Echelon Risk + Cyber —
Full-Stack Cybersecurity: Advisory + Offensive + Defensive Under One Operator

Echelon fits operating models that need a full-stack cybersecurity partner spanning advisory (vCISO, GRC, board-level reporting), offensive testing (penetration testing, red team, purple team), and managed defensive operations (MDR, SOC, EDR, cloud security) under one operator. Strongest fit is buyers in financial services, healthcare, manufacturing/OT, and regulated mid-market and enterprise where cyber maturity, compliance posture, and active defense all need to advance together rather than being staffed across separate vendors.

Echelon delivers vCISO and Security Team as a Service (STaaS), GRC-as-a-Service with HIPAA / PCI / CMMC / ISO 27001 / NIST CSF / FFIEC CAT / GDPR coverage, penetration testing (network, web/API, mobile, wireless, cloud, social engineering, physical), red and purple team operations, Managed Detection & Response (MDR) with 24x7 SOC, managed EDR / SIEM / vulnerability management, managed cloud security for AWS / Azure / GCP, incident response and DFIR retainers, M&A cyber due diligence, AI risk governance and ISO 42001 implementation, and SOC 2 / PCI QSA support. The structural difference is one operator across advisory, offensive, and defensive cybersecurity rather than aggregating three separate vendor categories.

Generic MSSPs deliver managed defensive operations but stop at the strategic-advisory and offensive-testing line. Pure vCISO firms deliver advisory but don't operate SOC, MDR, or pen-testing in-house. Echelon delivers vCISO + STaaS + GRCaaS + offensive testing (pen test, red team, purple team) + managed defensive (MDR, EDR, SIEM, cloud security) under one accountable operator — fitting buyers whose cyber strategy needs strategic, offensive, and defensive layers advancing together rather than disconnected across separate firms.

vCISO delivers fractional Chief Information Security Officer leadership — strategy, governance, board reporting, regulatory alignment. STaaS (Security Team as a Service) delivers an extended security team beneath vCISO leadership for execution. GRCaaS (Governance, Risk & Compliance as a Service) delivers ongoing compliance, risk-register, third-party risk, and audit-readiness operations. Together fits buyers whose security and compliance posture needs both executive leadership and execution capacity without building a full internal security team.

M&A cyber due diligence assesses target-company cyber posture before closing and supports post-acquisition integration — fitting acquirers whose deal flow includes cyber-risk-bearing targets that must be assessed against the acquirer's compliance baseline. AI risk governance and ISO 42001 implementation address shadow-AI discovery, LLM firewall deployment, and AI-model risk assessments — fitting buyers whose AI usage now creates compliance and data-handling risks beyond traditional cyber scope.

No. Your service agreement is signed directly with Echelon and Echelon's standard customer terms apply. Fibi's role is to scope your cybersecurity / vCISO / MDR / pen-test / GRC objective against Echelon and the most relevant alternatives — including pure-play MSSPs, vCISO-only firms, pen-test-only firms, and GRC-only consultancies — so you see how Echelon's full-stack advisory + offensive + defensive posture compares before signing. Fibi's advisory work is provider-funded.