Modern Programs Must Work 24x7

We Build That Resilience In

The hardest challenge organizations face today isn’t just building security—it’s reconciling two competing realities: the relentless pace of change and the need to scale operations effectively. Rapid innovation, talent shortages, and limited subject matter expertise amplify this tension. Security programs can’t simply “keep up”; they must enable the business to move fast without sacrificing safety.
 
Aedify is built for this dual mandate. We help organizations run and transform at the same time—strengthening day-to-day operations while driving the strategic shifts needed for long-term resilience. Whether it’s stabilizing core processes, embedding security into delivery pipelines, or guiding a major program reboot, we bring the structure and experience to make progress without stalling momentum.
 
Our approach is pragmatic and impact-driven. We don’t hand you a laundry list of controls; we identify the few critical moves that matter most—those that hurt not to do. Then, we build them shoulder to shoulder with you. We often help you organize, recruit, and train your own staff. By combining proven frameworks like BSIMM, NIST CSF, and SSDF with custom models tailored to your context, we help you scale securely and adapt continuously. The result: security programs that work 24x7, because your business does too.
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Empower You and Your Organization's Cybersecurity Journey

Aedify provides executive advisory that reconciles pace of change with the need to scale. We translate business and product goals into a security operating model that accelerates delivery: clear decision rights, guardrails over gates, and a short, prioritized set of high-leverage controls. We align to frameworks as context (not checklists) and focus on measurable outcomes that show up in your pipelines, platforms, and release cadence.

We organize and plan the program, so it runs and transforms at the same time. That includes the engagement model with engineering, roles and RACI, governance and funding, a right-sized roadmap, and scoreboards that track maturity—not activity. We establish the operating cadence (intake, prioritization, delivery readiness, evidence) so teams can move fast with confidence, and leaders can see, steer, and report progress.

We bring the right staff and SMEs to execute. Depending on the mission, that can include product security leaders, threat modelers, DevSecOps and build-integrity engineers, cloud/identity specialists, and application testers—embedded alongside your teams. We provide surge capacity for operational work while advancing targeted transformations, with enablement and knowledge transfer built in so the program sustains after we step back.
 

Offerings:

  • GAP analysis and Maturity Action Plans (MAPs)
  • BSIMM or SSDF Score Card
  • Advisory Services from Board to DevSecOps or Security Architect
How it works:
  • Firm fixed price retainers
  • Time and material contracts for long-term staff augmentation
  • Equity-based advisory services for startups
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Enhance Your Security Framework with Threat Modeling

Modern organizations face regulatory push (EO-14028, NIST 8397), tight budgets, and scarce security-architecture talent—yet threats evolve faster than delivery can adapt. We help leadership put threat modeling on the critical path of delivery so secure design happens when it matters most. This is a capability, not a workshop: we strengthen your current approach, align with engineering reality, and land mitigations as code, policy, or platform guardrails—so teams move faster with less risk.

Our method is lineage without dogma. VAST is our native language—authored by our founder and used to scale modeling across complex organizations—and its risk-centric principles influenced how PASTA and STRIDE are practiced at scale. We meet you where you are (STRIDE, PASTA, LINDDUN, hybrids, or lightweight design reviews) and elevate results with a three-domain view—business, technical, and attack—focusing on real adversaries, valued assets, and doomsday scenarios to prevent. Clients consistently report faster decisions, clearer tradeoffs, and mitigations that actually ship.

We operationalize the practice. We start by mapping how design and threat considerations flow through your build, deploy, and operate cycles, then tune modeling to your architecture standards, platform primitives, and change processes. We align to frameworks like NIST SSDF or BSIMM only insofar as they reduce friction and risk, and we deliver a phased plan to scale sustainably. Our teams embed alongside yours—product security leaders, threat modelers, and platform/identity SMEs—to build capability, transfer knowledge, and make the practice stick.
 

