Fractional information security and ai leadership for small businesses
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Use AI to cut overhead without putting your business at risk.
Your team is probably already using AI, whether anyone planned it or not. Summit Cyber becomes your fractional AI and security lead, so you can find where AI actually saves time, put guardrails around what data goes in, and keep it current as your business grows.
Founder-led · CMMC Certified Assessor · ISO/IEC 42001:2023 Lead Auditor
If any of this sounds familiar, you're in the right place.
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AI is already in your company.
Staff are using ChatGPT, Copilot, or AI built into your software, and nobody's decided what client data is allowed in. That's shadow AI, and it's where most of the risk sits.
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The security questions keep coming.
Your insurance renewal, a client's vendor questionnaire, or a new contract asked about your security program, and nobody at the firm could answer with confidence.
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Nobody owns it.
Your IT provider handles the systems, but no one is responsible for the policy, the risk decisions, or what happens when something goes wrong.
WHO WE SERVE
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Built for small businesses in any industry.
If you have a team, customers, and more work than hours, AI can help. Some businesses also carry rules about how they protect data, and we cover those too.
Every small business
Whether you run a construction company, a marketing agency, a manufacturer, or a retail shop, we find where AI can take repetitive work off your team's plate, help you pick the right tools, and set simple rules for using them safely.
Firms with client data to protect
Accounting, tax, and law firms carry extra obligations. Tax preparation firms fall under the FTC Safeguards Rule, which requires a written security program and a Qualified Individual to run it, and we can serve in that role. For law firms, we put guardrails around AI so client confidentiality holds up.
Defense contractors
CMMC Level 1 and Level 2 readiness from a CMMC Certified Assessor, built on a tight scope so you're not paying to secure systems that never needed to be in it.
how it works
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Start with a Sprint, keep a lead on your team, and add frameworks when you need them.
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AI Readiness Sprint
In about 3 weeks, we find where AI is already being used, decide what data can go into which tools, write your policy, and identify where AI can save your team the most time.
Fractional Lead
We stay on as your security and AI lead on a set cadence, keeping policies current, reviewing new tools before your team adopts them, and reporting to leadership on where things stand.
Frameworks, when you need them
When a client, contract, or insurer asks for SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO/IEC 42001, or CMMC, we run the program as part of your retainer instead of starting from scratch.
$6,500 fixed fee
From $2,000 a month
Included in the top tier
start here
The AI Readiness Sprint
YOU'LL KNOW
Where AI is already in use across your business, including shadow AI
Which customer and company data should never go into which tools
Where AI can save your team the most time
YOU'LL HAVE
An AI Acceptable Use Policy, ready to sign
An approved tool list with recommended settings
2 to 3 automation opportunities with estimated time savings
A leadership session and a 90-day roadmap
A fixed-fee, 3-week engagement that takes your business from "people are using AI and we're not sure how" to a signed policy and a plan. You can't govern what you haven't found, so we inventory first and write policy second.
$6,500
fixed fee · about 3 weeks
Accounting and tax firms get a baseline check against the FTC Safeguards Rule at no extra cost.
PRICING
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Straightforward pricing.
Fixed monthly fees with a set scope, so you always know what's included and what it costs.
Advisor
$2,000
/month
For businesses that need a trusted expert on call.
Monthly strategy call
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Policy upkeep
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New AI tool reviews
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Questions by email or Teams
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Quarterly leadership summary
Fractional Lead
$4,000
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RECOMMENDED
For businesses actively adopting AI and building a security program.
Everything in Advisor, plus
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Biweekly calls
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Risk register
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Vendor and tool security reviews
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1 AI automation per quarter
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Quarterly staff awareness session
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Annual incident tabletop
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Where the FTC Safeguards Rule applies, we can serve as your Qualified Individual
$7,500
Fractional CISO + Compliance
For businesses facing a customer, contract, insurance, or audit requirement.
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Everything in Fractional Lead, plus
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Weekly calls and leadership reporting
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A framework program run for you
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Auditor and assessor liaison
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Customer security questionnaires
6-month minimum term. Work outside scope is billed at $250/hr or quoted as a fixed-fee project.
managed security
No IT provider watching your security? We'll cover it around the clock.
For businesses that don't have a managed IT provider, we add a managed security layer built on N-able's security platform. A 24/7 security operations center monitors your devices and Microsoft 365 accounts and responds to threats, and we walk through what it found with you every month.
