THEOREM SECURITY LAB
Cybersecurity Consulting & Advisory

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Theorem Security Lab delivers expert cybersecurity consulting to help organizations build resilient security programs, achieve compliance, and measurably reduce cyber risk.

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Comprehensive Cybersecurity Services

From strategic executive advisory to hands-on technical assessments, we deliver end-to-end security solutions tailored to your organization's unique risk landscape.

Advisory & Strategic Services

Executive-level guidance and program-wide oversight to align security with business objectives.

Cybersecurity Program Assessments

A comprehensive evaluation of your entire cybersecurity program — spanning people, processes, and technology. We benchmark your current state against industry frameworks, identify critical gaps, and deliver an actionable roadmap to measurably strengthen your security posture.

Identify & prioritize program gaps Benchmark against industry frameworks Executive-ready reporting Actionable risk-reduction roadmap

Security Metrics Development

We design and implement meaningful security KPIs and KRIs that enable data-driven decision-making. Turn your security program into a measurable, communicable business function that speaks the language of the boardroom and demonstrates clear return on security investment.

Demonstrate security ROI Track program effectiveness over time Board-level communication Data-driven risk decisions

Virtual CISO (vCISO) / Cyber Advisory Services

Access seasoned CISO-level leadership on a fractional basis — without the full-time executive cost. Our vCISO service delivers strategic security oversight, board and executive communication, risk management governance, and program direction tailored to your organization's size, industry, and risk appetite.

Cost-effective executive leadership Strategic program direction Board & stakeholder alignment Flexible, scalable engagement model

Compliance & Regulatory Readiness

Prepare for audits and certifications with confidence across the industry's most critical frameworks.

NIST CSF Assessment

Evaluate your cybersecurity program against the NIST Cybersecurity Framework's five core functions — Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover. We assess your current maturity across all framework categories, benchmark you against industry peers, and deliver a prioritized improvement roadmap aligned to your risk tolerance.

Full maturity assessment across all 5 functions Industry benchmarking Prioritized improvement roadmap Executive & technical reporting

ISO/IEC 27001 Gap Assessment

Measure your organization's readiness for ISO/IEC 27001 certification. We evaluate your information security management system (ISMS) against all Annex A controls, identify gaps between your current state and certification requirements, and provide a structured remediation roadmap to accelerate your path to certification.

Full Annex A controls evaluation ISMS readiness assessment Gap-to-certification roadmap Reduce certification timeline & cost

SOC 2 Readiness Assessment

Prepare for your SOC 2 Type I or Type II audit with confidence. We assess your controls against the Trust Services Criteria — Security, Availability, Confidentiality, Processing Integrity, and Privacy — identify control gaps and design deficiencies, and help you remediate before your auditor arrives.

Trust Services Criteria gap analysis Control design & implementation review Reduce audit findings & surprises Type I & Type II preparation

PCI DSS Assessment

Assess your compliance posture against the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. We evaluate your cardholder data environment (CDE), scoping, and controls across all PCI DSS requirements, identify compliance gaps, and provide detailed remediation guidance to prepare your organization for formal QSA assessment.

Cardholder data environment scoping All 12 PCI DSS requirements evaluated QSA assessment preparation Reduce scope & compliance burden

HIPAA Security Risk Assessment

Fulfill the HIPAA Security Rule's mandatory Security Risk Assessment (SRA) requirement while gaining a clear picture of your ePHI risk landscape. We systematically identify threats and vulnerabilities to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electronic protected health information and provide a risk-prioritized remediation plan.

Fulfill mandatory SRA requirement ePHI threat & vulnerability identification Risk-prioritized remediation plan Audit-ready documentation

CMMC Assessment

Evaluate your readiness for Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) compliance — a requirement for all DoD contractors handling Federal Contract Information (FCI) or Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). We assess your practices against your required CMMC level, identify gaps, and prepare you for a successful C3PAO assessment.

CMMC Level 1, 2 & 3 readiness CUI & FCI boundary assessment C3PAO assessment preparation SSP & POA&M development support

CIS Controls Assessment

Assess your implementation of the CIS Critical Security Controls — a prioritized, prescriptive set of safeguards proven to defend against the most prevalent cyber attacks. We evaluate your coverage across all 18 CIS Controls and Implementation Groups, identify quick wins and strategic improvements, and provide a clear action plan to measurably reduce your cyber risk.

All 18 CIS Controls evaluated Implementation Group alignment Quick wins & strategic improvements Measurable risk reduction roadmap

Governance & Policy

The documentation, processes, and programs that form the operational backbone of a mature security function.

