We help mid-market financial services firms understand what their security spend is actually buying — and what it isn't. Deliverable-based engagements. No open-ended retainers. Every engagement produces something you can put in front of a regulator or a board.
"Most mid-market organizations have bought enterprise-grade detection capability and built it on top of foundational gaps they've never closed. The SIEM is generating 40,000 alerts a day. The SOC can action 200 of them. Nobody is asking why."
The dominant model in mid-market security spending sells you the idea that security is fundamentally a detection and alerting problem — solved by more data, more connectors, more dashboards. For most organizations at your scale, that is the wrong architecture.
Identity gaps, shadow AI tools with client data flowing to uncontrolled vendors, and AI governance that doesn't survive regulator scrutiny — these are the real exposure. And they are almost always cheaper to close than the detection overhead sitting on top of them.
No open-ended retainers. No discovery phases that become six-month engagements. You know what you're getting, what it costs, and when it's done.
We spend half a day with your contracts, your license data, and your renewal calendar. At the end, you have a two-page document that tells you what to stop paying for, what gap to close first, and what you're about to buy that you probably don't need yet.
Full assessment against the five Zero Trust pillars — Identity, Devices, Network, Applications, Data. Produces a scored gap analysis and prioritized remediation roadmap you can take to your board and your budget cycle.
The NYDFS AI compliance package: updated risk assessment addendum, AI acceptable use policy, vendor clause templates, AI tool inventory, and a board briefing deck. Everything your CEO or CISO needs to certify accurately on April 15.
Ongoing security leadership without the full-time hire. We become the strategic allocation function — deciding what you buy next, keeping your board informed, and ensuring the program matures rather than drifts from one compliance deadline to the next.
Diagnostic fee is always credited toward the follow-on engagement. The entry price is a signal, not a discount — it reflects how we work: earn trust first, ask for the larger commitment second.
Our principal comes from a multinational bank with a €200M annual cybersecurity budget — allocating across Zero Trust pillars, closing ECB audit findings, and advising on the kind of programs that mid-market firms are trying to build from scratch. That's not a credential. It's a different kind of conversation.
"Most organizations at your size are paying for three things they don't need, missing two things they do, and have at least one planned purchase that the numbers say they should push out. The ratio is almost always the same."
ClearStrike Advisory — Entry ConversationTell us where you are. We'll tell you honestly whether we can help — and if so, what the right starting point is. No pitch deck. No pre-packaged solution looking for a problem.
If you're facing the April 15 NYDFS certification and aren't confident in your AI governance posture, that conversation has a deadline. Let's have it now.