Security gaps identified
From the 25-control gap assessment to full framework readiness: what exposes you, found and ranked by business cost. Not a scanner dump.
Ready for the day a hacker picks your business?
Let’s put it to the test. One quick assessment shows you how a hacker would get in, what to fix first, and what fixing it should cost. Three minutes. Free.
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- Get your risk score out of 100
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Built from documented attack patterns & published breach data · prefer a person? Book a call
Grounded in
What you get.
Four things change when the work is done right. Everything else is detail.
Written remediation plan
A dated, sequenced fix plan with owners and costs, plus the evidence pack that answers insurers, auditors, and enterprise customers.
Advisor-led coordination
One named advisor runs the work, from questionnaires to board questions, so IT and leadership stop re-explaining the same things.
Reduced breach exposure
One breach or denied claim can erase years of prevention budget. Every fix, on every service, is chosen to keep that day from happening.
Avg. healthcare breach cost: $7.42M (IBM, 2025)
Breach-cost figure: IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report, 2025 (healthcare industry average).
Our services.
Security assessments, compliance readiness, and ongoing security leadership. Start with a free 30-minute scope call.
Security assessments
Start with an entry-level gap assessment: 25 core security checks and a prioritized action plan. Choose a full risk assessment when you need a deeper review.
Compliance readiness
PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOC 1 & SOC 2, and ISO 27001. We assess requirements, identify gaps, and prepare your team for the applicable review.
Fractional CISO
A named advisor owns your security program on a monthly retainer, for a fraction of an executive hire. Your IT executes; we direct.
How we work.
Six steps from the first call to a security program that keeps running.
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Step 01
Meet your advisor.
We name the advisor who will lead the work from the first call through the final findings review, with qualifications confirmed in the engagement scope.
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Step 02
Confirm scope, timeline, and fees.
On a free 30-minute call, we identify the service you need and document the scope, timeline, and fee before work starts.
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Step 03
Assess your security controls.
The gap assessment comes first: your controls checked against the bar you are held to (NIST CSF, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOC, or ISO 27001), each one scored.
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Step 04
Review the findings and remediation plan.
One written report with every finding ranked, our recommendations, and a dated plan with owners and costs. Leadership can approve it; IT can run it.
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Step 05
Complete and verify remediation.
Policies written, controls fixed, evidence collected, training run, validators prepped. Your team executes; we direct and verify, from WISP writing to pen test management.
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Step 06
Choose ongoing support.
Option A · the typical path
Keep your advisor on retainer.
The advisor who learned your environment stays on to help you implement the roadmap, guide your IT or MSP, and give ongoing advice as things change.
How the retainer worksOption B
Or run it with your team.
The report and roadmap are yours. Hand them to your IT team or MSP and work the plan at your pace.
What the report includes
How Hardenwell does it differently.
A dedicated advisor
One named, CISSP-certified advisor leads your engagement from start to finish, supported by a team of vetted specialists. You have one accountable contact throughout the work.
No referral commissions
We do not accept referral fees, commissions, or kickbacks from auditors, testing firms, or software providers. Our recommendations are based on your requirements. Our clients pay us directly.
A written remediation plan
You receive documented findings, priorities, responsibilities, and recommended fixes. Leadership can approve the work, and your IT team or MSP can use the same plan to implement it.
Client reviews.
Forefront Dermatology
★★★★★
I thought the assessment would just become another IT list. Hardenwell Cybersecurity Advisors helped turn it into priorities, and their follow-up kept clinic leadership out of the technical back-and-forth.
U.S. Dermatology Partners
★★★★★
We already knew cybersecurity mattered, so I was not looking for a generic checklist or another vendor telling us obvious things. The value from the Hardenwell advisors was the independent validation. They helped separate urgent risk from noise, challenged a few assumptions in a constructive way, and then explained the same issues in business terms for leadership. That made the next steps much easier to defend.
Schweiger Dermatology Group
★★★★★
Our biggest concern was disruption. The Hardenwell team understood that security work cannot slow down busy practices. They helped IT focus on the highest-risk items first and phase the rest around normal operations.
Anne Arundel Dermatology
★★★★★
The assessment surfaced a few uncomfortable things around access, old accounts, and consistency between locations. Nobody loves seeing that in writing. What I appreciated was that the consultant we worked with did not make it dramatic or dump everything on us at once. They helped us decide what had to be fixed first, worked with IT on the details, and checked back after the first round of changes. That follow-up is what kept the plan from fading out after the report.