Patch Management Plan Development

We develop a structured, repeatable patch management program that defines how your organization identifies, prioritizes, tests, and deploys security patches across all systems. A well-executed patching program is one of the most effective ways to close known vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them.

Reduce exploitable attack surface Ensure timely vulnerability remediation Regulatory compliance support Repeatable, auditable process

Vulnerability Management Program Development

We design and implement a comprehensive, risk-driven vulnerability management program that goes beyond periodic scanning. Our approach establishes a continuous lifecycle for identifying, assessing, prioritizing, remediating, and verifying vulnerabilities across your entire attack surface — integrating people, processes, and technology into a sustainable, measurable program.

Continuous attack surface coverage Risk-based prioritization framework SLA tracking & remediation accountability Compliance & audit support

Policy, Procedure, Standard, Guideline, and Runbook Development

Clear, enforceable security documentation is the backbone of any mature security program. We develop tailored security policies, standards, guidelines, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and operational runbooks that ensure your team follows consistent, auditable processes — and that auditors have exactly what they need to see.

Consistent security operations Regulatory compliance documentation Reduce human error Audit-ready documentation
  • Information Security Policy — master policy outlining the overall security program, principles, and governance
  • Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) — defines permitted and prohibited use of company systems, devices, and networks
  • Data Classification Policy — categorizes data by sensitivity (e.g., Public, Internal, Confidential, Restricted)
  • Access Control Policy — governs who can access what systems, data, and resources
  • Password & Authentication Policy — sets requirements for password strength, MFA, and credential management
  • Network Security Policy — rules for firewalls, segmentation, monitoring, and traffic management
  • Remote Access Policy — governs VPN, RDP, and remote work security requirements
  • Wireless Security Policy — standards for Wi-Fi access, encryption (WPA2/3), and guest networks
  • Cloud Security Policy — rules for cloud service usage, configuration, and data storage
  • BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) Policy — standards for personal devices accessing company resources
  • Data Retention & Disposal Policy — how long data is kept and how it is securely destroyed
  • Data Breach / Incident Notification Policy — obligations and timelines for reporting breaches
  • Privacy Policy — how personal data is collected, used, and protected (GDPR, CCPA alignment)
  • Encryption Policy — mandates for encrypting data at rest and in transit
  • Backup & Recovery Policy — frequency, storage, and testing of data backups
  • Incident Response Policy — defines roles, procedures, and escalation paths during a security event
  • Change Management Policy — controls for making changes to systems to avoid introducing vulnerabilities
  • Patch Management Policy — timelines and procedures for applying security updates
  • Vulnerability Management Policy — how vulnerabilities are identified, prioritized, and remediated
  • Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) Policy — ensures operations during and after disruptions
  • Security Awareness & Training Policy — mandates regular employee security training
  • Social Engineering & Phishing Policy — rules and simulation programs to combat human-targeted attacks
  • Insider Threat Policy — monitoring and controls for malicious or negligent insiders
  • Background Check Policy — pre-employment screening for security-sensitive roles
  • Clean Desk / Clear Screen Policy — physical security controls for sensitive information
  • Third-Party Risk Management Policy — vetting and ongoing monitoring of vendors and suppliers
  • Vendor Access Policy — controls for external parties accessing internal systems
  • Data Sharing Agreement Policy — governs how data is shared with external organizations
  • Ransomware Response Runbook — steps to isolate infected systems, preserve evidence, notify stakeholders, assess scope, restore from backups, and conduct post-incident review
  • Malware Infection Runbook — endpoint quarantine, malware removal, root cause analysis, and reimaging procedures
  • Fileless Malware Runbook — memory forensics, process analysis, and detection via EDR tools
  • Phishing Email Response Runbook — report intake, header analysis, URL/attachment sandboxing, user notification, and blocklist updates
  • Business Email Compromise (BEC) Runbook — financial transaction freeze, account takeover investigation, and law enforcement notification
  • Spear Phishing Runbook — targeted attack triage, credential reset, and threat actor profiling
  • Compromised Account Runbook — account lockout, session termination, MFA reset, credential rotation, and access log review
  • Privileged Account Compromise Runbook — emergency access revocation, lateral movement analysis, and domain-wide password reset
  • Insider Threat Runbook — HR coordination, account suspension, data exfiltration investigation, and legal hold procedures
  • Network Intrusion Runbook — traffic anomaly detection, firewall rule updates, SIEM alert triage, and forensic packet capture
  • Unauthorized Access Runbook — access log review, session termination, entry point identification, and remediation
  • Lateral Movement Detection Runbook — credential abuse analysis, east-west traffic monitoring, and containment steps
  • DDoS Attack Runbook — traffic scrubbing activation, ISP coordination, rate limiting, CDN failover, and stakeholder communication
  • DNS Attack Runbook — DNS poisoning detection, resolver hardening, TTL management, and registrar lockdown
  • BGP Hijacking Runbook — route anomaly detection, upstream provider notification, and traffic rerouting
  • Cloud Account Compromise Runbook — IAM key rotation, suspicious API call analysis, CloudTrail/Azure AD log review, and resource audit
  • S3/Blob Storage Exposure Runbook — misconfiguration detection, public access removal, data exposure assessment, and breach notification determination
  • Cloud Cryptomining Detection Runbook — unusual compute spike triage, rogue instance termination, and billing alert response
  • Serverless Function Abuse Runbook — Lambda/Function App anomaly detection, environment variable audit, and code integrity verification
  • Container Escape Runbook — Kubernetes pod isolation, node cordon, image integrity check, and cluster audit
  • Lost or Stolen Device Runbook — remote wipe initiation, MDM lock, access revocation, and asset tracking
  • Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) Alert Runbook — alert triage, threat scoring, host isolation, and forensic collection
  • USB / Removable Media Incident Runbook — device identification, data transfer audit, and policy enforcement
  • Unauthorized Software Installation Runbook — software inventory check, application removal, and user policy acknowledgment
  • Critical Vulnerability Response Runbook — CVE triage, CVSS scoring, emergency patch deployment, compensating controls, and validation
  • Zero-Day Vulnerability Runbook — threat intelligence intake, immediate compensating controls, vendor coordination, and patch prioritization
  • Penetration Test Finding Remediation Runbook — finding classification, owner assignment, remediation SLA tracking, and retest verification
  • Data Breach Response Runbook — breach scoping, legal counsel engagement, regulatory notification (GDPR 72hr, HIPAA 60-day), affected party notification, and credit monitoring
  • Data Exfiltration Runbook — DLP alert triage, data classification review, network traffic analysis, and containment
  • PII Exposure Runbook — exposure scope assessment, privacy officer notification, risk rating, and regulatory filing
  • Web Application Attack Runbook — WAF log analysis, SQL injection/XSS triage, session invalidation, and hotfix deployment
  • API Abuse Runbook — rate limit enforcement, API key revocation, abuse pattern analysis, and developer notification
  • Software Supply Chain Compromise Runbook — dependency audit, malicious package removal, SBOM review, and pipeline hardening
  • IOC (Indicator of Compromise) Ingestion Runbook — threat feed intake, IOC validation, SIEM/EDR rule update, and blocklist deployment
  • Threat Hunt Runbook — hypothesis development, data source identification, hunt execution, finding documentation, and detection rule creation
  • Dark Web Monitoring Alert Runbook — credential leak validation, affected account reset, and executive notification
  • Security Audit Preparation Runbook — evidence collection, control testing, gap remediation, and auditor coordination
  • Regulatory Exam Runbook — examiner request intake, document production, interview preparation, and finding response
  • PCI DSS Incident Runbook — cardholder data environment isolation, forensic investigator engagement, and card brand notification

