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Kevin Stallard · Threat Tape LLC

BUILDERS SHIP. OPERATORS FIX. I DO BOTH.

Thirty-eight years of security leadership, available by the engagement rather than the salary.

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CISSP · CISM · Co-inventor, US Patent 8,152,059

Stakes 75 countries Security operations through the Ebola emergency. A breach there cost lives, not money. Speed 3.5 yrs→18 mos A Zero Trust architecture stalled three and a half years, moved into execution during a $69B acquisition. Impact 65,000→<100 A corporate fleet's exposed vulnerabilities, cut by more than 99% in a single month. Scale 1,500+ Applications under one governance board at a top-5 US bank. Stakes $4B Card transactions protected in a single afternoon, Derby day at Churchill Downs. Speed ~14 platforms Built solo inside a single year, on an AI-accelerated pipeline. Impact $45M Fraud prevented by abuse-detection tooling that fed two federal prosecutions. Scale 25 frameworks Mapped and reconciled against each other — NIST CSF, GDPR, PIPL and the rest. Stakes 70+ attacks Launched at federal health infrastructure in one afternoon. None of them landed. Speed 1994 First student-run web server, stood up while the web was still a research network. Impact 2 prosecutions Detection tooling that put two of the era's most notorious spammers in front of federal prosecutors. Scale Hundreds Federal systems under NIST 800-53, categorized Low to High. Most enterprises manage two.

What you can buy

Published ranges · priced by scope

“You need a CISO’s judgment, not a CISO’s salary.”

Advisory Retainer
$7K–$10K / mo

“I don’t need advice. I need someone to run it.”

Operating Retainer
$18K–$25K / mo
Limited engagements

“Know exactly where you stand in three weeks, fixed price.”

Governance Assessment
$25K–$75K fixed

“Ship the product AND pass procurement.”

10x Product Engineering
$40K–$150K fixed

“The deal closed. Now inherit the security debt.”

M&A Integration
$50K–$250K fixed

“When failure is not an option.”

IR Command
$600–$1K / hr

The receipts

Four case files · one you can audit yourself

01 · M&A Three and a half years stalled. None of it technical. 3.5 yrs→18 mos 02 · Governance 65,000 findings. Almost none of them exotic. 65,000→<100 03 · Operations Seventy-plus attacks in a single afternoon. 70+ attacks 04 · Engineering The only case file you can audit yourself. 0→28 repos