Independent Cybersecurity Advisor Program (ICAP™)

Your trusted, independent cybersecurity advisor providing comprehensive oversight, threat validation, strategic executive guidance, and continuous alignment with your security goals.

“Understand the customer and the solution will present itself.”
— Dr. Edward X. Bezerra, DCS

The Independent Cybersecurity Advisor Program (ICAP™) gives organizations a dedicated, vendor-neutral cybersecurity expert who evaluates your environment holistically and helps you make confident, evidence-based decisions without sales pressure, product bias, or hidden agendas. ICAP™ is not consulting—it is a structured, executive-level advisory engagement built on a repeatable methodology designed to deliver clarity, maturity, and strategic direction across your entire cybersecurity ecosystem.

Instead of pushing tools or pre-selected solutions, ICAP™ begins with deep discovery. We sit with your teams, understand your workflows, explore your environment, and uncover the realities behind your challenges. From that understanding, the right solutions—tailored to your organization’s goals, constraints, and operational context—naturally present themselves. This is the foundation of true independent cybersecurity advisory.

The ICAP™ 7-Phase Methodology

ICAP™ follows a structured, proprietary seven-phase methodology designed to bring clarity, confidence, and strategic leadership to your cybersecurity decisions. Each phase builds upon the last to ensure a complete, accurate, and unbiased understanding of your environment.

1. Phase 1 — Discovery & Intake: Understanding organizational context, objectives, constraints, and current cybersecurity posture.
2. Phase 2 — Data Collection & Documentation Review: Reviewing policies, configurations, architecture, vendor relationships, operational documents, and real-world practices.
3. Phase 3 — Stakeholder Interviews: Capturing workflows, pain points, assumptions, team challenges, and cross-functional operational realities.
4. Phase 4 — Gap Analysis & Risk Mapping: Identifying exposures, misalignments, redundancies, and areas of business impact from a holistic perspective.
5. Phase 5 — Strategic Options & Decision Paths: Presenting multiple solution paths with pros/cons, tradeoffs, costs, operational considerations, and risk implications.
6. Phase 6 — Final Recommendation & Roadmap: Delivering a prioritized, evidence-based roadmap aligned with your goals, risk appetite, and budget.
7. Phase 7 — Executive Briefing: A concise, executive-ready presentation summarizing findings, rationale, decisions, and the recommended strategic path forward.

What Organizations Gain

• Fully independent evaluation of tools, vendors, contracts, and security claims
• Higher confidence in cybersecurity investments and critical decision points
• Reduction in unnecessary spend, redundancies, and over-engineered solutions
• A clear, expert-validated, strategic direction for leadership alignment
• Improved communication and synergy across IT, security, operations, and executives

Ideal For

• Organizations evaluating cybersecurity renewals, SOC providers, or tool replacements
• Companies without a full-time CISO who need strategic leadership and direction
• Non-profits requiring high-credibility guidance with cost-efficient strategies
• Leadership teams preparing for modernization, cloud transitions, or compliance initiatives
• SMBs and mid-market firms needing clarity and confidence before making major security decisions