Priced per user and added to any plan.
Managed security covers monitoring and response for the services listed. It doesn't include IT helpdesk support or device administration.
24/7 detection and response
Analysts watch your devices, network, and cloud accounts around the clock and respond when something looks wrong.
Backup you can restore
Devices and Microsoft 365 data backed up off-site, with restore checks so you know it works when you need it.
Monthly security report
What was detected, what was handled, and what needs a decision, reviewed with you in your scheduled meeting.
Already have an MSP? We'll work alongside them on the program side instead.
Account Monitoring
Suspicious sign-ins and account takeover attempts in Microsoft 365 get flagged before they turn into a compromise.
Email and web filtering
Phishing emails and malicious websites blocked before they reach your team.
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File migration.
Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, etc. moved into SharePoint and OneDrive, with a clean library structure and group-based access.
Cloud migration and automation
Company files in multiple places? We'll bring them home to Microsoft 365.
Most small businesses already pay for SharePoint, but their files still sit in Box, Google Drive, or one of the many other cloud storage platforms, and their projects live in yet another subscription. We move it all into Microsoft 365 with permissions that make sense, then automate the busywork your team does by hand. It's also the first step to using AI safely, because AI tools can only work with data that's organized and correctly shared.
Fixed price, quoted after a quick inventory. Cutovers run overnight or on weekends, so your team isn't interrupted.
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Project tool migration.
Monday.com, Asana, Trello , etc. boards moved into SharePoint Lists and Planner, behind the same sign-in and MFA as everything else.
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Automation pack.
Power Automate flows for intake, approvals, reminders, and file routing, documented so nobody's guessing how they work.
microsoft 365
You already pay for Microsoft 365. Let's make it secure, organized, and ready for AI.
Most small businesses use a fraction of what their Microsoft plan includes. We turn on the security you're paying for, bring scattered files and projects in, get your data ready for Copilot, and keep it all in check every month. For defense contractors, we build to CMMC in GCC High.
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Security Baseline
Multi-factor sign-in, conditional access, managed devices, and email protection set up and tuned to a written standard.
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CoPilot Readiness
Overshared files found and locked down before AI can surface them to the wrong person.
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Migration and Automation
Dropbox, Google Drive, and Monday.com moved into SharePoint, plus Power Automate for the busywork.
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Managed Microsoft 365
Monthly drift checks, access reviews, and a report, so it stays the way we left it.
Fixed-price, projects, then a monthly plan. Changes go to a pilot group first, so your team isn't interrupted.
Frameworks
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When someone asks for a framework, you're already halfway there.
Every framework we support runs off one control library, mapped through a master crosswalk of 184 objectives across 18 domains. When a control satisfies several frameworks at once, you build it once and reuse the evidence.
SOC 2
Readiness built on continuous evidence, so your audit isn't an annual scramble.
ISO 27001
An information security management system (ISMS) sized for a small firm.
ISO/IEC 42001
An AI management system (AIMS) that starts with an inventory of the AI you already use.
Readiness for defense contractors, so your Affirming Official can sign with confidence.
for defense contractors
The CMMC pause didn't pause your obligations.
Third-party CMMC certification assessments are on hold, but Level 1 and Level 2 self-assessments, SPRS reporting, and annual affirmations still apply. Your Affirming Official is the one signing, and we help you get to a position they can sign with confidence.
Level 1 readiness
Level 2 readiness
Mock assessment
Ongoing compliance
why summit cyber
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Why businesses work with us
We use AI and we govern it.
Most consultants only help you adopt AI, and most security firms only help you control it. We do both, because governance is what lets a small business actually adopt AI instead of freezing over liability.
Scope comes first.
Scope is the biggest cost lever in any security program. We define what's actually in scope before we touch a control, so you don't pay to secure systems that never needed it.
Evidence that stays current.
A screenshot shows a control at one point in time and becomes unreliable the moment it's taken. We build evidence into how you already work, so it's current when someone asks for it.
partners
For MSPs and IT providers
Your clients keep asking questions an MSP isn't set up to answer as a business, like who their Qualified Individual is, what their AI policy says, or how to fill out the security section of an insurance renewal. We handle the program side and stay out of the infrastructure lane, and our referral arrangement keeps the client relationship yours.