Threat model with a named adversary
Which states target your sector, what they collect, and how they've done it to companies like yours — so controls answer a real adversary, not a generic checklist.
Services Counter Nation-State Espionage
Counter Nation-State Espionage & National Security Program
A national security program for companies nation-states actually target.
If your technology matters to a foreign government, assume you're already a target. We build and run security programs designed for state-grade adversaries — hardened infrastructure, counterintelligence-aware operations, and response plans for advanced persistent threats.
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What is nation-state espionage against companies?
Nation-state espionage against companies is intelligence collection by foreign governments: APT intrusions, insider recruitment, front-company partnerships and investments, talent-program recruitment, and supply-chain compromise. Startups in AI, defense, semiconductors, aerospace, and biotech are targeted for the same reason they raise money — their technology is strategically valuable. A national security program treats that as an operating assumption rather than a headline risk.
What you get
Hardening that assumes an APT
Identity, endpoint, cloud, and build-pipeline controls prioritized against state-actor tradecraft — the measures that matter when the attacker is patient and funded.
Counterintelligence-aware operations
Hiring screens, partnership and investor diligence, travel and conference practices — the human channels state collection actually favors, handled without paranoia theater.
Response and reporting readiness
Playbooks for suspected state intrusion, decision frameworks for when and how to engage government channels like the FBI or CISA, and communication plans that hold up.
How it works
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Briefing
Confidential, under NDA.A closed-door threat briefing on how state actors target your sector and where your company is exposed — technology, people, partners, and infrastructure.
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Harden
Prioritized by adversary, not by checklist.We implement the controls that matter against your threat model — infrastructure, identity, vetting, travel — sequenced so the highest-value collection paths close first.
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Operate
Ongoing.The program runs: monitoring tuned for APT tradecraft, counterintelligence practices in hiring and partnerships, periodic re-briefings as your profile and the threat evolve.
Counter Nation-State Espionage & National Security Program questions, answered
Would a nation-state really target a startup our size?
Yes — strategic value, not headcount, is the criterion. If your technology shortens another country's path in AI, defense, semiconductors, aerospace, or biotech, you're worth collecting against, and early-stage companies are softer targets than the primes they sell to. Being small doesn't make you invisible; it makes you efficient to compromise.
How do state actors actually get in?
Through people as often as through code: recruitment of insiders, front-company partnerships and investment approaches, and talent-program outreach — alongside the technical routes of phishing, supply-chain compromise, and APT intrusion. A program that only hardens infrastructure covers half the problem.
We're pursuing ITAR/CMMC. Doesn't that already cover this?
Those are compliance floors written for contractors, and state adversaries don't stop at floors. This program is the same rigor aimed at the adversary those frameworks exist for: threat-driven controls, counterintelligence practices, and response readiness that compliance checklists don't reach. The two efforts reinforce each other, and we run both.
Who runs this program?
Senior YSecurity operators, and the team includes a former U.S. Navy SEAL and Intel security expert. This is the part of our practice closest to our people's backgrounds — it's run like an operation, not an audit.
What does engagement look like?
NDA first, then the confidential briefing. Everything after that is scoped to your exposure, billed in 15-minute increments with an optional monthly cap, and run on a need-to-know basis inside your own company.
Your technology is strategically valuable. Someone else has already noticed.
Assume the target. Act like it.
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