Intelligence and Cybersecurity
Crafted for the Modern Financial Institution
Join The BrainTrust — The only membership that hands financial firms the knowledge and tradecraft needed to operate a regulator-ready cyber compliance and intelligence program—minus the vendor upsell.
- No over-spending on cybersecurirty. Open-source first, best-value second, shiny objects never.
- No bias. We don’t sell hardware or software, so every recommendation is clean and budget conscious.
- No gaps. Training, templates, threat intel, and continuous scans—everything under one login.
End state for The BrainTrust Members?
Expert guidance. Secured Networks. Audit Ready Compliance. Investors reassured. Attackers frustrated.
What You Get With BrainTrust Membership:
FieldCraft is a plug-and-play security awareness program built for financial firms:
- Bite-sized lessons & quizzes (3–5 minutes each) covering phishing, passwords, social engineering, and insider threats.
- Simulated phishing drills you can run on-demand or schedule for staff.
- Automated compliance evidence — completion logs and quiz scores roll into a dashboard with monthly CSV/PDF exports, ready for your files.
- User limits by tier: Free (10 users), Premium (25 users), Private Consultant & Remote CISO (unlimited).
👉 At $5 per person, per month, it’s the leanest way to meet training obligations — included at no additional charge in all paid tiers.
When you receive a CRVT™, you get two deliverables:
1. Executive Summary Report
- Plain-English rundown of the highest-risk findings — e.g., exploitable servers, leaked credentials, brand spoofing.
- Clear explanation of why each issue matters to a regulated financial firm.
- Prioritized remediation order — what we’d fix first if we were in your seat.
2. Technical Evidence Pack
A zipped folder with raw outputs from every scan:
A zipped folder with raw outputs from every scan:
- External attack surface inventory (IPs, ports, CVEs).
- Credential/document exposures in breach dumps or dark-web indices.
- Look-alike/impersonation domains.
- DNS, SSL/TLS, and certificate intel.
- Cloud/web-app misconfigurations, open directories, and weak headers.
Nothing is redacted — you get the same files we see, so regulators, auditors, or investors can verify findings.
👉 CRVTs are delivered annually (Premium), quarterly (Private Consultant), or monthly (Remote CISO).
Every membership tier includes instant access to our living document library:
- Core Cyber Policies: cybersecurity manual, annual review worksheets.
- Mock Exam Kits: SEC tabletop exercise guide, compliance calendars, checklists.
- Staff & Client Policies: employee tech-use agreements, social media policies, encryption & wire-fraud controls.
- Disclosure & Delivery Docs: ADV delivery letters, client acknowledgement forms.
- Confidentiality & Vendor Docs: NDA templates, vendor due-diligence checklists.
- Advanced (Premium & higher): AI compliance frameworks, “Securing Compliance” framework.
👉 Download, brand, and file — without reinventing from scratch.
We run enterprise-grade scans (same engines used by federal agencies):
External Scans (your public attack surface)
- Maps live hosts, open ports, and service banners.
- Fingerprints software versions and CVEs.
- Tests SSL/TLS and web-app security (SQLi, XSS, default creds).
- Output: HTML/CSV per host, plus a rolled-up high/medium/low remediation list.
Internal Scans (behind your firewall)
- Authenticated patch & config checks (Windows, Linux, databases, networking).
- CIS/NIST/DISA benchmark scoring.
- Password and credential sweeps.
- Active Directory hygiene tests.
- Output: vulnerability lists, compliance scorecards, remediation steps.
👉 Scan cadence by tier:
- Private Consultant — External: Monthly | Internal: Annual
- Remote CISO — External: Daily (monthly report) | Internal: Daily (monthly report)
BrainTrust isn’t just “resources.” It’s a complete compliance and intelligence ecosystem: regulator-ready training, risk and threat audits, continuous scanning, and point-and-click access to the same documentation we use with consulting clients.