Cybersecurity advisory for federal and defense missions.
Zero Trust, operational technology, Risk Management Framework, and incident response, led by a principal with 23 years across DoD and federal cyber operations.
- CISSP
- CCSP
- PMP
- CCZT
- GCIH
- GCFA
- GCFE
- GNFA
Capabilities
Advisory and planning support for agencies, programs, and the primes that serve them. Planning-level engagement, not managed services.
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Zero Trust strategy and implementation planning
Maturity assessments, capability gap analysis, roadmaps, policy, and implementation guidance across IT, OT, and weapon systems.
NIST SP 800-207 · CISA Zero Trust Maturity Model · DoD Zero Trust guidance
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OT cybersecurity governance and RMF advisory
Multi-year OT implementation plans, roles and authority analysis, inventory and assessment planning, resourcing strategy, leadership dashboards, and planning-level post-quantum readiness scoping. RMF strategy, policy, continuous monitoring, and security assessment support.
NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 · RMF · IT, OT, and weapon systems
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Incident response, threat hunting, and digital forensics
Program design, hunt and investigation planning, and mission leadership, backed by SANS and GIAC credentials. Threat intelligence integrated with defensive cyberspace operations planning and operational playbooks.
SANS · GIAC · Defensive cyberspace operations
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Program management, executive briefings, and workforce
PMP-led cybersecurity program delivery with schedules, milestones, risk tracking, and reporting. Senior-leader briefings, decision papers, and policy writing. Curriculum and workshops aligned to DoD 8140 and the DoD Cyber Workforce Framework.
PMP · DCWF · DoD 8140
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Requirements, acquisition, and architecture support
Capability requirements, gap analysis, resourcing justification, statements of work and performance work statements, analyses of alternatives, and technical review of vendor solutions. DoDAF architecture models, mission-partner interoperability planning, CSfC support, and planning-level cloud modernization.
POM and PPBE · DoDAF · CSfC · CCSP
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Technical capture, proposal, and orals support
Technical writing, solution and discriminator development, competitive analysis, red-team reviews, and oral presentation preparation for Zero Trust, SOC, and PKI topics, using the Shipley process.
Shipley · Zero Trust · SOC · PKI
Credentials
Industry certifications and graduate-level training held by the principal.
Security and architecture
- CISSP (ISC2)
- CCSP (ISC2)
- CCZT (Cloud Security Alliance)
- CompTIA Security+
- CompTIA Network+
Forensics and incident response
- GCIH
- GCFA
- GCFE
- GNFA
- SANS Incident Response Graduate Certificate
Management
- PMP (PMI)
- Certified SAFe 5 Agilist
Education
- B.S. Computer Networks and Security, University of Maryland Global Campus
Principal
Chris Wild, Founder
Chris Wild has spent 23 years in cybersecurity, cyberspace operations, and network and systems engineering with the Department of Defense and U.S. federal agencies. The first half of his career was spent designing, building, and securing information systems. The second half has gone to leading cyberspace operations and incident handling, engineering capability requirements, and orchestrating Zero Trust adoption.
He is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran. He led a 40-person incident response team through breaches of critical infrastructure, planned and oversaw more than 40 vulnerability assessments and hunt missions, and assessed more than 90 critical systems against Zero Trust maturity pillars. He has also led teams of more than 20 contractors and supported winning technical proposals.
- Experience
- 23 years, DoD and federal
- Incident response
- Led a 40-person team
- Assessments
- 40+ vulnerability and hunt missions
- Zero Trust
- 90+ systems assessed
- Team leadership
- 20+ contractors
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