AI-Enabled Enterprise Cybersecurity & Zero Trust Transformation

Stop chasing threats. Proactively eliminate attack surfaces with a unified, identity-centric security architecture built for the modern, perimeter-less enterprise.

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In today's hyper-connected, cloud-driven world, the traditional network perimeter has dissolved. Your data, applications, and users are everywhere. This creates a massive attack surface, leaving you vulnerable to sophisticated threats like ransomware, data breaches, and insider risks. For CISOs and IT leaders, the challenge is immense: how do you secure a borderless enterprise without stifling innovation or productivity? The answer lies in a strategic shift from reactive defense to proactive, identity-centric security. It's time to move beyond legacy tools and embrace a modern, resilient Zero Trust architecture that protects your most critical assets, no matter where they reside.

Why Partner with CIS?

Your Strategic Partner in Cyber Resilience

AI-Powered Threat Intelligence

We go beyond traditional security measures by integrating AI and machine learning to proactively identify, predict, and neutralize threats before they impact your business. Our systems learn from global threat data in real-time.

Holistic Zero Trust Strategy

We don't just sell tools; we implement a comprehensive Zero Trust philosophy. Our approach covers identity, endpoints, applications, and networks, creating a unified security fabric tailored to your enterprise architecture.

Certified Process Maturity

With CMMI Level 5, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 certifications, our delivery processes are independently verified to meet the highest standards of quality, security, and reliability, giving you complete peace of mind.

20+ Years of Enterprise Experience

Since 2003, we've been navigating the evolving cybersecurity landscape. We bring decades of cross-industry experience to solve your most complex security challenges with proven, battle-tested solutions.

Vetted, In-House Experts

Your security is too important for freelancers. Our team consists of 100% in-house, certified cybersecurity professionals, ensuring accountability, consistency, and deep institutional knowledge for your projects.

Flexible & Scalable PODs

Our unique POD (Pod of Dedicated) model provides you with a cross-functional team of security experts—from architects to analysts—that can scale on-demand to meet your project needs and budget.

Our Capabilities

End-to-End Enterprise Security Services

We provide a comprehensive suite of AI-enabled cybersecurity services designed to protect every layer of your digital enterprise. From foundational identity management to advanced threat hunting, our solutions are built to be integrated, intelligent, and future-ready.

Identity & Access Management (IAM)

We establish a robust identity foundation, ensuring the right individuals have the right access to the right resources at the right time, and nothing more.

  • Single Sign-On (SSO) & Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA): Streamline user access while drastically reducing the risk of credential theft.
  • Privileged Access Management (PAM): Secure, manage, and monitor access for your most critical systems and administrator accounts.
  • Identity Governance & Administration (IGA): Automate access reviews, certifications, and provisioning to enforce policies and meet compliance.

Application Security (AppSec) & DevSecOps

We embed security directly into your software development lifecycle (SDLC), identifying and remediating vulnerabilities before they reach production.

  • Static & Dynamic Application Security Testing (SAST/DAST): Integrate automated code analysis and runtime testing into your CI/CD pipelines.
  • API Security & Threat Protection: Discover, classify, and protect your critical APIs from data breaches and abuse.
  • Secure Code Training: Empower your developers with the knowledge to write more secure code from the start.

Cloud & Data Security

We help you gain visibility and control over your multi-cloud environments, protecting your data wherever it lives, moves, or is processed.

  • Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM): Continuously monitor your cloud infrastructure for misconfigurations and compliance violations.
  • Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP): Unify security for containers, Kubernetes, and serverless applications from development to runtime.
  • Data Loss Prevention (DLP) & Encryption: Implement policies to prevent unauthorized exfiltration of sensitive data and ensure data is encrypted at rest and in transit.

Compliance & Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC)

We help you navigate the complex web of regulations, automating compliance processes and providing a clear, real-time view of your risk posture.

  • Automated Compliance Auditing: Streamline preparation for audits like SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI DSS.
  • Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM): Assess and manage the security risks posed by your vendors and supply chain partners.
  • AI-Powered Risk Quantification: Translate technical risks into financial terms to enable better, data-driven security investment decisions.

Managed Security Services (MSSP)

Our 24/7 Security Operations Center (SOC) acts as an extension of your team, providing continuous monitoring, expert analysis, and rapid response.

