Control the Curve.

Maple Derby Advisory helps leadership teams reduce security risk before it compounds— with senior, hands-on guidance across strategy, controls, and execution.

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Email: info@MapleDerby.com

Advisory services

We offer a small set of high-impact engagements whose delivery is built for speed, accountability, and measurable operational improvements.

Interim/Fractional CISO

Leadership coverage during transitions, incidents, or rapid growth. Align stakeholders, stabilize operations, and build a controls roadmap that holds up under scrutiny. Where you don't need to surge an interim capacity, we offer ongoing senior guidance without the full-time overhead. Ideal for teams that need direction, design, and operational support with light oversight.

Executive and board-facing leadership
Security program stabilization & prioritization
Vendor and budget governance
Security strategy & operating cadence
Controls ownership & evidence readiness
Risk register and executive reporting

M&A Due Diligence

Buy-side or sell-side, our services support investors by assessing cybersecurity, privacy, and technology risk before transactions close. Our reviews focus on identifying hidden risks, control gaps, and operational exposures that can affect valuation, deal terms, or post-close integration. The goal is clarity—so risk is understood, priced appropriately, and addressed early.

Review of security, privacy, and technology posture against deal assumptions
Identification of material risks affecting valuation
Contract and vendor security agreement review
Practical remediation guidance and risk prioritization for pre- or post-close action

Compliance Readiness Assessment

Understand where you are, what matters most, and what to fix first—before an audit, customer demand, or regulatory pressure forces reactive decisions. We translate security and compliance frameworks into operating controls, clear ownership, and defensible evidence. The focus is on practical readiness: controls that actually run in production and stand up to scrutiny.

NIST CSF mapping and gap analysis
SOC (SOC 2) readiness and evidence planning
PCI and ISO 27001 alignment
Control ownership, operating cadence, and remediation prioritization

Clarity by design. We intentionally limit engagement types so scope stays crisp and delivery stays high quality. When situations fall outside standard patterns, we adapt deliberately—without turning engagements into open-ended consulting.

How we work

“Control the Curve” means focusing on the controls that change outcomes—early—before risk accelerates. We prioritize interventions that reduce the blast radius, improve detection, and make incident response predictable.

Control design & effectiveness Pragmatic risk reduction Evidence-ready operations Board-friendly reporting

Typical outcomes

Clear risk priorities and an executable roadmap
Controls that actually operate in production
Cleaner audits and fewer late-stage surprises
Incident readiness that reduces cost and downtime

Operating in the USA & Canada

Maple Derby Advisory supports organizations on both sides of the border—helpful for teams with cross‑border operations, shared vendors, or dual compliance realities.

Cross‑border pragmatism

We work comfortably with distributed teams, remote environments, and multi-region cloud footprints.

Executive alignment

Security only works when leadership is aligned. We translate technical reality into decisions that boards and execs can sponsor.

Ready to control the curve?

Tell us what you’re trying to achieve and where the pressure is—transition, audit, incident readiness, or backlog triage.

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