VerSprite Cybersecurity Consulting Services

Cybersecurity consulting services help organizations find, prioritize, and reduce security risk with outside expertise. At VerSprite, that covers three areas: building security into software and cloud environments (Builders), testing what attackers can actually exploit (Breakers), and detecting and responding to threats on an ongoing basis (Defenders). Every engagement is scoped by business impact using PASTA, the risk-centric threat modeling methodology co-created by VerSprite CEO Tony UcedaVélez.

“Cybersecurity consulting” describes everything from a single penetration test to a multi-year risk program, which makes it hard to know what you’re buying. At VerSprite, every engagement starts from one premise: security work should be prioritized by the business impact of a credible threat, not by a generic checklist of controls. That’s the thinking behind PASTA (Process for Attack Simulation and Threat Analysis), and it shapes how we scope everything from a focused application assessment to an enterprise-wide security program.

Where Consulting Fits Across the Security Lifecycle

Most organizations don’t need one service. They need the right sequence of services at the right time. Our three teams map to that lifecycle:

• Before code ships or infrastructure goes live: Builders integrate threat modeling, cloud security, and CI/CD security into development, so vulnerabilities are caught before they’re expensive to fix.
• Once systems are live: Breakers validate what’s actually exploitable through penetration testing, red teaming, and adversary emulation, testing assumptions rather than just scanning for known issues.
• On an ongoing basis: Defenders provide the monitoring, detection, and threat intelligence layer that catches what prevention missed, with digital forensics and incident response when needed.

Engagements can start anywhere in that sequence. A company shipping features weekly has different priorities than one managing a decade of legacy infrastructure.

Who Consulting Engagements Are Built For

Our consulting work concentrates in industries where a security failure has direct financial, safety, or regulatory consequences — financial services, healthcare, SaaS, retail, and manufacturing among them. That concentration matters: a threat model for a payment platform looks nothing like one for a hospital network or an industrial control system, and 16 years of engagements across those sectors informs how we scope new ones. Whether the immediate need is a single assessment or a long-term program, the starting point is the same conversation: what’s the credible threat, and what’s the actual business impact if it materializes.

Assessment, Advisory, and Managed Engagement Models

Many clients combine all three: an assessment identifies priorities, advisory work builds the program to address them, and managed services sustain it. Every engagement traces back to a defined threat model, not an abstract compliance framework.

Who Consulting Engagements Are Built For

Our work concentrates in industries where a security failure has direct financial, safety, or regulatory consequences. A threat model for a payment platform looks nothing like one for a hospital network or an industrial control system, and 19+ years of engagements across these sectors inform how we scope new ones. Whether the need is a single assessment or a long-term program, the starting conversation is the same: what’s the credible threat, and what’s the business impact if it materializes?

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PASTA is a seven-stage, risk-centric threat modeling methodology co-created by VerSprite CEO Tony UcedaVélez and documented in Risk-Centric Threat Modeling (Wiley, 2015). It lets our penetration testers, red teamers, and analysts focus on the vulnerabilities that carry real business impact, not just the ones with the highest technical score.

1. Define Objectives: Establish the business objectives, compliance requirements, and impact tolerance the application supports, so every later stage is tied to what the business stands to lose.
2. Define Technical Scope: Enumerate the technology stack, infrastructure, and dependencies that support those objectives. You can’t protect what you don’t know exists.
3. Application Decomposition: Map data flows, trust boundaries, and interactions among application components and services.
4. Threat Analysis: Review threat intelligence and environment-specific data relevant to the application’s services, data, and deployment model.
5. Vulnerability & Weakness Analysis: Identify weaknesses in design and code and correlate them with the threats identified in Stage 4.
6. Attack Modeling: Simulate the attack paths that could exploit those weaknesses to determine which threats are actually viable.
7. Risk & Impact Analysis: Weigh business impact, likelihood, and countermeasure cost to produce a prioritized remediation plan, including where risk acceptance is appropriate.

What Is PASTA Threat Modeling? · PASTA Threat Modeling Service

VerSprite holds CREST accreditation for web and mobile application security testing. Our consultants hold industry certifications, including CISSP, CISM, CISA, GIAC, and GSEC.