  • 24/7 SOC Monitoring & Threat Detection: Leverage our AI-powered SIEM and expert analysts to detect threats across your entire IT ecosystem.
  • Managed Detection & Response (MDR): Go beyond alerts with proactive threat hunting, deep investigation, and guided response actions.
  • Incident Response & Digital Forensics: In the event of a breach, our experts are on standby to contain the threat, eradicate it, and recover your operations.
Our Approach

The CIS Zero Trust Implementation Framework

Zero Trust isn't a product, it's a strategic imperative. Our framework provides a phased, pragmatic roadmap to transform your security posture without disrupting your business. We move you from a legacy, perimeter-based model to a dynamic, identity-centric architecture.

1. Verify Explicitly

Always authenticate and authorize based on all available data points, including user identity, location, device health, service or workload, data classification, and anomalies.

2. Use Least Privilege Access

Limit user access with Just-In-Time and Just-Enough-Access (JIT/JEA), risk-based adaptive policies, and data protection to secure both data and productivity.

3. Assume Breach

Minimize blast radius and segment access. Verify end-to-end encryption and use analytics to get visibility, drive threat detection, and improve defenses.

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Success Stories

Real-World Security Transformations

Securing a Mid-Sized Financial Firm Against Advanced Threats

Client Overview: A regional investment bank managing over $20 billion in assets. They faced intense regulatory scrutiny and were a prime target for sophisticated phishing and ransomware attacks. Their legacy security infrastructure was fragmented, complex to manage, and failing to meet modern compliance requirements.

The Problem: The firm was struggling with repeated compliance audit failures related to access control and data protection. Their security team was overwhelmed by a high volume of false-positive alerts from disparate systems, making it difficult to identify genuine threats. A successful phishing attack that compromised an executive's credentials was the final catalyst for a complete security overhaul.

Key Challenges:

  • Inadequate identity and access controls for sensitive financial data.
  • Lack of visibility into user activity across on-premise and cloud applications.
  • High risk of data exfiltration and ransomware infection.
  • Inability to efficiently demonstrate compliance to auditors.

Our Solution

CIS designed and implemented a comprehensive Zero Trust architecture centered on a robust Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution.

  • Deployed a unified SSO and adaptive MFA platform for all applications.
  • Implemented a Privileged Access Management (PAM) solution to secure administrator accounts.
  • Established micro-segmentation to limit lateral movement within the network.
  • Integrated a managed SIEM/SOAR service for 24/7 threat monitoring and automated response.
95%
Reduction in Phishing-Related Incidents
100%
Audit Pass Rate Post-Implementation
70%
Decrease in Security Alert Fatigue

Ensuring HIPAA Compliance for a Large Healthcare Provider

Client Overview: A multi-state hospital system with over 30 facilities, managing millions of electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) records. They were migrating workloads to a hybrid-cloud environment (AWS and on-premise data centers) and needed to ensure consistent security and HIPAA compliance across their entire infrastructure.

The Problem: The provider's security posture was inconsistent between their on-premise and cloud environments. They lacked the tools to effectively monitor for cloud misconfigurations, protect patient data in cloud storage, and secure their containerized applications. This exposed them to significant risks of data breaches and multi-million dollar HIPAA violation fines.

Key Challenges:

  • Protecting sensitive ePHI across a complex hybrid-cloud environment.
  • Achieving and maintaining continuous HIPAA compliance.
  • Securing modern, cloud-native applications and workloads.
  • Preventing unauthorized access and data exfiltration from cloud storage.

Our Solution

CIS implemented a Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) to provide unified security and compliance for their hybrid environment.

  • Deployed CSPM to continuously scan AWS environments for misconfigurations and compliance drift.
  • Implemented Cloud Workload Protection (CWPP) to secure virtual machines and containers.
  • Established robust data security policies using DLP and encryption for S3 buckets containing ePHI.
  • Conducted regular, automated HIPAA compliance assessments and generated audit-ready reports.
48 Hours
To Full Visibility Across Cloud Assets
99%
Reduction in Critical Cloud Misconfigurations
Zero
Data Exposure Incidents Since Launch

Integrating DevSecOps for a Global E-commerce Platform

Client Overview: A top-tier e-commerce company processing millions of transactions daily. Their competitive advantage depended on rapid feature deployment, but their traditional, siloed security processes were creating bottlenecks and leaving them vulnerable to application-layer attacks.

The Problem: Security reviews were performed manually at the end of the development cycle, leading to significant delays and friction between development and security teams. Critical vulnerabilities in their public-facing web applications and APIs were being discovered in production, forcing costly emergency patches and damaging customer trust.

Key Challenges:

  • Security acting as a bottleneck to agile development.
  • High number of vulnerabilities reaching production environments.
  • Protecting customer payment data and personal information.
  • Lack of a collaborative culture between developers and security engineers.

