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Transformyx Technology Services
Transformyx Technology Services
Cybersecurity · Compliance · vCISO
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Executive-grade
cybersecurity for
organizations that can't afford to get it wrong.

Transformyx Technology Services delivers strategic security leadership through a governance overlay that separates objective oversight from operational execution. Proven frameworks. Practitioner depth. Board-ready reporting.

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201
Unified Controls
113
Scheduled Processes
9
Authoritative Sources
3
Core Frameworks · One Pass
Proprietary Posture Score
Cybersecurity posture, scored like credit.
200 POOR FAIR GOOD EXCELLENT 850
693
/ 850 · SAMPLE SCORE
The 200–850 posture score is retained as an executive presentation layer and trended over time. Full maturity movement is proven by reassessing the same framework and scope.
CyberCAAT Delivery Platform

See the system behind the posture score.

CyberCAAT is the Catwalk control mapping system, governance register, evidence chain, and executive scoring model behind Transformyx vCISO engagements.

113Scheduled Processes
17Control Domains
850Posture Scale
NIST CSF 2.0 · MappedISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A · MappedCIS Controls v8.1 · MappedISO/IEC 27701 · MappedNIST AI RMF · MappedISO/IEC 42001 · MappedNIST SSDF · MappedISA/IEC 62443 · MappedISO/IEC 27035-2 · MappedCMMC 2.0 · RoadmapHITRUST CSF · RoadmapPCI DSS 4.0 · RoadmapFFIEC CAT / GLBA · Roadmap NIST CSF 2.0 · MappedISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A · MappedCIS Controls v8.1 · MappedISO/IEC 27701 · MappedNIST AI RMF · MappedISO/IEC 42001 · MappedNIST SSDF · MappedISA/IEC 62443 · MappedISO/IEC 27035-2 · MappedCMMC 2.0 · RoadmapHITRUST CSF · RoadmapPCI DSS 4.0 · RoadmapFFIEC CAT / GLBA · Roadmap
01— About

A practitioner-led
cybersecurity practice.

Transformyx Technology Services was founded in June 2008 by a Service-Disabled Veteran with a simple conviction: organizations deserve security leadership shaped by the operators who do the work — not by a sales team that repackages it. Every engagement is delivered by senior practitioners who have lived inside audits, incidents, and board rooms.

We serve as the Chief Information Security Officer for organizations that need executive-level security leadership without the full-time cost — embedding strategy, governance, and risk-based decision-making directly into the C-suite.

Our work is measured by outcomes that matter: reduced regulatory exposure, defensible posture, accelerated audit readiness, and a clear roadmap executives can fund and boards can approve.

Engagements are grounded in CyberCAAT: 201 unified controls across 9 authoritative sources, 113 scheduled processes, and 17 domains. The practice delivers 42 governance processes and oversees or delegates 71 operational processes to the client's people and providers. Evidence remains client-owned and portable.

The result is cybersecurity leadership that is rigorous, explainable, and built to survive an auditor's red pen.

02— Professional Services

Security leadership,
delivered as a service.

Integrated service lines deploy together or discretely, scaled to the organization's risk profile, regulatory environment, and operating capacity.

Virtual CISO advisory
SERVICE / 001◆

Virtual CISO Advisory

Strategic security leadership delivered as a governance overlay. The practice defines requirements and evidence, while client teams and providers retain operational responsibility.

  • Executive & board reporting
  • Security program strategy & budget
  • M&A cybersecurity due diligence
  • Regulatory examination support
  • Third-party & vendor risk oversight
  • Incident response leadership
Risk assessment and compliance
SERVICE / 002◆

Risk Assessment & Compliance

Defensible, evidence-based risk assessments mapped through Catwalk across control frameworks — producing a scored gap analysis, corrective action plan, and 12-month roadmap ready for board approval.

  • Scoped 6-week assessment engagement
  • NIST · ISO · CIS Catwalk mapping
  • Industry-specific regulatory overlay
  • Risk register with quantified exposure
  • Corrective action plan with ownership
  • Executive & technical deliverables
Cybersecurity professional services
SERVICE / 003◆

Cybersecurity Professional Services

Specialized engagements that extend internal teams with senior practitioner depth — policy architecture, tabletop facilitation, attack surface analysis, and program maturation.

  • Policy library design & lifecycle
  • Tabletop exercise facilitation
  • External attack surface review
  • Vulnerability program stand-up
  • Security tool integration strategy
  • SOC & MDR readiness advisory
03— Methodology

One framework.
Nine sources.
Three core frameworks in one pass.

