Where the threat model starts with a nation
Aerospace and defense organizations hold controlled technology, design data, and sensitive program information that adversarial states actively work to acquire. The threat is patient, well-resourced, and often arrives through a smaller subcontractor rather than the front door. Export-control regimes and controlled-data handling standards such as NIST SP 800-171 set explicit expectations for how this information must be protected, both directly and across the supply chain.
Alpha CISO advises aerospace and defense firms and their suppliers where the adversary is sophisticated and the consequences of compromise are strategic.
How we help
- Controlled-data protection. Identify and protect sensitive and controlled technical data to a defensible, standards-aligned baseline.
- Supply-chain security. Extend governance to subcontractors and partners, the route advanced actors most often exploit.
- APT resilience. Build detection and response calibrated to patient, well-resourced adversaries rather than commodity threats.
- Export-control alignment. Reconcile data-handling and access obligations with export-control expectations.
Defensible against a determined state
When the adversary is a nation, point-in-time compliance is not enough. We build programs that hold up under sustained, sophisticated pressure.