For owners and leadership teams of small and mid-sized companies
Cybersecurity decisions should be financial decisions.
XLerate Cyber puts dollar figures on cyber risk. Instead of a red-yellow-green report, you learn what a bad year would actually cost your company, and which fixes buy back the most risk per dollar.
This is what your leadership team sees: cyber risk in dollars, not colors.
Figures from a real sample assessment produced by our tooling. Illustrative, not a prediction for your business.
The executive problem
Security inputs are multiplying. Decision clarity is not.
Fragmented advice
Your IT provider, insurer, auditors, vendors, and regulators each see one slice of the risk picture. Nobody owns the whole.
Scores, not dollars
Recommendations arrive as red, yellow, green. Colors do not tell you what to fund, defer, accept, or explain.
Proof pressure
Boards, clients, insurers, and partners increasingly expect evidence of progress, not assurances.
First engagement
The Cyber Risk Assessment
A 2-3 week, fixed-fee assessment that tells you how much cyber risk your company is carrying, in dollars, and what to fix first.
We interview your leadership team and review the documents you already have. A few hours of your time in total.
Every major risk becomes a probability and a dollar range: what a normal year costs you, and what a bad year would look like.
We rank every fix by the risk it removes per dollar spent, then walk your leadership through the results.
What leadership receives
A board-ready cyber risk decision package.
Executive risk report
Plain-English findings, your expected annual loss, and every recommended fix ranked by the risk it removes per dollar spent.
Board briefing
The exposure story in dollars and the specific decisions leadership needs to own.
30/60/90-day roadmap
Actions with owners and dates, in a plan you can actually track.
Every document is generated by our own tooling: fast, consistent, and the figures will not drift between drafts.
Why XLerate Cyber
Three things you will not find together anywhere else.
Dollars, not scores
Most programs hand you a maturity score and a heatmap. We put a dollar figure on every risk and rank every fix by risk removed per dollar, so the deliverable is a budget case your CFO can approve.
Operators, not auditors
This work is led by people who have run IT and security inside small and mid-sized companies for 20+ years, including leading major ransomware recoveries end to end: executive, legal, forensics, and IT.
Measure first, then align
Checklist-driven programs stall: item 47 of 150, and no one remembers why. We price the risk first, then fix things in the order the math says matters, so every quarter of progress is also the biggest available cut in your dollars at risk.
You will get the most from this if
- Your leadership answers to a board, an insurer, clients, or investors.
- Your company is roughly 20 to 500 people.
- A renewal, a diligence request, a budget decision, or a recent scare is on the table.
Regulated and professional-services firms tend to be the best fit: the proof pressure is already on their desk. If that is not you but the questions ring true, the fit call will sort it quickly.
After the assessment
The assessment is the map. Then we work the map.
The assessment stands alone, and most clients decide about ongoing help after the readout. For those who continue, XLerate Cyber offers an ongoing advisory retainer: we work the priority list in the order the math says matters and align your security program to the standards your insurers, auditors, and customers ask about. By the time you are substantially aligned, you can prove it, in dollars, to every one of them.
Common questions
Asked on almost every fit call.
We already have an MSP or IT provider.
Keep them, and we will use their work. Your IT provider tells you what is technically wrong. They are not positioned to tell you what a bad year costs or which fix is worth the money; that is not their job. We are the layer that turns their findings into a financial decision, and we do not replace them.
We already have cyber insurance.
Good. Keep that too. Insurance transfers some of the risk; it does not reduce it, and it does not tell you what to fix. The assessment gives you the number your policy limits and reserves should be sized against: what a genuinely bad year would cost. For most companies, it is the first time anyone has put a defensible figure on that.
How is this different from a pen test or an audit?
A pen test finds holes. An audit checks boxes. Both hand you a list with no budget logic. We answer the question those leave open: which of these is worth fixing first, and what is fixing it worth in dollars.
How did you arrive at the numbers?
Three ingredients. Published industry loss studies, so no estimate starts as a blank guess. Your environment: interviews and a control review move each estimate up or down. And your financials: your revenue, your downtime cost, your records, so the damage is scaled to your business instead of someone else's. Every estimate is a range, not a single number, and every one is on the table: if you think one is wrong, we change it, rerun the analysis, and see whether the priorities move. Usually they do not, and that stability is the point. These are planning estimates, not guarantees, and we say so before you ask.
What do you need from us, and how much of our time?
A few hours of leadership time (3 to 5 conversations), the policies and vendor documents you already have, and an honest conversation about how much risk you are comfortable living with. We handle most of the evidence collection ourselves.
Who is behind this
Built from practical operating experience.
Founder Noel Catrambone brings 20+ years of IT and cybersecurity leadership across financial services, private equity, asset management, fintech, and regulated public-company environments. He has advised executive teams across 200+ client relationships and helped lead recovery efforts for major ransomware events. XLerate Cyber is a practice of XL.net, an established managed IT firm, so the advice comes from people who run environments like yours every day.
One clear boundary: XLerate Cyber advises, quantifies, and coordinates. We do not replace your MSP, legal counsel, insurer, or internal risk owner. The goal is to give leadership a defensible decision cadence and an evidence trail.
Next step
Start with a 30-minute fit call.
We confirm your pressure points, scope, timing, and the exact fee, and whether the 2-3 week assessment is the right first move. If it is not, we will say so on the call.