What We Do

Strategic advisory for leaders who need more than compliance.

Six core services designed for boards, C-suites, and organizations that take cyber risk seriously. Each engagement is tailored to your industry, regulatory environment, and business context.

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Board-Level Cyber Advisory

Executive briefings, governance frameworks, and risk strategy delivered at the level your board actually needs to make decisions.

  • Quarterly board cyber briefings
  • Governance framework development
  • Regulatory readiness (SEC, state, industry-specific)
  • Board cyber committee advisory
  • Crisis response preparation
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AI Strategy & Governance

AI is moving faster than most governance frameworks can keep up with. We help you adopt AI responsibly — with guardrails that protect your business without slowing it down.

  • AI adoption roadmaps for enterprise
  • AI acceptable-use policies
  • Third-party AI vendor assessment
  • AI risk registers and governance
  • Regulatory compliance (EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF)
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Risk Assessment & Vulnerability Analysis

Comprehensive identification of what could go wrong, what it would cost, and what to prioritize given your actual resources.

  • Enterprise risk assessment
  • Third-party and vendor risk analysis
  • Business impact analysis
  • Tabletop exercises and crisis simulations
  • Remediation roadmaps with clear ROI
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Speaking & Keynotes

Board retreats. Industry conferences. Executive offsites. Accessible sessions that make cybersecurity and AI strategy actionable for non-technical leaders.

  • Board retreat keynotes
  • Conference talks and panels
  • Executive workshop facilitation
  • Industry association presentations
  • Custom topics across cyber and AI
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Small Business Resources

Practical, board-ready guidance for organizations without a dedicated CISO. Policies, procedures, and training — without the enterprise complexity.

  • Policy templates (security, privacy, AI use)
  • Compliance checklists
  • Incident response procedures
  • Vendor risk assessment forms
  • Board presentation decks
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Regulatory Readiness

Stay ahead of evolving frameworks. Governance strategies that incorporate regulatory change before it becomes a crisis.

  • SEC cyber disclosure rule compliance
  • SOC 2 Type II readiness
  • HIPAA security rule implementation
  • State privacy law compliance (CCPA, CDPA, etc.)
  • Audit preparation and support
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How We Work

A process built for real decisions, not just reports.

Every engagement follows the same foundational approach — rigorous, collaborative, and focused on outcomes your leadership can actually act on.

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Discovery

We start by understanding your business, your regulatory environment, and your current cybersecurity posture. No cookie-cutter assessments — we come in curious, listen carefully, and ask the questions that uncover what's actually at stake.

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Analysis

We translate what we've learned into business impact. This isn't a technical audit — it's a strategic assessment that connects cyber risk to the outcomes your board cares about: revenue, reputation, regulatory standing, and resilience.

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Recommendations

Prioritized, plain-language recommendations with clear ROI. Each recommendation comes with context, trade-offs, and a realistic estimate of effort — so your leadership knows exactly what they're approving.

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Implementation Support

We don't hand you a report and disappear. We stay engaged during implementation — advising on decisions, reviewing progress, and helping your team navigate the inevitable surprises.

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Ongoing Partnership

Cybersecurity isn't a one-time fix. We offer ongoing advisory relationships with quarterly check-ins, board briefings, and rapid response when something changes in your risk landscape.

Frequently Asked

Your questions, answered.

The questions we hear most often from boards, CEOs, and CISOs considering working with us.

How long is a typical engagement?

Most engagements run three to six months — but honestly, we scope to your situation rather than a fixed template. A focused board-readiness assessment might take six weeks. A full cyber and AI governance transformation for a financial services firm might run nine months. And some of our most valuable relationships are ongoing: quarterly board briefings, rapid response when a major incident or regulation lands, and an annual strategy check. Our first conversation is free, so we can tell you honestly what scope makes sense before either of us commits.

What does a board briefing actually include?

Every briefing is tailored to the organization, but the structure is consistent: where the threat landscape actually is right now (not last quarter's headlines), an honest read on your current cyber and AI posture, the regulatory changes that will reach you in the next twelve months, and the specific decisions the board is being asked to make. Where useful, we build in short director training modules on topics like AI governance or SEC cyber disclosure. The goal is never a polished slide deck — it's directors leaving the room with clarity on what to approve, what to question, and what to hold management accountable for next quarter.

Do you work with pre-IPO companies?

Yes — and it's often exactly the right timing. Pre-IPO is the window where getting cyber governance structurally right costs a fraction of what it costs to rebuild under SEC scrutiny after listing. We help pre-IPO companies stand up the governance framework their S-1 disclosures will rely on, prepare management to answer the cyber questions auditors and underwriters will ask, and build the board-level oversight model that survives the transition to a public company. Most of these relationships continue post-listing as the regulatory bar keeps rising.

How is CKP different from a Big Four firm?

Three things. First, you work directly with us — not a partner who sells the engagement and hands it to associates. Kathryn and Linda are in the room, every time. Second, our expertise is earned, not delegated: decades of experience across boardrooms, the intelligence community, and the cybersecurity industry, with a deep network of specialists we bring in when a specific skill is needed. Third, cost. Big Four engagements for this kind of work routinely run into six figures for what is often a templated deliverable. We deliver the same rigor — often more relevant rigor — at a fraction of the cost, because we don't carry the partner-associate pyramid. You get the senior expertise without paying for the overhead.

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No hard sell. Just a 30-minute discovery call to understand where you are, where you want to be, and whether we're the right fit to help you get there.

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