GSD Engineering Group delivers engineering-first cybersecurity advisory for mid-market and regulated organizations, assessing every engagement against the GSD Six-Pillar Security Framework and mapping every finding directly to the compliance and cyber insurance obligations that matter to an organization.
Fractional, strategic security leadership working directly with the executive team. GSD assesses an organization's environment, develops a prioritized multi-year security roadmap, reviews policy and risk decisions, and delivers board-ready reporting on the priorities that matter most.
Readiness across as many as sixteen frameworks, organized in three tiers:
Cyber insurance is assessed as a Tier 1 obligation on every engagement, not an afterthought. GSD evaluates an organization's posture against the Carrier-Agnostic Cyber Insurance Control Baseline (CICB), flags any gap between underwriting attestation and actual controls, and delivers a broker-ready remediation report.
The entry point for most engagements is a full Six-Pillar baseline drawn from policy review, stakeholder interviews, and authorized technical evidence collection, scored against GSD's scorecards. The result is a clear picture of where an organization stands today and what to prioritize next.
As organizations adopt AI coding agents and autonomous AI tools, GSD assesses that exposure using the Three-Layer Agentic Defense Framework alongside non-human identity inventory and OWASP Top 10 / API Security Top 10 testing for organizations that develop software.
Email is the number-one initial access vector, so GSD assesses it on every engagement. Cloud infrastructure and high-level physical security controls are assessed wherever they're in scope.
GSD serves mid-market tech firms (SaaS, FinTech, E-commerce), regulated industries (Healthcare, Financial Services, Defense Contractors), and traditional manufacturers navigating IoT/OT convergence, along with any organization whose data, contracts, or insurance renewal depend on provable security.