The finding keeps returning
The language changes, but the evidence gap, design weakness, or ownership problem remains.
Regulated Systems Security & Remediation
Close the finding.
Defend the design.
Keep the program moving.
Nerthus Consulting provides principal-led security architecture, evidence readiness, and remediation for regulated technology systems—when the decision, finding, or deadline matters.
Advisory readiness.
Inputs → System design → Closure evidence
Healthcare & Public BenefitsFISMA / NIST RMFIRS Pub. 1075PCI DSSGDPRSSAFERPA
Built for consequential moments
When ambiguity is expensive.
Nerthus is designed for the security decision, finding, or deadline that cannot remain in a general consulting queue.
The deadline is real
A CAP, POA&M, annual submission, authorization milestone, buyer review, or launch decision cannot drift.
The room disagrees
Security, architecture, compliance, and operations need one defensible control story and an actionable path forward.
The Nerthus method
From ambiguity to evidence-ready action.
We connect the obligation, the operating reality, and the proof expected by leadership, buyers, assessors, and oversight organizations.
Clarify
Define the decision, requirement, owner, deadline, and proof standard.
Trace
Follow the requirement through architecture, process, contract boundary, and evidence.
Design
Create a practical remediation or control change that fits the operating reality.
Equip
Deliver decision-ready artifacts, assigned actions, and a sustainable evidence path.
Focused ways to engage
Senior judgment. Bounded scope. Usable artifacts.
Each offer begins with a specific trigger and ends with a clear decision, evidence path, or actionable handoff.
High-Stakes Second Opinion
$4,500 fixed fee
A focused written opinion on one consequential security, architecture, or evidence question.
View serviceRisk-to-Closure Sprint
$22,500 fixed fee
Close a known finding or deficient control through root-cause analysis, remediation design, documentation, ownership, and closure evidence.
View serviceRegulated Deal Assurance Sprint
$27,500 fixed fee
Protect an active deal or procurement decision by making security answers, architecture, contract boundaries, and evidence coherent for the buyer.
View serviceExecutive Assurance Partner
$15,000 per month
Defined-capacity senior advisory for recurring regulated-system decisions. Three-month minimum.
View serviceRegulated environments
The acronyms differ. The assurance questions repeat.
Nerthus works where security decisions must hold up across technology, operations, contracts, and evidence.
See regulated environmentsRepresentative experience
Experience where control language meets operating reality.
Annual safeguards and corrective-action recovery
Tracing recurring findings to underlying control, evidence, and ownership gaps; rebuilding the path from action plan to review-ready submission.
High-risk access design challenged before launch
Testing identity, authorization, segregation, and operational assumptions before they became production constraints.
Troubled SaaS implementation made measurable
Converting broad security concerns into decision points, owner-assigned actions, and evidence executives could govern.
Examples describe relevant professional experience. Identifying details are withheld and should not be represented as Nerthus client engagements unless that characterization is accurate and authorized.
Principal-led by design
Accountability stays close to the work.
Every regulated-systems engagement is led by H. Barbara Grofe, Chief Technical Officer, with executive direction, delivery governance, and commercial stewardship from Lawrence Mason, President.
Meet the leadership teamA confidential first conversation
Bring the decision that cannot remain ambiguous.
We will determine whether Nerthus is the right resource, what can be resolved in a bounded engagement, and what information is needed to scope the work.