Incident Response

Build the capability, plans, and team readiness to contain threats fast and recover with confidence.

Incident Response Program Development

Build or mature a robust incident response capability before an incident strikes. We develop comprehensive IR plans, scenario-specific playbooks, RACI matrices, communication templates, and escalation procedures — giving your team a clear, tested framework to follow when seconds matter most.

Faster response & containment Reduced breach impact & costs Regulatory compliance (HIPAA, PCI, etc.) Scenario-specific playbooks

Incident Response Tabletop Exercises

Stress-test your incident response plan through expertly facilitated simulation exercises. Our tabletop exercises present realistic attack scenarios — ransomware, data breaches, insider threats, supply chain compromises — and guide your leadership and response teams through decision-making and escalation in a no-stakes environment that builds real-world readiness.

Validate plans before an incident Identify response gaps & failures Build cross-team coordination Satisfy regulatory & cyber insurance requirements

Incident Response Workshops

Equip your security and IT teams with the knowledge, tools, and techniques needed to respond effectively when incidents occur. Our hands-on workshops cover incident classification, triage, digital forensics fundamentals, evidence preservation, threat containment, eradication, and recovery — turning theory into practice through scenario-driven exercises.

Build team knowledge & skills Hands-on practical training Improve cross-team alignment Reduce incident handling time

Security Assessment & Testing

Real-world validation of your defenses — identify vulnerabilities before adversaries do.

