Program Assessment
Evaluate cybersecurity maturity, identify meaningful gaps, validate whether security spending reduces risk, and produce board-ready metrics, ownership assignments, and a prioritized remediation roadmap.
Strengthen cybersecurity oversight with clear risk priorities, defensible governance, and board-ready reporting. Tyson Martin helps investment advisers and executive teams understand what matters, clarify decision rights, prepare for regulatory scrutiny, and turn cybersecurity risk into executable action without slowing business operations or creating unnecessary technical noise.
Governance, leadership, assessment, and preparedness services designed to make cybersecurity risk understandable and actionable.
Evaluate cybersecurity maturity, identify meaningful gaps, validate whether security spending reduces risk, and produce board-ready metrics, ownership assignments, and a prioritized remediation roadmap.
Receive ongoing senior security leadership for strategy, risk management, policy ownership, board reporting, and security program oversight without adding a full-time executive role.
Give boards and executives an independent perspective on cyber, AI, and technology risk through plain-English reporting, between-meeting access, and validation of security leadership updates.
Prepare directors, executives, and response teams for cyber incidents with tabletop exercises, incident readiness reviews, disclosure rehearsal, and practical crisis decision guidance.
Create a board-level view of vendor criticality, concentration, and exposure, helping leadership distinguish urgent third-party risks from lower-priority noise.
Define and document how much technology and cyber risk is acceptable, supported by decision rights, oversight metrics, and a clear review cadence.
Investment advisers need cybersecurity oversight that supports confident decisions, not lengthy technical presentations. Tyson Martin translates cyber exposure into business impact, clarifies accountability, and builds reporting that boards and executives can inspect. From program assessments and risk appetite setting to fractional leadership and crisis readiness, each engagement is designed to reduce surprises, improve escalation, and create executable priorities.
Experience across enterprise security transformation, technology governance, and executive cybersecurity advisory work.
"What sets Tyson apart is his ability to translate cybersecurity into strategic growth language for boards. He builds frameworks that don't just mitigate risk, they enable competitive advantage. He's exactly who you want guiding your organization in high-trust environments."
"We recently worked with Tyson Martin on an engagement, and it was a great experience. He helped us run a full technical audit, identified key gaps, and created a clear plan to modernize our systems and processes. Tyson is hands-on, easy to work with, and brings real technical and leadership..."
"Tyson's impact has been immediately clear. Before working with him, we were struggling with outdated processes that created inefficiencies across our organization, and his unbiased third party perspective helped us quickly identify issues and develop a clear, actionable plan for improvement. Based on our experience so far, I would recommend..."
"What sets Tyson apart is his ability to translate cybersecurity into strategic growth language for boards. He builds frameworks that don't just mitigate risk, they enable competitive advantage. He's exactly who you want guiding your organization in high-trust environments."
"What sets Tyson apart is his ability to translate cybersecurity into strategic growth language for boards. He builds frameworks that don't just mitigate risk, they enable competitive advantage. He's exactly who you want guiding your organization in high-trust environments."
"What sets Tyson apart is his ability to translate cybersecurity into strategic growth language for boards. He builds frameworks that don't just mitigate risk, they enable competitive advantage. He's exactly who you want guiding your organization in high-trust environments."
"We recently worked with Tyson Martin on an engagement, and it was a great experience. He helped us run a full technical audit, identified key gaps, and created a clear plan to modernize our systems and processes. Tyson is hands-on, easy to work with, and brings real technical and leadership..."
"Tyson's impact has been immediately clear. Before working with him, we were struggling with outdated processes that created inefficiencies across our organization, and his unbiased third party perspective helped us quickly identify issues and develop a clear, actionable plan for improvement. Based on our experience so far, I would recommend..."
"What sets Tyson apart is his ability to translate cybersecurity into strategic growth language for boards. He builds frameworks that don't just mitigate risk, they enable competitive advantage. He's exactly who you want guiding your organization in high-trust environments."
"What sets Tyson apart is his ability to translate cybersecurity into strategic growth language for boards. He builds frameworks that don't just mitigate risk, they enable competitive advantage. He's exactly who you want guiding your organization in high-trust environments."
"What sets Tyson apart is his ability to translate cybersecurity into strategic growth language for boards. He builds frameworks that don't just mitigate risk, they enable competitive advantage. He's exactly who you want guiding your organization in high-trust environments."
"We recently worked with Tyson Martin on an engagement, and it was a great experience. He helped us run a full technical audit, identified key gaps, and created a clear plan to modernize our systems and processes. Tyson is hands-on, easy to work with, and brings real technical and leadership..."
"Tyson's impact has been immediately clear. Before working with him, we were struggling with outdated processes that created inefficiencies across our organization, and his unbiased third party perspective helped us quickly identify issues and develop a clear, actionable plan for improvement. Based on our experience so far, I would recommend..."
"What sets Tyson apart is his ability to translate cybersecurity into strategic growth language for boards. He builds frameworks that don't just mitigate risk, they enable competitive advantage. He's exactly who you want guiding your organization in high-trust environments."
"What sets Tyson apart is his ability to translate cybersecurity into strategic growth language for boards. He builds frameworks that don't just mitigate risk, they enable competitive advantage. He's exactly who you want guiding your organization in high-trust environments."
Independent guidance for boards and executives who need clarity, accountability, and defensible cybersecurity decisions.
Translate technical exposure into business impact, board decisions, and management accountability without unnecessary jargon.
Draw on security and technology transformation leadership across AWS and global brands including Home Depot and Best Buy.
Receive objective validation of security reporting, priorities, governance gaps, and escalation thresholds.
Build stable metrics, assigned ownership, and measurable priorities that help leadership track whether risk is changing.
An experienced board advisor and fractional technology executive for complex cyber risk.
Board Advisor, Interim CISO/CIO/CDO, Fractional Executive
Tyson Martin helps boards and executive teams reduce technology and cyber risk without slowing business operations by clarifying decision rights, tightening governance, and building inspectable execution frameworks. He serves as a board advisor, director candidate, and steps in as interim or fractional CISO, CIO, or Chief Digital Officer when organizations need stability quickly. His background includes leading security and technology transformation across enterprise environments at AWS and global brands such as Home Depot and Best Buy. He brings particular expertise in helping Chicago-area organizations navigate the complex regulatory requirements across financial services, healthcare, and retail sectors. Tyson is an active contributor to the National Association of Corporate Directors, serves on the National Retail Federation CISO Executive Committee, contributes to the World Economic Forum's Centre for Cybersecurity, and served as ISC2 Richmond Board President. He holds CISSP certification and has completed executive programs at Carnegie Mellon University, Harvard Business School, MIT, and through leading technology companies including Google, Amazon, and Microsoft.
Cybersecurity risk management combines governance, risk assessment, oversight, reporting, and preparedness activities that help an investment adviser understand and manage technology-related exposure. The work may include evaluating security maturity, clarifying board and management responsibilities, setting risk appetite, reviewing third-party exposure, improving incident readiness, and creating reporting that supports informed decisions and regulatory scrutiny.
Talk with Tyson Martin about your board, executive, or security leadership priorities.
Cybersecurity certification held by Tyson Martin.
Certification listed for Tyson Martin.
Professional membership and active contribution.
Executive committee membership in cybersecurity leadership.
Active contributor to the cybersecurity centre.
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For immediate assistance, feel free to give us a direct call at +1 (802) 430-9200. You can also send us a quick email at tyson.martin@gmail.com.
For immediate assistance, feel free to give us a direct call at +1 (802) 430-9200. You can also send us a quick email at tyson.martin@gmail.com.