Cybersecurity Advisory & Consulting
dfensive.com
Advisory and consulting services for organizations building, maturing, or reassessing their security programs. dfensive.com provides strategic guidance grounded in operational experience, helping leaders reason about risk, architecture, and security decisions that must hold up under scrutiny.
- Virtual CISO (vCISO) services
- Security program design and maturity
- Vulnerability management and assessments
- Penetration testing coordination
- Security awareness and risk communication
Executives, security leaders, SMBs, growing organizations
Cybersecurity & AI Research and Analysis
dfensive.ai
dfensive.ai is a research and thought-leadership hub focused on the intersection of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. It prioritizes depth, context, and honest analysis — offering clarity for leaders and practitioners navigating AI-driven change.
- Long-form research and essays
- Executive-level briefings
- Analysis of AI-related security risk, governance, and operations
- Human-centered perspectives on emerging technology
Security leaders, architects, practitioners, and decision-makers seeking signal over noise
Cybersecurity Education Through the Lens of AI
dfensive.academy Launching Soon
Attackers use AI. Defenders use AI. Leaders evaluate AI risk every day. Security no longer exists apart from AI — it operates through it. dfensive.academy builds the judgment required to operate in AI-driven security environments. This is not tool training, certification prep, or prompt engineering. It is education designed to help people think clearly when automation is present and stakes are high.
- Judgment under automation — when to trust, verify, or override AI output
- Reasoning about AI-related risk — new attack surfaces and failure modes
- Confidence alongside AI systems — operate without automation bias
- Clear risk communication — translate technical AI risk into decisions
Teaching philosophy
- Mental models over tool catalogs
- Decision-making over memorization
- Human-in-the-loop by design
- Durability over novelty
Career switchers, practitioners adapting to AI-driven workflows, IT and engineering professionals, security leaders and risk owners
The Execution Layer
dfensive.pro Coming Soon
dfensive.pro is launching as the execution layer of the dFensive ecosystem — where security intent becomes consistent, repeatable action across defense, offense, and risk. Security rarely fails due to a lack of tools. It fails when context, decisions, and responsibility fragment across teams.
What's coming
- Practitioner-built security software
- AI-assisted workflows
- Decision-support capabilities
- Custom solutions aligned to organizational context
AI-forward by design — human-led by necessity. dfensive.pro supports AI-driven capabilities, AI-assisted workflows with human oversight, and non-AI automation and visualization where determinism or governance is required. Decisions remain explainable, reviewable, and owned by people.
Domain coverage
- Defensive capabilities
- Offensive & validation capabilities
- Risk & decision enablement
Security leaders, engineers, architects, and risk owners
