The deliverable that matters isn't the strategy deck. It's the dashboard your auditor opens, the portal your help desk uses every day, and the metric that proves the control actually works. Here's how we work.
We've watched too many engagements deliver a 90-page strategy and a Visio architecture — then leave the client to figure out how to actually run the program. Our work begins where most engagements end: at the boundary between policy and operating system.
We write the SPL. We build the data models. We design the dashboards your SOC and your auditor both use. No middleware shims, no "we sent the data and called it done." If it doesn't show up in CIM, it doesn't count.
Our remediation engines aren't wireframes — they're PL/SQL packages, role-aware UIs, real workflows running against your CMDB. When auditors ask "where's the evidence?" we point at a URL.
Tanium-vs-evidence reconciliation. Disposition velocity. Backlog burn-down. Coverage gaps by application. We measure the things both auditors and execs ask about — and put them on the same page.
We use LLMs in narrow, high-yield places — classifying the long tail of accounts, summarizing certification populations, answering audit questions over evidence corpora. With guardrails, source citations, and human-in-the-loop where the stakes warrant it.
No "discovery deliverable" that's actually just notes. Every phase produces something operational that survives the engagement.
Control mapping. Data inventory. Stakeholder interviews. We surface what's logged, what's missing, and what the auditor will fail you on. Output: gap analysis, risk register, and a roadmap with effort estimates — none of which gets thrown away in phase two.
Log standards by application. Eventtype/tag taxonomy. Lookup model. Workflow flows for remediation. Wireframes for portals and dashboards. Acceptance criteria written in language your engineers can build to and your auditors can read.
This is where most consultancies hand off. Not us. We build the Splunk dashboards, write the APEX portals, configure the Cribl pipelines, ship the lookups. Code, dashboards, and runbooks land in your repo and your environment.
We run it with you, then run it less while you run it more. Knowledge transfer is structured: paired engineering, training sessions, runbooks, and on-call shadowing. We leave behind a team that owns it — not a dependency on us.
Three representative artifacts from real engagements. Names changed; structures real.
A live HPA monitoring dashboard, normalized to CIM, with anomaly classification and drill-through to underlying events.
| Actor | Asset | Action | Anomaly |
|---|---|---|---|
| m.alvarez | WIN-FIN-DB-04 | Privilege Use | None |
| j.patel | RHEL-PRD-12 | Sudo Escalate | Off-hours |
| svc_etl | WIN-DATA-01 | Login | None |
| r.okafor | AZURE-K8S-PRD | Role Bind | New asset |
The Windows local non-admin remediation engine. Pulls from Tanium + AD + CMDB, recommends a disposition with confidence and a reason.
| Account | Last logon | Recommendation | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|
| tmpadmin | 312 days | Remove | Stale, no owner |
| svc_backup_l1 | 2 hrs | Vault | Service account |
| local_helpdesk | 14 days | Disable | Replaced by AD group |
| vendor_smith | 5 days | Investigate | Unexpected priv group |
Reconciliation between Tanium endpoint truth and the evidence/audit dataset. The deltas are the real story.
| Category | Tanium | Evidence | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Service accounts | 4,128 | 4,128 | 0 |
| Vendor accounts | 1,902 | 1,884 | −18 |
| Local admins | 318 | 318 | 0 |
| Stale (>90d) | 1,447 | 1,289 | −158 |
| Disabled | 2,422 | 2,422 | 0 |
Every artifact we ship can answer "who, what, when, why, signature" without us standing next to it. If it can't, it isn't done.
Daily standups, weekly demos, source in your repo. No black-box deliverables and no mid-engagement surprises.
Help-desk-friendly portals. Auditor-readable dashboards. Engineer-extensible code. The first user you should optimize for is the person who'll run this in year two.
LLMs accelerate review and triage. They don't make irreversible identity decisions. Human approval lives between recommendation and action.
Code that's self-explanatory to engineers. Documentation that holds up to legal review. Evidence narrative that's audit-ready in the first cycle, not the third.
We're not a managed service. We design every engagement to end with your engineers running what we built — confidently, without us.
We'll walk you through anonymized dashboards, portals, and metrics from past engagements — and how the same patterns would apply to yours.
