Cynodes exists because that sentence is not how the industry works. Assessors hand you a PDF. Integrators hand you an invoice. The gap between them is where breaches live.
We built Cynodes to hold both halves of the job. Autonomous agents give us the coverage and patience no consulting roster can match. Experienced integration engineers give those findings somewhere to go.
The result is accountability that does not get handed off at the report. When we tell you an environment is safer than it was six months ago, we can show you exactly what changed, who changed it, and what proved it.
Most firms specialize in one of these and subcontract the rest — which is why their findings and their fixes arrive from different companies, months apart. We hold all six, so the person who proves an attack path is on the same team as the person who closes it.
Adversary emulation, exploit-path validation, and the agent tooling that runs it continuously. Every finding we hand you has been proven reachable in your environment, not inferred from a version number.
SIEM and EDR tuning, rule authoring, and the honest verdict on whether your stack saw what we did. Detection gaps get written up with the rule that closes them.
Routing, switching, wireless, firewall migration, and segmentation. The unglamorous layer where most breaches actually begin, and where most consultancies subcontract.
Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud landing zones, hybrid connectivity, and the identity and guardrail work that keeps a cloud estate from quietly becoming your largest attack surface.
Entra ID and directory consolidation, conditional access, privileged access management, MDM baselines. The control plane nearly every modern attack path runs through.
NIST 800-171 and CMMC, SOC 2, HIPAA. Controls implemented and instrumented so they report themselves, plus the vCISO advisory to keep them running after the audit.
Engagements are staffed from these disciplines rather than sold as a fixed package — you get the mix your environment needs. See how they combine into services.
Our engagements are structured around the controls your auditors and customers already recognize.
Posture assessment and roadmapping anchored to Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover.
Control implementation, SSP authoring, and POA&M management for the defense supply chain.
Every emulated technique and detection gap mapped to the framework your SOC already speaks.
Hardening baselines applied and verified across servers, endpoints, and cloud workloads.
Cynodes is small and intends to stay senior-heavy. If you have run a cutover at 2 a.m., written a detection that actually fired, or built agent tooling you would trust against production, we would like to hear from you.
Start with a conversation. No pitch deck, no pressure.