San Diego based · Serving businesses across the United States
Technology that pulls in the same direction as your business.
Ault Cyber Partners brings 25+ years of experience assessing IT environments and aligning them with business strategy. We give organizations executive-grade leadership across security, cloud, network, and compliance — without executive-grade headcount — and we fill the gaps that open up when there's no full-time CTO, CIO, or CISO in the building.
Where we step in
- No CTO, CIO, or CISO on staff — but decisions that need one
- An MSP keeping the lights on, with no one setting the course
- A legacy system — green screen, accounting, document management — that has to be replaced or modernized without breaking the business
- A cyber insurance application or renewal you can't answer with confidence
- Ransomware, recovery, and backup questions resting on assumptions
- Security and compliance questions from leadership, clients, or insurers — with no clear owner for the answers
- AI initiatives that need a business case, not a buzzword
The Ault Cyber difference
Most providers start with products. We start with your business.
Plenty of firms can sell you a firewall, a migration, or a monitoring stack. Far fewer will sit down first and ask where your business is headed, what's standing in the way, and what role technology should actually play in getting you there.
Every engagement opens with the Alignment Conversation — a structured working session that maps your business objectives to your technology reality before a single solution is proposed.
It's the same discipline we've applied in the boardroom as a sitting CTO and CISO: understand the destination, chart the gaps, then choose the technology. The result is clarity, lower risk, and a roadmap your leadership team can actually stand behind.
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Listen: the Alignment Conversation
A working session on your goals, growth plans, risk tolerance, and current frustrations — in business language, not vendor-speak.
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Assess: validate before you act
We benchmark your environment against best practice — security posture, infrastructure, cloud spend, compliance readiness — so decisions rest on evidence, not assumptions.
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Chart: a roadmap tied to outcomes
Prioritized, budgeted, and sequenced. Every initiative traces back to a business objective, so you always know why a dollar is being spent.
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Execute: with you, not at you
We lead delivery directly or steer your internal team and vendors — including your MSP — holding everyone accountable to the plan.
Fractional CTO / CISO
Executive technology leadership. A fraction of the cost. None of the gap.
A fractional engagement gives you a seasoned technology and security executive at the table — setting strategy, owning the roadmap, managing risk, and translating between your leadership team and everyone who touches your technology.
Your MSP keeps the systems running. But who makes sure those systems are taking the business where it needs to go? That's the seat we fill.
Even the best managed service providers are built to operate technology, not to set its direction. We work alongside MSPs every day — defining the strategy, holding service levels accountable, and making sure the technology agenda reflects the business agenda, not the vendor's.
- Technology strategy & roadmaps aligned to revenue, growth, and exit plans
- Security leadership — risk management, governance, board and audit reporting
- MSP & vendor oversight — contracts, SLAs, accountability, and renegotiation
- Budget & ROI discipline — every initiative costed and tied to an outcome
- Major-project leadership — migrations, platform replacements, modernization
- Team development — hiring, mentoring, and structuring internal IT
Services & solutions
Full-spectrum IT services, delivered with an executive's judgment.
Assessment-led by design: most engagements begin with an objective look at where you stand — your security, your recoverability, your data, your spend — and grow into exactly the leadership and services the findings call for.
Fractional CTO / CISO
Ongoing executive technology and security leadership on a part-time basis — strategy, governance, vendor oversight, and a steady hand at the leadership table.
Learn more →Technology Alignment Review
Our signature opening engagement: a structured evaluation of how well your current technology, spend, and vendors support your stated business objectives.
IT & Security Health Checks
An objective, best-practice review of your environment that surfaces hidden risk, misconfiguration, and quick wins — ideal before budgets, audits, or big changes.
Legacy System Modernization & Migration
End-to-end leadership of system replacements — green screen, accounting, document management, or any platform, on-premise to cloud or otherwise — from requirements through vendor approval, milestone tracking, and a successful go-live.
Learn more →MSP Alignment & Oversight
Independent evaluation and ongoing management of your managed service provider — making sure their delivery, pricing, and priorities serve your strategy.
Helpdesk & Support Strategy
Design, selection, and oversight of end-user support — whether that means tuning your MSP's helpdesk, standing one up, or right-sizing what you have.
Technology Staffing & Team Building
Help defining roles, interviewing candidates, and structuring an internal IT function — drawing on decades of building and leading technology teams.
IT Health Check
An objective, best-practice review of your full environment — infrastructure, security, recovery, and spend — delivered as a prioritized, plain-English action plan.
Learn more →Cybersecurity Assessment
A structured evaluation of your security posture across people, process, and technology — showing exactly where you're exposed and which risks to retire first.
