Armadillo Cybersecurity combines strategic leadership with tactical implementation capability that larger consulting firms and vCISO providers simply don't deliver. As a lean, specialized practice, we provide genuine flexibility to adapt our services to your specific needs rather than forcing you into rigid service packages designed for scalability. Unlike enterprise consulting firms that deploy junior consultants with templated frameworks, Armadillo delivers hands-on expertise from a cybersecurity leader with 10 years of experience, including 7 years in leadership roles at billion-dollar enterprises. We're US-based with deep understanding of domestic regulatory landscapes and business environments, avoiding the communication gaps and time zone challenges that come with offshore or distributed consulting models. Most importantly, we create detailed, tailored process documents and security frameworks specific to your organization—not generic templates with your logo added. Large vCISO providers claim customization but deliver cookie-cutter guidance because their business model requires volume and standardization. Armadillo's approach focuses on quality over quantity: understanding your actual business operations, technology stack, team capabilities, and risk tolerance, then building security programs that integrate seamlessly with how you actually work. You get strategic thinking where you need it and hands-on implementation support where generic advice falls short.

Armadillo Cybersecurity delivers the strongest value for small to mid-sized organizations—typically 50-500 employees with $5M-$100M in annual revenue—that need enterprise-grade security expertise without enterprise-level budgets, or larger enterprise businesses that need targeted support assessing an existing function or building a new one. Our ideal clients either with a small IT team or are just starting their cybersecurity team, and are facing increasing customer security requirements, regulatory pressures, or compliance frameworks but lack dedicated security leadership. We work particularly well with organizations in Texas, but can help organizations across the US across any business sector. Companies that benefit most are those transitioning from ad-hoc security measures to formal programs, preparing for security certifications or audits, responding to customer security questionnaires that reveal program gaps, or experiencing rapid growth that's outpaced their security capabilities. We're especially effective for organizations that have capable IT teams but need strategic security direction, policy development, and risk management frameworks—not just another set of tools. Our clients value direct access to experienced leadership rather than being passed to junior consultants, appreciate detailed documentation and process development rather than high-level recommendations, and want a security partner who understands their business context rather than applying one-size-fits-all frameworks. If your organization needs genuine partnership and tailored security solutions rather than templated compliance checklists, Armadillo Cybersecurity is built for you.

Armadillo Cybersecurity's approach is built on five strategic pillars that ensure comprehensive, sustainable security programs aligned with business objectives.

• Talent focuses on organizing attracting, and developing your people that are the heart of your team. This includes organizational design, roles and responsibilities, job descriptions, and onboarding and training plans. We don't just deliver recommendations; we build your team's capacity to execute and sustain security improvements, while supporting the culture you want in your company.

• Coverage ensures your security team can see what they need to protect. Tools should be healthy, deployed where needed, and mapped against inventory that validates that controls are applied and working where you need them. Teams must be scoped properly to ensure they know what they are protecting and when to engage. We identify gaps in your security coverage and systematically build controls across people, processes, and technology to create defense-in-depth.

• Maturity is operational effectiveness and efficiency, and growth in capability over time. This includes vendor evaluation, tool implementation, process documentation and improvement, and ensuring you have the appropriate capabilities for your company to defend against cybersecurity threats using defensible frameworks like NIST CSF or CIS Controls. We use these frameworks and hands-on experience to assess your current maturity level, define target states aligned with business risk tolerance, and build achievable milestones.

• Risk mitigation represents the core of purpose of a security program and is the focus of effective security leadership. This considers your threat landscape, key assets, and informs how security alerts, vulnerabilities, and risks to your business are measured, prioritized, and responded to based on likelihood and impact. This approach allows us to translate technical risks into business terms to executives and boards, and making informed decisions about risk acceptance, mitigation, or transfer.

• Cost ensures that your limited resources - both time and money - are rationalized. We optimize spend by looking at license usage and outcomes, right-sizing tools to the risk they present, and time by identifying automation opportunities to free your team of repetitive, boring, or mundane work, and to focus on long term value creation and connection across your organization. We focus on aligning these security initiatives with business growth and efficiency goals, so your security team supports the business and minimizes bureaucratic drag.

These five pillars work together to balancing competing priorities, and to create security programs that are simple to manage, practical, sustainable, and genuinely protective.

Armadillo Cybersecurity serves organizations across all industries and throughout the United States—our focus is on companies with IT teams that need strategic security leadership, not industry-specific compliance execution. While many vCISO providers specialize in heavily regulated sectors like healthcare (HIPAA), finance (SOX, GLBA), or payment processing (PCI-DSS), we take a different approach: building foundational security programs that work for any organization handling sensitive data or facing cybersecurity risks. This industry-agnostic model means we've worked with technology companies, professional services firms, manufacturing organizations, defense contractors, retail businesses, and many others across the country. The common thread isn't the industry—it's organizational characteristics: companies with 50-500 employees, existing IT infrastructure and teams, growth trajectories that have outpaced security maturity, and needs for strategic direction rather than tactical IT support. Whether you're in software development, legal services, logistics, engineering, or any other sector, if you have technology assets to protect, customer data to secure, and business operations that depend on IT systems, Armadillo can build the security program you need. Our strategic pillars—Talent, Coverage, Maturity, Risk, and Cost—apply universally across industries because effective security leadership focuses on business risk, not just regulatory checkboxes. We help you understand your unique threat landscape, prioritize risks based on your actual business impact, and build security controls appropriate to your organization's size, complexity, and risk tolerance. For organizations that do require industry-specific compliance work (SOC 2 audits, HIPAA attestation, PCI validation), we build the underlying security program foundation and partner with specialized compliance firms for the audit-specific execution. This approach gives you strategic security leadership that adapts to your business rather than forcing you into industry templates that may not fit your actual operations.