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The threats changed.
Most security programs haven't.

AI opened an attack surface your last audit never looked at, whether you build AI products or your team simply uses ChatGPT every day. NeoSecGov closes that gap, hardens your cloud, and runs the compliance programs your buyers and insurers demand. Built by a CTO who has owned these budgets. The first conversation is free.

25+ years in technology 7 years as CTO / CISO 8 frameworks covered $0 in vendor kickbacks
FIRST LOOKLIVE
LLM-01 Prompt injectionTESTED
IAM least-privilegeHARDENED
Audit scopeTRIM
 Prompt injection attempt
Hidden instruction found in vendor PDF read by support-bot
BLOCKED
 IAM finding
14 unused admin roles flagged in quarterly access review
REMEDIATED
 Evidence synced
SOC 2 CC6.1 access-control evidence collected automatically
AUDIT-READY
SaaS teams facing enterprise security reviews Manufacturers & defense suppliers facing CMMC Clinics & health tech facing HIPAA Anyone whose insurer just got strict

Trusted by security & compliance teams at

 

Engagements across these teams include SOC 2 Type II programs, enterprise security reviews, and AI product security.

The new attack surface

AI Security

 

Your compliance report doesn't cover what you shipped last quarter. SOC 2 and ISO 27001 were written for servers and access controls. They say nothing about the AI copilot your engineers use, the chatbot wired into customer data, or the agent someone gave standing permissions to "because it was faster." That's not a gap an auditor will catch. It's one attackers are already testing.

LLM-01

Prompt injection

Instructions hidden in a document, email, or webpage can hijack an AI feature that reads it. No password required.

LLM-06

Over-permissioned agents

Agentic AI with standing access can do in seconds what used to take an attacker weeks of lateral movement.

SHADOW-AI

Shadow AI

Employees paste customer data and source code into public AI tools every day, with zero visibility for your security team.

AI / LLM security assessment Prompt injection red-teaming Agent permission reviews AI usage governance & policy ISO 42001 readiness (AI management)
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Prove it to buyers, regulators & insurers

Compliance

 

Whichever framework your buyers, regulators, or insurers demand, we run the program end to end. Scoped tight, automated early, and we sit in the audit with you. You get certified without building a compliance machine you'll be paying off for years.

SOC 2 · ISO 27001 · ISO 42001 · HIPAA · GDPR · NIST · CMMC

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What you get

Gap assessment & control design
Evidence automation & audit readiness
External auditor managed, end to end
Questionnaires answered in days, with a reusable library
Cyber insurance readiness

Frameworks we run

SOC 2ISO 27001ISO 42001HIPAAGDPRNISTCMMC
Harden the foundation

Cloud & Security Operations

 

Every AI feature and every compliance claim sits on the same thing: your cloud. Identity, network, logging, response. We harden it hands on, at the console, and map every fix to the compliance evidence you'll need anyway. One piece of work, two outcomes.

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$ neosecgov harden --prod
IAM: 14 unused admin roles removed
GuardDuty + CloudTrail: org-wide, alert-wired
SIEM pipeline: noise tuned, on-call sane
EDR / MDM: full fleet coverage
IR runbook: tested before you need it
// every fix mapped to audit evidence
Executive leadership, fractional

vCISO & Security Leadership

 

Executive security leadership without the executive salary. We own your security strategy, represent it to your customers, auditors, and board, and keep the program improving month over month. And because we've owned these budgets from the inside, cost discipline is part of the job, not an afterthought.

Fits companies that need a security leader a few days a month, an interim leader between hires, or a named security contact their enterprise customers can meet.

Talk about a vCISO retainer

A month with your vCISO

WK 1Strategy & roadmap: what moved, what's next
WK 2Access, vendor & tool reviews
WK 3Customer & auditor calls, questionnaire turnaround
WK 4Board-ready security report
ALWAYSIncident line & ad-hoc counsel, whenever it hits
What it all costs

A strong posture, at a sane cost.

Security budgets leak in predictable places, and compliance is the biggest. Whatever you're certified against, the program breaks into four costs. Three show up as invoices. One doesn't.

// WHERE THE MONEY GOES TYPICAL / YEAR
GRC platformVanta, Drata, and friends $10K–$30K
Audit fees $15K–$40K
Security testingPentest & AI red-team $8K–$25K
What the invoices add up to $33K–$95K
NO INVOICEYour team's hoursScreenshots, access reviews, auditor calls. Nobody itemizes it. 200–400 hrs

Typical ranges. Yours will differ, and finding out by how much is what the review below is for.

Not sure if you're overpaying? Start with a free cost review.

Thirty minutes on your stack, your audit scope, and where the hours go. You get a one-page memo: what to cut, what to automate, what to keep. If you're running lean, we'll say so.

Book a free cost review
Why NeoSecGov

Consultants tell you what to do. We've actually done it.

Most GRC firms hand you a policy template and a spreadsheet. NeoSecGov is led by an operator who has sat in the CTO chair, built and owned security posture from the inside, and serves as vCISO today for companies from venture-backed SaaS to the manufacturers, clinics, and logistics firms now facing the same demands.

INDEPENDENCE

Zero conflicts of interest

We take no reseller commissions, referral fees, or vendor kickbacks. Ever. The tools we recommend are the ones that fit you, not the ones that pay us.

AUDIT ROOM

We know what auditors look for

We sit in the audit with you. Real engagements with external auditors, across SOC 2, ISO 27001, and beyond. Not just readiness checklists.

ENGINEERING

We know what engineers adopt

We've led engineering teams. Controls that fight your developers don't survive contact with a sprint, so we design ones that fit.

