Security that stands up to the questionnaire
A customer sends a security questionnaire. An auditor asks for evidence. Someone spins up an AI tool with company data in it. If those moments make your stomach drop, you don't need a fear pitch. You need practical hardening, a clean evidence trail, and, sometimes, a senior security leader you don't have to hire full-time.
The problems that bring people here
"A big customer wants proof"
Their security review is blocking the deal, and you don't have the answers or the evidence ready. The clock is running.
"We have to hit a framework"
NIST, HIPAA, CMMC, or PCI is now table stakes, and you're not sure how far the gap is between where you are and where you need to be.
"Shadow AI is everywhere"
Teams are pasting company data into AI tools and nobody owns the policy. You need governance before it becomes an incident.
"We need a CISO we can't afford"
You need senior security judgment — for the board, the roadmap, the deal — but not a full-time executive salary yet.
Security & governance capabilities
- Security posture assessment. Identity, network boundaries, logging, and the evidence trail an auditor asks for — with a prioritized remediation roadmap.
- Compliance readiness. Gap assessment and preparation for NIST CSF 2.0, HIPAA, CMMC, and PCI DSS, mapped to what you actually run.
- Zero Trust architecture. Identity-centric design, network segmentation, and secure access that replaces the flat, trusted network.
- Identity & access. IAM and privileged-access (PAM) design, access reviews, and least-privilege that survives contact with reality.
- AI governance. Shadow-AI discovery, acceptable-use policy, and a governance baseline — including how to keep company data out of AI entirely.
- Detection & response. Managed detection and response (MDR/XDR) selection and onboarding, monitoring architecture, and escalation paths that make alerts mean something.
- Incident-response readiness. IR planning and tabletop exercises so a real incident isn't the first time you run the playbook.
- Fractional CISO (vCISO). Senior security leadership on a fractional basis — for the roadmap, the board, and the deals that need a name behind the answers.
Security engagements are staffed the way everything at Row House Tech is staffed: senior specialists in each security discipline, brought onto your engagement as the work requires, with one accountable owner from the first call through delivery.
Assess → Design → Build → Steward
Assess
Posture and compliance gap assessment against the framework you care about, with a clear picture of risk and priority.
Design
A remediation roadmap, target controls, and an identity and Zero Trust architecture sized to your team.
Build
Implement controls, guardrails-as-code, and IAM/PAM — with the evidence trail generated as you go.
Steward
Fractional CISO support, recurring reviews, and tabletop exercises so posture stays current.
Know where you stand before someone else asks
An assessment turns "we think we're fine" into a prioritized, evidence-backed answer.