Learn more →Ransomware Protection & Recovery Assessment
A focused review of how well you'd prevent, detect, contain, and recover from a ransomware event — backups, segmentation, identity, and response — with remediation priorities.
Learn more →Cyber Insurance Application Preparation
Carriers now demand proof, not promises. We prepare you for the application and renewal process — validating controls, closing gaps that drive premiums, and answering questionnaires accurately the first time.
Learn more →Disaster Recovery & Backup Assessment
Verification that your backups will actually restore and your recovery objectives will actually be met — tested against real scenarios, not vendor dashboards.
Learn more →Data Custodianship Assessment & Remediation
Mapping where your sensitive data lives, who can access it, and how it's governed — then remediating ownership, permissions, retention, and protection gaps.
Learn more →Security Assessments
A clear-eyed review of people, process, and technology controls that shows where you stand, where the gaps are, and which risks to retire first.
Vulnerability Management
Programmatic scanning, prioritization, and remediation tracking — turning an endless vulnerability list into a managed, shrinking risk surface.
Penetration Testing
Real-world attack simulation, coordinated with trusted testing partners, for when you need proof beyond scanners and checklists.
Incident Response Planning
Playbooks, roles, and decision frameworks built before you need them — so a bad day doesn't become a defining one.
Tabletop Exercises
Facilitated breach simulations that pressure-test your leadership team's response, surface gaps, and build muscle memory ahead of the real thing.
Security Hardening
Tightening identity, endpoint, email, and network configurations against verifiable benchmarks when out-of-the-box settings aren't enough.
SIEM / SOAR Enablement
Centralized logging, meaningful detections, and automated response — so the signal reaches you before the attacker's objective does.
Executive & Board Security Briefings
Security posture translated into business risk for boards, partners, and leadership — delivered by someone who has sat on both sides of that table.
Security Awareness Programs
Training programs that actually change behavior — phishing resilience, policy adoption, and a workforce that acts as a control, not a liability.
Infrastructure Assessment
A rapid, structured review of your network and infrastructure health — capacity, resilience, lifecycle, and risk — with a prioritized remediation plan.
SD-WAN Design & Deployment
Modern branch and multi-site connectivity engineered for performance, resilience, and central control — without the legacy circuit costs.
Wireless Surveys & Refresh
Predictive and on-site surveys plus enterprise-grade wireless design for environments where coverage, capacity, and reliability genuinely matter.
Segmentation & Zero Trust
Network segmentation and zero-trust access that enforce least privilege and limit how far an intruder — or a mistake — can travel.
Virtualization & VDI Optimization
Deep tuning of VMware and virtual desktop environments — capacity planning, performance diagnostics, and architectures that hold up under load.
Platform & Infrastructure Modernization
Retiring aging systems — from legacy applications to end-of-life platforms — with migration plans that protect continuity and data.
Cloud Migration
Moving critical workloads with tested cutover and rollback plans — protecting uptime, performance, and the people who depend on both.
Cloud Cost Optimization
Right-sizing, reserved capacity strategy, budgets, and alerts — recovering the spend that quietly accumulates in every cloud environment.
Backup, DR & Resilience Design
Backup and disaster recovery architectures designed — and actually tested — to meet your recovery objectives when downtime isn't an option.
Cloud Strategy & Architecture
Public, private, or hybrid — an honest, vendor-neutral assessment of what belongs where, and a reference architecture to keep it disciplined.
Modern Workplace & Collaboration
Microsoft 365 and cloud communications done right — identity, email, telephony, and collaboration platforms unified, secured, and adopted.
Endpoint Modernization & MDM
Device management, zero-touch deployment, and zero-trust endpoint security across Mac and Windows fleets — from policy to rollout.
Security Policy & Compliance Assessment
Your policies, controls, and practices measured against the frameworks that matter to you — with a gap analysis and a pragmatic path to closure.
Third-Party Risk Management
A TPRM program that evaluates and continuously monitors vendor risk — because your security posture now includes everyone you do business with.
Data Classification & DLP
Knowing where sensitive data lives, who can touch it, and how it's prevented from leaving — classification and loss-prevention controls that hold.
eDiscovery, Retention & Records
Defensible retention schedules and eDiscovery workflows for litigation, audit, and investigation — built with deep experience in legal-sector technology.
Privacy Program Enablement
Privacy policies, impact assessments (DPIA/PIA), and operating practices that turn regulatory obligations into a repeatable program.
Audit Support
Full-lifecycle support for IT and cyber audits — government, client-initiated, or self-imposed. We conduct audits, respond to them, gather evidence, remediate findings, and build the governance policies and processes behind them — meaningful outcomes, not checked boxes.
