About the firm

Your trusted guide through compliance.

Upstate InfoSec is a cybersecurity and compliance consulting firm built for organizations that have to be compliant to grow. We help you navigate the requirements, build what's needed, and remediate gaps — so your team can meet the bar without getting lost in it.

A business owner focused on operations while an automated shield sustains their compliance program

A guide and partner, not just another advisor

Traditional advisory firms deliver a static spreadsheet of gaps and wish you luck. That leaves the hardest part — actually configuring the controls and holding the program together — on teams that were never staffed for it, pulling your best people away from the work that pays the bills.

We work differently. Upstate InfoSec acts as an embedded vCISO and compliance engineering partner — a trusted guide and technical assistant. We help you prepare, configure, and sustain the program: the enclave architecture, the tenant hardening, the policy set, and the evidence auditors expect. We advise on what evidence you'll need and how to structure the processes that keep you compliant.

The result is enterprise-grade compliance guidance, sized and priced for lean businesses — so a defense machine shop or a small SaaS team can meet the same bar as a company ten times its size, without hiring one. Compliance ultimately depends on your organization living the practices day to day; our role is to make that achievable and to stand with you along the way.

Who we work with

Businesses with an enterprise-sized requirement

We focus on the organizations most often caught between a mandate they can't ignore and resources they don't have.

Defense machine shop protected by a compliance enclave
Defense & aerospace suppliers
CNC and component shops facing CMMC and DFARS flowdown from primes like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and General Dynamics.
SaaS platform earning a SOC 2 report
SaaS founders & CTOs
B2B cloud and hybrid products that need a SOC 2 Type II report to unlock enterprise deals but can't spare engineering time to build it.
Mid-market office backed by an embedded security team
Mid-market operators
Financial, logistics, and industrial firms facing tightening regulation and vendor risk questionnaires with an IT team built for helpdesk, not GRC.
How we operate

The principles behind every engagement

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Problems before checklists

We start with the deal, mandate, or risk you're facing — then work backward to the controls. Compliance is the means, not the goal.

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Hands-on, not just handoffs

We help with the configuration, draft the policies with you, and guide the evidence buildout — so you move forward with support, not just a to-do list.

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Defensible, not decorative

Every control maps to a requirement and produces evidence that survives a real audit. No box-checking theater.

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AI-accelerated, human-verified

Where it helps, we use AI to speed up complex work and shorten delivery — but there is always a human in the loop validating and verifying every result. We use AI to improve our services and deliver quality faster, never to do less of the work.

Ready for a clearer path through compliance?

Tell us the framework and the deadline. We'll give you an honest read on what it takes — and guide you through it.

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