Fortify Information

Fortify IT provides structured cybersecurity governance and vCISO leadership for NYDFS-regulated insurance agencies. Most agencies have tools. Far fewer have someone who actually owns the program those tools are meant to prove. Keeping the systems running and owning a defensible governance program are two different jobs — and when a DFS examiner sends a first-day letter, it's the second one they're asking about: who made the risk decisions, where the documentation lives, and whether the person who signed the annual certification can stand behind it. That gap is what Fortify IT closes. Not with more software — with governance, documentation, and accountability that are already in place before an examiner arrives, not assembled the week the letter lands. We work two ways: building a Part 500 program long before an exam is on the horizon, and stepping in to steady the response when one already is. Either way the goal is the same — turning a regulatory obligation into a program the agency can defend. The annual certification comes due every April 15. The time to know where an agency stands is well before then. Fortify IT is boutique by design. We take a focused number of clients so each receives genuine executive attention. If the goal is to check a box and move on, we're not the right fit. If it's a governance program that holds up, let's talk.