Board-ready cybersecurity risk reports, on your own schedule.
Cybersecurity risk assessments for financial firms, without the enterprise price tag.
A complete, regulator-mapped security questionnaire. A board-ready risk report.
Everything we offer
Suretas is a cybersecurity advisory practice for small and mid-sized financial firms, built for one job: helping you face your regulator, your board, and your clients' diligence teams with confidence. Start with an assessment; grow into as much or as little ongoing help as you need.
Assess: know where you stand
A structured, evidence-aware assessment mapped to the frameworks that matter to financial firms (NIST CSF 2.0, CIS v8.1, FTC Safeguards, NYDFS Part 500, SEC cyber rules, and SOC 2 readiness), delivered as a prioritized risk register and a board-ready report.
Inventory your critical vendors, assess their security posture, and fold the results into your own risk picture, the oversight FTC Safeguards and NYDFS expect.
Pre-deal cyber assessment of a target company, on a deal timeline, in language an investment committee can use.
Point-in-time review of your external attack surface and known vulnerabilities using commercial scanning tools, interpreted by a human and folded into your risk register.
Build: put the program in place
A real, tailored WISP and supporting policy suite, the written program FTC Safeguards requires and examiners ask for first.
Preparation for NYDFS annual certification, SEC cyber disclosure governance, FTC Safeguards, and SOC 2 readiness: checklists, evidence, and prep, not panic.
An IR plan and playbooks written for the incidents that actually hit financial firms, plus facilitated tabletop exercises your insurer and board will ask about.
Staff training with completion tracking, plus phishing simulation run through established platforms, the workforce requirement in both FTC Safeguards and NYDFS 500.
Run: ongoing security leadership
Ongoing ownership of your security program: a named Qualified Individual, NYDFS certification support, quarterly re-assessment, and a steady hand your team can call.
A quarterly posture readout in plain English: trend, top risks, remediation status, and the regulatory calendar ahead.
Not just findings. Help fixing them: a prioritized roadmap, implementation guidance, and re-assessment that shows measurable progress.
When your investors or enterprise customers send a 300-question DDQ, we help you answer it quickly and consistently, from an answer bank built on your own assessed controls.
Preparation and in-the-room support for regulator exams and client audits, the translator between you and the examiner.
How it works
Answer a structured questionnaire across 21 security domains, every question mapped to NIST CSF 2.0 and the regulations that require it (FTC Safeguards, NYDFS 500, SEC). Save and resume anytime. No agents to install, nothing to integrate.
Get a board-ready report and prioritized risk register: what's strong, what's exposed, and what to fix first, in plain English.
Work the roadmap with as much help as you want, from a one-time readout to a full vCISO retainer with quarterly board reporting.
What you walk away with
A prioritized risk register and a board-ready PDF: every finding in plain English, mapped to the framework and regulation behind it.
See the deliverable
Here is a full sample report for a fictional firm, generated by the same engine your own assessment runs on. Open it to see exactly what lands in your hands.
View a sample report (PDF)Who it's for
Firms that face real regulatory pressure but don't have a CISO, and shouldn't need a Big-4 budget to get one.
- Registered Investment Advisers
- Private equity & venture firms
- Broker-dealers
- Community banks
- Credit unions
- Fintech & family offices
Why Suretas
Assessments and advice from a practitioner who does this work for financial firms: judgment first, software as the multiplier.
NIST CSF 2.0, CIS v8.1, FTC Safeguards, NYDFS 500, SEC, SOC 2 readiness, not a generic checklist.
Reports your board can read without a translator: clear, defensible, decision-ready.
Serious assessment and advisory for firms the big consultancies won't serve at a price that makes sense.
Common questions
How long does the assessment take?
It's self-paced; save and resume as many times as you like. Most firms spread it across a few sittings. There are no agents to install and nothing to integrate; you answer questions about how the firm actually operates.
What do we get at the end?
A prioritized risk register and a board-ready PDF report: what's strong, what's exposed, what to fix first, in plain English, with each finding mapped to the framework and regulation behind it.
Which frameworks and regulations does it map to?
Every control carries a NIST CSF 2.0 mapping, plus citations to FTC Safeguards, NYDFS Part 500, SEC rules, and GLBA where they apply: the ones examiners of small and mid-sized financial firms actually use.
Is our data safe with you?
We collect your questionnaire answers, not documents, credentials, or access to your systems. Everything is encrypted in transit, isolated per firm, and there is nothing to install in your environment.
What does it cost?
Starting the assessment is free. Advisory work (remediation help, policies, vCISO retainers) is scoped per engagement, priced for firms our size to actually afford.
Do you replace our IT provider or MSP?
No. We're the security judgment layer: assessment, prioritization, and program leadership. We work alongside your IT team or MSP; they keep running the systems.
Start with the assessment
One structured questionnaire. A board-ready picture of your cybersecurity risk, mapped to the regulations your examiners care about.
Sign up freeAssessments and advisory services are point-in-time reviews reflecting your posture as of the assessment date, aligned to the frameworks named above. They support, but do not by themselves constitute, regulatory compliance, certification, or a guarantee of security. Suretas is not a CPA or audit firm; SOC 2 attestations are issued by independent auditors. Nothing on this page is legal advice.