Epiphany Dermatology
★★★★★
I needed the security risk explained in leadership terms. Our Hardenwell advisor gave us that view, then helped the right people take ownership of the fixes.
Heartland Dental
★★★★★
Security can easily get pushed behind digital projects because the product work always feels more visible. The advisors at Hardenwell helped us keep the risk items in the same conversation as our technology roadmap. Some of the recommendations were simple, but they needed ownership. Their follow-up helped us assign that ownership and keep the remediation work from disappearing behind the next project.
PDS Health / Pacific Dental Services
★★★★★
We were not looking for a cookie-cutter security review. The consulting team at Hardenwell took time to understand how our technology environment supports the business, then gave us recommendations that were practical, sequenced, and specific enough to act on.
Smile Brands
★★★★★
The pressure point was answering security questions with confidence. Their team helped us verify what was actually in place, document the gaps, and tighten up the items our IT team could handle.
MB2 Dental
★★★★★
We had some things handled well and other things that depended too much on the individual office. The Hardenwell consultants helped us see the pattern without turning it into finger-pointing. That mattered. The biggest win was getting a clearer standard, a practical first set of fixes, and a way for our IT team to move without waiting on endless internal debate.
North American Dental Group
★★★★★
The report was useful, but the advisory follow-up was what made it stick. Our advisor connected the findings to the systems and data our teams rely on every day, which gave us owners instead of vague risk talk.
Mortenson Dental Partners
★★★★★
I was bracing for a long list of expensive recommendations. That is not what we got. A lot of the first work was actually things our IT team could handle with the right direction. The Hardenwell team helped us separate quick internal fixes from the areas where we really did need outside support, and they were direct about both. It felt practical, not salesy.
American Addiction Centers
★★★★★
We needed a security assessment that understood behavioral-health data and clinical operations. The advisors kept the conversation grounded, focused us on the risks that mattered most, and stayed involved so remediation did not become a side project.
Cenikor Foundation
★★★★★
Our hesitation was budget. Their consultants helped us avoid overbuying while still taking the security gaps seriously. That was exactly the balance we needed.
Meridian Behavioral Health / EOSIS
★★★★★
We had an IT provider, but it was hard to tell if we were focusing on the right security work or just the most recent request. The Hardenwell advisor gave us an independent read without immediately pushing us to replace anyone. That changed the tone of the conversation. We could ask better questions, understand the tradeoffs, and keep the remediation plan moving without turning every issue into an argument about the vendor.
Behavioral Health Group
★★★★★
The challenge was deciding what to do first across a busy care environment. The team pressure-tested access controls, remote-work exposure, and vendor dependencies, then kept the plan realistic enough for the technical team to execute.
First American Title / First American Financial
★★★★★
In a regulated business, a second set of eyes matters. The consultants at Hardenwell did not approach the assessment like we were starting from zero, which I appreciated. They validated what was working and pushed on the areas that needed attention. The difference was the implementation plan afterward. It had owners, priorities, and enough detail that teams could move without waiting for someone to reinterpret the report.
Stewart Title / Stewart Information Services
★★★★★
The hard part was not finding things to improve. It was knowing which improvements mattered most. Our Hardenwell advisor helped weigh risk, effort, and business impact so the plan felt practical.
Plymouth Title Guaranty
★★★★★
We are not large enough to justify a full-time CISO, but we still needed someone looking at security from a leadership perspective. Their fractional advisor filled that gap. The assessment gave us clarity, but the ongoing check-ins were what helped our IT support stay focused. It turned security from a once-a-year worry into a manageable list of work.
Title Guaranty Company
★★★★★
A lot of the pressure came from insurance and client security questions. The Hardenwell team helped us stop guessing and gave us a realistic path to close the gaps that were most likely to create problems.
WACO Title Company
★★★★★
We were not sure if our MSP was the problem or if we just needed better direction. The advisor from Hardenwell was honest about what they saw and did not push us into a decision before the facts were clear. They gave us a way to evaluate support, not just a list of complaints. That helped us make smarter choices about both the provider relationship and the security priorities.
Aprio
★★★★★
The assessment brought up the right uncomfortable questions around access, client data, and old accounts. The consultants at Hardenwell handled it professionally and helped us separate urgent work from cleanup work.
GRF CPAs & Advisors
★★★★★
What stood out was the specificity. The advisory team did not just say we should improve access controls or MFA; they helped us verify what was configured, where the exceptions were, and how to show progress. It made the assessment useful for IT, but also for leadership. We could see what had changed and what still needed attention.