CyberCAAT harmonizes 201 controls across 9 authoritative sources. Of those, 173 carry NIST CSF 2.0, ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A, and CIS Controls v8.1 simultaneously. A mapping addresses related outcomes; it does not by itself establish compliance.

Evidence that compounds, not checklists that repeat.

Traditional programs become serial when each new authority is appended as another checklist. CyberCAAT absorbs authority into the existing framework, records the crosswalk relationship, and resolves only genuine gaps.

A single evidence artifact can be linked to every mapped control outcome it supports. The evidence library is client-owned and portable. External certification and attestation remain with accredited third parties.

"Absorb new authority into the framework. Never append another checklist."
CATWALK FRAMEWORK COVERAGE
  • NIST CSF 2.0
    GOVERN · IDENTIFY · PROTECT · DETECT · RESPOND · RECOVER
    MAPPED
  • ISO / IEC 27001:2022
    ANNEX A · 185 CYBERCAAT CONTROL MAPPINGS
    MAPPED
  • CIS Controls v8.1
    173 CYBERCAAT CONTROL MAPPINGS · IG1–IG3
    MAPPED
  • Additional Authoritative Sources
    ISO 27701 · NIST AI RMF · ISO 42001 · NIST SSDF · ISA/IEC 62443 · ISO 27035-2
    MAPPED

Every engagement uses an internal, first-party assessment. The existing 200–850 posture score remains an executive presentation layer; full maturity movement is proven at reassessment on the same framework and scope.

04— Capabilities

What we bring
to every engagement.

Our engagements run on a purpose-built methodology stack that standardizes evidence, accelerates assessments, and produces audit-grade deliverables. No shared drives, no screenshot-and-hope, no reinventing the spreadsheet for every client.

693 / 850

Risk Assessment & GRC

Scored assessments, risk registers, compliance tracking, and audit management against the Catwalk control library.

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Evidence & Chain of Custody

Every artifact cataloged, timestamped, and mapped to the controls it satisfies — defensible under audit.

DRAFT REVIEW ACTIVE RENEW v2.3

Policy Lifecycle

Policy libraries designed, versioned, and maintained — with acknowledgment tracking and renewal cycles.

CRIT 1 HIGH 2 PATCHED 2

Vulnerability Management

Program stand-up and oversight integrating enterprise scanners into a risk-scored remediation workflow.

INJECT 3 SCENARIO · RANSOMWARE

Tabletop Exercises

Industry-tailored incident scenarios with injects, participant tracking, and post-exercise after-action reports.

EXTERNAL ASSETS · 7

Attack Surface Review

External exposure reporting — open ports, exposed services, certificate hygiene, and shadow IT discovery.

T-0 +15m +1h +4h +24h DETECT STATUS · CONTAINED

Incident Management

Response playbooks, timeline documentation, communications support, and lessons-learned integration.

850 700 550 400 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 POSTURE SCORE · TREND ↑ 28%

Board & Executive Reporting

Translate technical posture into business language — scored, trended, and tied to strategic priorities.

05— Industries Served

Regulated sectors.
One governance model.

Regulatory obligations, threat profiles, and operational constraints differ by industry. Sector authorities not listed as mapped in CyberCAAT are treated as roadmap or scoped as available on engagement.

Stethoscope on a circuit board, representing the intersection of technology and healthcare

Healthcare

Hospitals, clinics, medical practices, and health-tech firms — where a breach is a patient-safety event. Sector-specific authority is scoped on engagement.

HIPAA · HITECH · HITRUST CSF · Roadmap
Financial services district

Financial Services

Banks, credit unions, RIAs, and fintech — with financial-sector authority scoped through the framework-ingestion roadmap.

GLBA · FFIEC CAT · PCI DSS · Roadmap
Automotive manufacturing

Automotive

OEM suppliers, dealer groups, and connected-vehicle service providers — with sector authority scoped on engagement.

TISAX · ISO/SAE 21434 · CMMC · Roadmap
Industrial facility

Industrial & Critical Infrastructure

Manufacturing, chemical, and OT-heavy environments — with ISA/IEC 62443 mapped and other sector authority scoped on engagement.

ISA/IEC 62443 · Mapped · Other authority · Roadmap
University campus

Education

Schools, higher education, and ed-tech — with sector authority scoped on engagement.

FERPA · GLBA · NIST 800-171 · Roadmap
U.S. Capitol building

State & Federal Government

Agencies, municipalities, and federal contractors — with CJIS and CMMC identified on the framework-ingestion roadmap.

