About BESTcyberIQ

The average small business has no dedicated security team, no framework for measuring their posture, and no affordable way to get the kind of structured assessment that larger organizations take for granted. When a breach happens — and for many it does — they discover too late that their cyber insurance required controls they never implemented, their incident response plan was a document nobody had tested, and their backups hadn't been verified in years.

BESTcyberIQ exists to close that gap. We built a structured NIST CSF 2.0 assessment that any SMB owner or IT manager can complete in about 30 minutes — no security expertise required. You get a maturity score, prioritized recommendations, and a professional report you can actually act on.

I'm an Information Security leader with over 20 years of progressive experience across cybersecurity, security engineering, and enterprise risk management. I hold the CISSP certification and have spent my career building pragmatic, scalable security programs that align technical controls with real-world business objectives.

My work has spanned identity and access management, cloud security, endpoint protection, security operations, vulnerability management, and Zero Trust adoption — always with a focus on measurable outcomes and sustainable security maturity rather than checkbox compliance.

I built BESTcyberIQ because I kept seeing the same problem: organizations that had never done a structured assessment, didn't know where their gaps were, and were paying for cyber insurance without understanding whether they actually met the requirements. A consultant engagement to do this properly is often out of reach for smaller organizations.

BESTcyberIQ is my attempt to give every business access to the same structured assessment process that mature security programs use — at a price point that works.

NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 is the gold standard for cybersecurity program assessment. It is used by organizations ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies and is increasingly referenced by cyber insurance underwriters when evaluating risk.

Unlike simple yes/no checklists, our 5-level maturity model measures not just whether a control exists, but how consistently it is implemented, documented, approved, and verified. That distinction matters — an insurer or auditor can tell the difference between a policy that exists on paper and one that is actually practiced.

Our 98-question assessment covers all six NIST CSF 2.0 functions: Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover. Every question was written and reviewed with real-world security operations and incident response experience in mind.

I write about cybersecurity, NIST CSF 2.0, risk management, and practical security leadership.