About Trawvid Sec

Founder-led cybersecurity advisory without the security theater.

Trawvid Sec helps small and mid-sized organizations turn contract pressure, compliance requirements, and scattered security work into practical decisions, usable documentation, and clearer next steps.

Why Trawvid Sec exists

SMBs deserve usable security guidance, not shelfware.

Trawvid Sec started by helping people close to the founders work through real cybersecurity questions with the professionalism and care the work deserved. The pattern became hard to ignore: too many SMBs were underprepared, oversold, and left with template documentation they could not use when contract, audit, or customer questions became serious.

The goal is not to create impressive-looking paperwork that sits on a shelf. Policies, procedures, risk decisions, and control plans should help the business answer practical questions quickly: what is in scope, who owns the decision, what evidence exists, what still needs work, and what happens next.

The focus areas include vCISO advisory, CMMC readiness, NIST 800-171-oriented program support, risk assessment, security program development, policy and procedure work, evidence-ready documentation, security architecture review, incident readiness, and remediation planning.

Founder perspective

Practical security leadership from people who have seen the messy version.

Trawvid Sec is built around the belief that good consulting should leave the organization more capable than it was before. The work is shaped by a simple question: how can security consulting deliver a high-level partner relationship without locking clients into a specific tool stack, MSP offering, or pile of paperwork they cannot use?

Co-Founder & Lead Consultant

Nicholas DiVito

Nicholas started in the MSP space in 2018, where security work became a steady part of solving real client problems. He later moved into corporate security and compliance work at Oshkosh, took on director-level cybersecurity work at Vultara, and then moved into Trawvid Sec full time.

"I want clients to be able to explain how their security program works, not point to a template they bought and hope it survives the next review."

Experience

His work has touched PCI DSS and GLBA-driven environments with law firms, insurance agencies, and car dealerships, along with CMMC and NIST 800-171 readiness work shaped by defense-contract pressure and SMB consulting.

Strengths

He focuses on C-suite communication, employee education, and right-sized solutions that improve how the organization operates instead of burying teams under jargon or half-solutions.

That perspective matters because many small and mid-sized businesses are not short on vendors, templates, or tool pitches. They are short on guidance that helps them understand the work, make decisions, and mature beyond checkbox compliance. Nicholas brings that lens across SMBs, machine shops, manufacturers, regulated businesses, and Fortune 500 environments.

Co-Founder & Advisor

Zachary Stewart

Zachary brings a career IT and security perspective shaped across highly regulated environments, with specific depth in high-velocity SaaS technology companies.

"Security should fit the business and the environment people actually operate, not force every client into the same stack because it is convenient for the consultant."

Experience

His background includes HIPAA, fintech, GLBA, lending, and HITRUST-oriented environments across technology, healthcare, lending and finance, and manufacturing.

Strengths

He combines hands-on building experience with security executive judgment, helping connect regulated-environment requirements to systems and practices teams can actually operate.

Zachary brings value in the space between technical buildout and executive security leadership. He understands how fast-moving technology teams operate, how regulated environments create real constraints, and how to turn security requirements into practices that can survive daily business pressure.

Who this is for

Organizations that need security work to become understandable and executable.

Manufacturers and machine shops

Teams balancing production work with customer, supplier, contract, and security expectations.

Defense subcontractors

Organizations that need to understand CMMC, NIST 800-171, DFARS-oriented requirements, scope, and evidence.

Regulated SMBs

Businesses handling sensitive data or regulated workflows that need security structure before questionnaires, reviews, or contract requirements become urgent.

How the work is done

Clear enough for leadership. Practical enough for the people doing the work.

Trawvid Sec is focused on advisory judgment, security program support, and practical control planning. The work is designed to improve decision-making and operating maturity, not to promise certification, legal outcomes, managed IT, or continuous monitoring services.

Start with reality

Security advice should reflect the systems, data, people, contracts, and operational constraints the business actually has.

Right-size the solution

A useful recommendation should fit the organization, not just sound impressive in a slide deck.

Teach while building

Executives and front-line teams need different levels of detail, but both need enough understanding to make the program real.

Document what matters

Policies, procedures, and evidence should explain reality, support reviews, and help the business answer practical questions.

Next step

If the security work feels scattered, bring the problem to a practical conversation.

Bring the contract pressure, control gap, risk question, architecture decision, or documentation problem that needs a clear next step.

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