INDEPENDENT CYBERSECURITY OVERSIGHT FOR
HEALTHCARE AND MISSION-DRIVEN ORGANIZATIONS
You need an outside look at your security. Because you can't afford to guess.
Most practices and nonprofits hand one IT vendor two jobs: build the security, then confirm it’s working.
I ran an IT company for 24 years. Nobody in that seat is hard on their own work, including me. It is not a knock on IT providers. It is just how conflicts work.
I give healthcare practices and mission-driven organizations a clear, honest read on where their security actually stands, from someone with no products to sell, no IT services to push, no insurance to write, and nothing to earn a referral fee on.
Engagements run from $750 to $13,950. Every price is on the services pages.
Two kinds of organizations. The same blind spot.
Whether you protect patients or the people your mission serves, the risk usually traces back to the same place: nobody independent has checked whether your security actually does what you were told it does.
For Healthcare Practices
HIPAA and OCR exposure, ePHI, cyber-insurance questions, and an IT provider who built your security and also tells you it’s working. I give you a documented read on where you stand against the Security Rule and what to fix first.
For Mission-Driven Organizations
Donor and client data, funder and grant cybersecurity requirements, board fiduciary duty, and a tight budget. I give your board and leadership an independent read on where you stand and what to fix first, mapped to recognized frameworks in plain language.
3 Key Problems I Solve
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Independent risk assessment. The answer comes from someone with nothing to defend.
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Verify your protections are real, not just 'we have it', with simple proof and spot-checks.
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A decision-ready roadmap so your leadership or board can prioritize fixes, budgets, and accountability, and defend those decisions if a regulator, funder, or insurer ever asks.
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“I trust our IT company, but I have no independent way to know if we’re actually protected.”
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“If we get breached, it’s on me.” Owners, executive directors, and board chairs all carry real reputational and financial exposure, yet many have never had an independent review.
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“We’ve grown, but nobody ever went back and checked.” New providers, locations, programs, systems, or grant-funded tools. The security rarely kept pace.
Here's how I'd describe what most small practices and nonprofits are actually dealing with, in plain terms:
"Here’s the problem: most IT providers aren’t lying to you. They genuinely believe what they’re telling you. But a lot of what passes for “security” in a small company is the IT equivalent of shooting the side of a barn, drawing a circle around the hole, and calling it a bullseye. They do what they do, slap a label on it, and call it good. Nobody’s checked whether any of it lines up with what is actually needed, or what a real attacker would actually try.
That's not security. That's just a good-looking hole in the barn."
— Tom Polk, CISSP | CCSP | CGRC | Principal, Northline Advisors
My role is to bring 30+ years of real-world IT and security leadership alongside you, so you can move forward with clarity, not guesswork. No vendor agenda. No tools to sell. Just an honest picture of where you stand.
Areas of Expertise
Defensible Risk Assessment
HIPAA-aligned for healthcare practices, and based on NIST CSF for nonprofits. Either way: a ranked risk register and a clear remediation plan, not a stack of templates.
IT Provider Review
Independent review of your IT vendor relationships, contracts, and practices, so you know if the people you're trusting are actually protecting you.
Governance Implementation Sprint
Practical governance programs: policies, evidence binders, ownership assignments, and metrics dashboards that small practices or a small nonprofit can actually manage.
Cyber Insurance Application Review
Your renewal application asks questions most owners and directors cannot answer with confidence. I check your answers against what you actually have running, and flag the ones that could cost you a claim.
Security Leadership (vCISO) Retainer
Steady monthly oversight for organizations that need progress, not a one-time report. Remediation tracking, vendor checks, tabletop prep, and quarterly reporting your board can read. Independent leadership that works alongside your IT provider.
Security Awareness Briefing
Security awareness tailored to how your team actually works. HIPAA and device handling for a practice, donor and client-data handling for a nonprofit.
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