Specialist security engineering for teams under a mandate they have to prove
The security you have to prove — engineered and run for you.
A compliance platform monitors your controls; FEDLIN builds and runs them — the security your customers, auditors, and regulators make you prove — down to the post-quantum and AI-native layer.
Partnerships Vanta MSP · Google Cloud Partner · Red Hat Partner
Why it can't wait
The bar keeps rising. The clock is already running.
Each one is a bounded, sequenced job — and FEDLIN builds and clears it for you.
$4.44M
Average cost of a data breach in 2025 — the downside you're being asked to prove you've controlled.
IBM Cost of a Data Breach 2025
2 in 3
Security leaders say customers, investors, and suppliers now demand proof of security and compliance before they'll commit.
Vanta State of Trust 2025 (n=2,500)
2030
Federal deadline to move key exchange to post-quantum crypto — inventories and migration plans are due now. Long-lived data has to outlast the migration, so the inventory comes first.
OMB M-26-15 · EO 14412
Why FEDLIN
The controls, built and running.
FEDLIN builds the controls into your infrastructure and keeps them running. Here's what that looks like today.
Crypto inventory tooling, engineered
A CycloneDX CBOM generator and SLH-DSA signing pipeline FEDLIN engineered — the machinery behind the post-quantum assessment. The deliverable ships signed with a detached SLH-DSA (FIPS 205) attestation the recipient can verify, produced on FEDLIN's FIPS 140-3 platform.
Sovereign, in-boundary
Self-hosted models on air-gapped infrastructure, running today — so delivery stays inside your environment: nothing leaves, no FedRAMP dependency, no custody of your data.
Post-quantum key exchange, verified
Cloudflare's hybrid X25519+ML-KEM-768 key exchange — enabled by FEDLIN across every client zone via Terraform, verified in the handshake, and documented as evidence rather than assumed.
Edge security shipped
WAF, security headers, TLS hardening, and DMARC deployed as code across those same zones — a running control layer, not a recommendation.
Where engagements start
Two ways in — enter through the gate in front of you
Most engagements start with one of two pressures. Pick the one that's real for you — both lead to the same embedded-architect seat.
A deal or an audit is waiting on security
Clear the security review holding up the business
From $5,000
A customer's security review, a SOC 2, an enterprise questionnaire — the gate you have to clear to keep selling. FEDLIN builds the controls, wires the evidence, and clears it, then keeps it clear.
SOC 2 · Vanta · NIST 800-53
Start with the compliance door →A mandate set the clock
Meet the post-quantum mandate
From $5,000
A federal post-quantum deadline or a prime's requirement — under EO 14412 / OMB M-26-15. The CBOM inventory is the commodity part; the product is the migration judgment on top — delivered for you, engineering-led, not a platform your team has to stand up and run. In-boundary, built on a FIPS 140-3 foundation; the entry assessment is card-buyable by a federal agency under the $15K micro-purchase threshold, no contract vehicle.
CBOM · CNSA 2.0 · 800-53 crosswalk · in-boundary
Explore the post-quantum offer →Both lead to the same embedded-architect seat — on the same frontier depth: post-quantum key exchange in production, AI-native engineering alongside it.
The core program
FEDLIN becomes your embedded security architect.
One seat that keeps you cleared — every service runs through it, built on NIST 800-53 Rev 5. Start here when ongoing security is the need, or reach it by clearing the gate in front of you. Both roads meet at the seat.
Scoping call
Free. We map the gate in front of you and the architecture behind it.
Assessment
The paid door. Your exposure becomes a client-owned Risk Register — every finding ranked, costed, and framework-mapped.
Remediation
The controls get built and the backlog driven to closure, with evidence.
Embedded architect
The destination — your security architect without making the hire.
The seat is reached by expansion from a project — or entered directly when ongoing security is the need.
The seat scales with what's at stake — Enablement (controls built and kept running), Assurance (a security architect in the loop on every deal review), or Stewardship (full ownership of a regulated or high-consequence program). Scoped to your architecture, priced on the call.
What the assessment leaves you holding
The Risk Register — yours to keep.
The assessment's deliverable isn't a slide deck. It's a client-owned Risk Register: every finding ranked, costed, and mapped to the frameworks you answer to — the action plan you keep whether or not the work continues with us.
Risk Register — what's in every row
Finding
What's exposed
Surface
Where it lives
Severity
How bad
Business impact
What it costs you
Frameworks satisfied
SOC 2 · 800-53 · edge · PQC
Remediation + effort
The fix, and the lift
Routes to
Which program clears it
Status
Open → closed, with evidence
One fix, every framework it satisfies
The Frameworks-satisfied column projects a single remediation into whichever standard the room names — SOC 2, NIST 800-53, edge, post-quantum. The post-quantum column is evidenced by a generated CBOM artifact, not an assertion. You engineer the control once; it clears the gate in each framework it maps to.
