About / BasilQ intelligence brief
Security leadership, scaled for your business.
BasilQ is an independent cybersecurity advisory firm that gives small and mid-sized businesses the security leadership of a seasoned CISO—without the cost or commitment of a full-time hire.
Who we help
Security ownership when the pressure is real.
We work with organizations that face real security pressure from customers, insurers, and regulators but have no one who owns security.
Built for organizations such as
Medical and dental practices; accounting, legal, and insurance firms; SaaS and technology companies; and small manufacturers and defense suppliers.
Service register
Practical coverage for your full security picture.
Virtual CISO retainers
Ongoing security leadership: risk management, policy and program ownership, vendor and third-party risk, incident-response readiness, and plain-English reporting to owners and executives.
Cyber insurance readiness
A fixed-fee sprint that brings MFA, endpoint protection, backups, and incident-response documentation to the standard underwriters verify at renewal.
Security Health Check
A fast, fixed-fee assessment of Microsoft 365 / Google Workspace, identity, cloud configuration, and external exposure, with a ranked remediation roadmap.
Compliance readiness
SOC 2, HIPAA, NIST SP 800-171 / DFARS, FTC Safeguards Rule (WISP), and California CCPA cybersecurity-audit and automated-decisionmaking requirements.
AI governance
Practical policies and controls aligned to NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001 for businesses adopting AI tools and answering AI questions in customer questionnaires.
Microsoft 365, AWS, GCP, and cloud security hardening
Focused cloud-security hardening across identity, configuration, exposure, and operational controls.
Why BasilQ
A senior practitioner, not a platform with a person attached.
Founded and led by a CISSP with 25 years of hands-on experience. BasilQ works through defined scopes, fixed fees wherever possible, and recommendations ranked by risk and cost.
Defined scopes / security work sized to your needs
Fixed fees / clarity wherever possible
Ranked recommendations / practical decisions first
Based in Murrieta, California
Local when it matters. Remote wherever you are.
Serving the Inland Empire, Orange County, and San Diego in person, and clients nationwide remotely.