Translate technology, vendors, data, people, and threats into business risk leaders can evaluate.
Cybersecurity Risk & Governance
Understand the risk. Build the plan. Prove the work.
Berthoud WiFi helps growing organizations understand what could materially hurt the business, prioritize practical security improvements, and build clear evidence that cyber risk is being managed responsibly.
Focus time and budget on the improvements that reduce meaningful risk instead of chasing every possible control.
Organize ownership, decisions, controls, and evidence for customers, insurers, boards, partners, and auditors.
Consulting Services
Practical help for organizations that have outgrown informal security.
Engagements are scaled to the organization. The goal is a clear view of risk, an achievable roadmap, and a security program the business can explain and sustain.
Cyber Risk Assessment
Review critical systems, sensitive data, identities, vendors, infrastructure, business dependencies, and realistic threat scenarios.
Security Roadmap & Governance
Define priorities, owners, timelines, decision paths, policies, metrics, and a risk register leaders can actually use.
Evidence & Readiness
Map current controls and supporting evidence so the organization can respond more confidently to customer, insurer, board, or audit requests.
Vendor & SaaS Risk
Identify high-impact third parties, improve intake and review, clarify data access, and create a practical vendor-risk process.
Incident Readiness
Build or improve response plans, escalation paths, communications, tabletop exercises, backup decisions, and lessons-learned processes.
Fractional Security Leadership
Provide experienced guidance for organizations that need program leadership and executive communication without a full-time security executive.
Who We Help
Security guidance at the point where the business needs structure.
This practice is built for small and mid-sized organizations, nonprofits, professional services, media and production teams, distributed businesses, and companies facing increased customer, insurance, privacy, or governance expectations.
- Leadership knows cyber risk matters but lacks a clear, prioritized view
- Security responsibilities are spread across IT, vendors, Legal, HR, and Finance
- Customers or insurers are asking for stronger evidence
- SaaS growth and third-party access have become difficult to govern
- The organization needs experienced security leadership without another full-time executive
What You Receive
Useful decisions and working documents—not a shelf report.
- Executive risk summary in plain language
- Prioritized risk register and remediation roadmap
- Clear ownership and governance recommendations
- Control and evidence map
- Policy, vendor, and incident-readiness gaps
- Board or leadership-ready progress reporting
A Clear Process
Start with the business, then connect the technology.
1
Discover
Understand the organization, critical operations, sensitive information, current pressures, and decisions leaders need to make.
2
Assess
Review the most important risks, controls, dependencies, vendors, and evidence without turning the engagement into a checkbox exercise.
3
Prioritize
Build a sequenced roadmap based on business impact, likelihood, effort, cost, and organizational capacity.
4
Support
Help leaders implement, measure, communicate, and continuously improve the program as the risk environment changes.
Experienced Leadership
Led by someone who has owned the outcome.
Cybersecurity consulting is led by Steve Smith, a cybersecurity and IT operations leader with more than 15 years of experience supporting complex organizations and environments with 700+ users.
His work spans cybersecurity oversight, infrastructure, identity, cloud and SaaS risk, vendor review, incident response, privacy, physical security, business continuity, executive communication, and technology programs valued up to $2 million.
That operating experience matters: recommendations are designed for the people, budgets, systems, and competing priorities organizations actually have.
Clear boundaries
Berthoud WiFi helps assess, prepare, organize, and improve. We do not provide legal advice or independent compliance certification, and we coordinate with counsel, insurers, auditors, and specialized testing partners when needed.
Common Questions
What cybersecurity consulting looks like.
Is this a technical penetration test?
No. The core service evaluates business risk, governance, controls, evidence, priorities, and readiness. Specialized technical testing can be coordinated when appropriate.
Do we need a full-time security leader first?
No. Consulting can establish ownership, clarify the current position, create a practical roadmap, and help determine the right internal and external support model.
Can you help us prepare for customer, insurer, or board questions?
Yes. We help organize controls, responsibilities, supporting evidence, risks, and remediation plans so leaders can explain how security is being managed.
Do you certify compliance?
No. We help organizations prepare, identify gaps, and build evidence, but independent auditors and legal counsel make formal compliance or legal determinations.