Executive cybersecurity & AI security · Texas
Know where you stand. Then put AI to work.
A Virtual CISO for regulated and fast-growing companies. Summit measures where your security stands, puts AI to work securely, runs the program, and reports to your leadership in terms they can act on.
The climb: four steps to the summit
Summit measures where you stand, builds the route, leads the work, and reports the progress.- 1AssessKnow where you stand
- 2StrategizeBuild the route
- 3LeadOwn the climb
- 4ReportShow the progress
The experience behind Summit
Our founder’s track record, earned before SummitYears of security leadership
M&A deal experience
Users secured
Risk & security frameworks
01The question
Someone will ask about your security. Have the answer.
It arrives as a leadership agenda item, a customer’s security questionnaire, a buyer’s diligence list, or an insurer’s renewal form. Summit helps you build the answer and the evidence behind it.
Who asks about your security
Five people around your businessYour CEO
asksWhere should we be using AI, and how do we do it safely?Answered byAI Implementation
Your CFO
asksAre we exposed, and are we spending the right amount to fix it?Answered byVirtual CISO Leadership
Your managers
asksOur people adopted AI tools last quarter. Who governs them?Answered byAI Risk & Security Advisory
Your customers
asksCan you pass our security review before we sign?Answered byRisk & Compliance Assessments
Buyers & investors
asksWhat cyber risk are we inheriting with this deal?Answered byM&A Advisory
02AI, put to work securely
We plan, build, and roll out AI for your business.
Summit handles the use cases, the tools, the agents, and the training. Permissions, data protection, and agent controls go in as part of the build, led by a security executive.
Four ways to start with AI
Build, govern, check or leadWhat an AI assistant can reach
With guardrails, and at the defaultsSwitch the guardrails off to see what an assistant reaches at the defaults.This is what an assistant reaches at the defaults. Switch the guardrails back on.
AI security, built in
Six ways AI goes wrong in a business, and the controls Summit puts in place against each.
Oversharing
Severity: highestWhat goes wrongAn assistant surfaces salary files, deal folders or client contracts to anyone who asks.
Summit: Permissions cleaned up and sensitive files labeled before it is switched on.
Prompt injection
Severity: highestWhat goes wrongAn email, web page or document carries hidden instructions the AI follows.
Summit: Agents set up to treat what they read as content, with a person approving anything consequential.
Over-powered agents
Severity: highWhat goes wrongAn agent sends, pays or deletes with an administrator's access and no one watching.
Summit: Least access, a person approves anything consequential, every action logged.
Data leaving the company
Severity: highWhat goes wrongStaff paste client or financial data into a public AI tool.
Summit: Approved tools for each kind of data, data-loss rules, and staff who know the line.
Shadow AI
Severity: moderateWhat goes wrongAI tools and vendor AI features nobody approved are already in use.
Summit: An AI inventory and register, with a simple way to request new tools.
Vendor terms
Severity: moderateWhat goes wrongA vendor keeps your data or trains on it under terms nobody read.
Summit: Every AI vendor reviewed for retention, training and subprocessors.
03What Summit does
One senior leader across the whole program.
Every security program has to do three things: know where it stands, lead the work, and prove the progress. Summit covers all three.
Know
Where you stand- Risk & Compliance AssessmentsAssessments against a published framework that turn technical findings into a prioritized plan your leadership can fund.
- AI Risk & Security AdvisoryAI governance as part of your security program: an inventory, vendor risk, model security, and reporting for leadership.
- M&A Due DiligenceSecurity due diligence and inherited risk analysis before close.
Lead
The program- Virtual CISO LeadershipA senior security leader on retainer who owns strategy, governance, reporting, and team oversight.
- AI ImplementationThe right use cases, tools, and agents, built and rolled out with permissions, data protection, and agent controls in from day one.
- Security Program & GovernanceBuilding or maturing a security program aligned to your risk, your regulators, and your leadership’s expectations.
- Cloud Security & Zero TrustArchitecting secure Azure, AWS, and hybrid cloud environments built on Zero Trust principles, where every access request is verified.
- Incident Response LeadershipReadiness planning, tabletop exercises, and incident command when something goes wrong.
Prove
The progress- Leadership & Executive ReportingReports that put technical risk in terms your leadership, investors, and auditors can use.
- Evidence on file VANTAGEEvery control, policy, finding, and piece of evidence, organized against the frameworks you are held to.
- Posture Statement VANTAGEA shareable statement of your security posture, as assessed by Summit, that you can hand to a customer or insurer.
- Post-Close IntegrationIntegration planning and leadership that brings an acquired company’s security up to the buyer’s standard.
VANTAGEComing to Summit clientsEverything Summit does for you, in one record.
Vantage is Summit’s client portal. It holds where your program stands, the evidence behind it, and a statement you can hand to whoever asks.
Inside the Vantage portal: the Ascent
A demo company, shown with demo data.
Executive Intel
Feature 01A short summary a CEO or leadership team can read before the meeting.
3.0 of 5, Defined
Demo dataOne place for the evidence
Feature 02Every control, policy, finding, and piece of evidence, organized against the frameworks you are held to.
- 4 current
- 2 due soon
- 1 missing
Posture Statement
Feature 03A shareable statement of your security posture, as assessed by Summit, that you can hand to a customer or insurer.
Hand it to a customer or insurer.
04Free tools
Four free tools to try before you call.
Each one runs in your browser, stores nothing, and tells you where you stand.
AI Readiness Check
AI readinessTwelve questions on whether you can switch on Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, or AI agents without exposing data you shouldn’t, and what to fix first.
Security posture self-assessment
Self-assessmentTwelve questions an executive can answer without IT, scored on the five-level maturity scale Summit assesses against.
Which frameworks apply to you?
FinderFive questions, and a ranked list of the frameworks your customers, regulators, and contracts expect, from the 24 frameworks in the finder.
Full-time CISO vs. Virtual CISO
CalculatorEstimate what a full-time hire costs against a Virtual CISO engagement, using your company size and regulatory exposure.
- Runs in your browser
- Stores nothing
- No sign-up
05Start here
Measure it. Lead it. Prove it.
Start with a free 30-minute consultation. Bring the question your leadership, a customer, or a buyer is asking. You’ll leave with a clear first step, whether or not you hire Summit.
A free 30-minute consultation
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- Emailcontact@
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