It scopes and prices what comes next
Each finding routes to the program that closes it, and the ongoing seat is priced off what the register actually measures — surfaces, findings, severity — not a blind quote before anyone has looked.
Who you're working with
Principal-led security engineering.
FEDLIN comes out of a decade inside regulated NIST 800-53 environments — HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOX, NERC/FERC-CIP — now paired with the post-quantum and AI-native work above. Engineering-led throughout.
More about FEDLIN →Let's build your security program.
It starts with a scoping call — we map the gate in front of you and scope the engagement from there.
Book a Scoping CallAdvisor, MSP, or agency? You keep the client and the relationship — we're the engineering arm, findings to you first. See the partner program →
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From the Blog
Latest field notes
SPIFFE/SPIRE on OpenShift: Building the Workload Identity Plane Your Zero-Trust Model Is Missing
After locking down human and device access, pod-to-pod communication was still trust-the-network. SPIFFE/SPIRE closes that gap. Short-lived cryptographic identities, attested per-workload, chained under your existing Root CA.
Taking Inventory: You Can't Migrate the Cryptography You Can't See
A federal mandate now requires agencies to inventory the cryptography they're running, with acquisition rules written to reach the contractors who serve them — and mandate or not, you can't migrate what you can't see. My FIPS 140-3 rebuild gave me a validated floor but didn't tell me what was standing on it, so I built the tool that takes the inventory — a secret-safe capture of a live system's cryptography with the CNSA 2.0 judgment on top — against my own cluster first, then for the estates that look nothing like it. It's the first deliverable of FEDLIN's Post-Quantum Readiness service.
What the 2030 Federal Encryption Deadline Means for Your Contracts
A June 2026 executive order set hard 2030 and 2031 deadlines for moving federal systems to quantum-resistant cryptography — with acquisition rules written to pull in the contractors who serve them. In plain terms: what it means, the move to make now, and the first steps to get ahead.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does working with FEDLIN look like?
Engagements start with a scoping call about your architecture and the gate in front of you — a SOC 2, a HIPAA audit, an enterprise security review. From there the work is sequenced around what the architecture requires: a gap assessment produces the prioritized picture, and everything that follows is built from it.
We don't have a security team. Can FEDLIN run the whole program?
That's a common place to be as you grow. FEDLIN embeds as your security function: it builds the controls, wires the evidence, stands up or works within your GRC platform (Vanta by default), and runs the program that clears the gate — then keeps it clear. You get a security architect without making the hire.
What's the difference between FEDLIN and a GRC platform like Vanta?
A GRC platform monitors and collects evidence from controls that already exist. FEDLIN builds those controls — IAM configurations, pipeline gates, secrets management, infrastructure hardening, and the NIST AI RMF layer for agentic systems. When Vanta is in the picture, FEDLIN wires the controls so the platform has something real to monitor. When there's no GRC platform yet, FEDLIN can stand one up in your environment as part of the engagement.
Do you work with companies building with LLMs or agentic systems?
Yes — and this is a specific implementation capability. LLM integrations, MCP servers, and agentic pipelines introduce a security surface that standard assessments aren't designed to reach. FEDLIN builds the controls NIST AI RMF calls for at the infrastructure layer — context boundaries, access scoping, prompt injection coverage, and agentic audit logging — mapped to the frameworks your build operates under.
What's the relationship between NIST CSF and NIST 800-53?
NIST CSF is the framework designed for communication — it gives founders, executives, and non-technical stakeholders a clear language for understanding security posture across five functions: Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover. NIST 800-53 is the technical control catalog underneath it — the specific controls that implement what CSF describes. FEDLIN assesses and builds to both: NIST CSF gives you the posture picture; NIST 800-53 is what gets deployed at the infrastructure layer. Every major framework — SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS — maps back to this foundation.
What does principal-led mean in practice?
You work directly with the principal security architect — the person who owns the architecture, the engagement, and the build. Delivery draws on a vetted partner network where scope requires it: pentesting, specialized infrastructure work, or govtech contracting.
How does FEDLIN approach AI-native and agentic architecture specifically?
FEDLIN builds the controls NIST AI RMF calls for at the infrastructure layer — context boundaries, MCP server access scope, agentic audit logging, and prompt injection coverage, built into the SDLC. If your team is shipping LLM or agentic features, this is the security surface a standard gap assessment misses.
Do you work with fractional advisors, agencies, or MSPs?
Fractional advisors, MSPs, and agencies bring FEDLIN in for the specialist work their clients need and can't keep on staff — agentic and MCP server security, post-quantum cryptography, NIST 800-53 engineering, and hardened cloud and edge infrastructure. You keep the client, the relationship, and the advisory lead; FEDLIN does the engineering, findings to you first. See the partner program for how this works.