AI Readiness Assessment
An honest evaluation of your data, security, governance, and use cases before you invest — so AI starts with a business case, not a license count.
Copilot & AI Assistant Enablement
Planning, securing, and rolling out Microsoft Copilot and similar assistants — permissions hardened, data protected, adoption measured.
AI Product Evaluation & ROI Analysis
Vendor-neutral assessment of AI tools and platforms against your real workflows — separating measurable return from marketing.
AI Governance & Acceptable Use
Policies, guardrails, and review processes that let your teams use AI productively without exposing data, clients, or reputation.
Custom AI Solutions
Scoping and overseeing purpose-built AI workflows — from document automation to internal knowledge tools — with the right partners for the build.
AI Security Review
Assessing the new attack surface AI introduces — prompt injection, data leakage, shadow AI — before it becomes an incident.
Migration & modernization leadership
Replacing a legacy system shouldn't feel like betting the business.
Every organization eventually faces it: the green-screen platform that quietly runs everything, the accounting system its vendor stopped investing in, the document management system hitting end-of-life, the on-premise workload that belongs in the cloud. The replacement is overdue — and everyone is afraid to touch it, because the last thing the business can afford is the migration going wrong.
We lead system replacements end to end — from the first requirements workshop to the day the old system is finally switched off — and we've done it with more than two decades of production data on the line.
Core line-of-business software, accounting, document management, or anything in between; on-premise to cloud or whatever the need calls for. What these projects fail without is executive ownership — honest requirements, vendors held to their promises, and a schedule someone is actually accountable for. That's what we bring.
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Define the requirements
Captured from the people who actually do the work — separating what the business genuinely needs from what vendor demos are selling.
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Architect the replacement
The target configuration designed before anything is bought: integrations, data model, security, and how it fits the systems staying behind.
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Select and approve vendors
Structured evaluation against your scenarios — not their slideware — with real pricing comparisons and contract terms negotiated from the buyer's side.
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Manage the implementation
One executive owner across vendor, integrator, and internal teams — decisions made quickly, scope protected, surprises escalated instead of buried.
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Track milestones and deadlines
A visible plan and status reporting leadership can trust, with slippage surfaced early enough to fix rather than discovered at the deadline.
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Land it successfully
Data migrated and validated, users trained, cutover and rollback rehearsed — and the legacy system retired for good, not kept limping alongside.
Assessment first. Action second.
How healthy is your IT environment — really?
Most leaders are operating on assumptions: that backups will restore, that a ransomware event is survivable, that the cyber insurance questionnaire was answered correctly, that the MSP report tells the whole story. Our assessment practice — health checks, cybersecurity assessments, ransomware readiness, disaster recovery and backup validation, data custodianship reviews, and insurance application prep — replaces those assumptions with evidence and a prioritized, plain-English action plan.
A Health Check is especially valuable if…
- Configurations haven't been independently validated in over a year
- Your team — or your MSP — is stretched thin
- Security and recovery practices rest on assumptions, not tests
- Growth, turnover, or new systems have outpaced documentation
- You want clarity before something breaks — or before a renewal, audit, or budget cycle
Who we work with
Built for organizations of every size — especially the ones an MSP alone can't fully serve.
Too small for a CTO. Too important to wing it.
You get the strategy, security oversight, and vendor accountability of an executive technology leader — sized and priced for a business your size, with no headcount added.
Growing fast, with technology straining to keep up.
We bring the roadmap, governance, and major-project leadership that turn scattered IT spending into a deliberate platform for growth — and make your MSP relationship truly work.
Deep expertise for high-stakes initiatives.
Interim leadership, independent assessments, M&A technical due diligence and post-merger technology harmonization, and board-level security guidance — backed by Fortune 500 engineering experience and over a decade in the CTO chair.
Frequently asked questions
Straight answers, before the first call.
Who is Ault Cyber Partners?
What does Ault Cyber Partners do?
How are you different from an MSP or other IT providers?
- We begin with your business strategy, then work backward to technology
- We validate with evidence before recommending action
- We measure success in business outcomes and risk reduction, not tickets closed
- We hold every vendor — including the MSP — accountable to your plan, because we don't resell anyone's products
We already have an MSP. Why would we need you?
What's your approach to IT and security?
What does a fractional engagement look like?
Let's connect
One conversation will tell you if this is the partnership you've been missing.
Book a no-obligation discovery call. Bring your frustrations, your roadmap — or the absence of one. We'll bring 25 years of pattern recognition and a straight answer about whether we can help.
Prefer to talk? Call (619) 839-9447 or email info@aultcyberpartners.com · Point Loma — San Diego, CA · Serving businesses across the United States