Offerings

  • We provide a one-off threat model for a scope of any size or complexity
  • We turn your disparate efforts into a singular threat modeling practice that costs less than the sum of its current parts
  • We bring ILT, hard-won expertise, ongoing support, and—if you desire—LLM-based technology to your TM practice
  • We scale your TM practice, aligning stakeholders and federating it to Champions or Developers 
How it works:
  • Firm fixed price threat modeling engagement; small, medium, and large timelines are typically fpur, fix, and ten weeks
  • Firm fixed price or time and materials for capability building; usually takes three to six months
  • Retainer agreement for ongoing mentoring, coaching, and skill building; most effective when done for twelve months
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Demystify and Secure AI Today

We help leadership ship secure AI that accelerates delivery, not AI security theater. In a fixed-scope AI/ML security and enablement engagement, we inventory usage, design risk-based guardrails, and validate pipelines and AI systems—turning scattered experiments and tool sprawl into a single capability aligned to throughput, governance, and risk. We’re model- and stack-agnostic and meet teams where they work, so engineering doesn’t slow down or switch tools.
We organize and plan the practice. Starting with Shadow AI discovery and data-flow mapping, we stand up a practical control plane (identity-, network-, and app-level) with policies, exceptions, and DLP/audit, then run a Gap Analysis and Maturity Acceleration Plan that sequences changes your teams can land in code, process, and platforms. The result is federated governance—Champions and Developers empowered with clear guardrails, evidence, and executive-ready reporting.
We bring the right SMEs and automation. Our embedded AI security architects, platform/IAM engineers, and AppSec leaders seed developer, architect, and sign-off agents (optionally with Aedify + Manicode.ai promptbook IP) to apply standards, automate threat modeling, prevent design regressions, and gate risky promotions. We also harden the AI you build or buy—data governance, identity boundaries, adversarial testing, provenance/attestation, and monitoring—then mentor your teams so the capability scales and sustains.
 

Offerings

  • We provide a one-off AI/ML security and enablement engagement—covering discovery, design, guardrails, and validation—for scopes of any size or complexity.
  • We turn your disparate AI experiments and AppSec/ML ops efforts into a singular AI/ML security capability that costs less than the sum of its current parts.
  • We bring ILT, hard-won expertise, ongoing support, and—if you desire—LLM-based technology (Aedify + Manicode.ai promptbook IP) to seed developer, architect, and sign-off agents.
  • We scale your AI/ML security practice, aligning stakeholders and federating it to Champions or Developers.
How it works:
  • Firm fixed price AI/ML security and enablement engagement; small, medium, and large timelines are typically four, six, and ten weeks.
  • Firm fixed price or time-and-materials for capability building; usually takes three to six months.
  • Retainer agreement for ongoing mentoring, coaching, and skill building; most effective when done for twelve months.
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Elevate Your Venture’s Trajectory with VC, PE, and Startup Advisory Support 

Whether you’re a cybersecurity startup, or an all-in-one player seeking to dominate the market, navigating the evolution of the software and cloud security spaces can be challenging. Aedify offers comprehensive support in go-to-market strategies, channel partner collaborations, merger and acquisition guidance, and Board governance. Our retainer solutions encompass VCISO and VCTO services, providing your venture the right hands-on ‘player-coach’ leadership, direction, and execution. We offer personalized expertise customized to your venture’s needs, ongoing support across venture development phases, and an obsessively customer- and market-centric approach to software and cloud security.  

 

Use cases include: 

 

    • Advisory CISO: Defining and bootstrapping an Office of the CISO. 
    • Advisory CTO: Building and scaling a prototype as a product or platform.
    • Defining or adjusting GTM strategy, and building an executive Product Management capability and product strategy. 
    • Building an engineering team and professionalizing a reliable and secure software delivery lifecycle.
    • John has direct experience with both buy- and sell-side merger and acquisition support for operating firms, and their private equity partners. He has aided founder- and investment-led sell-side transactions with several firms at around 50 employees and played a key role in the successful sale of a 500-employee firm with nine figure annual revenue. 

 

Partner with Aedify to transform your venture’s potential and leverage our expertise for success.