Penetration Testing

Our ethical hackers simulate real-world cyberattacks against your network, applications, and systems to uncover exploitable vulnerabilities before adversaries do. We offer network, web application, cloud, and social engineering penetration tests — each delivering detailed findings, risk ratings, and remediation guidance grounded in the tactics and techniques of real threat actors.

Real-world attack simulation Risk-rated findings & remediation guidance Compliance requirement fulfillment Executive & technical reporting

Physical Security Program Assessments

Cyber threats don't stop at the digital perimeter. We assess the physical security controls protecting your facilities, data centers, and sensitive assets — evaluating access control systems, surveillance, badge protocols, visitor management, and physical intrusion resistance — to ensure your physical and cyber programs work in concert.

Identify physical vulnerabilities Protect sensitive assets & data Complement your cyber security program Compliance & regulatory alignment

Phishing Assessments

Your people are both your greatest asset and your most targeted attack surface. We conduct controlled, realistic phishing simulations — including email, smishing, and vishing campaigns — to measure employee susceptibility, identify high-risk individuals and departments, and provide targeted training recommendations that meaningfully reduce social engineering risk.

Measure human risk baseline Identify high-risk users & groups Target training where it matters most Track improvement over time

Vulnerability Assessments

Gain comprehensive visibility into the vulnerabilities present across your IT environment. Our vulnerability assessments leverage industry-leading scanning tools and expert analyst review to identify, classify, and prioritize security weaknesses — giving you a clear picture of your risk exposure and a prioritized roadmap to remediation.

Full asset vulnerability visibility Risk-based prioritization Compliance requirement support Actionable remediation guidance

Security Operations

Detect, analyze, and respond to threats with visibility and speed across your environment.

Malware Analysis

When malicious code is discovered in your environment, understanding precisely what it does is critical to an effective response. Our analysts perform static and dynamic malware analysis to reverse-engineer malicious software, extract indicators of compromise (IOCs), determine the full scope of impact, and provide actionable intelligence to accelerate containment and strengthen defenses.

Accelerate incident response Extract actionable IOCs & TTPs Determine full attack scope Strengthen defensive controls

Security Monitoring Implementation

You can't defend what you can't see. We design and deploy comprehensive security monitoring architectures — including SIEM platforms, log aggregation, alert tuning, and detection rule development — to provide continuous visibility into your environment and enable rapid detection and response to emerging threats.

Real-time threat detection Reduced attacker dwell time Compliance logging & audit trails Tuned, high-fidelity alerting

Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR)

Endpoints are the most targeted entry point in any organization. We help you select, deploy, and operationalize Endpoint Detection & Response solutions that provide deep visibility into endpoint activity, detect malicious behavior in real time, and enable rapid investigation and containment — ensuring your endpoints are defended long after the perimeter is breached.

Real-time endpoint threat detection Rapid investigation & containment Behavioral & anomaly-based detection Reduced mean time to respond (MTTR)

Security Program Development

Build purpose-built programs that address your organization's most complex and persistent security challenges.

Insider Threat Program Development

Insider threats — whether malicious, negligent, or compromised — represent one of the most difficult risks to detect and manage. We help organizations design and implement comprehensive insider threat programs combining technical controls, behavioral analytics, policy frameworks, and response procedures to detect, deter, and respond to threats from within — while respecting privacy and legal boundaries.

Protect sensitive data & intellectual property Early behavioral detection capability Reduce insider risk exposure Privacy-conscious program design

Security Awareness Program Development

Technology alone cannot protect your organization — your people must be an active part of your security defense. We design engaging, role-based security awareness programs that go beyond annual checkbox training, using behavioral science principles to drive lasting behavior change and cultivate a security-first culture at every level of your organization.

Reduce human-factor cyber risk Build a security-first culture Improve phishing resistance Measurable behavior change

Threat Modeling Workshops

Identify and address security risks during design — not after deployment. Our threat modeling workshops guide your engineering and security teams through structured analysis of systems, applications, and architectures to systematically identify threat actors, attack vectors, and potential vulnerabilities early in the development lifecycle, where fixes are most cost-effective and impactful.

Security by design Proactive risk identification Enable developer security ownership Reduce remediation costs

Ready to Strengthen Your Security Posture?

Contact us to discuss your organization's security needs and learn how Theorem Security Lab can help you reduce risk, achieve compliance, and build a resilient security program.

Email Us

cyber@theoremsecuritylab.com

Call Us

(619) 800-2217

Location

San Diego, CA | United States

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