Issue 001 · Spring 2026Toronto · Global
§ 01 · Cover StorySenior Security Practitioners

Your weak spots
don’t belong in
someone else’s cloud.

Your finished assessment is a ranked list of your weak spots, and most tools ask you to upload it to their cloud. NISTForge reads your documents for a NIST CSF 2.0 assessment on your own infrastructure instead, and quotes the evidence it finds. Senior services from MALTO Cyber, available now.

Available today4 services · 1 retainer
vCISO
Fractional leadership.
From $4.5K/mo
Pen testing
Web · Mobile · Infra.
From $12K / engagement
Architecture
Zero-trust, by design.
Scoped per engagement
24/7 IR retainer
When it matters.
$2.5K/mo + hours
08+
Years in market
14
Industries served
04
Frameworks · NIST · SOC 2 · ISO · CIS
02
Products · 1 live · 1 coming later
●NISTForge · Available Now●vCISO Engagements Available●24/7 Incident Response Retainer●NISTForge · Available Now●vCISO Engagements Available●24/7 Incident Response Retainer
§ 02 · Services

Senior security on demand.

Available now
A · Lead

vCISO.

Fractional CISO leadership for orgs that need senior judgment without full-time cost.

From
$4,500/mo
B · Defend

Pen testing.

Web, mobile, infrastructure, and red-team, with practical remediation guidance.

From
$12,000 / engagement
C · Build

Architecture.

Zero-trust, cloud, identity, and network architectures designed for resilience and audit.

Scoped
Per engagement
D · Respond

Incident response.

24/7 retainers and on-demand IR for breach containment, forensics, and recovery.

Retainer
$2,500/mo + hours
§ 03 · Method

Practitioners first. Theatre never.

i.Step 01

Assess against intent.

We map your real business risk, not a generic checklist. The output is decision-grade, not décor.

ii.Step 02

Build, don't bolt-on.

Architecture, controls, and runbooks shaped to how your team actually ships.

iii.Step 03

Operate, don't audit.

Monthly reviews, on-call IR and continuous evidence instead of point-in-time PDFs.

§ 04 · Products

In the workshop.

NISTForge, available now, bottles what we've learned across 300+ engagements.

Available nowNo. 01 / NF.001

NISTForge.

Reads your policies against all 106 NIST CSF 2.0 subcategories and quotes the evidence it finds. You review it and finish the assessment, on your own servers.

  • →CSF 2.0 evidence quoted from your own documents
  • →Draft executive and technical reports for you to review
  • →Multi-tenant for consultancies. White-label available.

From CAD 149 a month, self-hosted. No per-assessment fees.

Consulting

SOC 2 and ISO 27001.

NISTForge covers NIST CSF 2.0. For SOC 2 and ISO 27001, our team runs the readiness work with you and pairs you with an auditor when you are ready to certify.

  • →SOC 2 Type 1 and Type 2 readiness
  • →ISO 27001:2022 implementation
  • →PIPEDA and Law 25 advisory
§ 05 · Resources

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§ 06 · Get in touch

Let’s build something that lasts.

A 30-minute working session with someone who’s done this before. No deck. No discovery loop.

Prefer email? hello@maltocyber.com