Our Solution

CIS implemented a comprehensive DevSecOps program, embedding automated security tools and processes directly into the CI/CD pipeline.

  • Integrated SAST and DAST tools into their Jenkins pipeline for automated vulnerability scanning on every code commit.
  • Deployed a Web Application Firewall (WAF) and API security gateway to protect production applications.
  • Provided secure coding training to development teams, establishing "Security Champions" within each squad.
  • Created unified dashboards for real-time visibility into the security posture of all applications.
80%
Reduction in Critical Production Vulnerabilities
50%
Faster Mean-Time-To-Remediation (MTTR)
10x
Increase in Secure Deployment Frequency
Technologies We Master

Leveraging a Best-in-Class Security Ecosystem

Client Voices

What Our Clients Say About Our Security Expertise

CIS transformed our security posture from reactive to proactive. Their Zero Trust roadmap was clear, concise, and perfectly aligned with our business objectives. We now have confidence in our ability to defend against modern threats.

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Michael Harper CISO, Global Logistics Corp

The DevSecOps POD model was a game-changer. We seamlessly integrated security into our CI/CD pipeline without slowing down our developers. Vulnerabilities are now caught early, saving us significant time and money.

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Julia Larson VP of Engineering, FinTech Innovators

Navigating HIPAA compliance in the cloud was our biggest challenge. The team at CIS provided the expertise and tools we needed to not only achieve compliance but maintain it continuously. Their knowledge of healthcare security is unparalleled.

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David Chen Director of IT, Regional Health System

Their 24/7 Managed Detection and Response service is like having a world-class SOC team at a fraction of the cost. Their proactive threat hunting has identified issues our previous provider completely missed.

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Emily Snow CIO, National Retail Chain

The professionalism and deep technical knowledge of the CIS team are impressive. They handled our complex identity management migration flawlessly, with zero downtime for our global user base.

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Nathan Carter Head of IT Infrastructure, Manufacturing Giant

We engaged CIS for a penetration test, and their findings were incredibly thorough. They didn't just provide a list of problems; they gave us actionable, prioritized recommendations to fix them. True partners in security.

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Sophia Dalton Founder & CTO, SaaS Startup
Frequently Asked Questions

Your Questions, Answered

Zero Trust is a modern security model founded on the principle of "never trust, always verify." It assumes that threats can exist both inside and outside the traditional network perimeter. Instead of trusting users and devices by default once they are on the network, Zero Trust requires continuous verification for every access request. It's critical because with cloud computing, remote work, and mobile devices, the old "castle-and-moat" security model is no longer effective. Zero Trust protects your data and resources no matter where they are located or accessed from.

A full Zero Trust transformation is a journey, not a destination. It's implemented in phases. We typically start with a readiness assessment which takes 2-4 weeks. Foundational projects, like implementing robust Identity and Access Management (IAM), can take 3-6 months. More advanced stages like network micro-segmentation can extend beyond that. We work with you to create a pragmatic roadmap that delivers high-impact security wins at every stage, prioritizing your most critical assets first.

Standard cybersecurity often relies on known signatures and rules to detect threats, which is ineffective against new, "zero-day" attacks. Our AI-enabled approach uses machine learning algorithms to analyze vast amounts of data and identify anomalous patterns of behavior that indicate a potential threat. This allows us to move from a reactive posture (responding to alerts) to a proactive one (predicting and preventing attacks before they happen). It means faster detection, fewer false positives, and a much more resilient defense.

Absolutely. We believe in a best-of-breed, ecosystem approach. Our goal is to maximize the value of your existing security investments. Our experts are skilled at integrating with a wide range of leading security vendors for SIEM, endpoint protection, firewalls, and cloud security. We help you orchestrate these tools into a cohesive, unified security architecture, eliminating silos and improving overall visibility and response capabilities.

While our cybersecurity principles are applicable across all sectors, we have deep domain expertise in industries with high regulatory and security requirements. This includes Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI), Healthcare and Life Sciences (HIPAA compliance), Retail & E-commerce (PCI DSS), and Manufacturing (securing Industrial IoT and OT environments). We understand the unique threats and compliance challenges of these sectors and tailor our solutions accordingly.

Ready to Build Your Zero Trust Future?

The threat landscape is relentless, but your defense can be more intelligent, more proactive, and more resilient. Let our experts assess your current security posture and build a clear, actionable roadmap to a true Zero Trust architecture. Secure your assets, empower your workforce, and accelerate your business with confidence.

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