimates · Ownership mapping
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Delivery and debrief

Board-ready report. Engineering-ready technical specifics. Live debrief with your leadership team included in every engagement — not as an add-on.

Board brief · Technical report · Live presentation
Frameworks we work in
NIST 800-53 / 800-171Cloud · Federal
FedRAMP / FedRAMP 20xGovernment
SOC 2 Type IISaaS · Compliance
ISO 27001Governance
C-SCRM / SSDFSupply Chain

"The best security programs don't slow engineering down. They give engineering teams the confidence to move fast because they know what they're building on is solid."

Cyber Muse · Founding philosophy

Who we serve

SMBs closing their first audit.
Scaling teams shipping AI.

Two primary ICPs, across the sectors below. SMBs without a dedicated security team — recently bought a cloud security platform, an enterprise deal hanging on SOC 2 or ISO 27001, engineering already at capacity. And scaling cloud-native teams ($50M–$500M) where the attack surface and AI footprint are outrunning the security program. The cards below show where we’ve done the work.

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SMB SaaS · pre-security-hire
Just bought a cloud security platform

No CISO, no GRC analyst, engineering at capacity. The platform is in, the dashboard is red, and an enterprise deal is waiting on SOC 2 or ISO 27001.

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Public Sector · Crown Corporations
Federal & crown cloud workloads

U.S. federal and Canadian crown corporation buyers under NIST 800-53 / 800-171, ITSG-33, and Protected B controls — cloud workloads where FedRAMP, FedRAMP 20x, and C-SCRM evidence unlock the contract.

Energy & Utilities
Regulated cloud migrations

Compliance obligations and cloud migration creating regulatory pressure that generalist consultants struggle to navigate credibly.

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Scaling cloud-native
Outgrowing the first security program

Attack surface and AI footprint expanding faster than the security program can adapt — services, identities, and pipelines multiplying with every release.

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AI adoption
Teams shipping AI features

Companies embedding AI and agentic workflows into their products and operations — without the governance frameworks to do it safely.

Public Sector · FAQ

Compliance standards we support — and who it's for.

A quick reference for public-sector buyers and the contractors selling into them. If your deal hinges on one of the frameworks below, we operate in it.

FEDRAMP / FEDRAMP 20x
U.S. federal cloud authorization

For SaaS and cloud service providers selling to U.S. federal agencies. We deliver readiness, machine-readable controls, and continuous validation architecture for 20x.

NIST 800-53 / 800-171
Federal control baselines & CUI

For federal workloads and any contractor handling Controlled Unclassified Information. Control mapping, gap remediation, and audit-ready evidence.

ITSG-33 · PROTECTED B
Government of Canada cloud

For vendors selling into Canadian federal departments and crown corporations. Control selection, profile tailoring, and cloud workload hardening to Protected B.

C-SCRM · SSDF
Supply chain & secure SDLC

For software vendors required to attest to secure development practices and supply-chain risk management as part of federal procurement.

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AI Maturity Assessment

Coming soon
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A senior practitioner is finalising the question set and review framework. In the meantime, book a complimentary AI Security Posture Discovery for a structured review of your environment.

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Let's talk about
what's keeping you up.

Tell us about your environment and your biggest security concern. We'll respond within one business day with a frank read on whether we're the right fit — and what that would look like.

Response within one business day — always from a senior practitioner, never a sales team.
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