CJIS · CMMC 2.0 · FedRAMP · Roadmap
06— In the Field

Engagements
that moved the needle.

Selected engagements — sanitized for confidentiality. Each reflects a real mandate, a compressed timeline, and a board-reportable outcome. Additional references available under NDA.

Healthcare CS-01

Regional health system accelerates HIPAA re-alignment ahead of OCR audit.

Situation

A six-hospital regional system was notified of an HHS-OCR audit with a 90-day preparation window. Existing control documentation was fragmented across three prior consultancies.

What We Did

Catwalk control mapping across HIPAA Security Rule, NIST CSF 2.0, and HITRUST. Consolidated evidence into a single chain-of-custody repository. Ran tabletop on ransomware scenario with board observers.

58 days
to audit readiness
Clean
audit outcome
Financial Services CS-02

Community bank compresses cyber-insurance renewal underwriting cycle.

Situation

A multi-branch community bank faced a 40% premium increase at renewal due to unanswered questionnaire controls and no formal risk-assessment evidence.

What We Did

Delivered a six-week risk assessment against FFIEC CAT and NIST CSF 2.0. Produced underwriter-ready evidence package with MFA attestation, backup validation, and incident-response plan.

-31%
premium vs. initial quote
693
CyComply score
State Government CS-03

State agency stands up vCISO function after CISO departure.

Situation

A cabinet-level state agency lost its CISO mid-fiscal-year with three open audit findings, an active vendor-risk backlog, and a legislative reporting deadline approaching.

What We Did

Embedded fractional vCISO coverage within 10 business days. Closed two audit findings, rebuilt vendor-risk queue, and delivered legislative report on schedule while search for permanent CISO continued.

10 days
to coverage
2 of 3
findings closed
07— Engagement Model

How a Transformyx Technology Services
engagement runs.

A typical full risk assessment is scoped across six working weeks, producing executive-ready outputs on a defensible cadence. Advisory retainers layer continuous oversight on top — with standing touchpoints, tracked action items, and quarterly board packs.

WEEK · 01
01

Scope & Discovery

Framework selection, business-context interviews, asset & data-flow mapping, stakeholder alignment.

WEEK · 02
02

Policy Review

Inventory of existing policies, standards, and procedures against Catwalk framework requirements.

WEEK · 03–04
03

Technical Assessment

Network & architecture review, access-control evaluation, vulnerability scanning, tool configuration audit.

WEEK · 05
04

Control Mapping

Catwalk scoring across NIST, ISO, CIS. Industry overlays applied. Gap register populated.

WEEK · 06
05

Analysis & Reporting

Risk quantification, corrective action plan, 12-month roadmap, executive presentation prep.

ONGOING
06

Advisory & Oversight

Retained vCISO support — quarterly posture refresh, board reporting, examination support.

08— Why Transformyx Technology Services

Built by the practitioner
who does the work.

There is a meaningful difference between a consultant who read the framework and an operator who has lived inside it — through breaches, board escalations, and regulatory examinations. Every engagement inherits that operator's instinct.

  • ▸ 01

    Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned

    Discipline, mission-focus, and a code of ownership that traces back to military service. Qualifies for SDVOSB set-asides in federal procurement.

  • ▸ 02

    Principal-Led Delivery

    Senior governance leadership stays close to the work — without discovery-by-turnover or account-team churn.

  • ▸ 03

    The CyberCAAT Catwalk

    Assessments mapped once across NIST CSF 2.0, ISO 27001:2022, and CIS v8.1 — compounding evidence, compressing timelines, and eliminating redundant work.

  • ▸ 04

    Proprietary Posture Score

    The existing 200–850 score remains an executive presentation layer. Its calculation is not described beyond the documented source model.

  • ▸ 05

    Board-Ready Deliverables

    Every engagement produces outputs written in the language of the audience — auditors get evidence, executives get narrative, boards get the number that matters.

  • ▸ 06

    Cross-Industry Depth

    Active engagements across healthcare, finance, industrial, automotive, education, and government — controls tested by regulators in every vertical we serve.

— Engage

Start with a complimentary pre-assessment.

Every meaningful engagement begins with a short diagnostic. Share a few details about your organization and current posture — we'll respond within two business days with a no-cost briefing and a scoped path forward tailored to your environment, regulatory exposure, and priorities.

01 About Your Organization
02 Your Information
03 Pre-Assessment Diagnostic

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