Stack Security

Cybersecurity leadership built for RIAs.

Stack Strategy helps RIAs understand their cybersecurity posture, prepare for regulatory scrutiny and build a cybersecurity program that can stand up to the realities of the business.

For RIAs seeking greater confidence in their cybersecurity program, regulatory readiness and ongoing security leadership.

The challenge

Cybersecurity touches the entire firm. Ownership is often fragmented.

RIAs may rely on an MSP or MSSP for technical security, compliance for policies and regulatory requirements, employees for day-to-day practices, and executives for risk decisions. Each may own part of the program without anyone providing senior leadership across the whole.

Stack Security brings those pieces together from the perspective of the RIA.

Two ways to engage

Assess the program. Then lead it.

RIA Cybersecurity Assessment

An evidence-based view of the program and how well it holds up under scrutiny.

A focused, management-level assessment of the firm's cybersecurity program and its ability to demonstrate that program to regulators. It draws on recognized cybersecurity practices and the realities of SEC examination readiness. The result is an executive assessment of current posture, identified gaps and a prioritized remediation roadmap. It is not a penetration test, vulnerability scan, compliance certification or legal opinion.

Cybersecurity governance and accountability
Policies and procedures
Identity and access controls
Protection of sensitive client and firm information
Vendor and third-party risk
Incident preparedness, business continuity and recovery
Employee awareness and training
Evidence supporting the firm's cybersecurity practices and readiness for SEC examination requests

Fractional CISO

Executive cybersecurity leadership without a full-time CISO.

Ongoing leadership for RIAs that need someone to help lead the cybersecurity program. This is executive leadership and governance, not outsourced IT administration.

Establish and maintain cybersecurity governance
Maintain the cybersecurity roadmap and priorities
Coordinate the annual assessment and improvement cycle
Track remediation and risk decisions
Review policies and program documentation
Oversee vendor and third-party cybersecurity risk
Coordinate with MSPs, MSSPs, compliance teams and specialist providers
Prepare and facilitate tabletop exercises
Support cybersecurity awareness and training
Provide executive and board-level cybersecurity reporting
Participate in incident response leadership and coordination
Continuously improve the program as the firm, threats and regulatory expectations evolve

Operating model

Stack leads the cybersecurity program. Specialists extend the team where needed.

Stack provides hands-on leadership of the cybersecurity program, working across leadership, compliance, internal technology teams, MSPs, MSSPs and specialist providers.

We assess the program, establish priorities, develop and maintain policies and documentation, lead governance, oversee vendor risk, facilitate tabletop exercises, coordinate testing, track remediation, prepare the firm for regulatory scrutiny and help lead the response when incidents occur.

When work requires specialized technical execution, Stack coordinates the appropriate provider and ensures the work supports the broader cybersecurity program.

Supporting capabilities

Built into the work where needed.

These may be incorporated into an assessment, a Fractional CISO relationship or separately scoped cybersecurity work.

Vendor cybersecurity due diligence
NPI/PII data mapping
Access governance and reviews
Cybersecurity policies and program documentation
Incident response planning
Tabletop exercises
Business continuity and recovery planning
Security awareness and training
Cybersecurity testing coordination
Remediation oversight

Client cybersecurity

Cybersecurity doesn't stop at the firm's perimeter.

Cybersecurity risk increasingly extends to the firm's clients. Stack can help RIAs think through client cybersecurity education, client risk, fraud prevention and risk-based controls around sensitive interactions such as money movement and account changes.

How Stack works

Good advice still has to become action.

A cybersecurity assessment only matters if the findings become action. Stack helps prioritize remediation, coordinate the right providers, track progress and build the governance needed to keep the program moving forward.

AssessStrategizeImplementGovern

Assess: Understand the program, its evidence and where ownership sits.
Strategize: Prioritize gaps and shape a practical remediation roadmap.
Implement: Lead and coordinate remediation with the right providers.
Govern: Govern the program through reporting, reviews and an annual cycle.

Independent by design.

Stack does not sell cybersecurity software, managed security services or security products. Recommendations are based on the needs of the RIA, not resale economics.

Stack's job is to represent the client's interests.

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