Grassi
★★★★★
The technical findings mattered, but the bigger value was how the Hardenwell advisor explained them. They translated security risk into business risk for our partners, then worked with IT on the details. Decisions moved faster because both sides understood the same issue.
Chai Discovery
★★★★★
We move quickly. Security work can get buried behind research and product priorities. The Hardenwell team helped us identify the risks that could not wait and assign ownership without turning the process into bureaucracy.
Element Biosciences
★★★★★
Our concern was protecting critical systems and intellectual property without slowing down the teams building the future of the business. The consultants understood that balance. They did not treat every finding like the same level of emergency, which made the assessment easier to use. We came away with a practical sequence of fixes, clearer ownership, and a better way to explain security priorities to technical and nontechnical leaders.
Crinetics Pharmaceuticals
★★★★★
We needed the assessment to be practical in a life-sciences environment where change cannot be careless. Our Hardenwell advisor helped us prioritize the security items that mattered and move remediation forward in a controlled way.
Generate:Biomedicines
★★★★★
Our environment is technical, cloud-heavy, and built around sensitive research. The advisors at Hardenwell helped us look at the security picture without flattening it into generic advice. Some findings were about tooling, but many were really about ownership and defaults. Their follow-up helped the team focus on permissions, data exposure, and who had to make each decision. That made the work feel much more connected to how we actually operate.
Orna Therapeutics
★★★★★
We did not need another report dropped off and forgotten. The fractional advisor from Hardenwell made the assessment useful by helping the team act on it.
Industries we work with.
Businesses of 25 to 200 people that hold data someone else expects them to protect.
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Healthcare & medical groups
HIPAA module built in. OCR’s enforcement record speaks for itself.
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Dental groups & DSOs
Multi-location practices with shared systems and shared risk.
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Behavioral health & addiction treatment
Clinical data, care operations, and HIPAA risk that cannot stay theoretical.
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Legal firms
Client confidentiality, matter data, wire risk, and evidence of due care.
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Financial services & advisory firms
Customer data, fraud exposure, vendor reviews, and insurance questionnaires.
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Accounting & CPA firms
Tax records, client financial data, partner expectations, and audit pressure.
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Title, real estate & transaction services
Wire-fraud risk, closing data, lender expectations, and vendor controls.
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Biotech & life sciences
Research data, intellectual property, cloud systems, and controlled change.
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SaaS, technology & cloud-heavy teams
Customer security reviews, identity risk, cloud exposure, and vendor questionnaires.
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Other regulated SMBs
Any 25–200 employee business that needs a defensible security program.
About Hardenwell.
Hardenwell Cybersecurity Advisors LLC helps regulated small and midsize organizations understand cyber risk, prove what is already working, and complete the work that remains.
Mailing address: 121 Alhambra Plaza, Suite 1000 PMB1060, Coral Gables, FL 33134.
Every engagement is led by a named advisor, not an AI-only report or a rotating bench. We work with your existing IT team or MSP, review the evidence, map findings to the framework that fits your business, and turn the result into a written plan leadership can approve.
Talk with an advisor
- Named advisor
- The same person leads the briefing, assessment, findings walkthrough, and follow-through.
- Verified qualifications
- The advisor’s relevant experience and qualifications are confirmed before the engagement begins.
- Written scope
- Deliverables, timing, fees, and any change orders are documented before the work moves.
- Built around your team
- Clear direction for your current IT staff or MSP without forcing a replacement.
Questions owners ask us.
Honest answer: it depends, and then it stops depending. Price moves with headcount, number of locations, system complexity (an EHR, heavy cloud), and which modules apply (HIPAA, penetration testing). Retainers scale the same way, by hours and cadence. But here’s the part that never varies: your exact price is fixed in writing at the free 30-minute briefing, before any work starts, and it changes only by signed change order. No meter running.
Because that’s the model working, not a problem. Your IT team runs the systems; we run the security program. An independent assessment covers what IT alone can’t: policies, training, vendors, physical safeguards. And the retainer hands your IT a prioritized, funded to-do list instead of a pile of alerts. Good MSPs like working with us. It’s the approved work they’ve been asking you to sign off on for years.
Most assessments are planned for two to four weeks from kickoff to delivered report, depending on scope. The target date, evidence windows, interviews, and client responsibilities are documented before work begins.
No. We work from configurations, policies, scan results, and interviews. Clients redact patient or client identifiers before submitting evidence. We assess how the data is protected, never the data itself.
No, and keep a hand on your wallet around anyone who says otherwise. What you get is what regulators, insurers, and auditors actually ask to see: a current, defensible risk assessment and a written record of what you fixed.
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