HANDS-ON

We work at the console level

IAM, GuardDuty, logging pipelines, incident response: cloud security done hands-on, not just at the framework level.

How many of the 15 can you check?

The one-page posture checklist we run in every first conversation. Free, no email wall. Three or more unchecked is worth a call.

Download the checklist
How long it takes

From first call to audit-ready.

 

A typical certification program, start to finish. Assessments run shorter. Whatever your deadline is, we scope backwards from it and tell you honestly whether it is reachable.

WEEK 1

Scope & gap assessment

We map what you have, what the framework needs, and what your buyers are actually asking for.

WEEKS 2–4

Controls & remediation

The real work: IAM, logging, policies, AI guardrails. Prioritized so the riskiest gaps close first.

WEEKS 4–8

Evidence & automation

Evidence collection wired up so it keeps running after we leave, not a screenshot marathon.

WEEKS 8–12

Audit

We manage the auditor and sit in the sessions with you. You answer questions; we handle the rest.

ONGOING

Stay certified

Surveillance, renewals, questionnaires, and the next framework when a customer demands one.

Working against a deal deadline? Say so on the first call. We have scoped programs backwards from a customer's contract date before, and we will tell you plainly if the date is not realistic.

How to engage

Three ways to start.

MODE / 1MOST COMMON START

Assessment

Fixed-scope review of your AI exposure, cloud posture, or compliance spend, with a prioritized roadmap.

MODE / 2

Certification sprint

End-to-end compliance program, from gap assessment through audit completion.

MODE / 3

vCISO retainer

Ongoing fractional security leadership: strategy, audits, vendor reviews, incident support.

Not sure which fits? The first conversation sorts that out. Book a call

Partners

Brokers, MSPs, and CPAs: your clients' gap is our specialty.

If your clients are failing cyber insurance questionnaires, getting security mandates from big customers, or asking what to do about employees using AI, send them to NeoSecGov.

INSURANCE BROKERS

You keep the account

We get your clients through underwriting requirements and keep them insurable. You keep the commission, the renewal, and the relationship, with progress reported to you at every step.

MSPs

No channel conflict

We are the compliance and strategy layer on top of your stack, white-label or referral. We do not sell managed IT. Your client sees a deeper bench; you see a stickier contract.

CPAs & ATTORNEYS

Protect your clients

Your clients trust you first. When compliance or a security demand lands on their desk, a warm intro to a specialist makes you the advisor who had the answer.

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About

Built by a CTO. 25+ years in technology, seven of them owning security.

NeoSecGov was founded by Narasimha: 25+ years in technology, the last seven as CTO and CISO at three companies, owning the architecture, the audits, the incidents, and the budgets behind them.

Today the practice serves B2B SaaS companies (including supply chain and fintech, two of the most audited corners of software) and the legacy businesses whose insurers, regulators, and enterprise customers now demand the same controls. AI security assessments, cloud hardening, and compliance programs that don't turn into bureaucracy.

Founder & CEO
NeoSecGov
AI security · Cloud · Compliance · vCISO
CTO
Omnibound AI · Quantum OOH · Annex Cloud
Owned security posture and the budget behind it
vCISO
B2B SaaS · Supply chain & trade finance
Compliance programs, external audit management
Engineering leadership
NEOGOV
Compliance at enterprise scale and startup scale. The waste patterns are the same
FAQ

Fair questions.

"We haven't shipped any AI features. Is AI security still relevant?"

Almost certainly, yes. Your employees are already using ChatGPT, Copilot, or similar tools with company data, whether or not your product itself has AI in it. That's exposure today, not someday.

"We're a manufacturer / clinic / dealership, not a tech company. Is this for us?"

Yes. Your insurer, your regulator, or your biggest customer is asking you the same questions they ask tech companies. We translate those demands into work your IT person or MSP can actually execute, and we deal with the auditors and questionnaires so you don't have to learn a second profession.

"Are you an auditor, a pentest shop, or an MSP?"

No, and that's deliberate. We don't audit you, we get you through the audit. We don't sell managed IT, we work alongside whoever runs yours. And we take no commissions from any tool or auditor we recommend. Independence is the product.

"We already use Vanta / Drata. Why would we need you?"

The platform automates evidence collection. It doesn't decide your audit scope, negotiate your auditor's fee, notice you're paying for two overlapping tools, or tell you which of its own features you're not using. Tools do what they're configured to do. Most are configured once, by someone in a hurry, during onboarding.

"Can you work with our existing auditor?"

Yes, and usually we should. Switching auditors has real costs. Most savings come from scope, evidence automation, and sourcing, not from changing who signs the report.

"What does an engagement cost?"

Fixed-fee assessments and sprints, or a monthly vCISO retainer. You'll see the number before we start, and anything from a free review is yours either way.

"We're not certified yet. Is this still for us?"

Especially for you. The cheapest compliance program is the one scoped correctly on day one. We'd rather help you avoid the waste than remove it later.

Have a different question? Ask us directly

Let's look at your security posture.

AI, cloud, compliance, and what it all costs: one conversation covers where you stand and what we'd fix first. Thirty minutes, no obligation, and we reply within one business day.

Every note gets a reply from a human who has sat in your chair.

What happens after you book

1

A 30-minute call

No slide deck, no discovery gauntlet. We ask what is blocking you and tell you what we would do about it.

2

A scoped proposal

Within three business days: fixed scope, fixed fee, clear timeline. No surprise line items later.

3

Kickoff, or not

If we are not the right fit, we will say so and point you somewhere better. That costs you nothing either way.

NEOSECGOV

Security for what your company actually runs on now. AI, cloud, and the compliance that proves it, at a cost that makes sense.

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